Geneva Shimp poses with ancient Egyptian glassware at the Natural History Museum, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Geneva Shimp poses with ancient Egyptian glassware at the Natural History Museum, 1935

Date Created

October 10, 1935

Date

1935-10-10

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Related to article, "Left From Era of Pharaohs: Gold-crusted Glass Vase of Ancient Egypt Shown," Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 1935
A woman, Geneva Shimp, poses with an ancient Egyptian glass vase. She wears a dark, satiny dress with light-colored earrings and a bracelet. The short, squat vessel has a wide body and wide-lipped opening. There is some corrosion on the bottom base, the handle, and the opening. The vase was actually a perfume phial from the time period of the Twelfth Dynasty, during the reign of the pharaoh, Amenhe. This was part of an exhibit at the Los Angeles Museum, now the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, which showcased other similar ancient vessels from Egypt and a related lecture series. The museum is located at 900 Exposition Boulevard.

Caption

Handwritten on nitrate negative: Geneva Shimp, 10-10-35
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2597-- Geneva Shimp, 4000 yr old vase, 10-10-35 [stamped:] OCT 24 1935
Text from newspaper caption: Fashioned of 4000-year-old glass, this vase with its curious snake handle is one of fifty on display at the Los Angeles Museum. Geneva Shimp is holding the rare vessel.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Shimp, Geneva
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.017392

Latitude

-118.288798

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Vases--Egyptian--California--Los Angeles
Glassware, Ancient--California--Los Angeles
Containers--Egyptian--California--Los Angeles