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Description:: Memorial Day, also known as "Poppy Day", May 26, 1934. Members of the American Legion Auxillary pose with Los Angeles's City Council president. In the front row of the photo are City Councilman Howard Davis, Auxillary members Marie Gore, and Mary Repp. Behind them are Auxillary members Julia Van Sky and Mrs. Tom Rice.Members of the Los Angeles American Legion Auxillary hold bouquets of artificial poppies, made by veterans of the First World War. The poppies were sold by members of the American Legion Auxillary in order to raise money for disabled veterans and their families.Poppies were chosen as representative of Memorial Day due to their presence in the iconic World War I memorial poem, "In Flanders Fields". The poem was written by Canadian physician and Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
Date:: May 26, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Van Sky, Julia; Repp, Mary; Davis, Howard; Woef, Emma; Lathrop, Pearl
Date:: May 26, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Memorial Day, also known as "Poppy Day", May 26, 1934. Members of the American Legion Auxillary pose with Los Angeles's City Council president. In the front row of the photo are City Councilman Howard Davis, Auxillary members Marie Gore, and Mary Repp. Behind them are Auxillary members Julia Van Sky and Mrs. Tom Rice.Members of the Los Angeles American Legion Auxillary hold bouquets of artificial poppies, made by veterans of the First World War. The poppies were sold by members of the American Legion Auxillary in order to raise money for disabled veterans and their families.Poppies were chosen as representative of Memorial Day due to their presence in the iconic World War I memorial poem, "In Flanders Fields". The poem was written by Canadian physician and Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
Date:: May 26, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: President of the Southern California chapter of the Knights of Columbus R. J. Wosmek speaks at the unveiling of a Junipero Serra statue at Sunset Boulevard and Spring street.
Date:: August 26, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A crowd of more than four thousand gathers to witness the unveiling of a statue of mission founder and friar Junipero Serra on Sunset Boulevard.
Date:: August 26, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: View of representatives of Sweden, Belgium, France, England, and Switzerland standing with national flags outside on the steps of St. Vibiana's Cathedral to memorialize the death of Queen Astrid of Belgium. Queen Astrid died in an automobile accident August 29, 1935.
Date:: September 10, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Overhead and rear interior view of memorial service for Queen Astrid of Belgium at St. Vibiana's Cathedral. Queen Astrid died in an automobile accident on August 29, 1935.
Date:: September 10, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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