Photograph

Description: Hands of two orphans on a switch to light the Exposition on opening night. The lights were turned on right after the telephone-broadcast speech of President Roosevelt.

Creator: phtographer Charles Hamilton Owens (1881-1958)

Creation Date: 1935

People: Charles Hamilton Owens

Keywords: children night lighting opening

Object ID: uclamss_1429_0609

Copyright: non-profit educational fair use exemption

Format: b&w nitrate negative

Credit: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection, University of California, Los Angeles Library, Department of Special Collections

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