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. Similar photograph appears with the caption, "Old Memories Treasured," Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb 1936: A6. Shirley Atkins wears a wedding gown from the era of Lincoln's residency while reading George Washington's acceptance speech in a copy of the New York Daily Gazette which was printed after his election, in addition to these heirlooms there is a silver cake dish used for serving George Washington, a brass mortar and pestle, Lincoln-era Paisley shawl and 1879 book, "Domestic Medicine," sponsored by the Eagle Rock Parent-Teacher Association. Shirley Atkins stands next to a table holding artifacts from the eras of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, wearing a wedding dress and holding a newspaper. Handwritten on negative: Shirley Atkins Text from negative sleeve: 3929 - Highland sxxxxx Parent-Teacher Assoc. Miss Shirley Atkins [stamped:] Mar 12 1936
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