Members of the American Legion Auxillary hold bouquets of artificial poppies on Memorial Day, May 26, 1934.

Title: Members of the American Legion Auxillary hold bouquets of artificial poppies on Memorial Day, May 26, 1934.
Date Created: May 26, 1934
Date: 1934-05-26
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Memorial Day, also known as "Poppy Day", May 26, 1934. Pearl Lathrop, Marie Gore, and Emma Wolfegang, members of the Los Angeles American Legion Auxillary, hold bouquets of artificial poppies, made by veterans of the First World War. The poppies were sold by members of the American Legion Auxillary in order to raise money for disabled veterans and their families.Poppies were chosen as representative of Memorial Day due to their presence in the iconic World War I memorial poem, "In Flanders Fields". The poem was written by Canadian physician and Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
Caption: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Van Sky, Julia; Repp, Mary; Davis, Howard; Woef, Emma; Lathrop, Pearl

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Lathrop, Pearl
Gore, Marie
Wolfegang, Emma
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: People
Memorial rites & ceremonies--California--Los Angeles
Lifestyle
Culture

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002545zv
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