Grand Duchess Marie with a bouquet of flowers, Santa Fe Springs, 1939

Item Overview

Title

Grand Duchess Marie with a bouquet of flowers, Santa Fe Springs, 1939

Photographer

Arnott, Andrew Hugh, 1905-1985

Date Created

January 10, 1939

Date

1939-01-10

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph appears with the article, "Exiled Russian Duchess Guarded After Red Threats," Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan 1939: 1.
Grand Duchess Marie, cousin of the late Czar Nicholas of Russia, has arrived in Los Angeles County on a lecture tour and is to be surrounded by an armed police guard due to many threatening letters she has received from Communists.
The Duchess holds a large bouquet in her arms, standing on a stool at the bottom of the train platform. A railroad employee is seen behind the car.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Grand Duchess Marie of Russia shown as she arrived in Southland yesterday. A member of the vanishing House of Romanoffs, she now is an exile from her native land.
Text from negative sleeve: 15294 Grand Duchess Marie of Russia TIMES PHOTO BY ANDREW H. ARNOTT 1-10-39 [stamped:] Jan 18 1939
Handwritten on negative: Grand Duchess Marie 1-10-39

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Romanov (Dynasty : 1613-1917)
Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess of Russia, 1890-1958

Location

Santa Fe Springs (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Arrivals & departures--American--California--Santa Fe Springs
Bouquets
Railroad trains--American--California--Santa Fe Springs
Fur coats
Nobility--Russia