Model Priscilla Lawson and two other women, Times fashion show, Los Angeles, 1936

Item Overview

Title

Model Priscilla Lawson and two other women, Times fashion show, Los Angeles, 1936

Date Created

1936

Date

1936

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Priscilla Lawson, in dress, coat, and hat with flowers, holding gloves, and two other women, probably models, one in dress, fur stole, and hat with feathers, one in dotted dress and hat with veil, all standing in hallway. The fachion show took place in the Los Angeles Times building on 202 West 1st Street, most likely inside what is now the Harry Chandler Auditorium. Two pieces of paper tacked onto the doors behind the models contain the names of department stores (?) and motion picture studios: on L: "[Br]oadway..." and on R:" 20th Century-Fox, R-K-O, Warner Bros, Universal, M-G-M, United Artists, Walter Wanger."
Related to Los Angeles Times article, February 26, 1936, "Smart Styles of ‘Times’ First Annual Spring Fashion Show Thrill Throngs"

Caption

Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 10488 - Fashion Show, 2/24/36 [Stamped:] Jan 24 1938

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Lawson, Priscilla, 1914-1958

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.052850

Latitude

-118.244993

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Fashion models--California--Los Angeles
Culture
Fashion shows--California--Los Angeles
People