Children plunge into the reopened pool in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1934

Title: Children plunge into the reopened pool in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1934
Date Created: August 4, 1934
Date: 1934-08-04
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description: Dozens of children are caught on camera diving head first into the water, with others waiting behind them.
Thousands of city children enjoyed an unexpected holiday as the municipal swimming and wading pools reopened for the season after it was closed for a time due to the poliomyelitis epidemic.
Photograph appears with the article, "Children of City Flock to Pools," Los Angeles Times, 05 Aug 1934: 16.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Griffith Plunge
Text from newspaper caption: Scene at Griffith Park pool yesterday as Harwood Coffin, director, gave signal that sent first group of bathers into the plunge.
Text from negative sleeve: LOS ANGELES PARKS, GRIFFITH PARK, SWIMMING POOL discolored (try to scan)

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.117938
Latitude: -118.270787
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Bathing suits
Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Children--California--Los Angeles
Swimming pools--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_6121
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cw8ph
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