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Title
O. O. Marshburn, D. C. MacWatters, and Esther Packard of the American Red Cross, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued
March 24, 1936
1936-03-24
Publication Information
Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information
US
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Possibly related to "Calaveras Frogs to Jump for Red Cross," Los Angeles Times, 02 Apr 1936: A6 or "Projects to Assist Fund," Los Angeles Times, 07 Apr 1936: 2.
O. O. Marshburn leans over a desk. D. C. MacWatters and Esther Chadbourn sit behind the desk. Chadbourn holds a paper and pencil in her right hand, and glasses in her left. A poster sits on the desk that says "Give!" A light fixture is mounted on the back wall. A bookcase on the back wall is filled with miscellanea.
D. C. MacWatters was the head of the Los Angeles chapter of the American Red Cross. Esther Packard Chadbourn was a national field worker for the American Red Cross in Southern California. O. O. Marshburn was the Whittier chapter chairman American Red Cross.
Multiple fundraisers were held by the Los Angeles chapter of the Red Cross to raise funds for floods in the Midwest and East in the spring of 1936.
Handwritten on negative: Mrs. Esther Chadbourn. D. C. Mac Watters. O. O. Marshburn.
Text from negative sleeve: 4590. O. O. Marshburn. Mrs. Esther Chadbourn. D. C. Mac Watters. (Red Cross Aid--Flood) 3/24/36. [stamped:] Apr 1[day illegible] 1936
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13780
ark:/21198/zz002j77q3
Language
English
Subject
Fund raising--California--Los Angeles
Floods
Charitable organizations--California--Los Angeles
Chadbourn, Esther, (Esther Packard), 1889-1966
Marshburn, O. O. (Oscar Obed), 1896-1994
American Red Cross
MacWatters, David C., 1869-1946
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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