Subject: Memorial Day / Subject: Flags--American - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: A blurry photograph of servicemen performing services in commemoration of Decoration (Memorial) Day in Los Angeles National Cemetery. In the near distance, an obelisk stands atop a low mound at right. Servicemen surround the monument on 3 sides. Just inside the left edge of the image, several servicemen hold up American flags. They face right, towards the obelisk. In the distance at center, servicemen stand in row and hold firearms; they face towards the camera and obelisk. They appear to have just fired a gun salute as a cloud of white smoke hovers over them. The line of servicemen at center extends around the right side of the obelisk and out-of-frame at right. Hills stand in the far distance.
Date:: [circa May 30, 1895]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of the Decoration Day (now Memorial Day) services held at Los Angeles National Cemetery. In the mid-ground, an obelisk stands atop a low mound, right-of-center. Servicemen surround the monument on 3 sides. Near the left edge of the image, servicemen hold up American flags. They face right, towards the obelisk. In the distance at center, servicemen stand in row and hold firearms; they face towards the camera and obelisk. At right, more servicemen stand and hold flags. They face towards the left. Gravestones and flowering plants occupy the foreground. Hills stand in the far distance.
Date:: [circa May 30, 1895]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, “War’s Survivors Parade to Honor Those Who Died,” Los Angeles Times, 31 May 1935: A2.
Date:: May 30, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Women in shining suits march through the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, led by veterans. Some of the 25,000 spectators can be seen in the background.
Date:: May 30, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Women and children of the G. A. R. Ladies march in the Memorial Day parade at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Date:: May 30, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A different photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, “War’s Survivors Parade to Honor Those Who Died,” Los Angeles Times, 31 May 1935: A2.
Date:: May 30, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: A different photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, “War’s Survivors Parade to Honor Those Who Died,” Los Angeles Times, 31 May 1935: A2.
Date:: May 30, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: A different photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, “War’s Survivors Parade to Honor Those Who Died,” Los Angeles Times, 31 May 1935: A2.
Date:: May 30, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: A row of unidentified women in white dresses walk along veterans’ graves and place flowers. The graves are all marked with American flags. Spectators and military officials can be seen in the background.
Date:: May 30, 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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