Ella W. Duffield playing piano and singing with nursery children, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Ella W. Duffield playing piano and singing with nursery children, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

September 23, 1935

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph of Mrs. Ella W. Duffield playing an upright piano, while the children of the Goodwill Nursery surround her. Some children sit on the floor, some stand, and some sit on top of the piano.
This photograph appears with the article, “Youngsters Join Favorite in Songfest: ‘SINGING LADY’ VISITS DAY NURSERY CHILDREN,” Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 1935: 6.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: Goodwill day nursery 9-18-35.
Text from newspaper caption: “Once there was a lovely princess whose heart was glad,” sing these happy children gathered about the piano with their favorite “singing lady,” Mrs. Ella W. Duffield, at the Goodwill Nursery. Mrs. Duffield teaches the youngsters some of her own compositions as well as other favorites from story-book land.
Text from negative sleeve: 2284—Goodwill Day Nursery 9-18-35. [Stamped:] SEP 26 1935.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Group portraits

Subjects

Nursery schools--California--Los Angeles
Children--California--Los Angeles
Pianos

Names

Duffield, Ella, 1864-1938

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.055293

Latitude

-118.240572

Resource type

still image