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. The largest graduation class in USC history at 1324. Older men in robes gather on a temporary stage on the Coliseum's field. A large pile of rolled diplomas are with them on the stage. Photograph appears with the article, "Degrees Awarded 1324 at U.S.C. Commencement," Los Angeles Times, 06 June 1926: 3. Text from negative sleeve: University of Southern California, graduation, 1926 nitrates Text from newspaper caption: When Honors Were Bestowed Above-President's party approaching speakers' stand through serpentine line of students. Below-Charles Wakefield Cadman receiving one of the honorary degrees from President Von KleinSmid.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_6835 ark:/21198/zz002cx49b
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Diplomas Robes Graduation ceremonies--California--Los Angeles Flags--American Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.) Cadman, Charles Wakefield, 1881-1946--Death and burial Kleinsmid, Rufus Bernhard von, 1875-1964
Source
OpenUCLA Collections Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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