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Married couples dance at the annual Iowa Picnic at Bixby Park, Long Beach, 1934

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Title: Married couples dance at the annual Iowa Picnic at Bixby Park, Long Beach, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: August 1934
1934-08
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.
Throngs of men, women, and children watch as a group of senior couples dance.
Photograph appears with the article, "Gov. Merriam Makes Speech," Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug 1934: 1.
Upwards of 50,000 Iowans came to Bixby Park and listened to a speech by Iowa native Governor Frank Merriam.
Text from newspaper caption: All the couples shown dancing the Virginia reel have been married fifty years or more. They are a few of the 180 persons belonging to the Golden Wedding Club of the society.
Text from negative sleeve: IOWA PICNIC 1934
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_9768
ark:/21198/zz002dhwpp
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Picnics--California--Long Beach
Crowds--California--Long Beach
Bixby Park (Long Beach, Calif.)
Dancers--American--California--Long Beach
Iowa Association of Southern California
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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