US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-2169
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Large group of uniformed Boy Scouts, many with American and Boy Scout flags, on coliseum track with audience at right, reviewing stand on infield at left, peristyle in background Related to Los Angeles Times article, May 1, 1933, Throng Honors Nation’s Chief, President’s Day Ceremony Draws Crowd of 50,000, Ten Thousand in Procession at Memorial Coliseum, Representatives of Many Countries Participate ... 2000 Boy Scouts swarmed down from the Coliseum stands to the field and massed in front of the speakers’ platform. They took their oath of allegiance while nearly 100 American and Scout flags bristled from their ranks to present a dazzling setting for their youthful gesture of national and Presidential esteem. … Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Roosevlt [sic] [should read: Roosevelt], Franklin D., Presidents Day at the Coliseum, Historical
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