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Title: Navy Day celebration, 1945
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator: Stewart, Lucille
Date Created and/or Issued: 1945
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Los Angeles Mayor Fletcher Bowron addresses a crowd commemorating the USS Los Angeles (CA-135) at Los Angeles Harbor during a Navy Day celebration held on October 27, 1945. The sign hanging behind Bowron reads, "This fighting ship sponsored and made possible by war bond purchases of the people of Los Angeles. Captain John A. Snackenberg, commander of the ship, stands to the right of Bowron.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 14 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00088328
Lucille Stewart Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
GPC_b12_f1_i40
CARL0004952511
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/123409
Subject: Snackenberg, John A
Bowron, Fletcher,--1887-1968
United States.--Navy
Los Angeles (Cruiser)
Cruisers (Warships)--United States
Warships--United States
Ship captains--United States
Mayors--California--Los Angeles
Harbors--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Harbor (Calif.)

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