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Highlights the conversion of League Island from a marshy dump site into a golf course. Shows the completed course, landscaping and lawn care, and golfing. Views depict the Naval Hospital andjacent to the course, and patients playing golf. Documents the controversy over opening the course to the g...
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1938-1946
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Highlights the conversion of League Island from a marshy dump site into a golf course. Shows the completed course, landscaping and lawn care, and golfing. Views depict the Naval Hospital andjacent to the course, and patients playing golf. Documents the controversy over opening the course to the general public. Includes views of officials stocking the pond for Naval Hospital patients to fish. Also depicts swimming in the lake. These subject entries for the Philadelphia Record newspaper's photo morgue are primarily for Places (buildings, parks, streets, etc.), Things (Bicycles, Bison, Blind Persons [just sampling the B's]), Events (Democratic National Convention 1936, Flourtown Fair, Harvest Week) and Social Constructs (Home Economics, City Planning, Eating & Drinking, etc.). Each of these subjects became a MARC record which included a call number. In the case of these records, the call numbers are the actual folder numbers for the materials referenced. Therefore, these subject headings are really also an index for this section of the Philadelphia Record newspaper's photograph morgue. [The name section of the Philadelphia Record photo morgue represents individuals, A-Z, and |
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Part of the Philadelphia Record Photograph Collection; for general information, see collection record. |
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1 stat 44 photoprints : silver gelatin; 5 photoprints 11"x 17" or smaller |