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General Sherwood A. Cheney and Colonel Charles H. Hilton at Fort MacArthur, San Pedro, 1933

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Title: General Sherwood A. Cheney and Colonel Charles H. Hilton at Fort MacArthur, San Pedro, 1933
Date Created and/or Issued: October 12, 1933
1933-10-12
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.
Photograph appears with the article, "Fort Defenses Here Inspected," Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct 1933: A16.
On his visit to Fort MacArthur Brig.-Gen. Cheney commented that the greatest weakness of the post is not guns but lack of men.
Text from negative sleeve: CHENEY, SHERWOOD A. GEN. [stamped:] 1925
Text from newspaper caption: Brig.-Gen. Sherwood A. Cheney and Col. Charles H. Hilton
Handwritten on negative: Sherwood A. Cheney + Chas. H. Hilton
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_1643
ark:/21198/zz002dc4st
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Military uniforms--American
Military officers--American--California--San Pedro
Palms--California--San Pedro
Hilton, Charles H., (Col.)
Fort MacArthur (Calif.)
Cheney, Sherwood Alfred, 1873-1949
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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