Woman poses in front of the General Foods exhibit at the Food and Household Show, Los Angeles, 1933

Item Overview

Title

Woman poses in front of the General Foods exhibit at the Food and Household Show, Los Angeles, 1933

Date Created

[circa November 1933]

Date

1933-11

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

A woman poses in front of the General Foods exhibit at the Food and Household Show, sponsored by the Southern California Retail Grocers Association. Cans of Maxwell House coffee line the exhibit, which is made up of a miniature street complete with buildings featuring advertising for Jell-O and Maxwell House. A mini ad reads, "To-nite Show Boat Capt Henry in [Let's] Have Another [Cup of] Coffee." Also in the scene are an American flag and an NRA flag.
Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Food Show Opens Today: Rare South Sea Island Birds Among Features; California Fish, Frozen in Ice, to be Displayed," 13 Nov. 1933: A1.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Food Show 1933
Text from newspaper caption: Annual Food and Household Show Opens Today: General Foods booth to feature Maxwell House Coffee, Jell-O and other brands [Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 1933: A7]

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

General Foods Corporation
Shrine Auditorium (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Southern California Retail Grocers Association

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.023208

Latitude

-118.281542

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Food industry--California--Los Angeles
Exhibitions--California--Los Angeles