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 Haynes Foundation funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Blanche Pallais in a satin wedding dress with a lace collar and tulle veil holds a bouquet of flowers, and Cosme Meschwitz, in a tuxedo, are married in a church by a Catholic priest who holds up his right hand. The wedding is mentioned 11 years later in: “Bolivian Consul here leaves post,” Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 1946: 2. Text from negative sleeve: 4233. Senorita Blanquita Pallais (daughter of Nicaraguan consul), Cosme J. Meschwitz (from prominent Bolivian family) becomes LA consul for Bolivia. Marriage Dec./35
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13279 ark:/21198/zz002hnfkw
Subject
Consuls--Bolivian--California--Los Angeles Weddings--California--Los Angeles Meschwitz, Blanche Estela Pallais, 1912-1973 Meschwitz, Cosme Jack, 1900-1982
Source
OpenUCLA Collections Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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