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Hands of two orphans on a switch to light the California Pacific International Exposition on opening night, San Diego, 1935

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Title: Hands of two orphans on a switch to light the California Pacific International Exposition on opening night, San Diego, 1935
Contributor: Owens, Charles H
Date Created and/or Issued: May 29, 1935
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.
The orphans' flinging the switch to light the exposition in the evening, is reported in "Fair's Start Awaited by Thousands: Throngs Gather in San Diego: City Flag-Bedecked, With Expositions Opening Set for 11 a/m/ Tomorrow," Los Angeles Times, 28 May 1935: 1.
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].
Close-up view of the hands of 2 anonymous orphans on the electric lighting switch for the California Pacific International Exposition on the evening of opening day. The lights were turned on right after the telephone-broadcast speech of President Roosevelt. "Westinghouse" is legible on the switch.
Handwritten on negative: Orphans throwing switches
Text from negative sleeve: California, San Diego, Exposition
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_0609
ark:/21198/zz002d9x46
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Exhibitions--California--San Diego
California Pacific International Exposition (1935-1936 : San Diego, Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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