Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Names: Olympic Games (10th : 1932 : Los Angeles, Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Spectators watch the preparations for a track event at the Olympic Games. There are people on the field near the track. There are spectators scattered throughout the stands, including a man in a hat who is in the foreground of the photograph.
Date:: 1932-07-30/1932-08-14
[July 30-August 14, 1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

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

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.
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

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