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Highlights from MPC's Archives & Special Collections

Hollywood Studio Photographs

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The MPC Library & Technology Center houses an exceptional photograph collection of Hollywood stars from the 1930s and '40s: the Roslyn Hall Collection. The Collection is located in the Archives and Special Collections Department on the first floor of the Library & Technology Center.

Comprising 117 studio photographs collected by Roslyn Hall (1911-1993) during her years as a Los Angeles reporter, the collection is primarily black and white. Hall originally donated the collection to the Monterey Peninsula College, Cinema/Video and Photography Department in 1980. 

Some of the Photographs in the exhibit:

Photo of Henry Fonda

Henry Fonda, The Grapes of Wrath, 1940, Photographer: Unknown, Credit: MPC Archives

 

Photo of Joan Crawford & Brian Aherne

Joan Crawford & Brian Aherne, I live my life 1935, Photographer: George Hurrell, Credit: MPC Archives

 

Photo of Johnny Weissmuller

Johnny Weissmuller, Tarzan, The Ape Man, 1937, Photographer: George Hurrell, Credit: MPC Archives

 

Photo of Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn, 1930, Photographer: Ernest A Bachrach, Credit: MPC Archives