Photograph of prominent socialite and philanthropist, Florence M. Irish, more popularly known as Mrs. Leiland Atherton Irish. Mrs. Irish has a long list of achievements, which include being named Times Woman of the Year in 1957 and receiving a National Brotherhood Award in 1963. She served on the executive board of the Women's Committee for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and was the executive director of the Southern California Symphony Association. She was also President of the Women's division, Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and member of the executive committee. In the picture, she is posing as sitting behind a desk, pencil in hand, looking over a seating chart of a theatre [possibly the L.A. Philharmonic Auditorium].
Photograph of prominent society members of Los Angeles who gathered together to plan out an extensive ticket campaign to ensure successes of two fetes to honor the birthday of President Roosevelt. Those in the photograph include socialites and activists Mrs. Samuel Cary Dunlap (Anna May), Mrs. Leafie Sloan Orcutt, Mrs. Hancock Banning (Anne Ophelia) and Mrs. Leiland A. Irish (Florence M.), Grace Stoermer; Showman Sid Grauman; and Los Angeles Health Department Head Dr. George Parrish.
![Prominent socialite Mrs. Leiland Atherton Irish, Los Angeles, [1935?]](https://iiif.library.ucla.edu/iiif/2/ark%3A%2F21198%2Fzz002dhws7/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg)
