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Title
Dedication ceremony at Plummer Park, West Hollywood, 1938
Contributor
Terrell, Maurice
Date Created and/or Issued
December 4, 1938
1938-12-04
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 Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Nearly 500 persons attended the dedication of the new park. Father Charles Burns carried out the ceremony of "blessing the house." Patriotic and historical organizations took part in the formal dedication outside the new structure of the clubhouse center. People were dressed in early Californian attire.
Father Charles Burns, center, conducts the blessing ceremony at the Plummer Park dedication. To his left is Eugenio Plummer and immediately to the right of the podium is Ms. Ana Begue Packman.
A similar photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Plummer Park Plant Blessed," Los Angeles Times, 05 Dec 1938: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: 15127 - Plummer Park Dedication [stamped:] Dec 9 1938 [stamped:] Maurice Terrell Photographer
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_11824
ark:/21198/zz002h8nwh
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Parks--California--West Hollywood
Flags
Plummer Park (West Hollywood, Calif.)
Dedications--California--West Hollywood
Plummer, Eugenio Raphael, 1852-1943
Burns, Charles Henry, 1906-1990
Packman, Ana Bégué de, 1882-1973
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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