Peggy Hamilton standing on the wheel of an airplane and modeling an aviation costume created especially for her by Greer, 1928

Item Overview

Title

Peggy Hamilton standing on the wheel of an airplane and modeling an aviation costume created especially for her by Greer, 1928

Date Created

1928

Date

1928

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

Notes

Description

Peggy Hamilton standing on the wheel of an airplane and modeling an aviation costume created especially for her by Greer with a matching jacket, pants, cap and gloves and worn with goggles and knee-high boots.
This photograph appears in Peggy Hamilton’s Los Angeles Times feature "Fashions," June 17, 1928, pg. H3.
Howard Greer (1896-1974) was a fashion and costume designer for theater and film who worked in Paris from the end of WWI up to 1921, and then in the United States. In 1927 he left Paramount and started his own couture house and continued to work in fashion and costume design until his retirement in 1962.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Switzer. Juliette Compton. Paramount Studio. Jan-1932. Peggy Hamilton Fashion Study. [date is not correct and does not portray actress Juliette Compton; this is not the correct sleeve for this negative]
Handwritten on edge of negative: A 3241-1

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Dimensions

8 x 10 inches

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

Fashion photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Black-and-white photographs

Names

Adams, Peggy Hamilton, 1890-1984

Resource type

still image

Subjects

gloves
boots
jackets (garments)
trousers
goggles