Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. A Hortense Harms holds up two prop crowns, one in each hand, and a costume. There is a brick wall in the background, with a lot of large, indeterminate, objects. Hortense Reed Harms was the former educational director of the Shakespeare Guild of America, of which she was also a financier. The theater company went defunct and this image depicts Harms with items the company put up for auction when it went under. The auction took place at 1701 South Hill Street. Related to the article, "Shakespeare Set Pieces Sold by Marshal." Los Angeles Times, October 22, 1935 Handwritten on nitrate negative: Mrs. Hortense Reed Harms, 10-21-35 Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2591-- Mrs. Hortense Reed Harms, former educ. dir. of Shakespeare Guild of America; Jerry Wenger, Deputy City Marshal conducting auction of Guild equipment, Auction sale, 10-21-35, [stamped:] OCT 24 1935
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Image
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b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_9065 ark:/21198/zz002dh2fg
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No linguistic content
Subject
Costumes--American Stage props Auctions--California--Los Angeles Shakespeare Guild of America Brunton, Hortense R. Reed Harms, 1899-1993
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