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People listening to Congressman and poet laureate John Steven McGroarty at Brookside Park, Pasadena, 1935

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Title: People listening to Congressman and poet laureate John Steven McGroarty at Brookside Park, Pasadena, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: August 18, 1935
1935-08-18
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 of a crowd of people at Brookside Park attending an all-day homecoming picnic for John Steven McGroarty, poet laureate of California and member of Congress. The people are seated as they listen to McGroarty, who also talked about the Townsend old-age pension plan.
Event reported in "M'Groarty Paid Honor: Friends Gather at Pasadena," Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 1935: A1. A very similar photograph was published with the title, "Park Thronged at Home-coming Reception," Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 1935: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: 1695. John Stevens [sic] McGroarty. Congressman. 8/18/35. [stamped:] Aug 22 1935.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10063
ark:/21198/zz002ddtfr
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Picnics--California--Pasadena
Spectators--California--Pasadena
Brookside Park (Pasadena, Calif.)
McGroarty, John Steven, 1862-1944
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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