"Commodore" Louis D. Beaumont, vice-president of the May Department Stores Company, Los Angeles, 1923
Item Overview
- Title
- "Commodore" Louis D. Beaumont, vice-president of the May Department Stores Company, Los Angeles, 1923
- Date Created
- November 20, 1923
- Date
- 1923-11-20
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
- Louis D. Beaumont co-founded the May Company Department Stores. He was called "Commodore" because of his affinity for yachting. He started a general store in Colorado with his two brothers, later joining brother-in-law David May to form the May Shoe and Clothing Co., predecessor of the nationwide May Department Store chain. He retired from the May Co. in 1912 but remained a vice-president until his death. Beaumont's visit to Los Angeles was reported on in "David May To Be Here for Winter: Merchant Who Controls Hamburger's is One of World's Leaders," Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 1923: II6.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w glass negative
Keywords
- Genre
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glass plate negatives
news photographs - Names
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May Department Stores Company
Beaumont, Louis D., 1857-1942 - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Merchants--California--Los Angeles
Business people--American--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_b3693_G347
- ARK
- ark:/21198/z14803qj
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US