Evadne and Helen Meyler, Katherine Gibbon, and Alice Burr enjoy tea, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Evadne and Helen Meyler, Katherine Gibbon, and Alice Burr enjoy tea, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

September October 1935

Date

1935-09-10

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph appears with the headline, "Tennis Topic of Society Folk This Week," Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep 1935: B6.
Evadne offers her mother something from a bowl. Katherine holds a teacup and saucer standing beside a seated Alice, who also has a teacup and saucer.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2334 - Evadne Meyler Mrs. Robt. G. Meyler Mrs. Wm Rose Gibbon Mrs Clyde R Burr society/philanthropy (Las Madrinas) [stamped:] Oct 8 - 1935
Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Robert G. Meyler, who is a member of the Navy Day committee for the Pacific Southwest Tennis Tournament, being held at the Los Angeles Tennis Club all this week, entertains some friends at her home at 12 St. James Park. Tennis is the tea table topic for Mrs. Meyler and her daughter, Evadne, left, Mrs. William Rose Gibbon and Mrs. Clyde Russell Burr, Busy society leaders are taking time out to attend the colorful matches, where many internationally famous players are competing.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Meyler, Helen, 1893-1972
Gibbon, Katherine, 1894-1986
Burr, Alice, 1903-1987
Meyler, Evadne, 1923-2011

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Teapots
Fireplaces--California--Los Angeles
Tea tables (Tables)