Mother Muriel Lane with her children Gloria and Joan vacationing in California, Palm Springs, 1936

Item Overview

Title

Mother Muriel Lane with her children Gloria and Joan vacationing in California, Palm Springs, 1936

Date Created

February 13, 1936

Date

1936-02-13

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph appears with headline, "Wintering Detroiters Cycling," Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb 1936: A7.
The Lane girls stand on their bicycles, which appear to be a combination of a bicycle and a scooter. On either side of Mrs. Lane are her two daughters, each wearing swimsuits.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 3605 - Miss Gloria Lane Mrs. John Lane (mother) Miss Joan Lane Detroit family wintering in Palm Springs Village Inn riding "eccentric bikes" featured in Desert Circus Parades Box 10 [stamped:] Feb 13 1936
Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. John Lane and daughters, Gloria and Joan, of Detroit, who are making their winter home at the Palm Springs Village Inn, travel on the new eccentric bikes which will be among the features of the Desert Circus parade tomorrow.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
Group portraits
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Lane, Muriel W., 1901-1986
Lane, Gloria, 1928-1987
Lane, Joan, 1926-2013

Location

Palm Springs (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Vacations--California--Palm Springs
Mothers--California--Palm Springs
Bicycles & tricycles--American--California--Palm Springs