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Beach picnic, Huntington Beach. 1937

Description: A group of men and women sit on the sand around a cooking fire at night in Huntington Beach. The group has been grunion fishing, and one of the men is cooking grunions in a skillet. There are two automobiles parked behind them, and building lights are in the distance. One of the women is playing a ukulele and one of the young men is reading a newspaper.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1937
Call number: photCL Whitt 2084.1 ; Whitt neg. 2996
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Group of men in a meeting, and roast on spit cooking under infra-red lights

Visual Materials

Group of men in a meeting, and roast on spit [cooking under infra-red lights] - [3 variants]

photCL SCE 06 - 70655

Sailors and women around a Richfield Oil truck at RKO pictures. 1929

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Two men stand behind a motion picture camera filming a group of two sailors and four young women at RKO pictures. One of the sailors is sitting on the front of a Richfield Oil truck with one of the women on his knee, while the other sailor stands with another girl and leans against the front grill of the truck. There are two story brick buildings and large spotlights in the background.

photCL Whitt 1810 ; Whitt neg. 0330

Picnic in Dead Man's Canyon

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Image of women and men having a picnic in Dead Man's Canyon, (most likely in Santa Clarita Valley, California). A team of horses and a wagon is in the background. One man reads a newspaper while others hold food and drinks.

photCL_555_06_287

Frank L. Shaw, dedication of the Griffith Park Golf Club and Course, Los Angeles. 1937

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Mayor Frank L. Shaw of Los Angeles poses in front of a camera at the dedication of the Griffith Park Golf Club and Course in Los Angeles. Shaw is posed with a golf club resting on his shoulder, near a group of three other men with golf clubs.

photCL Whitt 0761 ; Whitt neg. 0966

Convention of Superintendents of the State of California at the Huntington Hotel, Oak Knoll and Wentworth, Pasadena. 1929

Visual Materials

A panoramic group portrait of the Convention of Superintendents for the State of California, held at the Huntington Hotel at the corner of Oak Knoll and Wentworth. The group is made up of around 100 men and women who are posed in two rows, one sitting and one standing, on the lawn in front of the hotel.

photCL 402 (40102)

Osteopathic Convention Picnic, Santa Monica, Cal. June 11, 1919

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View of men and women gathered on beach for group portrait, with canyon wall and hill behind them. The Santa Monica Canyon Bath House building with the lettering “F.E. Bundy’s Canyon Bath House” is in background.

photCL 555

Beach picnic, Huntington Beach. 1937

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