Barracks being demolished, Ross Field, Arcadia, 1932
Item Overview
- Title
- Barracks being demolished, Ross Field, Arcadia, 1932
- Date Created
- 1932
- Date
- 1932
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
-
Four men removing roof from barracks building, with ladder at left, lumber in foreground, mountains in background
Ross Field was established for the training of observation balloon pilots during World War I. The site later became Arcadia County Park.
This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, March 2, 1932, “Ross Field Wrecking Rushed, Site Soon Will Be Clear of Buildings.” In less than ninety days, Ross Field, headquarters in California of training for army balloon school pilots during the World War, and in the halycon days of “Lucky” Baldwin, the center of activity for the Los Angeles Racing Association, will again be a pleasant rolling plain, dotted with trees, much as it was in the earliest days of the Santa Anita Rancho. ...
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Location
- Arcadia (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.13688
- Latitude
- -118.03256
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Arcadia County Park (Arcadia, Calif.)
Environment
Ross Field (Arcadia, Calif.)
Barracks--California--Arcadia
Demolition--California--Arcadia
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
-
0396
uclamss_1429_0396 - ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002d9ns5
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .