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Title: Venice Bathing Beauty Pageant, 1926
Creator: Weaver, M. F. (Miles F.), 1879-1932
Date Created and/or Issued: 1926
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: Outdoor group portrait of contestants of the Venice Bathing Beauty Pageant at Venice in Los Angeles, California, in 1926. Young women and children are seen posing in bathing suits with some wearing sashes that read “Ocean Park” and “Miss California Beautifier,” "Miss Universal," and "Miss Balboa." One wears a swimsuit reading "“Miss California Beautifier W.B. Blakeley.”
"Venice Bathing Beauty Pageant 1926" and "5212-2 Weaver LA."--text, on item. "Weaver, Commercial Architectural Industrial Photographers, Banquets, Conventions, Picnics, Barbecues, Weddings, Dances, Graduating Classes, Copying Coloring Enlarging, 1041 West 42nd Place, day or night, Vermont 9660."--text, stamped in blue ink on verso. "Copyright Ron Segal 1983"--text, handwritten in ink on verso. Title and date transcribed from item.
Type: image
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; sheet 25.3 x 120.6 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/16600
Subject: Bathing suits
Beauty contestants
Beauty contests
Photographs. (aat)
Group portraits. (aat)
Panoramas. (aat)
Place: Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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