Virginia Rice Wheeler showing Sally and Joanna how to play with an antique game, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Virginia Rice Wheeler showing Sally and Joanna how to play with an antique game, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

December 20, 1935

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Virginia points to the game while Sally and Joanna watch.
Photograph appears with the article, "Old Games On Display," Los Angeles Times, 08 Dec 1935: A2.
At the Los Angeles Junior Museum an exhibition of almost 100 children's playthings dating all the way back to 1507 is shown, many of the pieces of the collection from the late Dr. Frederick Starr.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 4084- LtR- Joanna Kirkpatrick Sally Kirkpatrick 12-7-35 Old Chinese card game, [stamped:] Dec 20 1935
Text from newspaper caption: Here are Joan, left, and Sally Kirkpatrick getting instruction from Mrs. Virginia Rice Wheeler, assistant curator, on how to play one of the ancient games on display at the Los Angeles Junior Museum. The exhibit will be opened to the public today.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Exposition Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Games--California--Exposition Park
Children--California--Exposition Park
Children's museums--California--Exposition Park
Curators--California--Exposition Park

Names

Kirkpatrick, Sally, 1931-2006
Kirkpatrick, Joanna, b. 1929 or 30
Wheeler, Virginia Rice

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image