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Peggy Hamilton modeling a Max Rée hostess gown of apple-green satin and metallic gold fabric, 1929

Description:
Max Rée (1889–1953) was a Danish costume designer who designed for films from 1926 to 1935 and was the supervising director for sets and costumes at RKO from 1929 through 1932. He won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Cimarron. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and died in Los Angeles, California.
Date:
1929
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Estep, Junius Dunlavy, 1877-1953
Collection:
Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers
Peggy Hamilton modeling a Max Rée hostess gown of apple-green satin and metallic gold fabric, 1929

Peggy Hamilton modeling an ermine wrap over an evening gown, 1929

Description:
Peggy Hamilton modeling a fur wrap of Russian ermine with a sable border from Beckman's Exclusive Fur Shop on West Seventh Street in Los Angeles. The cape is lined in hand-painted satin trimmed with ermine tails and is worn over an evening gown of sheer fabric patterned with leaves and flowers. Hamilton also wears a dark, long-haired wig coiled into a figure-8 low in the back of the neck.
Date:
1929
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Fryer, Elmer, 1898-1944
Collection:
Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers
Peggy Hamilton modeling an ermine wrap over an evening gown, 1929

Peggy Hamilton wearing a Spanish costume and speaking into a microphone as "Queen of Fiesta," Ontario, circa 1931

Description:
Peggy Hamilton wearing a Spanish costume as official "Queen of Fiesta," at the First Californians pageant and fiesta. Hamilton's costume is a Spanish style gown in tulle shaded from pale yellow to red, a finely beaded bodice and roses at the waist and hand-made mantilla over 150 years old worn over a high comb and covering her head and shoulders.
Date:
July 19, 1931
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers
Peggy Hamilton wearing a Spanish costume and speaking into a microphone as "Queen of Fiesta," Ontario, circa 1931

Peggy Hamilton, wearing an Olympics theme gown, with Governor James Rolph at the Philharmonic Auditorium, Los Angeles, circa 1932

Description:
Peggy Hamilton is wearing an Olympics theme gown with illustrations of the Olympic events (boxing ?, diving or swimming, sailing and cycling) within linked rings on the skirt, a tri-colored ribbon (probably red, white and blue) like that used for Olympic medals crossing the bodice, and the flags of different participating countries on her silk wrap. Hamilton is photographed with California Governot James Rolph, wearing several medals on his tuxedo jacket, at the Philharmonic Auditorium in Los Angeles when Hamilton was the official hostess for Los Angeles at the Fiesta of the Olympic Contestants.
Date:
[circa 1932]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers
Peggy Hamilton, wearing an Olympics theme gown, with Governor James Rolph at the Philharmonic Auditorium, Los Angeles, circa 1932

Peggy Hamilton modeling an ermine wrap over an evening gown, 1929

Description:
Peggy Hamilton modeling a fur wrap of Russian ermine with a sable border from Beckman's Exclusive Fur Shop on West Seventh Street in Los Angeles. The cape is lined in hand-painted satin trimmed with ermine tails and is worn over an evening gown. Hamilton also wears a dark, long-haired wig coiled into a figure-8 low in the back of the neck.
Date:
1929
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers
Peggy Hamilton modeling an ermine wrap over an evening gown, 1929

Peggy Hamilton modeling a Max Rée gown as "Queen Olympia," 1931

Description:
Peggy Hamilton standing on a grand spiral staircase, wearing a regal evening gown with empire lines in ivory satin embroidered with pearls and rhinestones, with puffed sleeves and a flared stand-up collar of Alençon lace. Her red velvet train, 15 yards in length, is decorated with large flowers created from gold metallic ribbon and has an ermine border. Her crown is ornamented with diamonds and pearls.
Date:
1931
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers
Peggy Hamilton modeling a Max Rée gown as "Queen Olympia," 1931

Peggy Hamilton modeling a Max Rée gown as "Queen Olympia," 1931

Description:
This gown was designed by Max Rée, courtesy of Radio Pictures Corporation, for the Coronation Ball at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles at which Hamilton was crowned as Queen Olympia. Hamilton was the Los Angeles County Official Hostess during the 1932 summer Olympics held in Los Angeles. The location of this photograph with grand spiral staircase is not documented.
Date:
1931
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers
Peggy Hamilton modeling a Max Rée gown as "Queen Olympia," 1931

Peggy Hamilton modeling a Max Rée gown as "Queen Olympia," 1931

Description:
Peggy Hamilton standing on a grand spiral staircase, wearing a regal evening gown with empire lines in ivory satin embroidered with pearls and rhinestones, with puffed sleeves and a flared stand-up collar of Alençon lace. Her red velvet train, 15 yards in length, is decorated with large flowers created from gold metallic ribbon and has an ermine border. Her crown is ornamented with diamonds and pearls.
Date:
1931
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers
Peggy Hamilton modeling a Max Rée gown as "Queen Olympia," 1931

Actress Natalie Kingston modeling an evening gown from a Walter Switzer shop, 1930

Description:
Natalie Kingston modeling a "Leconte Model" evening gown with metallic broché fabric in tones of rose and black. The gown was sold by the Walter Switzer shops in Southern California on Seventh street at Westlake Village, the Fashion Salons of Mather's in Pasadena, and on State Street in Santa Barbara.
Date:
1930
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bachrach, Ernest, 1899-1973
Collection:
Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers
Actress Natalie Kingston modeling an evening gown from a Walter Switzer shop, 1930

Actress Natalie Kingston modeling an evening gown from a Walter Switzer shop, 1930

Description:
Natalie Kingston modeling a "Leconte Model" evening gown with metallic broché fabric in tones of rose and black. The gown was sold by the Walter Switzer shops in Southern California on Seventh street at Westlake Village, the Fashion Salons of Mather's in Pasadena, and on State Street in Santa Barbara.
Date:
1930
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bachrach, Ernest, 1899-1973
Collection:
Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers
Actress Natalie Kingston modeling an evening gown from a Walter Switzer shop, 1930