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Historical Society of Southern California Collection - Veda Kemper photograph album, (bulk 1935-1938)

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The album consists of 295 black-and-white and hand-tinted portraits and group photographs depicting Veda Kemper, members of her family, and friends chiefly in the late 1930s. Many of these photographs were taken at homes in Denver, Colorado; Evanston, Illinois; Omaha, Nebraska; and Florida, as well as in and around Southern California. Also included are photographs [taken by Kemper?] depicting landscapes and cityscapes, primarily in Southern California; some of these include family and friends. Among these are views of Avalon; Griffith Park; the Rose Parade in Pasadena; the Los Angeles River; the Pan-Pacific Auditorium in Los Angeles; Balboa Park and the 1935 San Diego Exposition; the auditorium in Long Beach; the Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C.; the Hollywood Bowl; the Laguna Hotel; Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale; Switzer's Camp in the Angeles National Forest; the Huntington Library; Palm Springs; Central Los Angeles (8th Street, Clifton Cafeteria on Olive Street, the Figueroa Hotel and Figueroa Street, a rally on Broadway, the Petroleum Securities Building at Figueroa and Olympic, and crowds gathered for President Roosevelt and General Patton); the gardens of Gurdon Wattles' home on North Curson Street in Hollywood; the Bernheimer Gardens in Santa Monica; Seattle; Santa Anita and Hollywood Parks; Los Angeles theatres (including the Paramount) at Christmas, with performances by Kathryn Ames and the Singing Strings; Santa Barbara; Lake Arrowhead; Big Bear; Tijuana; and the American Legion Convention.
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Production date
1935-1945.
Call number
photCL 400 volume 17
Provenance
Donated by the Historical Society of Southern California, 1992.
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