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Description:: This image is of Leonora Preston at the beach, likely Santa Monica. Leonora was a dancer. She poses here, lounging on a rock, wearing a two piece bathing suit. Her suit has graph lines and a flower pattern on it. She lays on her right side, propped up on her right arm. Her left arm is raised, its fingers extended.
Date:: October 4, 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Ruth St. Denis was a modern dancer who incorporated eastern dance into her work. Walter Barron Currier was a Massachusetts-born painter, craftsman, illustrator, print maker and etcher. He moved to the Los Angeles area in 1913. Currier was the head of Lincoln High School's art department, and established the Currier Creative Art School in Santa Monica in 1926.
Date:: [bewteen 1920-1965]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Three men in Revolutionary War attire with flags and drums, woman in tiara and flag-themed dress, riding on float with sign reading Spirit of '76, MSS Columbia, Long Beach Elks, No 888, Mystic Order of Cr[abs], with crowd and decorated Elks building in background
Date:: 1939 or 1952
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Three men in Revolutionary War attire with flags and drums, woman in tiara and flag-themed dress, riding on float with sign reading Spirit of '76, MSS Columbia, Long Beach Elks, No 888, Mystic Order of Crabs
Date:: 1939 or 1952
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Cutout renderings of opera singer Enrico Porta as Rigoletto, and Mario Lanza, Santa Monica Civic Opera conductor. Photographs of performers and performances are on the table on which the cutouts stand.
Date:: 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Group portrait of guests at a gathering in the dining room of the home of Vivien Kurtz (258 18th St.).
Date:: [circa 1950-1959]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Photograph of visitors standing along a wood rail fence following the Palisades Park path. South facing view toward Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica Beach and Pier. Following the highway, the Sorrento Club can be seen buttressed against the cliffs at the foot of the California Incline. Beach clubs, businesses and houses follow the coastline.
Date:: [1946 or 1952]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: At some point after WWII the rustic branch fence at Palisades Park was replaced with two types: a pre-cast concrete fence with a criss-cross design and a wood board fence. Bartlett photographs of Palisades Park dated 1946 show the rustic branch fence and the wood rail fence.
Date:: [1946 or 1952]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: At some point after WWII the rustic branch fence at Palisades Park was replaced with two types: a pre-cast concrete fence with a criss-cross design and a wood board fence. Bartlett photographs of Palisades Park dated 1946 show the rustic branch fence and the wood rail fence.
Date:: [1946 or 1952]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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