Promotional Correspondence About Baby Contests in California and Nevada collection, 1916-1932

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Title:: Collection of promotional correspondence about baby contests in California and Nevada
Dates:: 1916-1932
Creators:: Carr, Jeff (California International Antiquarian Book Fair)
Extent:: 0.1 Linear Feet (1 folder)
Language:: Materials are in Italian, English, and Spanish.

Scope and content:: This collection contains carbon-copy typescript correspondence from promoters to parents of contestants and winners of newspaper-sponsored baby contests in California and Nevada from 1916-1932. Includes: L'Elvezia ("the only Swiss newspaper in Italian language published in the United States") (San Francisco, California) and its "Grand $6,000 Prize Popularity Contest", which awarded 1915 Hudson and Studebaker touring automobiles, and its "Shower of Prizes for Swiss Babies", awarding a Jeffrey Four automobile (1916-1917) -- Daily News (San Francisco, California) "Shower of Prizes for Lovely Babies in Northern California" (1926) -- "The San Francisco News Fourth Annual 'Baby Revue'" (1928) -- El Imparcial's (San Francisco, California) contest (1929) -- "The Portland [Oregon] News First Annual 'Baby Revue'" (1930), awarding five Kimball baby grand pianos -- Nevada State Journal's (Reno, Nevada) contest (1932) -- "Contra Costa News baby Revue" (undated).
Rules or conventions:: Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Collection Guide Author:: Finding aid prepared by Courtney Dean, 2020.
Date Encoded:: This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2020-11-06 11:21:41 -0800 .

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Location of this collection:: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Medicine and Science

Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library

12-077 Center for Health Sciences, Box 951798

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1798, US