Names: Adams, Peggy Hamilton, 1890-1984 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Peggy Hamilton standing at the bottom of a grand spiral staircase with a man (probably the designer Adrian). Hamilton is 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, flowing down the staircase and spilling onto the floor below, is decorated with large flowers created from gold metallic ribbon and has an ermine border. Her crown is ornamented with diamonds and pearls. Her escort is wearing a double-breasted suit with a white handkerchief in the jacket pocket and a white shirt and tie.
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

Description:: Peggy Hamilton modeling a white ermine jacket from Beckman's Exclusive Fur Shop on West Seventh Street. The jacket is worn over a form-fitting gown made of daybreak chiffon velvet with a flaring train trimmed with sable designed by Dolly Tree of Fox Studios. The imported gloves have a narrow insert of gold kid.
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bachrach, Ernest, 1899-1973
Collection:: Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

Description:: Peggy Hamilton descending 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 probably designed by Max Rée, who was director of costume design for First National Pictures at this time. See also: ark no. 21198/zz002bzg6n.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

Description:: Peggy Hamilton modeling a hostess gown and matching cap by, Max Rée, costume designer for First National Studios. The gown has a wide shawl collar made of ruffled tull that extends to the waist and a ruffled tulle flounce or train at the hem of the form-fitting skirt.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

Description:: Peggy Hamilton standing next to a table with a vase of flowers and modeling an evening gown with wide fur sleeves and matching fur neck wrap, and with a narrow sequin or beaded sash that wraps around the neck and extends down the front of the gown.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

Description:: According to Hamilton's "Fashions" feature in the Los Angeles Times, October 18, 1931, pg. H3, Jean Lucas, president of the millinery business Hortense Inc., visited Los Angeles, in September 1931, to announce the opening his Los Angeles millinery salons.
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bachrach, Ernest, 1899-1973
Collection:: Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

Description:: A different photograph of Peggy Hamilton modeling this hat appears in her Los Angeles Times column "Fashions," December 27, 1931, pg. G3
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bachrach, Ernest, 1899-1973
Collection:: Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

Description:: Peggy Hamilton modeling a dress of chiffon velvet and Alençon lace with a velvet hat which ends in a small bow at the nap of the neck.
Date:: December 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

Description:: Peggy Hamilton modeling a baku hat with a red and black crepe band around the crown from the Salon of Hortense, Inc. located at 9440 Wilshire Blvd. in Beverly Hills. Baku is a fine millinery straw made from rice fiber.
Date:: December 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bachrach, Ernest, 1899-1973
Collection:: Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

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