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Title
Tess Slesinger at her typewriter, Hollywood, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued
July 31, 1935
1935-07-31
Publication Information
Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information
US
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Miss Slesinger's writing style has been compared to Dorothy Parker, catapulting into fame due to the immense success of her books within the last year and her work attributed to short stories in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Scribner's and others.
Tess Slesinger sits at a desk feeding a ream of paper into the typewriter, looking into the distance.
Photograph appears with the article, "Films Lure New Writer," Los Angeles Times, 25 July 1935: 7.
Text from newspaper caption: Tess Slesinger, best seller author, engaged as writer by M.-G.-M., arrives in Hollywood.
Handwritten on negative: Tess Slesinger Author 7-23-35
Text from negative sleeve: 1315 - Tess Slesinger author 7-23-35 [stamped:] Jul 31 1935
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_7780
ark:/21198/zz002dfj4p
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Desks
Authors--American--California--Hollywood
Typewriters
Slesinger, Tess, 1905-1945
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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