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John Steven McGroarty, poet laureate and member of Congress, addresses an audience at a Brookside Park picnic, Pasadena, 1935

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Title: John Steven McGroarty, poet laureate and member of Congress, addresses an audience at a Brookside Park picnic, 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.
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.
John Steven McGroarty, poet laureate of California and a member of Congress, tells a crown of more than 10,000 admirers at a home-coming picnic at Brookside Park that he is thankful for his friends.
Text from negative sleeve: 1695. John Stevens [sic] McGroarty. Congressman. 8/18/35. [stamped:] Aug 22 1935.
Handwritten on negative: John Stevens [sic] McGroarty. 8/18/35.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10064
ark:/21198/zz002ddtg8
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Politicians--California--Pasadena
Picnics--California--Pasadena
Brookside Park (Pasadena, Calif.)
McGroarty, John Steven, 1862-1944
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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