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Three men tend a barbecue pit at the Sheriff's Relief Association barbecue, Los Angeles, 1934

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Title: Three men tend a barbecue pit at the Sheriff's Relief Association barbecue, Los Angeles, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: [July 15, 1934]
1934-07-15
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: 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) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
A barbecue pit enters frame from the lower left corner and stretches back on an angle towards center. Its sides are wood-lined. A metal rail along the pit's mid-line hovers over the pit. Wrapped chunks of meat sit in a pile at the bottom of the far end of the pit. Atop the far end of the pit, 2 men stand on a pallet that sits over the pit. The man at center is dressed in white and looks down as he spears a piece of meat that sits on the pallet. A cook stands to the right of him and gazes down towards the pit. Another cook behind and to the left of the man at center looks to the camera while shovelling dirt. In the background at right, a pile of pallets sit on the ground and a lattice fence lines the park's back edge. A building stands beyond the fence and in partial view at left.
A different photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Army of men, women and children at benefit event: BARBECUE DRAWS THRONG sixty thousand assemble for annual festivities of sheriff's relief association," Los Angeles Times, 16 Jul. 1934: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: LOS ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFF, BARBACUE [sic] 1934 [handwritten text:] Barbecue
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5708
ark:/21198/zz002cvsfp
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Outdoor cookery--California--Los Angeles
Barbecues--California--Los Angeles
Cooks
Los Angeles County (Calif.). Sheriff’s Department
California Zoological Gardens
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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