Lilith Bennett, Hylda Sampson, Ruth Connoly and Marjorie Wright on a Los Angeles Times tour, Los Angeles, 1936

Item Overview

Title

Lilith Bennett, Hylda Sampson, Ruth Connoly and Marjorie Wright on a Los Angeles Times tour, Los Angeles, 1936

Date Created

March 28, 1936

Date

1936-03-28

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

The girls huddle together and smile for a picture.
Photograph appears with the article, "Canadian Royalty Inspect Plant of "Times"," Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar 1936: 9.
500 members of the American and Canadian Tourists' Societies were guests of the newspaper plant.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 4551 - Lilith Bennett Ruth Connoly Hylda Sampson Marjorie Wright Canadian's visit Times' 3/28/26 [stamped:] Apr 1- 1936
Text from newspaper caption: Four Canadian popularity queens yesterday added a note of beauty to Canadian and American Tourists' Day at The Times when 500 guests toured the newspaper plant and attended a program in the roof garden auditorium. Left to right are Lilith Bennett, Miss Canada for 1936; Ruth Connoly, ruler for 1933 and 1934; Hylda Sampson of Champlain, Ont., princess royal, and Marjorie Wright, princess royal.
Handwritten on negative: L2R Lilith Bennett x Ruth Connoly x Hylda Sampson x Marjorie Wright 3/28/36

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Los Angeles Times (Firm)
Wright, Marjorie
Sampson, Hylda
Connoly, Ruth
Bennett, Lilith

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.053009

Latitude

-118.244596

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Beauty contestants--California--Los Angeles