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Bathing Suit Fashion Show

Description

Fourteen images of young women posing, indoors, in one- and two-piece bathing suits during a fashion show at the Santa Monica Athletic Club in 1932; including two images of three-year-old Shirley Temple (Items 97-98).

Date based on information provided by the donor.

Type

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Date

March 8, 1932

Call number

photCL 377

Creator

Los Angeles Athletic Club(Opens in new tab)

Provenance

Gift of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, April 1981.

Gift of the Los Angeles Athletic Club,

Dimensions

prints 8 x 10 in., negatives 3 3/4 x 5 in. and 8 x 10 in. +

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Los Angeles Athletic Club photograph collection

Visual Materials

This collection contains photographs of the members and grounds of the Southern California beach and golf clubs that formed part of the Los Angeles Athletic Club in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The clubs represented are the Santa Monica Athletic Club and Deauville Club (Items 1-16 and 74-83, 65-98); the Hermosa Beach Surf and Sand Club (Items 17-55, and 84); the Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades (Items 56-65); and the Long Beach Pacific Coast Club (Items 66-73). The photographs, presumably created as promotional images, include images depicting clubhouse buildings and rooms, as well as members engaged in leisure activities such as sunbathing, swimming, beach volleyball, and golf. Nearly half of the photographs are close-up shots of beach-goers, often young women posing in swimsuits. One set of images depicts women in bathing suits posing for a 1932 Santa Monica Athletic Club fashion show, include two photographs of child actress Shirley Temple (Items 97-98). The items consist of 98 8 x 10 in. black-and-white copy prints with corresponding film negatives, as well as an additional box containing approximately 70 unidentified/unprinted negatives and 1 reel of 16mm film labeled "Jess Willard & strong man, LAAC roof 1933."

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Unidentified and unprinted negatives and film

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Copy prints

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Santa Monica Athletic Club and Deauville Club

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Hermosa Beach Sand and Surf Club and Biltmore Hotel

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Negatives

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Safety film negatives corresponding to copy prints in two sizes 3.75 x 5 in. (Items 1-43, 47, 49-50, 53, 55, 97-98) and 8 x 10 in. (Items 44-46, 48, 51-52, 54, 56-96)

photCL 377

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