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Title: Second baseman Bernice Maxson applies make up on the field, Boston, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: April 1936
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Photograph appears with the headline, "When Make-up Breaks Up Game," Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr 1936: A10.
Bernice sits on the base, her glove by her side in the dirt. She puckers her lips as she uses a compact mirror to apply lipstick.
Text from negative sleeve: 4935 - Bernice Maxson Make up Soft Ball [stamped:] Apr 23 1936
Text from newspaper caption: Just like a woman. Bernice Maxson, star second baseman for the Coca-Cola softball team, takes time out while she makes herself look pretty before bawling out the umpire. Miss Maxson will be seen in action at Fiedler Field Friday night when Coca-Cola plays LaBelle's.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14120
ark:/21198/zz002j7nfr
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Lipsticks
Softball players--Massachusetts--Boston
Sporting goods
Maxson, Bernice, b. 1912
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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