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Title
Frances C. Potts at piano as high school students Molly Cooley, Betty Wetmore, Jeanne Chanslor, and Persis Kent prepare to perform, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued
November 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, "Community Days Start in New 'Times' Building," Los Angeles Times, 05 Nov 1935: A1.
The four girls wear matching dresses and floral crowns, two of them sitting on the piano and two leaning against it as director Frances C. Potts plays.
Text from newspaper caption: Entertaining Monrovia residents from the stage of the auditorium in the new Times Building last night were musicians from Monrovia High School and the girl's senior glee club. In the glee club quartet shown above are, left to right, Persis Kent, Jeanne Chanslor, Betty Wetmore and Molly Cooley, with their director, Frances C. Potts, at the piano. Times photo
Text from negative sleeve: 2906 - Francis C. Potts Molly Cooly Betty Wetmore Jeanne Chanslor Persis Kent Monrovia Day 10/11/35 ? [stamped:] Nov 22 1935
Handwritten on negative: Francis C. Potts Molly Cooley Betty Wetmore Jeanne Chanslor Persis Kent
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_9425
ark:/21198/zz002dhgvg
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Students--American--California--Los Angeles
Pianos
Clubs--California--Los Angeles
Cooley, Molly
Chanslor, Jeanne Alice, 1919-2003
Wetmore, Betty, b. circa 1918
Kent, Persis, b. 1919
Potts, Frances C., b. circa 1885
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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