Ellen and Florence Cunningham announce their engagements, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Ellen and Florence Cunningham announce their engagements, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

August 1935

Date

1935-08

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Ellen stands beside her seated sister Florence. Their newspaper photographs were cropped as two separate images from this one as close-ups of their faces.
The sisters reside at 325 North Orange Drive, the children of Michael Joseph Cunningham of Bisbee, Arizona. Their sister Mrs. Leopoldo Rosales is visiting from Mexico to attend their tea.
Photograph appears with the article, "Cunninghams Will Marry Easterners," Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug 1935: A7.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 1900 - LtR - Florence Cunningham Ellen Cunningham Society [stamped:] Sep 4 - 1935
Text from newspaper caption: Miss Ellen Cunningham Miss Florence Cunningham Those Cunningham sisters, Ellen and Florence, will surprise many of their friends at tea time today when they announce their engagements. Ellen will marry McBurney Howard late in the fall and Florence will become the bride of Thomas Gartland Moffat as soon as she arrives in New York City.
Handwritten on negative: Florence Cunningham Ellen Cunningham

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Cunningham, Ellen, (Ellen Howard), 1901-1983
Cunningham, Florence (Florence Moffat), 1905-1988

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Sisters--American--California--Los Angeles
Betrothal--California--Los Angeles