Jim Sherry, Joan Sherry, John David, and Tony Brackett working on their newspaper, Newport Beach, 1935J

Item Overview

Title

Jim Sherry, Joan Sherry, John David, and Tony Brackett working on their newspaper, Newport Beach, 1935J

Date Created

July 20, 1935

Date

1935-07-20

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph of children creating their own newspaper. Joan Sherry writes by hand with a pencil and paper while Jim Sherry and John Davis watch. Tony Bracket looks at a paper in one hand while typing with the other. They sit at a wooden table on sand, next to water. In the distance there is a sailboat. Beyond that is the mainland of Newport Beach.
This photograph appears with the article, “Business Booms for Juvenile Publishers,” Los Angeles Times, 20 Jul. 1935: A5.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: According to these four youngsters, the Lido Lookout is the finest newspaper published on Lido Isle. The reason for this may be that it’s the island’s only news publication, but they take their task in no light-hearted manner. Left to right are, Jim Sherry, associate editor; Joan Sherry, society editor; John Davis, cartoonist, and Tony Brackett, editor-in-chief.
Handwritten on negative: 7-19-35 Tony Brackett, John Davis, Joan Sherry, Jim Sherry.
Text from negative sleeve: 2043—Left to right, Jim Sherry, Joan Sherry, John Davis, Tony Brachett of Lido Isle. Publishers of the “Lido Lookout” 7-19-35, [Stamped:] SEP 13 1935.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Sherry, Jim
Brackett, Tony
Sherry, Joan
Davis, John

Location

Newport Beach (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Islands--California
Typewriters
Children--California--Newport Beach