Identity area
Reference code
Beaton/B/93
Unique identifier
GB 275 Beaton/B/93
Title
1945-1955
Date(s)
- 1945–1955 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 item paper
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Red hardback notebook; includes entries for 4th May, 1945 (Ashcombe); 8th May, 1945 (V.E. Day); 8th July, 1949 (Photographing Princess Margaret); 25th July, 1949; 5th August, 1949 (account of Beaton's holiday, plus notes concerning Tangier, Morocco); the Berkeley Hotel, London; pen portraits of the Russian expatriates; 21st September, 1949 (Ira Belline); 28th September, 1949; October, 1949 (Redditch); 9th January, 1950 (Aunt Jessie); 12th May, 1951; New York, 1950-1951; The 'Gainsborough Girls'; a visit to Lydia Lopokova; 'Quadrille'; and July 1955. Also contains material relating to Greta Garbo (1905-1990).