Lee Coats, Florence Blackman and University of California President Robert G. Sproul at UCLA, Los Angeles, 1934

Item Overview

Title

Lee Coats, Florence Blackman and University of California President Robert G. Sproul at UCLA, Los Angeles, 1934

Date Created

January 26, 1934

Date

1934-01-26

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Robert G. Sproul, in suit, tie, and hat, handing commission to Lee Coats, in uniform, while Florence Blackman, in dress and hat, looks on, in open field with low hills in background
This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, January 27, 1934, Student Officers Praised, State University Head Commends Youths’ Patriotism in Conferring Reserve Commissions.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Student Officers Commissioned. Lee Coats, with Miss Florence Blackman, honorary colonel of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, receiving from Dr. Robert G. Sproul, president of the University of California, his commission as second lieutenant in the United States Reserve Corps.
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Sproul, Robert G. UCLA prexy?
Handwritten on negative: 130 [at lower right corner]
Handwritten at edge of negative: Lee Coats, Florence Blackman, Robert G. Sproul

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Wittenburg, Florence Blackman
Sproul, Robert Gordon, 1891-1975
United States. Army. Reserve Officers' Training Corps--Inspection
Coats, Lee Bannerman, 1911-1957

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Education
People