Dignitaries attend the opening of the California Pacific International Exposition, San Diego, 1935

Title: Dignitaries attend the opening of the California Pacific International Exposition, San Diego, 1935
Date Created: [May 29, 1935]
Date: 1935-05-29
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Dignitaries attend the opening of the California Pacific International Exposition include, from left, William Phillips, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper, Exhibition President Frank Belcher, California Gov. Frank Merriam, and Brig.-Gen Seth Howard of the California National Guard.
Photograph appears with the article, "Crowds Hail Beauty of Exposition at San Diego as Without Peer in History: PROGRESS OF WEST COAST TYPIFIED IN MIRACLE CITY Visitors Stand in A we as They View Wonders of Colossal Spectacle Reflecting Genius of Man," Los Angeles Times, 30 May 1935: 5.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: L to R: Wm Phillips, Dane Ropr, Frank Belcher, Gov. Merriam, Gen. Seth Howard
Text from negative sleeve: Phillips, William; Diplomat, 1927
Text from newspaper caption: Among dignitaries attending the opening of the California Pacific International Exposition at San Diego yesterday were officials of the Federal and State governments. Shown here, from left to right are: William Phillips, Secretary of Commerce Roper, President Roosevelt's personal representative at the Exposition; Frank G. Belcher, president of the Exposition; Gov. Merriam and Brig-Gen. Seth Howard of the California National Guard.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Roper, Daniel C. (Daniel Calhoun), 1867-1943
Merriam, Frank Finley, 1865-1955
California Pacific International Exposition (1935-1936 : San Diego, Calif.)
Belcher, Frank G. (Frank Garrettson), 1905-1959
Howard, Seth E. (Seth Edward), 1884-1935
Phillips, William, 1878-1968
Location: San Diego (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Exhibitions--California--San Diego

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_11277
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002h990p
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