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Peggy Hamilton with actresses Priscilla Dean and June Marlowe modeling wedding attire at the Cocoanut Grove, Los Angeles, 1929

Description:
Peggy Hamilton modeling a wedding dress and veil, flanked by a maid of honor on the right, actress Priscilla Dean, and a bridesmaid on the left, actress June Marlowe at the Cocoanut Grove night club, at the Ambassador Hotel. The bouquets and backdrop flower arrangements are by Kathleen Clifford.
Date:
1929
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers
Peggy Hamilton with actresses Priscilla Dean and June Marlowe modeling wedding attire at the Cocoanut Grove, Los Angeles, 1929

Peggy Hamilton, standing next to Ethel and Grace Bush, holds a lion cub at a Lions Club luncheon, Los Angeles, 1931-32

Description:
Peggy Hamilton served as "Queen of the Lions" during the 1932 international Lions Club convention in Los Angeles. Hamilton is pictured holding a lion cub while standing next to an unidentified member of the Lions Club and Ethel and Grace Bush. She is wearing a hat and a cape over a long dress. Ethel and Grace Bush are both wearing hats. One of the Bush women is wearing a dress with fur near the collar.
Date:
1931-1932
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers
Peggy Hamilton, standing next to Ethel and Grace Bush, holds a lion cub at a Lions Club luncheon, Los Angeles, 1931-32

Peggy Hamilton holds plaque awarded to her by Lions Club for her service as official hostess, Los Angeles, 1932

Description:
Peggy Hamilton served as "Queen of the Lions" during the 1932 international Lions Club convention in Los Angeles. Members of the convention committee honored Hamilton for her organization of the conference pageant and awarded her with a plaque during a meeting at the Biltmore. Hamilton is pictured holding her plaque wearing gloves, a hat with a tulle veil, and a fur cape over a dress.
Date:
October 1932
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers
Peggy Hamilton holds plaque awarded to her by Lions Club for her service as official hostess, Los Angeles, 1932

Peggy Hamilton and the French Queen of the Olympic games with Governor James Rolph, Los Angeles, 1932

Description:
Coronation of the French queen of the Olympic games before a grand ball. Left to right: an unidentified man, the unidentified queen, Peggy Hamilton extending her hand to the queen's crown, and California Governor James Rolph. They are at the Elks Lodge (607 Park View Street) for the evening program celebrating Bastille Day, as reported in the Los Angeles Times of July 14, 1932, pg. A10.
Date:
July 14, 1932
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers
Peggy Hamilton and the French Queen of the Olympic games with Governor James Rolph, Los Angeles, 1932

Peggy Hamilton modeling a Max Rée gown as "Queen Olympia" with members of her court at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, 1931

Description:
Hamilton's 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.
Date:
February 1931
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers
Peggy Hamilton modeling a Max Rée gown as "Queen Olympia" with members of her court at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, 1931

Peggy Hamilton, standing next to Ethel and Grace Bush, holds a lion cub at a Lions Club luncheon, Los Angeles, 1931-32

Description:
Peggy Hamilton served as "Queen of the Lions" during the 1932 international Lions Club convention in Los Angeles. Hamilton is pictured holding a lion cub while standing next to an unidentified member of the Lions Club and Ethel and Grace Bush. She is wearing a hat and a cape over a long dress. Ethel and Grace Bush are both wearing hats. One of the Bush women is wearing a dress with fur near the collar.
Date:
1931-1932
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers
Peggy Hamilton, standing next to Ethel and Grace Bush, holds a lion cub at a Lions Club luncheon, Los Angeles, 1931-32

Peggy Hamilton, wearing a currency-themed gown, with James Francis Thaddeus O'Connor, Comptroller of the Currency, at Grauman's Theater, Los Angeles, 1932

Description:
Peggy Hamilton and James Francis Thaddeus O'Connor, the Comptroller of the Currency, at Grauman's Chinese Theatre for the premier of the movie Rain. Over her gown, Hamilton wears a wrap of coin-sized sequins with a fur border. Hamilton doing a radio broadcast and there are two microphones next to O'Connor, one with the radio station identifier "KHJ."
Date:
1932
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers
Peggy Hamilton, wearing a currency-themed gown, with James Francis Thaddeus O'Connor, Comptroller of the Currency, at Grauman's Theater, Los Angeles, 1932

Peggy Hamilton holds plaque awarded to her by Lions Club for her service as official hostess, Los Angeles, 1932

Description:
Peggy Hamilton served as "Queen of the Lions" during the 1932 international Lions Club convention in Los Angeles. Members of the convention committee honored Hamilton for her organization of the conference pageant and awarded her with a plaque during a meeting at the Biltmore. Hamilton is pictured holding her plaque wearing gloves, a hat with a tulle veil, and a fur cape over a dress.
Date:
October 1932
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers
Peggy Hamilton holds plaque awarded to her by Lions Club for her service as official hostess, Los Angeles, 1932

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Description:
Collection of approximately 800 digitized photographs and other items collected by Walter L. Gordon, Jr. and given to William C. Beverly, Jr., who donated the collection to UCLA. Collection includes photos given to Walter by his former boss, Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle, as well as other photos he collected. Photos largely depict African American social life and family life in 1940s Los Angeles and feature celebrities, athletes, politicians, lawyers, and other notable people of the era.
Date:
1940s

Miriam Matthews, Angelique DeLavallade and unidentified individuals, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:
The woman (fourth from the left, in the back wearing a necklace) is Angelique DeLavallade. Miriam Matthews is fifth from the left, dressed in a black coat. The other individuals in the photo are unidentified, although Walter Gordon believed that the woman standing to the right of the man in uniform ran an escrow company.
Date:
[1940s?]
1940/1949
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection
Miriam Matthews, Angelique DeLavallade and unidentified individuals, Los Angeles, 1940s

Large gathering of prominent African Americans, Los Angeles, between 1925 and 1930

Description:
Harry Levette is seated at the far right. Harry Cutler is seated at the far left, and Herman Hill is seated 2nd from the left (next to Mr. Cutler). At the large table are Marshall Denton (2nd from left), Lena Horne (4th from the left). Other names on the photograph are illegible, and the other individuals are unidentified.
Date:
[between 1925 and 1930?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection
Large gathering of prominent African Americans, Los Angeles, between 1925 and 1930