Portrait of Prudence Penny, Los Angeles, Calif., 1939

8 photographs of portraits of a woman on 4 negatives, each of which has a piece of tape over one of the images, Los Angeles, California 1939 August 31. "Client: L[os] A[ngeles] Examiner, Prudence Penny; operator's report - name: 'Dick' [Whittington]; 4 original photographs - at studio 8x10; Amount: 14.00" - on envelope. "Job: Portraits that look like her. Pauline Patterson; pick out best - price quoted: 5.00" - on job card. Editor's note: "Prudence Penny" was the pseudonym of any woman who was a home economics columnist for the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper--in this case Pauline Patterson.