Ground-breaking ceremony attended by Albert Daniels, Baldwin M. Baldwin, Major T. D. Weaver, Herbert C. Legg, and J. K. Reed, Arcadia, 1936

Title: Ground-breaking ceremony attended by Albert Daniels, Baldwin M. Baldwin, Major T. D. Weaver, Herbert C. Legg, and J. K. Reed, Arcadia, 1936
Date Created: February 10, 1936
Date: 1936-02-10
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description: Photograph appears with the article, "Civic Heads Attend Fete," Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb 1936: 10.
After 18 years Ross Field, the former military air base, is finally beginning the process of turning into a recreation center.
Supervisor shifts his weight onto the shovel in his hands, Reed standing to his left and Albert Daniels, Baldwin M. Baldwin and Major Weaver to his left. A welcome sign can be seen behind the men and several other unidentified men can be seen congregating in the background.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: {illegible} Supervisor Legg J.K. Reed
Text from negative sleeve: 3613 - L. toR, Albert Daniel, Pre. of Arcadia Chamber of Commerce, Baldwin M. Baldwin, Major Weaver of WPA, Supervisor Legge, Supervisor <-{?} J.K. Reed. Ground breaking at Ross Field. 2/10/36 [stamped:] Feb 13 1936 Box 10
Text from newspaper caption: Civic leaders from many sections of the Southland were in attendance yesterday when ground was broken for the new recreation center which will occupy the site of the former army balloon school at Ross Field, Arcadia. Here we have Albert Daniels, president of the Arcadia Chamber of Commerce and master of ceremonies: Baldwin M. Baldwin, Maj. T. D. Weaver of the P.W.A.; Supervisor Legg and J. K. Reed, supervisor of Los Angeles county parks and recreation.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Reed, J.K.
Legg, Herbert C., 1887-1958
Baldwin, Baldwin M., 1904-1970
Weaver, T.D., (Maj.)
Daniels, Albert
Location: Arcadia (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.129499
Latitude: -118.039903
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Shovels
Flags--American
Ground breaking ceremonies--California--Arcadia

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_12704
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hmrrc
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Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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