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. Bettina wears a dress that ends a few inches above her knees. The bottom half has stripes of varying sizes and colors, while the top consists of a laced bodice with puffed sleeves. She wears a crown that has lace, mock jewels, and ribbons. The Spinsters' Gazette is recognized as the world's largest newspaper, and last evening held a Newspaper Headlines Ball at the Midwick Country Club, in which women dressed as personified newspaper stories and figures. Similar photograph appears with the article, "New Characters Come to Life for Prominent Guests," Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr 1936: C1. Handwritten on negative: Bettina Gartzman Text from negative sleeve: 4905 - Bettina Gartzman spinsters society [stamped:] Apr 19 1936
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14109 ark:/21198/zz002j7n22
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Costumes--American Ball dresses Balls (Parties)--California--Alhambra Gartzman, Bettina, b. 1916 or 1917? Spinsters Club of Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Midwick Country Club (Alhambra, Calif.)
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