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Willametta Keck, Lela Coursen Gates, and Elizabeth Anne Fullerton discussing plans for the Children's Horse Show, Pasadena, 1936

Description:
Willametta Keck, Lela Coursen Gates, and Elizabeth Anne Fullerton sit in a garden in wicker chairs. Keck wears a plaid dress and has her hat on her knee. Gates wears a solid dress, gloves and a hat. She holds a pencil in her right hand and notepad. Fullerton has a clutch purse in her lap, and wears a patterened dress with a pussy bow.
Date:
[circa May 1, 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Kentle, Jean
Collection:
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Willametta Keck, Lela Coursen Gates, and Elizabeth Anne Fullerton discussing plans for the Children's Horse Show, Pasadena, 1936

Prominent socialite Mrs. Leiland Atherton Irish, Los Angeles, [1935?]

Description:
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].
Date:
[1935?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Prominent socialite Mrs. Leiland Atherton Irish, Los Angeles, [1935?]

Peggy Hamilton, standing next to Ethel and Grace Bush, holds a lion cub at a Lions Club luncheon, Los Angeles, 1931-32

Description:
Peggy Hamilton served as "Queen of the Lions" during the 1932 international Lions Club convention in Los Angeles. Hamilton is pictured holding a lion cub while standing next to an unidentified member of the Lions Club and Ethel and Grace Bush. She is wearing a hat and a cape over a long dress. Ethel and Grace Bush are both wearing hats. One of the Bush women is wearing a dress with fur near the collar.
Date:
1931-1932
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers
Peggy Hamilton, standing next to Ethel and Grace Bush, holds a lion cub at a Lions Club luncheon, Los Angeles, 1931-32

Peggy Hamilton, standing next to Ethel and Grace Bush, holds a lion cub at a Lions Club luncheon, Los Angeles, 1931-32

Description:
Peggy Hamilton served as "Queen of the Lions" during the 1932 international Lions Club convention in Los Angeles. Hamilton is pictured holding a lion cub while standing next to an unidentified member of the Lions Club and Ethel and Grace Bush. She is wearing a hat and a cape over a long dress. Ethel and Grace Bush are both wearing hats. One of the Bush women is wearing a dress with fur near the collar.
Date:
1931-1932
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers
Peggy Hamilton, standing next to Ethel and Grace Bush, holds a lion cub at a Lions Club luncheon, Los Angeles, 1931-32

Notable city socialites and philanthropists planning President Roosevelt's birthday celebrations, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
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.
Date:
Jan 18, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notable city socialites and philanthropists planning President Roosevelt's birthday celebrations, Los Angeles, 1935

Mrs. Oscar Wells, Mrs. F. N. Shepherd, Mr. and Mrs. J. Dabney Day, and Michael J. Connell attend Opera, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:
(L to R) Mrs. Oscar Wells (Helen Wells), Mrs. F. N. Sheperd (Dora Shepherd), Mr. and Mrs. J. Dabney Day, and Michael J. Connell wearing formal evening attire. The group is standing on the sidewalk, other attendants and onlookers are around them. This photograph was taken outside the Shrine Auditorium.
Date:
[October 1926]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Mrs. Oscar Wells, Mrs. F. N. Shepherd, Mr. and Mrs. J. Dabney Day, and Michael J. Connell attend Opera, Los Angeles, 1926

Mrs. Lilian Wellborn Green and her daughters, along with Miles Gray at a performance of the Nine o'Clock Players, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Liliore Green Palmer Rains (Mrs. William Palmer,) Lilian Wellborn Green (Mrs. Burton Edmond Green,) Miles Gray, and Burton Green Gray Bettingen in front of the Biltmore Theatre where they attended an event for the Nine o'Clock Players, a theater group associated with the Assistance League. The women wear furs and capes and jewels. Mr. Gray wears a tuxedo.
Date:
[circa November 1935]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Mrs. Lilian Wellborn Green and her daughters, along with Miles Gray at a performance of the Nine o'Clock Players, Los Angeles, 1935

Mrs. Leafie Sloan-Orcutt, Dr. J. W. Todd and Miss. Jeanie MacPherson, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Aunt Sunway's Dinner Party was a promotional contest sponsored by the Los Angeles times, in which contestants submit what they think is the best seating arrangement for Martha "Aunt" Sunway's eight dinner guests, based on information about her and her guests in a 31-page booklet. The prizes were worth a total of $12,000, and a model home designed by architects H. Roy Kelley, Edgar F. Bissantz, and Harold G. Spielman was awarded as First
Date:
Aug 6, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Mrs. Leafie Sloan-Orcutt, Dr. J. W. Todd and Miss. Jeanie MacPherson, Los Angeles, 1935

Mrs. Howard Verbeck attends grand opening of the opera season, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:
Mrs. Howard Verbeck (Blanche A. Verbeck) standing on the sidewalk accompanied by a man--most likely Mr. Howard Verbeck. Mrs. Verbeck is wearing an evening gown and a fur-lined coat. There are people beside the couple and across the street observing the scene. This photograph was taken outside of the Shrine Auditorium.
Date:
[October 1926]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Mrs. Howard Verbeck attends grand opening of the opera season, Los Angeles, 1926

Mrs. Ellsworth (Grace) McGowan, vice president of the Wilshire Women's Club and member of the Breakfast Bridge Club, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
Mrs. Grace McGowan, wife of Ellsworth McGowan, sits on a tiled window bay ledge, legs crossed, holding a booklet. Also on the ledge are a variety of plants, mostly cacti and succulents, and a statue of two seated children.
Date:
[circa March 12, 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Mrs. Ellsworth (Grace) McGowan, vice president of the Wilshire Women's Club and member of the Breakfast Bridge Club, Los Angeles, 1936

Mr. and Mrs. Owen Churchill and Lucretia Stetson at an event for the Nine o'Clock Players, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Mr. and Mrs. Owen Churchill and Lucretia Stetson at an event for the Nine o'Clock Players, a theater group associated with the Assistance League. Mrs. Stetson wears a long, black gown, while Mrs. Churchill wears a gown with flowers, plus a fur coat, as well as glasses. Mr. Churchill wears a tuxedo.
Date:
[circa November 1935]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Mr. and Mrs. Owen Churchill and Lucretia Stetson at an event for the Nine o'Clock Players, Los Angeles, 1935

Malcolm McNaghten at party for daughter Ann, Venice (Los Angeles), 1936

Description:
Malcolm McNaghten is seen playfully walking through a tunnel in the Venice Fun House. Unidentified onlookers appear in the background. A couple is seen embraced on the floor. McNaghten is the father of Ann McNaghten. Possibly related to the article "BEWILDERING MACHINERY OF MIRTH MIXES NEW AND JOLLY COMPLEXITIES," Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 1936: D3.
Date:
February 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Malcolm McNaghten at party for daughter Ann, Venice (Los Angeles), 1936

Los Angeles socialites Mrs. Edwin Kraft, Mrs. Sigurd Murphy, and Mrs. Harold Dougher, Bel Air, 1938

Description:
From left to right, Los Angeles socialites Mrs. Edwin Kraft, Mrs. Sigurd Murphy, and Mrs. Harold Dougher. Mrs. Kraft is seated on a table. Behind the group is a window with ironwork and an archway. This photograph may have been taken at a bridge luncheon hosted by Mrs. Murphy at The Sycamores in Bel Air on December 7, 1938.
Date:
[December 7, 1938?]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Terrell, Maurice
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles socialites Mrs. Edwin Kraft, Mrs. Sigurd Murphy, and Mrs. Harold Dougher, Bel Air, 1938