Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of children creating their own newspaper. Joan Sherry writes by hand with a pencil and paper while Jim Sherry and John Davis watch. Tony Bracket looks at a paper in one hand while typing with the other. They sit at a wooden table on sand, next to water. In the distance there is a sailboat. Beyond that is the mainland of Newport Beach. This photograph appears with the article, “Business Booms for Juvenile Publishers,” Los Angeles Times, 20 Jul. 1935: A5. Text from newspaper caption: According to these four youngsters, the Lido Lookout is the finest newspaper published on Lido Isle. The reason for this may be that it’s the island’s only news publication, but they take their task in no light-hearted manner. Left to right are, Jim Sherry, associate editor; Joan Sherry, society editor; John Davis, cartoonist, and Tony Brackett, editor-in-chief. Handwritten on negative: 7-19-35 Tony Brackett, John Davis, Joan Sherry, Jim Sherry. Text from negative sleeve: 2043—Left to right, Jim Sherry, Joan Sherry, John Davis, Tony Brachett of Lido Isle. Publishers of the “Lido Lookout” 7-19-35, [Stamped:] SEP 13 1935.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_8400 ark:/21198/zz002dg8hz
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Islands--California Typewriters Children--California--Newport Beach Sherry, Jim Brackett, Tony Sherry, Joan Davis, John
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