Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Stage and screen actor Del Lawrence (also known as Del Stone Lawrence, and Landen Stone Gans) is viewed from the back seated at a desk and reflected in a mirror. He is wearing a costume of an American Indian feather headdress. Lawrence was playing the character of "Wahnotee" (an "Indian Chief") in a revival of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon. It is likely that this photograph was taken at the Mason Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Theatre Project. Related to: “Boucicault's 'Octoroon' Revived at Mason Theater,” Los Angeles Times , 22 Apr. 1936: 9. Text from negative sleeve: Del Stone Lawrence... (P.W.A [sic] Theatre - Mason Theatre). 4/21/36 Handwritten on negative: Del Stone Lawrence.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14249 ark:/21198/zz002j7swd
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Headdresses Actors--American--California--Los Angeles Lawrence, Del, 1874-1965 Mason Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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