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 stand in the sand with Beverly wearing a black romper with a white star pattern along with white sneakers and dark socks and Marian wears a dark short-sleeved blouse and white shorts. Photograph appears with the headline, "Sun Shines on Beauty," Los Angeles Times, 20 July 1936: A6. Text from negative sleeve: 6/22- Beverly Ricks Marion Pfau society @ Santa Barbara Biltmore beach [stamped:] Jul 22 1936 Text from newspaper caption: While fishermen are bounding o'er the briny, full many a maiden looketh out to sea. And looking out to sea here are Beverly Ricks and Marian Pfau on the Santa Barbara Biltmore strand, but not for fishermen. They're trying to locate a favorable place to deepen that suntan.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14408 ark:/21198/zz002j80c0
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Sunbathing--California--Santa Barbara Beaches--California--Santa Barbara Sand--California--Santa Barbara Savage, Marion Pfau, 1919 or 1995 Ricks, Beverly, b. 1921 or 22 Santa Barbara Biltmore (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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