Ethel Sissle, Marva Louis, and Catherine Garcia at Noble Sissle's house, Los Angeles, 1940s

Title: Ethel Sissle, Marva Louis, and Catherine Garcia at Noble Sissle's house, Los Angeles, 1940s
Date Created: [1940s?]
Date: 1940/1949
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Summary: Ethel Sissle (1915-1984) was maried to the band leader Noble Sissle, and later to Walter L. Gordon, Jr.
Catherine Garcia, Walter L. Gordon Jr.'s secretary for many years, was politically active and worked to motivate other women to be active in civic organizations.
Marva Louis, stenographer and big band singer, married and divorced heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis twice between 1935 and 1949; during their marriage, she also worked as a model. She married physician Albert Lee Spaulding in 1950.
Description: In 1946, Noble Sissle lived at 2126 S. Harvard Blvd., Los Angeles.
All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Taken at Noble Sissle's house on Juliet Street. L to Right: Ethel Sissle, Marva Louis and Catherine Garcia.

Genre: Black-and-white photographs
Names: Garcia, Catherine
Spaulding, Marva Louis, 1915-2000
Sissle, Ethel
Location: California--Los Angeles
Longitude: 34.036510
Latitude: -118.306523
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Lifestyle
People; Secretaries--California--Los Angeles
African American models

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
Local Identifier: Collection 1867 Box 2 Folder 7
YRLSC_gordonphotos_0387
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0025pfwv
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