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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 near a bench in Lincoln Park while attending the Iowa State Picnic in Los Angeles. The park's grounds sprawl across the foreground. At center, picnic attendees sit on a park bench and face right. Behind the bench and to the left, Mertie West stands and looks to the camera. At right, a woman with a clipboard stands beneath a tree. A grove of trees stands across the background and more picnic attendees mill about in the distance. 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.
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_2392_003 ark:/21198/zz002j3whc
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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