Subject: Briggs, Henry B. R., 1881-1936 / Genre: news photographs / Subject: Postmasters--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Related to the article, "Non-Closing Postoffice Opens On Spring Street," Los Angeles Times, 25 July 1935: A1.
Date:: July 24, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Los Angeles Postmaster Henry B. R. Briggs, center, with two other men at the "Savings Bonds Window" of a post office. The two men hold a stack of savings bonds. A sign above them reads: "For Safe Investment of Idle Funds, United States Savings Bonds, $18.75 . . . increases in ten years to . . . . $25.00.....$750.00 . . . increases in ten years to . . $1,000.00." Behind them is the sign for the "Philatelic Window."
Date:: [between February 1, 1934 to September 28, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Giles Amon Carter was the creator and publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: This photograph appears with the caption, "Death Takes Official: H. B. R. Briggs, postmaster of Los Angeles, who died yesterday in Washington D. C. of pneumonia. The former newspaper publisher had served since 1934," Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep 1936: 1.
Date:: [between 1934 and 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Henry B. R. Briggs (R) taking the oath of office to become the Postmaster of Los Angeles. The oath is administered by United States District Judge Paul J. McCormick (L). A third person stands between them.
Date:: February 1, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: P. P. O'Brien (L) and Henry B. R. Briggs (R), past and present postmasters of Los Angeles, shaking hands on Briggs' first day in office
Date:: February 1, 1934 t
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Postmaster Henry B. R. Briggs, right, welcomes new assistant postmaster Charles S. Anderson.
Date:: [circa September, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Henry B. R. Briggs, Postmaster of Los Angeles, and Peggy Milligan standing next to a bin holding mail at a postal facility.
Date:: [between February 1, 1934 to September 28, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Similar photograph appears with the article, "Non-Closing Postoffice Opens On Spring Street," Los Angeles Times, 25 July 1935: A1.
Date:: July-August 1935
Resource Type:: still image
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.
Date:: July-August 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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