La Dessa Schaffnit reminisces, Los Angeles, 1936
Item Overview
- Title
- La Dessa Schaffnit reminisces, Los Angeles, 1936
- Date Created
- January 23, 1936
- Date
- 1936-01-23
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Photograph appears with the article, "Woman Here Recalls Dances With New King," Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan 1936: 2.
When LaDessa Schaffnit was 15-years-old she attended a ball where she danced the night with King Edward VIII and was kept in his company on several different occasions. - Caption
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Text from negative sleeve: 3311- Mrs Peter C Schaffnit society (see 1/22/36 article) [stamped:] Jan 23 1936
Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Peter Schaffnit of Westwood, who yesterday recalled that, as 15-year-old LaDessa Gibson, she danced nine times with then Prince of Wales, now King Edward VIII, at Coronado in 1920.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
Portrait photographs
news photographs - Names
- Schaffnit, La Dessa (La Dessa Gibson), b. 1905 or 06
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Portrait photographs
Socialites--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_12285
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002h89k1
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .