Peggy Hamilton Adams papers, 1911-1976

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Summary

Creators:
Adams, Peggy Hamilton
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.
Extent:
29.0 linear feet (58 boxes and 57 oversize boxes)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Peggy Hamilton Adams Papers (Collection 1373). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

Scope and content:

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.

Biographical / historical:

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.

Acquisition information:
Peggy Hamilton Adams, bequest, 1984.
Processing information:

Processed by Charlotte Payne, Lilace Hatayama, and Dydia DeLyser.

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Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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Restrictions:

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Peggy Hamilton Adams Papers (Collection 1373). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
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