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Title
Beach picnic, Huntington Beach. 1937
Creator
Dick Whittington Studios
Contributor
Ford (client)
Date Created and/or Issued
1937
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description
A group of men and women sit on the sand around a cooking fire at night in Huntington Beach. The group has been grunion fishing, and one of the men is cooking grunions in a skillet. There are two automobiles parked behind them, and building lights are in the distance. One of the women is playing a ukulele and one of the young men is reading a newspaper.
Library has two copies of this print. Ms. note on verso of one print reads "no neg. - see interpositive".
Type
image
Format
image/tiff
Extent
1 negative. 8 x 10 in (20 x 25 cm)
Identifier
photCL Whitt 2084.1
182768
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/3991
Subject
Huntington Beach (Calif.)--Photographs
Picnics--California--Huntington Beach. (lctgm)
California grunion
Automobiles--California--Photographs
Negatives. (aat)
Prints (visual works) (aat)
Place
Huntington Beach (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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