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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. An out-of-focus photograph of Mertie West standing and posing behind a bench in Lincoln Park while attending the Iowa State Picnic in Los Angeles. The park's grounds sprawl across the foreground. In the near distance, left-of-center, picnic attendees sit on a park bench and face right. Behind them, Mertie West stands at left and looks to the camera. Trees stand clustered at right and more picnic attendees mill about in the background. Text from negative sleeve: 2392. Iowa State picnic Lincoln Park Los Angeles, Calif., August 7, 1948. [handwritten check mark] 1. Montgomery County headquarters . Lady with flat black hat and back to camera is Mrs Ralph Hiatt, nee Broadby [sic]. [handwritten check mark] 2. Close up. Mrs Hiatt has tuerned [sic] sidewise [sic] to camera. [handwritten check mark] 3. Closer up. She is at left of the grou [sic] group. Others not identified. [handwritten check mark] 4. Bench under Montgomery Co.tree. Mrs H.H.West standing behind end of bench. [handwritten check mark] 5. Close up of Mrs H.H.West facing camera. [handwritten check mark] 6. Mr and Mrs H.H.West, with Montgomery County sign facing camera.
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_2392_001 ark:/21198/zz002j3wfb
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Picnics--California--Los Angeles Parks--California--Los Angeles West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972 Iowa Association of Southern California
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