Dr. Townsend advocates old age pension proposal to crowd at La Crescenta picnic, 1935

Title: Dr. Townsend advocates old age pension proposal to crowd at La Crescenta picnic, 1935
Date Created: August 1935
Date: 1935-08
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Similar to theimage of Dr. Townsend captioned: "Pension advocate addresses 20,000: Dr. Townsend, unperturbed by the plane crash which delayed his arrival at the La Crescenta picnic, addressed a crowd estimated at 20,000 on the old age pension plan which he originated." With the article "Dr. Townsend's Plane Crashes on Way to Picnic - Bowl Debater Heckled" Los Angeles Times 19 Aug. 1935.
Side view of Dr. Townsend wearing jacket, tie, and glasses, speaking into a microphone while addressing a crowd. Dr. Townsend was known for his old age pension proposal which was known as the "Townsend Plan."
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 2121, Dr. Townsend, [stamped:] Sep 18 1935
Handwritten on negative: Townsend

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Townsend, Francis E., 1867-1960
Location: La Crescenta (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Pensions
Activists--American--California--Los Angeles
Economy
Physicians--American--California--Los Angeles
Lifestyle

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_8531
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dgf14
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