Newly elected Board of Governors of the national Better Business Bureau, Los Angeles, 1924

Item Overview

Title

Newly elected Board of Governors of the national Better Business Bureau, Los Angeles, 1924

Date Created

September 6, 1924

Date

1924-09-06

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

English

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

At the sixth annual convention of the national Better Business Bureau at the Biltmore Hotel (506 S. Grand Ave.) members of the newly elected Better Business Bureau on election. Six men are seated or standing around a table on a small platform, and one man is seated at the table. Five of them wear round frame eyeglasses. Documents are attached to the wall beind them, with some legible content including: "St. Louis," "Boston," and "Toledo." The image appears on a photo page in the Los Angeles Times, 06 Sep. 1924: 8.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Better Business Assoc.
Text from newspaper caption: For Better Business. Board of governors of Better Business Bureau elected yesterday at closing of convention at the Biltmore. Left to right: George Kahn [sic Kahin], Seattle; F. M. Willson [sic Wilson], Toledo; William P. Green, New York; Kenneth Barnard, New York; Harry W. Riehl, St. Louis; E. L. Green, Boston, and G. F. Olwin, Indianapolis.
Handwritten on negative: Better Business Association

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w glass negative

Keywords

Genre

glass plate negatives
news photographs

Names

Kahin, George Stanley, 1890-1965
Greene, E. L. (Edward Lawrence), 1884-1952
Barnard, Chester Kenneth, 1893-1971
Wilson, F. M. (Fred Malvern), 1870-1962
Green, William P. (William Plantz), 1888-1926
Olwin, G. F. (Giles Ferris), 1876-1936
Riehl. Harry W. (Harry Werner), 1893-1978
Better Business Bureau, Inc.

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.049475

Latitude

-118.253873

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Better Business Bureaus