Chamber of Commerce and Community Chest members make the first official trans-Pacific call to Hawaii, Los Angeles, 1931

Title: Chamber of Commerce and Community Chest members make the first official trans-Pacific call to Hawaii, Los Angeles, 1931
Date Created: December 30, 1931
Date: 1931-12-30
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: This photograph appears (cropped to the center 3 men) in the article, "Voices Span Pacific in Start of New Service: Hawaii Phone Link Opens," Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 1931: A1.
J. A. H. Kerr on a phone call to Hawaii. Surrounded by other members of the Chamber of Commerce and business men. The event was held at 740 South Olive St.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: James R. [W...] J.A.H. Kerr, F.N. Rush, R.E. Wooley [sic], [Y...] [Y...]
Text from newspaper caption: Spoken Word Goes 2000 Miles During Split Second. Left-to-Right: J. A. H. Kerr, president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce; F. N. Rush, vice-president and general manager of the Southern Pacific Telephone Company; and R. E. Wooley [Woolley], president of Honolulu Chamber of Commerce, listening to spoken greetings from Hawaii.
Text on negative sleeve: Kerr, J. A. H. Banker, LA Community Chest, LA Chamber of Commerce Etc. (d. 1952)

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_5312
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cv9s3
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