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Navy event next to the Standard Oil Tower at the California Pacific International Exposition, San Diego, 1935-1936

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Title: Navy event next to the Standard Oil Tower at the California Pacific International Exposition, San Diego, 1935-1936
Contributor: Owens, Charles H
Date Created and/or Issued: [1935-1936]
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.
Charles Hamilton Owens (1881-1958) was an illustrator and landscape painter, and Los Angeles Times staff artist [identified as the photographer in image ark no. 21198/zz002d9x88].
Photograph of a Navy event at the California Pacific International Exposition next to the Mayan themed Standard Oil Tower
Photograph taken at the California Pacific International Exposition next to the Standard Oil Tower. Sailors stand in formation in the foreground, Navy personnel are lined up along a path and people are gathered around. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is in the background on the right.
The Standard Oil Tower was located south of the Spreckels Organ Pavilion, which still stands (as of 2014).
Handwritten on negative: San Diego Fair...
Text from negative sleeve: California, San Diego, Exposition
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_0597
ark:/21198/zz002d9wqh
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Exhibitions--California--San Diego
Naval parades & ceremonies--California--San Diego
Exhibition buildings--California--San Diego
California Pacific International Exposition (1935-1936 : San Diego, Calif.)
Standard Oil Tower of the Sun (California Pacific International Exposition, 1935-1936, San Diego, Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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