Frances C. Potts at piano as high school students Molly Cooley, Betty Wetmore, Jeanne Chanslor, and Persis Kent prepare to perform, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Frances C. Potts at piano as high school students Molly Cooley, Betty Wetmore, Jeanne Chanslor, and Persis Kent prepare to perform, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

November 1935

Date

1935-11

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph appears with the article, "Community Days Start in New 'Times' Building," Los Angeles Times, 05 Nov 1935: A1.
The four girls wear matching dresses and floral crowns, two of them sitting on the piano and two leaning against it as director Frances C. Potts plays.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2906 - Francis C. Potts Molly Cooly Betty Wetmore Jeanne Chanslor Persis Kent Monrovia Day 10/11/35 ? [stamped:] Nov 22 1935
Text from newspaper caption: Entertaining Monrovia residents from the stage of the auditorium in the new Times Building last night were musicians from Monrovia High School and the girl's senior glee club. In the glee club quartet shown above are, left to right, Persis Kent, Jeanne Chanslor, Betty Wetmore and Molly Cooley, with their director, Frances C. Potts, at the piano. Times photo
Handwritten on negative: Francis C. Potts Molly Cooley Betty Wetmore Jeanne Chanslor Persis Kent

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Chanslor, Jeanne Alice, 1919-2003
Kent, Persis, b. 1919
Potts, Frances C., b. circa 1885
Cooley, Molly
Wetmore, Betty, b. circa 1918

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Clubs--California--Los Angeles
Pianos
Students--American--California--Los Angeles