Los Angeles Times city staff pose for a portrait on the steps of City Hall, Los Angeles, 1904 (copy print 1936)
Item Overview
- Title
- Los Angeles Times city staff pose for a portrait on the steps of City Hall, Los Angeles, 1904 (copy print 1936)
- Date Created
- January 10, 1935
- Date
- 1935-01-10
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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About the subjects:Harry Carr was a reporter, editor and columnist with the Times for almost all of his career. He was given an honorable mention by a Pulitzer Prize committee on awards. After he died of a heart attack at age fifty-eight, his funeral was attended by more than a thousand people. Lanier Bartlett wrote for the Times and also wrote film scripts. Mabel Brigham was a Times society editor. Edward F. Dishman joined the Times as the night city editor after his 1897 arrival in Los Angeles, and later became the Los Angeles Chief of Police. John A. Gray joined with the Times in 1899, went on to the Hearst newspaper and in 1931 became the executive secretary of the Municipal Light and Power Defense League. W. R. Greenwood was a rancher and a reporter for the Times from 1893 to 1911. Frank Greaves joined the Times editorial staff some time after his arrival in Los Angeles in 1890 and started a printing business in 1910. John von Blon was an editor at the Times for 17 years. Julian Johnson joined the Times in the early 1900's and was the drama critic by 1911. After other journalism positions in New York, he returned to Los Angeles to write for film. William S. Livengood was with the Times from 1895 to 1907 as police, courthouse and City Hall reporter, telegraph editor, and contest manager.A. M. Row was an editor at the Los Angeles Times from 1897 to 1912. His work as editor of the church department earned him the nickname "The Deacon." He also wrote Los Angeles Times articles on topics of religion, and hiking and camping. In addition to her articles for the Times, Constance Lindsay Skinner wrote for papers in Canada, Chicago and New York. She also published children's books.
Related to the article, "Hundreds of Friends Mourn Sudden Death of Harry Carr as Civic Loss," Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 1936: A2.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
Portrait photographs
copy prints
cellulose nitrate film - Names
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Sovereign, L. Douglas, 1878-1910
Row, A. M., (Albert M.), 1850-1929
Livengood, W. S. (William Sheridan), 1861-1954
Bartlett, Lanier
Greaves, B. Frank, 1869-1943
Hand, Pitt P., b. 1879
Von Blon, John L., (John Litchfield), 1871-1957
Dishman, Edward F. (Edward Francis), 1868-1951
Bridgham, Mabel N. F., b. 1861
Johnson, Julian, 1885-1965
Havermale, Lewis, 1869-1933
Carr, Harry, 1877-1936
Martin, Austin O. (Austin Oliver), 1876-1939
Los Angeles Times (Firm) Employees
Horton, G. Ray (George Ray), 1875-1915
Wellington, Frank
McCrimmon, A. (Anosto), b. 1855 or 56
Oliver, Grey, 1866 or 67-1930
Los Angeles City Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Skinner, Constance Lindsay, 1882-1939
Gray, John A., 1875-1965
Greenwood, W. R., (William Roland), 1870-1963 - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.051273
- Latitude
- -118.247201
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Newspaper editors--American--California--Los Angeles
Reporters--American--California--Los Angeles
Newspaper employees--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_10902
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002hb1cz
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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