Merla and Patsy Lampton and Inez and Virginia Lee Welch prepare for the tennis club championship, Los Feliz, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Merla and Patsy Lampton and Inez and Virginia Lee Welch prepare for the tennis club championship, Los Feliz, 1935

Date Created

July 31, 1935

Date

1935-07-31

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

The four ladies sit with one leg crossed over the other and hold their tennis rackets in their laps so they point in the same direction.
Photograph appears with the headline, "Mothers and Daughters Tennis Fans," Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar 1935: A6.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Edgar Lampton, Patsy Lampton, Mrs. Cyril W. Welch and Virginia Lee Welch, mothers and daughters of the Los Feliz Women's Club, are vieing for the club tennis championship. Mrs. Lampton, chairman of the athletic division, is staging a tournament soon in which women from all of the Los Angeles may compete.
Text from negative sleeve: 1349 - Mrs Edgar Lampton Patsy Lampton Mrs Cyril W Welch Virginia Lu Welch [stamped:] Jul 31 1935
Handwritten on negative: 3- Mrs. Cyril W Welch 4 - Virginia Lee Welsh

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Welch, Virginia Lee, b. 1923 or 24
Lampton, Merla, b. 1892 or 94
Welch, Inez, b. 1900 or 01-1968
Lampton, Patsy, 1922-2006

Location

Los Feliz (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Mothers--California--Los Feliz
Daughters--American--California--Los Feliz
Tennis rackets
Sports--California--Los Feliz