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Title: Doris Clif working with a piece of jewelry, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: March 25, 1936
1936-03-25
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.
Russian-born artisan Doris Cliff is traveling to countries such as Japan, China, Burma and Afghanistan to gather the jewels that she uses to make her wares.
Doris uses a tool in each hand to work on a cuff with other tools and pieces of jewelry surrounding her.
Photograph appears with the article, "Woman To Sail in Hunt for Gems," Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar 1936: A2.
Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Doris Cliff, woman jeweler, who works only with antique metals and gems, shown fashioning a filigree bracelet. She leaves this month to search the Orient for rare lapis lazuli.
Handwritten on negative: Mrs Doris Cliff
Text from negative sleeve: 4486 - Mrs Doris Cliff Left for China - jeweler traveling for gems 3/?/36 [stamped:] Mar 25 1936
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13691
ark:/21198/zz002hnxt8
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Gems
Metals
Jewelry making--California--Los Angeles
Jewelers--California--Los Angeles
Bracelets
Cliff, Doris, b. 1886
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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