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Lilith Bennett, Hylda Sampson, Ruth Connoly and Marjorie Wright on a Los Angeles Times tour, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Lilith Bennett, Hylda Sampson, Ruth Connoly and Marjorie Wright on a Los Angeles Times tour, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: March 28, 1936
1936-03-28
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.
The girls huddle together and smile for a picture.
Photograph appears with the article, "Canadian Royalty Inspect Plant of "Times"," Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar 1936: 9.
500 members of the American and Canadian Tourists' Societies were guests of the newspaper plant.
Text from negative sleeve: 4551 - Lilith Bennett Ruth Connoly Hylda Sampson Marjorie Wright Canadian's visit Times' 3/28/26 [stamped:] Apr 1- 1936
Text from newspaper caption: Four Canadian popularity queens yesterday added a note of beauty to Canadian and American Tourists' Day at The Times when 500 guests toured the newspaper plant and attended a program in the roof garden auditorium. Left to right are Lilith Bennett, Miss Canada for 1936; Ruth Connoly, ruler for 1933 and 1934; Hylda Sampson of Champlain, Ont., princess royal, and Marjorie Wright, princess royal.
Handwritten on negative: L2R Lilith Bennett x Ruth Connoly x Hylda Sampson x Marjorie Wright 3/28/36
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13743
ark:/21198/zz002hp0mk
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Beauty contestants--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times (Firm)
Wright, Marjorie
Sampson, Hylda
Connoly, Ruth
Bennett, Lilith
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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