US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Mayor McQuillen reads a tiny piece of paper while Ellen Highsmith stands behind him holding a pigeon in her cupped hands. Photograph appears with the headline, "Pigeon Carries Bid to Upland," Los Angeles Times, 05 Apr 1936: A15. Handwritten on negative: Left to R. Mayor P. H. McQuillen Ellen Highsmith Text from negative sleeve: 4661- A pigeon that left the new Times Building tower yesterday at 11 a.m., carried an important message to the Mayor, Chamber of Commerce and residents of Upland-an invitation to inspect The Times' Building next Thursday between 2:30 and 9 p.m. The bird was received officially by Mayor P. H. McQuillen, shown in the picture with Miss Ellen Highsmith. 4-6-36 [stamped:] Apr 9 1936 Text from newspaper caption: A pigeon that left the new Times Building tower yesterday at 11 a.m., carried an important message to the Mayor, Chamber of Commerce and residents of Upland-an invitation to inspect The Times' Building next Thursday between 2:30 and 9 p.m. The bird was received officially by Mayor P. H. McQuillen, shown in the picture with Miss Ellen Highsmith.
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13869 ark:/21198/zz002j7bsk
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Young adults--California--Upland Mayors--California--Upland Homing pigeons--California Highsmith, Ellen, 1919-1983 McQuillen, P. H., (Mayor)
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