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"Call of the Battalion," Covered Wagon scene, at the Pioneer Day Festival in Centinela Park, Inglewood, 1935

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Title: "Call of the Battalion," Covered Wagon scene, at the Pioneer Day Festival in Centinela Park, Inglewood, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: July 27, 1935
1935-07-27
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.
Scene from "The Call of the Battalion" showing Clara Decker lifting the blacksmith's daughter from the covered wagon, with the blacksmith and Colonel Thomas L. Kane conferring beneath the canopy on the right.
Photograph appears with the article "'Call of Battalion' Lures Throng to Climax of Mormon Day," Los Angeles Times, 28 Jul. 1935: C12
Text from typescript document: "Second view, covered wagon - Marlyn [sic] Baird, blacksmith's daughter; Emma McNaughton, as Clara Decker, a wife of Brigham Young; Dennis Killan, as the blacksmith, and Alfred B. Hughes, as Col. Thos. L. Kane." [Image ark no. 21198/zz002ddv11]
Text from negative sleeve: 1714. left to right. Marlyn [sic] Baird, Emma McNaughton, Dennis Killan, Alfred B. Hughes. Scene in camp of the Blacksmith. Mormon pageant in Inglewood. 7-26-35. [stamped:] Aug 22 1935.
Text from newspaper caption: Some of the characters who took part in the Mormon play "The Call of the Battalion," presented in the bowl of Centinela Park, Inglewood, last night. From left to right, Emma McNaughton, as Clara Decker helping Marlyn [sic] Baird, the blacksmith's daughter from the covered wagon. Dennis Killan, as the blacksmith and Alfred B. Hughes as Col. Thomas L. Kane. The pageant was the climax of the Mormon Day which attracted large crowds.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10079
ark:/21198/zz002ddv0h
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Historical pageants--California--Inglewood
Mormons--California--Inglewood
Pioneer Day (Mormon history)
Edward Vincent Jr. Park (Inglewood, Calif.)
Wheatley, Marilyn Baird, 1930-1989
McNaughton, Emma, 1902-1980
Killan, Dennis
Hughes, Alfred Bailey, 1897-1968
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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