Navy event next to the Standard Oil Tower at the California Pacific International Exposition, San Diego, 1935-1936

Item Overview

Title

Navy event next to the Standard Oil Tower at the California Pacific International Exposition, San Diego, 1935-1936

Photographer

Owens, Charles H.

Date Created

[1935-1936]

Date

1935/1936

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph taken at the California Pacific International Exposition next to the Standard Oil Tower. Sailors stand in formation in the foreground, Navy personnel are lined up along a path and people are gathered around. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is in the background on the right.
Charles Hamilton Owens (1881-1958) was an illustrator and landscape painter, and Los Angeles Times staff artist [identified as the photographer in image ark no. 21198/zz002d9x88].
Photograph of a Navy event at the California Pacific International Exposition next to the Mayan themed Standard Oil Tower
The Standard Oil Tower was located south of the Spreckels Organ Pavilion, which still stands (as of 2014).

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: California, San Diego, Exposition
Handwritten on negative: San Diego Fair...

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

California Pacific International Exposition (1935-1936 : San Diego, Calif.)
Standard Oil Tower of the Sun (California Pacific International Exposition, 1935-1936, San Diego, Calif.)

Location

San Diego (Calif.)

Longitude

32.728562

Latitude

-117.150296

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Naval parades & ceremonies--California--San Diego
Exhibitions--California--San Diego
Exhibition buildings--California--San Diego