Guide to the Cortez Sisters collection CEMA 114
Finding aid prepared by Callie Bowdish
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California, 93106-9010
Phone: (805) 893-3062
Email: special@library.ucsb.edu; URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections
Title: Cortez Sisters collection
Identifier/Call Number: CEMA 114
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Container: 1
Container: 1
Physical Description:
0.05 linear feet
(3 photos)
Date (inclusive): circa 1930s
Abstract: This collections consists of three signed photos of Lita and Anita Gamez who were known as "The Cortez Sisters." They were
popular performing artists in the 1930s.
Donated by Andres Gutierrez in 2006
The Cortez Sisters ( Lita and Anita Gamez ) were dancers in the 1930's, employed as a team, although they worked individually
from time to time. They may have been under contract to Warner Brothers. They were also part of the Orpheum circuit, playing
the vaudeville circuit up and down the western seaboard as far north as Seattle.
[Identification of Item], Cortez Sisters collection, CEMA 114. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library,
University of California, Santa Barbara.
The collection is open for research.
Three signed photos of Anita and Lita Gamez. They were performers in the 1930s knows as the Cortez Sisters.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Box 1, Folder 1
3 signed photos of the Cortez Sisters