Contact sheet with 11 prints of a model in a light-colored overcoat with a large fur collar. The coat ties at the waist. She wears a knit cap, slacks, gloves, a shoulder bag and sun glasses. Under the coat, she wears a sweater with a large turtle neck. She carries a cane that folds into a travelling chair.
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.
Peggy Hamilton modeling a baku hat with a red and black crepe band around the crown from the Salon of Hortense, Inc. located at 9440 Wilshire Blvd. in Beverly Hills. Baku is a fine millinery straw made from rice fiber. Black "x" marks indicate areas of the photograph to be retouched.
Peggy Hamilton modeling a creation by Earl Luck of Warner Bros. with a close-fitting coat of black velvet with collar fashioned of silver fox skin. The dinner gown of blue sequins has a tiny cap to match.
According to Hamilton's "Fashions" feature in the Los Angeles Times, October 18, 1931, pg. H3, Jean Lucas, president of the millinery business Hortense Inc., visited Los Angeles, in September 1931, to announce the opening his Los Angeles millinery salons.
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.
