US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. This photograph appears with the article, "Iowans Have Great Picnic: Turnout Totals 100,000: President of Coe College Says 400,000 More From State to Trek Here," Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 1936: A1. Attendees of the annual Iowa Picnic in Lincoln Park sit at picnic tables, eating a meal. In the background, others are visible standing, and cars are parked further beyond them. The tables are covered with plates, cups, silverware, and thermoses. Handwritten on negative: Iowa Picnic 2/29/36 Text from newspaper caption: Scenes at World's Largest Reunion as Hawkeyes in Southern California Get Together in Lincoln Park: Around picnic tables in the shade of tall trees through which brilliant sunshine filtered, most of the 100,000 Iowans and their friends who attended the annual festival gathered to dine with relatives and old friends. Here is a little corner of the picnic grounds in Lincoln Park which was filled with former residents of Iowa and visitors from the Hawkeye State. Besides picnic dinners, there was a program of speaking, music and entertainment as well as outdoor sports. Text from negative sleeve: 3537- Iowa Picnic. Henry [sic] M. Gage, Judge Edmund Nichols, Fred B. Cruikshank. Iowa Picnic speakers & crowds etc. 2/29/36. [Stamped:] Mar 4 1936 [Harry M. Gage is incorrectly identified as Henry M. Gage]
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