Dedication ceremony at Plummer Park, Hollywood, 1938

Description: Nearly 500 persons attended the dedication of the new park. Father Charles Burns carried out the ceremony of "blessing the house." Patriotic and historical organizations took part in the formal dedication outside the new structure of the clubhouse center. People were dressed in early Californian attire.
A picture of the backs of the crowd's heads as they face the area designated for the ceremony.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Plummer Park Plant Blessed," Los Angeles Times, 05 Dec 1938: A1.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 15127 - Plummer Park Dedication [stamped:] Dec 9 1938 [stamped:] Maurice Terrell Photographer

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: West Hollywood (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.092518
Latitude: -118.351189
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Plummer Park (West Hollywood, Calif.)
Rites & ceremonies--California--West Hollywood
Flags--American
Parks--California--West Hollywood

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_11822
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002h8ntg
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