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Title
Daisy Carr, Shirley Bernice Smith, Fanchon Brown, and Katherine Coffin are living models in a piece called "Colonial Dames", Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued
September 12, 1935
1935-09-12
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.
Daisy plays the harp while Shirley and Fanchon hold hands, posing in matching white dresses. Katherine sits on the other side of them at a spinning wheel.
Photograph appears with the headline, "They Portray Colonial Dames For International Women's Club," Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep 1935: B10.
Text from newspaper caption: Misses Daisy Carr, program chairman: Shirley Bernice Smith, president; Fanchon Brown, chairman of ways and means, and Katherine Coffin, recording secretary, of the California Music Club Juniors, were living models in the "Colonial Dames" fantasy which was presented in a large frame at the opening luncheon of the International Women's Club at the Biltmore, Thursday. The club will feature Americanism during the new season.
Handwritten on negative: L2R Daisy Carr x Shirley B Smith x Fanchon Brown x Katherine Coffin 9/11/35
Text from negative sleeve: 2081 - Daisy Carr Shirley B Smith Fanchon Brown Katherine Coffin Soc. 9-11-35 [stamped:] {illegible}
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_8498
ark:/21198/zz002dgcw3
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Harps
Spinning apparatus
Models
Picture frames
Coffin, Katherine
Biltmore Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Carr, Daisy
Smith, Shirley Bernice
Brown, Fanchon Jane, 1917-2000
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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