Daisy Carr, Shirley Bernice Smith, Fanchon Brown, and Katherine Coffin are living models in a piece called "Colonial Dames", Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Daisy Carr, Shirley Bernice Smith, Fanchon Brown, and Katherine Coffin are living models in a piece called "Colonial Dames", Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

September 12, 1935

Date

1935-09-12

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Daisy plays the harp while Shirley and Fanchon hold hands, posing in matching white dresses. Katherine sits on the other side of them at a spinning wheel.
Photograph appears with the headline, "They Portray Colonial Dames For International Women's Club," Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep 1935: B10.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Misses Daisy Carr, program chairman: Shirley Bernice Smith, president; Fanchon Brown, chairman of ways and means, and Katherine Coffin, recording secretary, of the California Music Club Juniors, were living models in the "Colonial Dames" fantasy which was presented in a large frame at the opening luncheon of the International Women's Club at the Biltmore, Thursday. The club will feature Americanism during the new season.
Handwritten on negative: L2R Daisy Carr x Shirley B Smith x Fanchon Brown x Katherine Coffin 9/11/35
Text from negative sleeve: 2081 - Daisy Carr Shirley B Smith Fanchon Brown Katherine Coffin Soc. 9-11-35 [stamped:] {illegible}

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Coffin, Katherine
Biltmore Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Carr, Daisy
Smith, Shirley Bernice
Brown, Fanchon Jane, 1917-2000

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.049814

Latitude

-118.253923

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Harps
Spinning apparatus
Models
Picture frames