Judge Marshall McComb speaks at Navy Day commemoration at City Hall, Los Angeles, 1935
Item Overview
- Title
- Judge Marshall McComb speaks at Navy Day commemoration at City Hall, Los Angeles, 1935
- Date Created
- October 28, 1935
- Date
- 1935-10-28
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Related to the article, "All Southland Joins Navy Day Celebration: America's Sea Force Needs Stressed in Program on City Hall Steps; Fleet Holds Open House" Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 1935
Judge Marshall McComb, in an officer's uniform, speaks at the podium at the City Hall steps on the 200 North Spring Street entrance. Patriotic decor frame the surrounding stage. Several American flags stand to his left. Also in view, the column and arches which make up the facade to the Spring Street entrance of City Hall. McComb was a lieutenant-commander in the Naval Reserve at the time and chairman of that day's program.The event celebrated the importance of American naval forces on Navy Day, October 27th, a day which commemorated the establishment of the American Navy in 1775. (Navy Day is no longer observed as it was absorbed into Armed Forces Day.)The 2000 spectators listened not only to notable speeches extolling the navy at City Hall, but also witnessed a band concert and the aerial feats of naval airplanes flying overhead. Commemorations also occured in Los Angeles Harbor, Long Beach Naval Reserve Airport, and elsewhere in the Southland.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
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Los Angeles City Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.)
McComb, Marshall F. (Marshall Francis), 1894-1981
United States. Navy - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.0536
- Latitude
- -118.243
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Commemorations--California--Los Angeles
Judges--California--Los Angeles
Celebrations--California--Los Angeles
Armed Forces Day--United States
Military officers--American--California--Los Angeles
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- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_9130
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dh4p2
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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