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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Peggy Hamilton Adams papers
Creator:
Adams, Peggy Hamilton
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1373
Physical Description:
29.0 linear feet
(58 boxes and 57 oversize boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1911-1976
Abstract: Peggy Hamilton Adams was a fashion designer, editor of the
Los Angeles Times rotogravure fashion page (1921-34) and a host for local radio programs (1929-33) that dealt with fashion concerns of the
modern woman. The collection consists of materials related to Hamilton's career as designer, fashion editor, and socialite.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
[Identification of item], Peggy Hamilton Adams Papers (Collection 1373). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Peggy Hamilton Adams, bequest, 1984.
Processed by Charlotte Payne, Lilace Hatayama, and Dydia DeLyser.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9942302963606533
Born Mae Bedloe Armstrong, Hamilton began work as a costume designer; at Triangle film company, she designed for such stars
as Mr. Julian Eltinge and Gloria Swanson; she worked at the
Los Angeles Times as editor of its rotogravure fashion page (1921-34); known as Hollywood's dictator of fashions, she featured such celebrities
as Gloria Swanson, Myrna Loy, Norma Shearer, Delores Del Rio, Joan Crawford, Betty Davis, and Greta Garbo posed in gowns by
designers such as Adrian, Travis Banton, and Howard Greer; Hamilton promoted Los Angeles as the Paris of America in many fashion
shows, including the first fasion show in an airplane (1928); she was appointed official hostess of Los Angeles County by
then Supervisor Frank L. Shaw (1931) and was named Queen of Olympias of the Mythical Kindom of Olympia in an effort to publicize
the 1932 Olympic Games; she hosted local radio programs (1929-33) dealing with fashion concerns of the modern woman.
Collection consists of materials related to Hamilton's career as designer, fashion editor, and socialite. Includes paste-ups,
scrapbooks, photographs, various issues of the
Los Angeles Times fashion page, clippings, printed ads, radio scripts, and ephemera.
Portions of this collection have been digitized and are available online:
Peggy Hamilton Adams papers (478 items).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Online resources.
Mechanicals.
Scrapbooks.
Socialites -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archives.
Fashion editors -- Archives.
Photographs.
Adams, Peggy Hamilton--Archives.