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Newlyweds James Shelby Farra and Margaret Joy on their wedding day, Bel Air, 1935

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Title: Newlyweds James Shelby Farra and Margaret Joy on their wedding day, Bel Air, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: December 28, 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
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.
23-year-old Stanford senior Margaret Joy is the daughter of Twentieth Century-Fox studio executive Col. Jason Joy, and now the wife of another Stanford senior student, James Shelby Farra, Jr., the son of a retired tobacco planter of Pasadena.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Romance At Stanford Leads To Altar Here," 28 Dec 1935: A1.
Margaret and James stare at each other over the height of their six-tier wedding cake.
Text from negative sleeve: 4277 - Margaret Joy + husband James Shelby Farra, Jr. Bel-Air + Pasadena Society (@ 1st Meth. Church of H’wood ?) Just Married 12-27-35 [stamped:] Dec 31 1935
Handwritten on negative: 12-27-35 Margaret Joy James Shelby Farra
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13326
ark:/21198/zz002hnh65
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Brides
Grooms (Weddings)
Cakes--California--Los Angeles
Weddings
Wedding clothing & dress
Farra, James Shelby, 1913-2002
Farra, Margaret J, 1914-1989
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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