Dorothy Jane Bearcroft poses next to a model of the Hoover Dam at the National Housing Exposition, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Dorothy Jane Bearcroft poses next to a model of the Hoover Dam at the National Housing Exposition, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: May, 1935
Date: 1935-05
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: The Los Angeles National Housing Exposition opened on May 19, 1935 and was extended an extra week into June. Hundreds of exhibitors gathered at the Pan Pacific Auditorium, which used to be on 7600 West Beverly Boulevard.
Young Dorothy Jane sits beside a model of Hoover Dam, complete with a small pool of water and the facilities located at the base. Written on the wall are, "Los Angeles Invites The World 1938 Boulder Dam Worlds Fair."
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Dorothy Jane Bearcroft
Text from negative sleeve: NATIONAL HOUSING EXPOSITION National Housing Exposition X

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Mandelin, Dorothy Jane Bearcroft, b. 1931
Longitude: 34.074890
Latitude: -118.354905
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)
Models
Children--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_6777
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cx29c
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Rights statement: copyrighted
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Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
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