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Title
Attendees of the Iowa Picnic in Lincoln Park, Los Angeles, 1940
Contributor
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Date Created and/or Issued
February 24, 1940
1940-02-24
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
West (H. H.) Collection
Rights Information
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Description
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Attendees of the Iowa Picnic in Lincoln Park. Three women sit on a bench. The woman at the right has her hand on a coat which is on top of the legs of the woman in the center. All three women wear hats. A man and a woman sit further down the bench. There are other people throughout. A sign at the top of a wooden post reads, "Montgomery." There are trees and a flagpole in the background.
Text from negative sleeve: 1365. Iowa State picnic, Lincoln Park, Los Angeles, Feb. 24, 1940. 1. L to R: Mr Kelly. Charles Wheeler. Wheeler told me that he lived across the creek from Hank Palmer, who was Sheriff, and lived at the jail on the creek. Said the worst fight he saw when a boy in Red Oak, Iowa, was between Elmer Sumpter and H. H. West. 2. Iowa State picnic headquarters. 3. Montgomery County headquarters.
Type

Identifier
uclamss_1998_1365_002
ark:/21198/zz002ht3xg
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Picnics--California--Los Angeles
Lincoln Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Iowa Association of Southern California
Source
West (H. H.) Collection

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