Mayor Frank L. Shaw speaks at Navy Day celebration on City Hall steps, Los Angeles, 1935
Item Overview
- Title
- Mayor Frank L. Shaw speaks at Navy Day celebration on City Hall steps, Los Angeles, 1935
- Date Created
- October 27, 1935
- Date
- 1935-10-27
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Related to the article, "All Southland Joins Navy Day Celebration: America's Sea Force Needs Stressed in Program on City Hall Steps; Fleet Holds Open House" Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 1935
Los Angeles Mayor Frank L. Shaw speaks at podium on City Hall (200 N Spring Street) steps to audience regarding importance of American naval forces on Navy Day, October 27th, a day which commemorated the establishment of the American Navy in 1775. (Navy Day is no longer celebrated as it was absorbed into Armed Forces Day.) Naval officers sit behind Shaw as he makes his speech. The columns and arches of City Hall can be seen.The 2000 spectators listened not only to notable speeches extolling the navy at City Hall, but also witnessed a band concert and the aerial feats of naval airplanes flying overhead. Commemorations also occured in Los Angeles Harbor, Long Beach Naval Reserve Airport, and elsewhere in the Southland.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
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Los Angeles City Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Shaw, Frank L., 1877-1958
United States. Navy - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.0536
- Latitude
- -118.243
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Commemorations--California--Los Angeles
Celebrations--California--Los Angeles
Armed Forces Day--United States
Military officers--American--California--Los Angeles
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- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_9127
- ARK
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- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
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- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .