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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of Game Warden Harry Pritchard handing out barbecue to attendees of the Rubber Men's Picnic in Santa Monica Canyon. Game Warden Pritchard stands in the near distance, just left-of-center. He faces towards the left as he serves food to man standing to his left. Another man in an apron stands at far left; he faces towards the right. A man with his back to the camera stands behind and to the right of Pritchard. In the foreground, the barbecue pit sits in the ground, left-of-center. Meat cooks atop wire racks over the pit. Smoke wafts from the pit towards the lower left corner. Tall grasses extend behind the group and towards a canyon wall. The canyon wall stands in the distance and stretches on an angle across the background. Text from negative sleeve: 1241. Santa Monica Canyon, about 1908. Rubber Men's picnic. 1. Roy Garland drinking a mug of beer. He was floor manager for Chanslor and Lyon Motor Supply Company. 2. Joe Pike right in the center. Roy Forsythe with cap, is laughing. Cant [sic] identify the others. Poor film. 3. Four men, but only one I recognize is Game Warden Pritchard, third from left handing out a dish of barbecue. 4. At the barbecue pit. Pritchard at the left. Others not recognizable. 5. The Water Wagon. Dont [sic] know who is on i [sic] it. Woodill Bros ran a garage in the basement of the Pacific Electric bldg at Sixth and Main Streets, Los Angeles. 5 films
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_1241_003 ark:/21198/zz002hsrcx
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Eating & drinking--California--Santa Monica Canyon Outdoor cookery--California--Santa Monica Canyon Barbecues--California--Santa Monica Canyon Pritchard, Harry Irwin, b. 1868 or 69-1928 Rubber Men's Picnic. Annual Outing (1908)
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