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 Haynes Foundation funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. A large crowd of people lines up alongside picnic tables to receive plates of barbecue at the Sheriff's Relief Association barbecue in California Zoological Gardens. The long, service table enters frame from the lower right edge and stretches back on an angle to the left. On the near side of the table, a woman at far right and a woman at center stand with their backs to the camera as they serve plates of food to the picnic attendees. Plates are stacked between them on the table. Behind them and towards camera, shorter tables stand in a row. On the table at left, a crate sits; it reads, "BRADFORD." At right, beyond the serving table, people wait to receive plates of food. The large crowd of people extends back along the long line of tables and into the distance. A lattice fence lines the back edge of the park and nearby buildings rise from behind the far side of the fence. 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_5709 ark:/21198/zz002cvsg6
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Eating & drinking--California--Los Angeles Barbecues--California--Los Angeles Crowds--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles County (Calif.). Sheriff’s Department California Zoological Gardens
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