Mrs. John Paton, Mrs. E.R. Capstaff, and Mrs. Frederick Sedding preparing for benefit, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Mrs. John Paton, Mrs. E.R. Capstaff, and Mrs. Frederick Sedding preparing for benefit, 1935

Date Created

September 10, 1935

Date

1935-09-10

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

This photograph appears with the article, "They'll Direct British Home Benefit." Los Angeles Times 20 Sept. 1935.
View of Mrs. John Paton, standing left, next to U.S. flag and behind table, in dress and holding strip of lace, Ethel Capstaff, seated middle, behind table, in dress and holding strip of lace, Mrs. Frederick Sedding, standing right, behind table. These women were in charge of arranging the National Society of Daughters of the British Empire's benefit at the Ebell Club to support the British Old Peoples' Home in the Sierra Madre Mountains.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2085, Mrs John Paton, Mrs E.R. Capstaff, Mrs Frederick Seddings, Soc, 9-10-35, [stamped:] Sep 18 1935
Handwritten on negative: L-R, Mrs John Paton, Mrs E.R. Capstaff, Mrs Frederick Seddings, 9-10-35
Text from newspaper caption: Mmes. John Paton, assistant hostess; E.R. Capstaff, regent of Florence Nightingale Chapter, and Frederick Sedding, president of the British Old Folks Home in Sierra Madre Mountains, will assist at the gala bazaar, luncheon and tea at Ebell Club today. More than 500 guests from all parts of the State will attend the party in the banquet hall and gardens of the clubhouse which will be under auspices of the Daughters of the British Empire.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Paton, John, Mrs.
National Society Daughters of the British Empire in the United States of America
Sedding, Frederick, Mrs.
Capstaff, Ethel R., 1887-1970

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Events
People
Fund raising--California--Los Angeles
Charitable organizations--California--Los Angeles
Culture