Prominent socialite Mrs. Leiland Atherton Irish, Los Angeles, [1935?]

Item Overview

Title

Prominent socialite Mrs. Leiland Atherton Irish, Los Angeles, [1935?]

Date Created

[1935?]

Date

1935

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph of prominent socialite and philanthropist, Florence M. Irish, more popularly known as Mrs. Leiland Atherton Irish. Mrs. Irish has a long list of achievements, which include being named Times Woman of the Year in 1957 and receiving a National Brotherhood Award in 1963. She served on the executive board of the Women's Committee for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and was the executive director of the Southern California Symphony Association. She was also President of the Women's division, Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and member of the executive committee. In the picture, she is posing as sitting behind a desk, pencil in hand, looking over a seating chart of a theatre [possibly the L.A. Philharmonic Auditorium].

Caption

Text on negative sleeve: Irish, Leiland Atherton, Mrs.- Society Patroness- Chairman of Woman's Philharmonic Orch. Club.- Other orgs.
Handwritten on negative: Mrs. Leiland Atherton Irish

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
Irish, Florence M., 1889-1971

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Socialites--California--Los Angeles
Philanthropists--California--Los Angeles