Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 USC Libraries Special Collections University of Southern California specol@usc.edu
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12 images. Memorial Day at Veterans Administration Center (Sawtelle), 30 May 1952. Darryl Markham -- 9 years Boyd Sullards -- 60 years (World War 1 and 2 veteran) Arthur Colvard -- 59 years James Riggs -- 23 years Jeff Chandler (actor) Billy Joe Evans -- 6 years Mrs. Nellie Evans Eddie Evans -- 4 years Corporal Edward Herman Spezze Colonel Robert Bringham Connie Haines (singer) Mrs. Edmund Ogden Sawyer Harold Kennedy. Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Snow. Date: 05-30. Reporter: Dunn. Assignment: Memorial Day at Veterans Administration Center, Sawtelle. 21: L to R: Billy Joe Evans, 6 Eddie Evans, 4 and Mr. Beryl Evans, at grave of Mrs. Evans brother, Corporal Edward Herman Spezze, United States Marine Corps. The family decorated the grave with real flowers, crepe paper and a cross. 20, 81: Darryl Markham, 9, plays before grave of unknown soldier. 4, 19: L to R:, front: Boyd Sullards, 60, WWI-II rear: Arthur Colvard, 59, in chair, WWI and James Riggs, 23, Korean Navy veteran. 28: Actor Jeff Chandler reads Gettysburg Address. 27: General view of services at Sawtelle, Colonel Robert A. Bringham, Center Manager, on stand. 18: Singer Connie Haines singing 'America' as crowd stands at attention. 17, 29: Colonel and Mrs. Edmund Ogden Sawyer on grave of son, USMC Sergeant Edmund Ogden Sawyer III. 22: L to R: Eddie Evans, 4, and Billy Evans, 6, stand in front of grave of uncle. 3: Harold Kennedy, counsel for Los Angeles County, the principal speaker".
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image
Format
12 photographs : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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