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Governor Frank Merriam and actress Regina Burham attend the Iowa Picnic, Long Beach, 1935

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Title: Governor Frank Merriam and actress Regina Burham attend the Iowa Picnic, Long Beach, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: August 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.
A large celebratory picnic was held at Bixby Park for the reunion of the people of the Iowa Association of Southern California - native Iowans living in Southern California.
Governor Merriam leans on one knee beside next to Regina standing on an open grassy space.
Photograph appears with the article, "Iowa Picnic Has Crowd of 100,000," Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug 1935: 1.
Handwritten on negative: Gov Merriam T Regina
Text from newspaper caption: Regina Burnham, 5-year-old film actress, delivered a telegraphic communication from Gov. Herring of Iowa to Gov. Merriam at the Iowa picnic at Long Beach yesterday.
Text from negative sleeve: 1232 - Gov F F Merriam + Regina [stamped:] Sep 7- 1935
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7579
ark:/21198/zz002df96b
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Child actors--California--Long Beach
Governors--American--California
Picnics--California--Long Beach
Merriam, Frank Finley, 1865-1955
Burham, Regina, 1929-1998
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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