Sylvia and Louise Haines, known as the Weber Gingham Twins, stand in front of the Weber Bread exhibit at the Food and Household Show, Los Angeles, 1933

Item Overview

Title

Sylvia and Louise Haines, known as the Weber Gingham Twins, stand in front of the Weber Bread exhibit at the Food and Household Show, Los Angeles, 1933

Date Created

[circa November 1933]

Date

1933-11

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Food Show Opens Today: Rare South Sea Island Birds Among Features; California Fish, Frozen in Ice, to be Displayed," 13 Nov. 1933: A1.
Sylvia and Louise Haines, known as the Weber Gingham Twins, stand in front of the Weber Bread exhibit at the Food and Household Show, sponsored by the Southern California Retail Grocers Association. The women wear matching dresses and hats and hold loaves of bread. Signs on the exhibit read, "71 Webers Bread Dolly Madison Cakes," and "Weber's Bread outsells...excels... Dolly Madison." There is a display of Austin's Puppy Biscuits and Edgemont Butter Crackers at the right of the photograph. The neighboring exhibit features a sign that reads, in part, "Palms... Palm Springs in the making."

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Annual Food and Household Show Opens Today: Sylvia and Louise Haines, "gingham twins," show the way at Weber's Bread display [Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 1933: A7]
Text from negative sleeve: Food Show 1933

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Southern California Retail Grocers Association
Shrine Auditorium (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Haines, Sylvia
Haines, Louise

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.023208

Latitude

-118.281542

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Food industry--California--Los Angeles
Exhibitions--California--Los Angeles