James M. Gammon, George Glick, Dr. Joseph Kinkade, Dr. Russell Decker, Phillip W. Allen, Dr. W.B. LaForce, John McDonald Pfiffner, Eddie Rich, and Stanley Miller play some horseshoes at Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: James M. Gammon, George Glick, Dr. Joseph Kinkade, Dr. Russell Decker, Phillip W. Allen, Dr. W.B. LaForce, John McDonald Pfiffner, Eddie Rich, and Stanley Miller play some horseshoes at Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: September 1935
Date: 1935-09
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Together with their families and former classmates the Iowa alumni enjoyed basket dinners, storytelling, college songs and school cheers.
Gammon leans forward with a horseshoe in each hand, while the rest of the alumni stand in a row watching him throw.
Photograph appears with the article, "Iowa Classmates Recall Campus Day At Reunion," Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep 1935: 8.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: L2R Dr Joseph Kinkade x Dr Russell Decker Phillip W. Allen x Dr W. B. La Force x J M Pfiffner x Eddie Rich Stanley Miller Geo A. Glick x James M Gammon, pitcher 9/21/35
Text from negative sleeve: 2300 - James M. Gammon Geo. A Glick Dr Joseph Kinkade Dr Russell Decker Phillip W. Allen Dr W.B. La Force J M. Pfiffner Eddie Rich Stanley Miller 9-21-35 Iowa U Alumni Picnic [stamped:] Sep 26 1935
Text from newspaper caption: When members of the Iowa Alumni Association, composed of former students of the University of Iowa, gathered at Griffith Park yesterday for a reunion, they engaged in the ancient sport of horse-shoe pitching, James M. Gammon, president of the association, is shown as he tried his luck. Others in the photo, left to right, are Dr. Joseph Kinkade, Inglewood: Dr. Russell Decker, Pasadena: Philip W. Allen, Los Angeles: Dr. W. B. LaForce, Pasadena; J. M. Pfiffner, Eddie Rich, Stanley Miller and George C. Glick, all of Los Angeles.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: University of Iowa. Alumni Association
LaForce, W.B., (Dr.)
Allen, Phillip W.
Miller, Stanley
Decker, Russell, (Dr.) 1904-1984
Rich, Eddie
Pfiffner, John McDonald, 1893-
Glick, George C.
Kinkade, Joseph, (Dr.)
Gammon, James M., 1887-1972
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Horseshoe pitching--California--Los Angeles
Picnics--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_8727
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dgnsd
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