Rosemary Chew and Olive Young in the garden of the Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1928
Item Overview
- Title
- Rosemary Chew and Olive Young in the garden of the Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1928
- Photographer
- Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
- Date Created
- 1928
- Date
- 1928
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Notes
- Summary
- Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2357 P1-6. Pacific [illegible]. 1928. Pls ret negs. IN THE GARDEN OF THE WESTERN GODS. Olive Young, right, "Chinese Mary pickford" popular motion picture player of Chinese and oriental roles, Rosemary Chew, noted Chinese soprano and artist's model, photographed in the garden of the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles with the new Elk's Club as a back ground. Showing frieze of heroes etc. on wall - thus, in a garden of the Western gods.
- Description
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Rosemary Chew and Olive Young seated on bench near bamboo structure in the garden of the Otis Art Institute
Olive Young was an actress who was a major star at the Great Wall studio in Shanghai from 1926 to 1929. Born Olive Young in St. Joseph, Missouri, she first visited China at the age of 16, when her parents sent her to Hong Kong to complete her education. Two years later she began her acting career in Shanghai. After 1929, she returned to the United States and had a brief acting career in Hollywood.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photographic negative
- Dimensions
- 4 x 5 inches
Keywords
- Genre
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Publicity photographs
cellulose nitrate film
group portraits
black-and-white photographs - Names
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Otis Art Institute
Young, Olive, 1903 or 07-1940
Chew, Rosemary - Location
- California--Los Angeles
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Artists' models
People
Actresses--Chinese--California
Arts
Actresses--American--California
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
-
0125
uclamss_1300_0125 - ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002bd7m9
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.