Notable guests at the annual Chamber of Commerce banquet at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, 1926

Item Overview

Title

Notable guests at the annual Chamber of Commerce banquet at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, 1926

Date Created

February 24, 1926

Date

1926-02-24

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph of 5 notable attendees of the annual Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce banquet: Frederick Warde (Shakespearean actor), Arthur S. Bent (incoming chamber president), R. W. Pridham (outgoing chamber president), Joseph Scott (attorney, civic leader, Catholic lay leader), and Cyrus H. K. Curtis (publisher).
Reported in the article, "Chamber Banquet Hears Warning Against Unions. Pridham Asserts City Threatened; Bent Sounds Cultural Keynote; Dr. Millikan Gives Address," Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 1926: A1.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: L to R: Frederick Warde, Arthur S. Bent, R. W. Pridham, Joseph Scott, Cyrus H. K. Curtis
Text from newspaper caption (photo cropped to 3 men): Scene of Gathering in Ambassador. [...] Below--from left to right, are Arthur S. Bent, incoming president; R. W. Pridham, outgoing president, and Cyrus H. K. Curtis, publisher of the Saturday Evening Post. [Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 1926: A2]
Text from negative sleeve: Bent, Arthur S.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
Pridham, R. W. (Richard W.), 1856-1938
Scott, Joseph, 1867-1958
Ambassador Hotel
Warde, Frederick B., 1851-1935
Bent, Arthur S., 1863-1939
Curtis, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar, 1850-1933

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.060367

Latitude

-118.29703

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Actors--English--California--Los Angeles
Banquets--California--Los Angeles
Civic leaders--California--Los Angeles
Publishers