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Title: Edith Head and gown model
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Ballew, Howard
Date Created and/or Issued: 1966
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: The Gold Diggers for the Crippled Children's Society held a benefit for the Psychiatric Guidance Clinic at Society headquarters in the Century Plaza Hotel on June 17, 1966. Some 1600 persons saw a Century of Fashions show. Edith Head (left), mistress of ceremonies, and Mrs. John J. Schneider (right), Gold Diggers president, chat with one of the models about the clothes. This is a gown designed for Ann-Margret.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00055227
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9134.
CARL0000057494
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/19884
Subject: Head, Edith
Schneider, John J.,--Mrs
Ann-Margret,--1941-
Fashion designers--California--Century City (Los Angeles)
Fashion shows--California--Century City (Los Angeles)
Century City (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Crippled Children's Society (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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