Marathon dance competitors preparing to start, Culver City, 1928
Item Overview
- Title
- Marathon dance competitors preparing to start, Culver City, 1928
- Photographer
- Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
- Date Created
- April 19, 1928
- Date
- 1928-04-19
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Notes
- Description
- About 11 couples in dance poses, mostly in white, with numbers on arms, on street with spectators, trees, and buildings at left
- Caption
-
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2927, Adelbert Bartlett, 535 15th Street, Santa Monica, Calif. 1928. Exclusive Negat[ives] Culver City, Cal., 4/19/28. Dancers ready for starting gu[n.] World's endurance dancing championship starting 5 pm on Washington boulevard in the motion picture studio center. 50 couples one-stepped six miles to Ocean Park amusem[ent] section where the contest will continue until completed. Only fifty couples out of hundreds applying were accepte[d] for the contest. Rigid physical tests were required of the entrants.
Handwritten at edge of negative: Bartlett File 2927 4/19/28 Dance Marathon ready to go
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photographic negative
- Dimensions
- 4 x 5 inches
Keywords
- Genre
-
cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs - Location
- California--Culver City
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
Dance marathons--California--Santa Monica
Culture
Lifestyle
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1300_2062
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002bz0t6
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.