James A. Moffett and Henry S. MacKay, Jr. at the Biltmore, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: James A. Moffett and Henry S. MacKay, Jr. at the Biltmore, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: January 31, 1935
Date: 1935-01-31
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: A thousand Southern California business and industrial leaders met at the Biltmore to discuss how to spend $100 million on a Los Angeles building campaign, including Henry S. MacKay, local Better Housing program chairman, and James A. Moffet, Federal Housing Administrator.
Three men wearing double breasted suits stand behind a podium. James A. Moffett (left) stands with his hands behind his back. Henry S. MacKay, Jr. is in the center. An unidentified mustached man is on the right. All three men are unsmiling. Behind them is a poster with a US flag on either side of it. A blurred man is behind Moffett.
Names are incorrect on negative sleeve; should be James A. Moffett and Henry S. MacKay, Jr.
This photograph appears in "Boom Plans Described: Moffett Visions Building Rush," Los Angeles Times 01 Feb 1935: A1.
Caption: Handwritten on negative sleeve: Moffett, James H.; Oil Man 1933
Text appearing with photograph: Ready to Launch Campaign; Preparing to launch Los Angeles' $100,000,000 construction drive, James A. Moffett, Federal Housing Administrator, shown meeting with Henry S. MacKay, Jr., local director, yesterday at a conference, of 1000 Southland builders and bankers.
Handwritten on negative: James H. Moffett; Henry S. McKay, Jr.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Biltmore Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.)
MacKay, Henry S., Jr. (Henrry Squarebriggs), 1891-1954
Moffett, James A., 1886-1953
United States. Federal Housing Administration
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Real estate development--California--Los Angeles
Business people--American--California--Los Angeles
Government employees

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_6422
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cwn2h
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