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Elmer Spangler helps Verna Everitt with a telephone call at the Biltmore, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Elmer Spangler helps Verna Everitt with a telephone call at the Biltmore, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: December 16, 1935
1935-12-16
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
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
This photograph appears with the article, “‘Little People’ in New Role: HOTEL TURNS MIDGETS Biltmore Seeking Solution of Page Problem by Employing Them,” Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 1935: A3.
Biltmore hotel page Elmer Spangler handing a phone to guest Verna Everitt in the lobby. An unidentified concierge sits being a counter and looks on.
Text from negative sleeve: 4032—Verna Everitt, Elmer Spangler, Wm Jones, Midget Pages at Biltmore 12-13-35.
Text from newspaper caption: Service with a snap is the boast of Elmer Spangler, one of the midget pages employed by a hotel here. Elmer, who’s 22, is shown holding the telephone for Verna Everitt.
Handwritten on negative: L2R Elmer Spangler, Verna Everitt 12-13-35.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13047
ark:/21198/zz002hn5k1
Subject: Telephones
Dwarfs--California--Los Angeles
Hotels--California--Los Angeles
Biltmore Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Everitt, Verna, 1902-1994
Spangler, Elmer, 1914-1992
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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