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. Left to right, Rose Marie Sheran, Eleanor Devin, Virginia Smith, Kathryn MacKechnie stand in a store. They are dressed for an outing, with Devin wearing a jacket and Smith and MacKechnie wearing fur-edged coats. All the women wear hats, with Smith also wearing a small veil. They stand in front of a table covered with a striped tablecloth and displaying lots of either polished stone or wood items like buttons, lamps, ashtrays, small bowls and cups, vases, and candlesticks. Behind them is a postcard display featuring photography by Burton Frasher, an animal skin, and hung paintings. A different photo taken on the same occasion appears in "Catholic Juniors Plan Dinner," Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr 1936: A6. Eleanor Devin was the president of the Catholic Women's Club Juniors. Text on signs on back wall: We will mail them for you; Photographic greeting cards; Hand tinted & framed pictures $1.00; You may write them here, Fras[her's] Text on paper in foreground: [illegible]: PLAYED [illegible] THE NAVY Text accompanying the other photograph that appears with the article: Misses Eleanor Devin, president; Rose Sheran, Virginia Smith and Kathryn MacKechnie of Catholic Women's Club Juniors met for luncheon on Olvera Street, where they discussed plans for the regular dinner meeting at the clubhouse this evening. New members will be honored. Text from negative sleeve: [handwritten:] 4727 [typed:] Catholic Women's Club Juniors: Rose Marie Sheran, Eleanor Devin, Virginia Smith, Kathryn MacKechnie [stamped:] Apr 12 1936
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13920 ark:/21198/zz002j7djx
Language
English
Subject
Postcards--California Clubwomen--California--Los Angeles Women--Clothing & dress--California--Los Angeles--1930-1940 Shopping--California--Los Angeles Olvera Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) Fur coats Stores & shops--California--Los Angeles Frasher, Burton, 1888-1955 MacKechnie, Kathryn, 1912-1995 Sheran, Rose Marie, b. 1912 or 13 Devin, Eleanor, 1913-2001 Catholic Women's Club (Los Angeles, Calif.) Smith, Virginia
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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