Printer Senaca Beach seated at a desk, Los Angeles, 926-1929

Item Overview

Title

Printer Senaca Beach seated at a desk, Los Angeles, 926-1929

Date Created

[between 1926-1929]

Date

1926/1929

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

This image appears with article "Printing Official to Retire: Senaca Beach Tomorrow Steps Down from Job in Open-Shop Organization," Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 1929: A6. Senaca C. Beach began his long career in printing and publishing in Oregon. He served in county government in Oregon as well as organizing for printers' unions nationally. In 1905, he was persuaded by Los Angeles-based printers to perfect a trade organization in Los Angeles. He moved to California and helped organize the Printing Board of Trade. He long served as executive secretary of the organization, a division of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Beach, Senaca. 1926
Handwritten on negative: Senaca Beach

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w glass negative

Keywords

Genre

Portrait photographs
glass plate negatives
news photographs

Names

Beach, Senaca C., 1861-1931

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Printers
Printing industry--California--Los Angeles
Labor leaders--California--Los Angeles