Names: Adams, Peggy Hamilton, 1890-1984 and Olympic Games (10th : 1932 : Los Angeles, Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Peggy Hamilton is wearing an Olympics theme gown with illustrations of the Olympic events (boxing ?, diving or swimming, sailing and cycling) within linked rings on the skirt, a tri-colored ribbon (probably red, white and blue) like that used for Olympic medals crossing the bodice, and the flags of different participating countries on her silk wrap. Hamilton is photographed with California Governot James Rolph, wearing several medals on his tuxedo jacket, at the Philharmonic Auditorium in Los Angeles when Hamilton was the official hostess for Los Angeles at the Fiesta of the Olympic Contestants.
Date:: [circa 1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

Description:: Peggy Hamilton standing on a grand spiral staircase, wearing a regal evening gown with empire lines in ivory satin embroidered with pearls and rhinestones, with puffed sleeves and a flared stand-up collar of Alençon lace. Her red velvet train, 15 yards in length, is decorated with large flowers created from gold metallic ribbon and has an ermine border. Her crown is ornamented with diamonds and pearls.
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

Description:: This gown was designed by Max Rée, courtesy of Radio Pictures Corporation, for the Coronation Ball at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles at which Hamilton was crowned as Queen Olympia. Hamilton was the Los Angeles County Official Hostess during the 1932 summer Olympics held in Los Angeles. The location of this photograph with grand spiral staircase is not documented.
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

Description:: Peggy Hamilton standing on a grand spiral staircase, wearing a regal evening gown with empire lines in ivory satin embroidered with pearls and rhinestones, with puffed sleeves and a flared stand-up collar of Alençon lace. Her red velvet train, 15 yards in length, is decorated with large flowers created from gold metallic ribbon and has an ermine border. Her crown is ornamented with diamonds and pearls.
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

Description:: Peggy Hamilton at the Breakfast Club posing with 5 men wearing suits and 16 athletic-looking young men wearing white Olympic games sweaters featuring a central ornament inspired by the Olympic emblem: a shield formed with one row of white stars on a blue ground above red and white stripes and the words "ALL AMERICA" and men in suits. Two sawhorses with horse heads, mascots of the Breakfast Club, appear in the portrait as well. This photograph was taken ten days before the opening of the Olympic games. The Los Angeles Breakfast Club was located at 3213 Riverside Drive in 1932.
Date:: July 20, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

Description:: This gown was designed by Max Rée, courtesy of Radio Pictures Corporation, for the Coronation Ball at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles at which Hamilton was crowned as Queen Olympia. Hamilton was the Los Angeles County Official Hostess during the 1932 summer Olympics held in Los Angeles. The location of this photograph with grand spiral staircase is not documented.
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

Description:: Peggy Hamilton ascending a grand spiral staircase, wearing a regal evening gown with empire lines in ivory satin embroidered with pearls and rhinestones, with puffed sleeves and a flared stand-up collar of Alençon lace. Her red velvet train, 15 yards in length, is decorated with large flowers created from gold metallic ribbon and has an ermine border. Her crown is ornamented with diamonds and pearls.
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

Description:: This gown was designed by Max Rée, courtesy of Radio Pictures Corporation, for the Coronation Ball at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles at which Hamilton was crowned as Queen Olympia. Hamilton was the Los Angeles County Official Hostess during the 1932 summer Olympics held in Los Angeles. The location of this photograph with grand spiral staircase is not documented.
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

Description:: Peggy Hamilton standing on a grand spiral staircase, wearing a regal evening gown with empire lines in ivory satin embroidered with pearls and rhinestones, with puffed sleeves and a flared stand-up collar of Alençon lace. Her red velvet train, 15 yards in length, is decorated with large flowers created from gold metallic ribbon and has an ermine border. Her crown is ornamented with diamonds and pearls.
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

Description:: Hamilton's gown was designed by Max Rée, courtesy of Radio Pictures Corporation, for the Coronation Ball at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles at which Hamilton was crowned as Queen Olympia. Hamilton was the Los Angeles County Official Hostess during the 1932 summer Olympics held in Los Angeles.
Date:: February 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

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