Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Dozens of children are caught on camera diving head first into the water, with others waiting behind them. Thousands of city children enjoyed an unexpected holiday as the municipal swimming and wading pools reopened for the season after it was closed for a time due to the poliomyelitis epidemic. Photograph appears with the article, "Children of City Flock to Pools," Los Angeles Times, 05 Aug 1934: 16. Handwritten on negative: Griffith Plunge Text from newspaper caption: Scene at Griffith Park pool yesterday as Harwood Coffin, director, gave signal that sent first group of bathers into the plunge. Text from negative sleeve: LOS ANGELES PARKS, GRIFFITH PARK, SWIMMING POOL discolored (try to scan)
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_6121 ark:/21198/zz002cw8ph
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Bathing suits Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Children--California--Los Angeles Swimming pools--California--Los Angeles
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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