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Description:: Southern exterior view of the Sorrento Beach Club against the Palisades cliffs, facing northwest from Pacific Coast Highway. A restaurant, other buildings and cars are visible on the highway. The restaurant bares a sign reading "Ne--'s Grill".
Date:: May 29, 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Photograph is page from book, caption from photograph reads "JADE 'PAILOU'--Imperial 'pailou', white-grenn throughout, ingenious in architecture and hollow to permit interior lighting the Pailou is a memorial gate fronting the famous Altar of the Sacred Jade Pagoda"
Date:: 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Numerous pictures and newspaper clippings covering June Moss, staring in the operas "Martha" and "Elixir of Love". Other accompanying actors are also seen.
Date:: [circa 1956]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Numerous pictures and newspaper clippings covering June Moss, staring in the operas "Martha" and "Elixir of Love". Other accompanying actors are also seen.
Date:: [circa 1956]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Left photograph is part of a page from a book, caption from photograph reads "FLOWER BASKET--China famous jade carvers rival Mother nature, magically transforming a solid gem of unusual jade into the world's most priceless bouquet, hanging in everlasting freshness from New China's chains of unity."
Date:: 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Photograph is page from book, caption from photograph reads "THE ALTAR OF THE SACRED JADE PAGODA--A glorious, priceless masterpiece. 'Tis not a replica but an ideal combination of the most outstanding features of Chinese architecture. For 10 years 150 craftsmen labored to create it from a mother gem weighing 9 tons. Seven stories high its designing exceeds that of old filigree. Most luxurious spectacle in the world of jade."
Date:: 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Photograph is page from book, caption from photograph reads "JEWEL JADE "YANG TAI CHEN'--History's beauty queen. Her loveliness made roses seem ugly, snow seem grey. With her parrot, symbol of her piteous fate, she is now found immortalized in perfect jade."
Date:: 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: John Lindsay, a southern California architect, was involved in the renovation of the Windemere Hotel in 1955.
Date:: 1955
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Ornate 1888 horse-shoe-shaped shell art wreath made by poet Ina Donna Coolbrith in upper left corner. In upper right corner is a portrait of Ina Donna Coolbrith from the frontispiece of her book Songs from the Golden Gate, 1895. The lower portion of the page is an article discussing In Coolbrith making the wreath ["Heirloom Shows Poetess' Art," Los Angeles Times, October 12, 1953]. At the time of this photograph the wreath belonged to the Perrys' nephew John H. Crum of Santa Monica. The shell wreath is an example of Victorian era domestic crafts.
Date:: 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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