Image / Teenager Barbara Watson with her beauty contest trophy, San Diego, 1935

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Title: Teenager Barbara Watson with her beauty contest trophy, San Diego, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: November 1935
1935-11
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.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Fair Will Close Today," Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov 1935: 9.
15-year-old high school student Barbara has won a bathing beauty contest at this season's California Pacific International Exposition.
Barbara holds a large trophy in her lap that bears the title of her win.
Text from negative sleeve: 2879 - Barbara Watson - [stamped:] Nov 22 1935
Handwritten on negative: Barbara Watson
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_9404
ark:/21198/zz002dhg4m
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Bathing beauties
Watson, Barbara, b. circa 1921
California Pacific International Exposition (1935-1936 : San Diego, Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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