Name/Title
Photo series of an event in an Alameda Park (Washington?), 1940sEntry/Object ID
1996.73.10Description
Acc. No. 96.73.10 A - J
Subject Category: Citizens of Alameda - Otto Rittler Collection
Date or Period: 1940's
Object: Series of ten glossy black and white photographs
Description:
96.73.10 A: photograph shows a group on a platform with heads bowed during an invocation led by a clergyman.
96.73.10B: close-up of group on platform.
96.73.10C: Another close-up of group on platform.
96.73.10D: A view of group on platform showing banks of flags on either side.
96.73.10E: View of men in drum corps marching, first two men carrying rifles and flanking two men, one of whom bears the American flag and the other man the flag of Veterans of Foreign Wars.
96.75. 10F man on platform presenting flag to school-aged girl
96.73.10G distant view of platform with everyone facing flagpole during flag - raising ceremony
96.73.10H close-up of platform; man in naval uniform is speaking
96.73.10I another view of the same man in naval uniform speaking
96.73.10J distant view stage left, group of marine people with band in front of stage
Size: 8" x 10 1/4"
History of Object: These photographs commemorate an unidentified event that probably took place in Alameda, possibly at Washington Park.
Acquired From:
Mrs. Bernice Rittler Lowell
In memory of her father, Otto Rittler
Date: 3/1/96