Members of the Women's Breakfast Bridge Club at the home of Exa Browning Link, Santa Monica, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Members of the Women's Breakfast Bridge Club at the home of Exa Browning Link, Santa Monica, 1935

Date Created

[circa September 27, 1935]

Date

1935-09-27

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Members of the Women's Breakfast Bridge Club at the home of Exa Browning Link. They surround a cart that is topped with settings for tea, including a samovar, tea cups, and saucers. Exa Browning Link holds a tiered plate and Virginia Reid (Lynne Carver) and Edna Marie Lavin Cobb each hold a cracker (or whatever type of food is on the plates.)
Virginia Reid (born Virginia Reid Sampson) was an actress who later went by the name Lynne Carver.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Clubwomen in Greetings at New Home: Mrs. Frances [sic] Burton Cobb, Miss Virginia Reid, Mrs. Harold B. Link, Miss Joy Hodges and Mrs. Peverell Marley were hostesses at the new home of Mrs. Link in Beverly Hills. Friday, when members of the Women's Breakfast Bridge Club and their friends enjoyed a reception, program and tea [Los Angeles Times, 30 Sept. 1935: A5]
Handwritten on negative: L2R Mrs. Frances [sic] Burton, Virginia Reid, Mrs. Harold B. Link, Joy Hodges, Mrs. Peverell Marley. 9-26-35
Text from negative sleeve: 2358- Mrs. Frances [sic] Burton Cobb, Virginia Reid, Mrs. Harold B. Link, Joy Hodges, Mrs. Peverell Marley. (Society) 9-26-35. [Stamped:] Oct 3...1935

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Link, Exa Browning, 1892-1986
Cobb, Edna Marie Lavin, 1900-2000
Carver, Lynne, 1909-1955
Hodges, Joy, 1915-2003
Marley, Virginia Ruth McAdoo

Location

Santa Monica (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Clubwomen--California--Santa Monica
Actresses--American--California