Lillian Gifford greets visitors at The Times' model home, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Lillian Gifford greets visitors at The Times' model home, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

June 1935

Date

1935-06

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

A list of participants in the preparation of the new model home created by The Times including the architects, painters, and the companies that supplied such amenities as the heating and ventilating, plumbing, and hardware.
A group of people gather outside of the model home, where Mrs. Gifford stands in the doorway to greet them.
Photograph appears with the article, "Participants in Preparation of Model Dwelling," Los Angeles Times, 02 June 1935: D3.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: LAT /Demo homes 1- print 1 may
Text from newspaper caption: This picture shows visitors at The Times model home, at the Los Angeles' National Housing Exposition, being welcomed by Mrs. Lillian Gifford, hostess at the home. It is estimated that around 130,000 visitors will have inspected this home before the housing show ends. Seventy-five thousand visitors viewed this dwelling in the first ten days of the exposition. Details of how this home may be acquired are published elsewhere in The Times today.
Handwritten on negative: Times Model Home - Housing Xposition

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Gifford, Lillian

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Model houses--California--Los Angeles
Plants--California--Los Angeles