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Title: Miss Venice, Thelma Peairs, with Venice bus poster
Date Created and/or Issued: 1928-07
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of Thelma Peairs, Miss Venice, standing in front of the storefront of the Venice, California, branch of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce holding a poster promoting travel by bus, which reads "Venice, Now Brought Closer to Los Angeles ... Venice, Los Angeles Beach." With a "Headquarters Venice of American, Post 177, American Legion, Meets Every 1st and 3rd Monday each month," sign in the window.
"Thelma Peairs (Miss Venice) with 'Venice now being brought closer to Los Angeles' poster, July 13, 1928"--text, handwritten in pencil on verso. Title devised by cataloger; date transcribed from note on verso.
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; sheet 17.7 x 12.2 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/20000
Subject: Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
Beauty contestants
Local transit
Signs and signboards
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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