Fashion models at J. W. Robinson Co. department store wearing dresses from different eras, Los Angeles, 1933

Title: Fashion models at J. W. Robinson Co. department store wearing dresses from different eras, Los Angeles, 1933
Date Created: March 1, 1933
Date: 1933-03-01
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: A group of women surround two models, one wearing an evening dress from the style of 1933, and the second wearing a dress from the style 50 years previous. The models' clothing is part of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of J.W. Robinson Co department store.
This photograph appears in the article, "Store Marks Anniversary; Throngs at Robinson's Levee Voice Appreciation of Entertainment for Eye and Ear," Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 1933: A1.
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: Audience compares modes of today with those of fifty years ago.
Handwritten on negative: W.L. Valentine
Text from negative sleeve: Valentine, W.L., J.W. Robinson Pres., 50th Anniversary, 1933

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: J. W. Robinson Co.
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.046242
Latitude: -118.256691
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Department stores--California--Los Angeles
Fashion models--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_4093
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cpthz
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Rights Country: US
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