Postmaster Henry B. R. Briggs waits on businessmen J. B. Van Nuys, James Rathwell Page, Ben R. Meyer, J. W. Elliott, and Stiles O. Clements, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Postmaster Henry B. R. Briggs waits on businessmen J. B. Van Nuys, James Rathwell Page, Ben R. Meyer, J. W. Elliott, and Stiles O. Clements, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: July-August 1935
Date: 1935-07-08
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: The men form a line in front of the mailboxes to talk to Briggs, leaning over the window counter. Van Nuys leans on the counter holding his hat in his hand.
The new Los Angeles post office is the only one in the United States that is open seven days a week any time of day or night.
Photograph appears with the article, "Non-Closing Postoffice Opens on Spring Street," Los Angeles Times, 25 July 1935: A1.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: 129 129 H.B.R Briggs (at Window) 7/24/35
Text from negative sleeve: 1408 - H.B.R. Briggs, Postmaster (at window opening New P.O. 179S Spanig . 7/24/35 [stamped:] Aug 1- 1935
Text from newspaper caption: Business leaders lined up to obtain mail boxes at the new Metropolitan Postoffice station yesterday when it opened in the heart of the financial district. Postmaster H. B. R. Briggs is shown in the window listing J. B. Van Nuys, first in line, as the initial customer. Behind him are James R. Page, chairman of the executive committee of the California Bank; Ben R. Meyer, president of the Union Bank and Trust Company; J. W. Elliott, secretary of the Los Angeles Stock Exchange, and Stiles O. Clements, architect.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Group portraits
Names: Van Nuys, James Benton, 1883-1962
Page, James Rathwell, 1884-1962
Elliott, James W.
Meyer, Benjamin R., 1879-1957
Briggs, Henry B. R., 1881-1936
Clements, Stiles Oliver, 1883-1966
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.044199
Latitude: -118.253088
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Architects
Postmasters--California--Los Angeles
Mailboxes--California--Los Angeles
Business people--American--California--Los Angeles
Post offices--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_7922
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dfq1j
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