US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Mr. Mershon holds a sheet of music and a conductor's wand as he gestures at his wife's own music while she plays on the piano. Photograph appears under the headline, "Industrial City Sponsors Music," Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan 1936: 12. Handwritten on negative: L to R. Mr + Mrs. George Mershon Text from negative sleeve: 3474 - Left to right, Mrs. and Mr. George Mershon of Torrance. Conducts Torrance symphony orchestra. 1/27/36 [stamped:] Jan 31 1936 Text from newspaper caption: George N. Mershon, director of the Torrance Symphony Orchestra, who, with the assistance of Mrs. Mershon, is preparing solo arrangements for the second of the series of six winter concerts to be given Tuesday at Woman's clubhouse. The orchestra was started by Mershon a year ago, with thirty musicians, a majority of them local residents. One hundred citizens are sponsoring the orchestra as a community project.
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