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. Margaret wears her bridal gown complete with a very long veil and train as she poses in front of an altar of plants and candelabras. Similar photograph appears with the article, "Romance At Stanford Leads To Altar Here," 28 Dec 1935: A1. 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: Margaret Joy 12-27-25
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13328 ark:/21198/zz002hnh86
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Brides Weddings--California--Los Angeles Portrait photographs Wedding clothing & dress Bouquets Farra, Margaret J, 1914-1989
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