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Beverly Ricks and Marion Pfau look for a place to suntan, Santa Barbara, 1936

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Title: Beverly Ricks and Marion Pfau look for a place to suntan, Santa Barbara, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: July 22, 1936
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: 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.
Photograph appears with the headline, "Sun Shines on Beauty," Los Angeles Times, 20 July 1936: A6.
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.
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: Sand--California--Santa Barbara
Beaches--California--Santa Barbara
Sunbathing--California--Santa Barbara
Pfau, Marion, b. 1919 or 20
Ricks, Beverly, b. 1921 or 22
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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