Groundbreaking ceremony for Watts City Hall, Los Angeles, 1936

Item Overview
- Title
- Groundbreaking ceremony for Watts City Hall, Los Angeles, 1936
- Date Created
- January 16, 1936
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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A large crowd gathers around construction vehicles at the ground breaking ceremony for a new civic building in Watts.
Groundbreaking ceremonies took place at the future site of a new civic building in Watts, on 1519 One Hundred and Third street, on January 16, 1936. - Caption
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Text from negative sleeve: 3259 --- Councilman Buyers, Emily Vincent, Paul G. Ritter, Mayor Shaw, Otto B. Frank, Ground Breaking Watts City Hall 1-16-36 [stamped:] JAN 19 1936 JAN 21 1936
Handwritten on negative: Ground Breaking Watts City Hall
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Subjects
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Ground breaking ceremonies--California--Los Angeles
Crowds--California--Los Angeles - Location
- Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Longitude
- 33.943183
- Latitude
- -118.247358
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
- uclamss_1429_12132
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002h849g
- Manifest url
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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
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Funding Note
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. - License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .