Bernardine Voorhess is queen of the National Orange Show, San Bernardino, 1936

Title: Bernardine Voorhess is queen of the National Orange Show, San Bernardino, 1936
Date Created: February 28, 1936
Date: 1936-02-28
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: English
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Bernardine wears a white dress with a collar and train, along with a tiara and a scepter. She stands in front of a painting that says "California Department of Agriculture" and a female mannequin dressed as a Roman gladiator. At their feet are rows of oranges and a bear statue.
Photograph appears with the article, "Southland's citrus products on display at San Bernardino orange show," Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb 1936: 1.
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: Queen Bernardine Voorhess, who presides over the show, poses with the setting furnished by the exhibit of the California Department of Agriculture.
Text from negative sleeve: 3838 2/28/36 Orange Show, National Bernardine Voorhess Barbara Nance Frances Lee Bussy 2 - 20 - 36 [stamped:] Feb 28 1936
Handwritten on negative: Bernardine Voorhess + orange show 1936

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: National Orange Show
Voorhess, Bernardine, b. 1918 or 19
Location: San Bernardino (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Costumes--American
Scepters
Mannequins
Festivals--California--San Bernardino
Crowns
Oranges--California--San Bernardino
Trees--California--San Bernardino
Decorations--California--San Bernardino

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hmzhn
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Rights Country: US
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