Quilt featuring drawn or embroidered portraits of various celebrities at the Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona, 1932

Item Overview

Title
Quilt featuring drawn or embroidered portraits of various celebrities at the Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona, 1932
Date Created
[circa September 1932]
Publisher
Los Angeles Times
Language
No linguistic content
Collection
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
Description
Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Most Dazzling Show of Southland History, Lavish in Oriental Splendor, Under Way at Pomona," 17 Sept. 1932: A1.
Quilt featuring drawn or embroidered portraits of various celebrities, including Marion Davies, Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Al Jolson, John Barrymore, Buster Keaton, Will Rogers, Fay Wray, and Marion Davies. Quilts hang on either side. The one at the left also features portraits of celebrities. The one at the right features an abstract design.
Caption
Text from negative sleeve: Los Angeles County Fair, 1932

Physical Description

Extent
1 photograph
Medium
b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Subjects
Portraits
Quilts
Fairs--California--Pomona
Names
Los Angeles County Fair (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Location
Pomona (Calif.)
Resource type
still image

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Repository
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier
uclamss_1429_5655
ARK
ark:/21198/zz002cvqm9
Manifest url
IIIF Manifest

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Rights statement
copyrighted
Rights contact
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Rights Holder
The Regents of the University of California
Rights Country
US
Funding Note
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
License
Creative Commons License
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