Crowds swimming in the reopened pool in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1934

Title: Crowds swimming in 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: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Related to story, "Children of City Flock to Pools," Los Angeles Times, 05 Aug 1934: 16.
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.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: LOS ANGELES PARKS, GRIFFITH PARK, SWIMMING POOL discolored (try to scan)
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.

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

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_6120
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cw8n0
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Rights Country: US
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