Junior Chamber of Commerce members at a meeting probably at the Biltmore, Los Angeles, 1934

Title: Junior Chamber of Commerce members at a meeting probably at the Biltmore, Los Angeles, 1934
Date Created: 1934
Date: 1934
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: As president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles, E. Richard Smith guided their efforts to curb communism in 1934, assisted by other organization members, including Kent H. Redwine (attorney), Leroy D. Owen (realtor of industrial properties), Leonard Firestone (Vice-President of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.), Judge Kincaid, Harrison Chandler (Vice-President of Times-Mirror Printing Company), and A. C. Stewart (Division Sales Manager of Union Oil Company). These members are identified as participants in the "American Crusade" effort in the article "Many Back Red Attack: Junior Chamber Drive Aided," Los Angeles Times, 15 Jul. 1934: A1.
Photograph of E. Richard Smith (center), president of the Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce, flanked by Kent H. Redwine (L) and Leroy D. Owen (R); in the back row are (L to R) Judge Clarence L. Kincaid, Harrison Chandler, an unidentified man, A. C. Stewart, and Leonard Firestone. They stand behind a table with the leftovers of a meal a pile of papers, and there is a mural on the wall behind them.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Kincaid, Clarence L. Judge

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Biltmore Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Stewart, A. C. (Arthur Stewart), 1905-1998
Owen, LeRoy D. (LeRoy David), 1897-1973
Firestone, Leonard K. (Leonard Kimball), 1907-1996
Kincaid, Clarence L.
Junior Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles
West, E. Richard (Erling Richard), 1901-1970
Chandler, Harrison Gray Otis, 1903-1985
Redwine, Kent H. (Kent Hyram), 1898-1985
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.04928
Latitude: -118.253774
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Anti-communism--California--Los Angeles
Chambers of commerce--California--Los Angeles
Meetings--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_5193
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cv5pm
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