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Title: Ellen and Florence Cunningham announce their engagements, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: August 1935
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.
Photograph appears with the article, "Cunninghams Will Marry Easterners," Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug 1935: A7.
The sisters reside at 325 North Orange Drive, the children of Michael Joseph Cunningham of Bisbee, Arizona. Their sister Mrs. Leopoldo Rosales is visiting from Mexico to attend their tea.
Ellen stands beside her seated sister Florence. Their newspaper photographs were cropped as two separate images from this one as close-ups of their faces.
Handwritten on negative: Florence Cunningham Ellen Cunningham
Text from newspaper caption: Miss Ellen Cunningham Miss Florence Cunningham Those Cunningham sisters, Ellen and Florence, will surprise many of their friends at tea time today when they announce their engagements. Ellen will marry McBurney Howard late in the fall and Florence will become the bride of Thomas Gartland Moffat as soon as she arrives in New York City.
Text from negative sleeve: 1900 - LtR - Florence Cunningham Ellen Cunningham Society [stamped:] Sep 4 - 1935
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_8211
ark:/21198/zz002dg209
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Sisters--American--California--Los Angeles
Betrothal--California--Los Angeles
Cunningham, Florence (Florence Moffat), 1905-1988
Cunningham, Ellen, (Ellen Howard), 1901-1983
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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