Young women on beach promoting radio station KMTR, Santa Monica, [circa 1930]

Item Overview

Title

Young women on beach promoting radio station KMTR, Santa Monica, [circa 1930]

Photographer

Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966

Date Created

[circa 1930]

Date

1930

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Notes

Description

Eugene Inge reported as a member of the KMTR press relations department in " Juvenile Group Will Be On Air," Los Angeles Times 12 Sep. 1930: A8.
Names provided in collection document; see "Relation" note.
Bird's-eye view of 7 young women posing on sand, 4 holding large cardboard letters K, M, T, R, 3 sitting or lying on sand in foreground. Women with letters are: Ruth Hull, Dorothy Johnson, Rose Mary Beard, Clair Twadell; on sand, Wilda Hethke, Angie Binetti, Betty Atkinson
Radio station KMTR was a broadcast station in Los Angeles from 1925 to 1946

Caption

Handwritten at edge of negative: 2531 P6
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2531, Positions 1 to 8. Negs. to be returned. KMTR, Eugene Inge, Deauville Club. Photo by Adelbert Bartlett, 535 15th Street, Santa Monica, Calif. [Struck out: Olive Young, Chinese "Mary Pickford" negatives and story attached]

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Dimensions

4 x 5 inches

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs
bird's-eye views

Names

Twadell, Clair, b. ca. 1915
Deauville Club (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Hull, Ruth, b. ca. 1915
Binetti, Angelina, b. ca. 1913
Hethke, Wilda, b. ca. 1915
Atkinson, Betty, b. ca. 1915
Johnson, Dorothy, b. ca. 1915
KMTR (Radio station : Los Angeles, Calif., 1925-1946)
Beard, Rose Mary, b. ca. 1915

Location

California--Santa Monica

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Media
Beaches--California--Santa Monica
Environment