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Spencer A. Townsend is to begin tour in California with the Organized Reserves, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Spencer A. Townsend is to begin tour in California with the Organized Reserves, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: July 31, 1935
1935-07-31
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.
Major Townsend wears a civilian's suit sitting at a desk with a typewriter.
Major Townsend is one of the U.S. Army's youngest majors and has recently been appointed to begin a tour of duty in California with the Organized Reserves.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Major Gets Duty With Reservists," Los Angeles Times, 21 July 1935.
Text from negative sleeve: 1322 - Maj. Spencer A. Townsend [stamped:] Jul 31 1935
Handwritten on negative: 7-20-35 Maj. Spencer A. Townsend
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7792
ark:/21198/zz002dfjjw
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Desks
Military personnel--American--California--Los Angeles
Typewriters
Townsend, Spencer A., 1891-1974
United States. Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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