Resource Type: still image / Photographer: Witzel, Albert Walter, 1879-1929 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Albert Witzel was a society photographer in Los Angeles and Hollywood in the nineteen teens and twenties. He specialized in portraits of theatrical performers and, later, film stars.
Date:: [circa 1917]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Witzel, Albert Walter, 1879-1929
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Peggy Hamilton modeling a from-fitting velvet hostess gown with a deep v-neckline with a lace inset and a high ostrich feather collar. The gown was designed by Kathleen Kay, of Fox Studios for Virginia Valli in "Stage Madness."
Date:: 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Witzel, Albert Walter, 1879-1929
Collection:: Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

Description:: This photograph appears in Peggy Hamilton’s Los Angeles Times feature "Fashions," January 2, 1927, pg. I3. The photographer credit for this feature is Witzel Photos.
Date:: 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Witzel, Albert Walter, 1879-1929
Collection:: Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

Description:: A different photograph of Peggy Hamilton wearing this gown appears in her Los Angeles Times feature "Fashions," January 2, 1927, pg. I3. The photograph credit for this "Fashions" page is Witzel Photos.
Date:: 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Witzel, Albert Walter, 1879-1929
Collection:: Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

Description:: Albert Witzel was a society photographer in Los Angeles and Hollywood in the nineteen teens and twenties. He specialized in portraits of theatrical performers and, later, film stars.
Date:: [1920s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Witzel, Albert Walter, 1879-1929
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A different portrait of Claire Borin appears with the caption: Claire Borin, seeking separate maintenance from her wealthy mate, who seeks divorce [with the article "Borin Wins In Love Row; Court Tells Chicagoan, Now Suing Asher, to Ignore Wife's Mexico Case," Los Angeles Times, August 24, 1935].
Date:: [circa 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Witzel, Albert Walter, 1879-1929
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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