Bessie Neelly Jones Wright, Eleanor Deiss Boyd Hollinger, Kathleen Barnard, and Mary Ruth Smart Belt meet to plan a party for the Women's Auxiliary of the Southern California Medical Association, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Bessie Neelly Jones Wright, Eleanor Deiss Boyd Hollinger, Kathleen Barnard, and Mary Ruth Smart Belt meet to plan a party for the Women's Auxiliary of the Southern California Medical Association, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: [circa August 1935]
Date: 1935-08
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Bessie Neelly Jones Wright (Mrs. Clifford Wright), Eleanor Deiss Boyd Hollinger (Mrs. Walter H. Boyd), Kathleen Barnard (Mrs. Harold Barnard), and Mary Ruth Smart Belt (Mrs. Elmer Belt) meet to plan a party for the Women's Auxiliary of the Southern California Medical Association.
The location is the "Del Amo Gardens," which probably refers to the Del Amo Estate at 1119 Westchester Place, Los Angeles. The estate was a favorite site for local society; Dr. Del Amo often lent use of the house or its gardens to social clubs and organizations for teas and receptions. (Inventory of the Del Amo Estate Company Collection, 1908-1978, California State University, Dominguez Hills).
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 1780- Women's Aux. So. Calif. Med. Asso. (By pool) Standing Mmes. Clifford Wright, Walter H. Boyd. (Seated) Mmes. Harold Barnard, Elmer Belt
Text from newspaper caption: Medical Auxiliary Plans Garden Party: Mmes. Clifford Wright and Walter H. Boyd, standing and Mmes. Harold Barnard and Elmer Belt, seated, of the Women's Auxiliary of the Southern California Medical Association meet at Del Amo Gardens to plan arrangements for the annual party for doctors and their wives in the gardens Saturday evening. There will be a buffet of dinner, program, bridge and dancing. Mrs. John V. Barrows is hostess [Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 1935: A7]

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Belt, Mary Ruth Smart, 1893-1983
Wright, Bessie Neelly Jones, 1884-1969
Hollinger, Eleanor Deiss Boyd, 1898-1975
Barnard, Kathleen, 1901-1979
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.050185
Latitude: -118.318205
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Clubwomen--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_10166
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002ddz0z
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