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 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. Wilma wears an ankle-length floral skirt with sandals and a matching bikini top. White flowers are attached in her hair, worn around her wrist and as a lei around her neck. Handwritten on negative: Wilma Gartzman Text from negative sleeve: 4905 - Wilma Gartzman Spinsters Society [stamped:] Apr 19 1936
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14110 ark:/21198/zz002j7n3k
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Costumes--American Balls (Parties)--California--Alhambra Leis Ball dresses Midwick Country Club (Alhambra, Calif.) Gartzman, Wilma, b. 1912 or 13 Spinsters Club of Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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