New City Council poses in City Hall, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

New City Council poses in City Hall, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

July 1, 1935

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

This photograph appears under the headline, “’Times’ Plays Host to Crowds in New Home as Will Rogers Entertains,” Los Angeles Times, 2 Jul 1935: 26.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: New City Council Takes Up Duties; members of the new City Council which took office yesterday. Left to right, seated: Councilman Thrasher, Kindig, Buyer, Burns, MacAlister, Gay and Brainard. Standing, Baumgartner, Cunningham, Wilson, Tate, Christensen, Hyde, Lewis, and Bennett. Burns, who for six years has been the representative of the Fourth Councilmanic District and is a recognized expert on municipal finance, was elected president of the new Council by the close vote of eight to seven over Stephen W. Cunningham. Times photo.
Handwritten on negative: New City Council 7-1-35
Text from negative sleeve: 1044—Council, New City Caption Attached 7-1-35

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
Group portraits
news photographs

Subjects

City council members--California--Los Angeles

Names

Baumgartner, John W., b. 1890 or 91
Bennett, G. Vernon (Guy Vernon), 1880
Tate, Darwin William
Gay, Earl C., 1902-1972
Thrasher, Edward Lee, 1892-1971
Cunningham, Stephen W., 1886-1956
Brainard, Byron B. (Bernard), 1894-1940
Wilson, Jim, b. 1873
Hyde, James MacDonald, 1873-1943
Buyer, Franklin Pierce, 1878-1963
Lewis, Evan
MacAlister, Robert S., 1897-1957
Kindig, Will H., (William Harvey), 1869-1946
Christensen, Parley Parker, 1868-1954
Burns, Robert Louis, 1876-1955

Resource type

still image