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Members of the Rainbow Division deliver Memorial Day speeches at Exposition Park, Los Angeles, 1922

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Title: Members of the Rainbow Division deliver Memorial Day speeches at Exposition Park, Los Angeles, 1922
Date Created and/or Issued: May 30, 1922
1922-05-30
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Three men sit on a bench among a crowd at Exposition Park while one man stands in the center and speaks. Gold Star mothers are seated in the foreground. Members present at the Memorial Day events were John Wirsching, State Chaplain of the Rainbow Division Veterans; John S. McGroarty, orator of the occasion; and Austin E. Longcroft, president of the Rainbow Division Veterans.
A similar photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, “Honor Departed Heroes,” Los Angeles Times, 31 May 1922: I3.
Text from negative sleeve: Memorial Day 1922 X
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6517
ark:/21198/zz002cwrb3
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Military officers--American--California--Los Angeles
Memorial Day
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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