Subject: Chambers of commerce--California--Los Angeles / Genre: news photographs / Names: Ambassador Hotel - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: New Chamber of Commerce President J.L. Van Norman (left) shakes hands with economist Dr. Thomas Nixon Carver and retiring Chamber President James L. Beebe stands center at the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce’s 49th annual banquet in the Ambassador Hotel’s fiesta room. Over 1,000 business, civic and social leaders attended the banquet which is held every year on George Washington’s birthday. The event celebrates the achievements of the Chamber of Commerce over the past year and lays out programs for the coming year.
Date:: February 22, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Executive vice president of the Southern California Edison Co., W.C. Mullendore, and president of Levi Strauss & Co., Walter Haas, at the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce’s 49th annual banquet in the Ambassador Hotel’s fiesta room. Over 1,000 business, civic and social leaders attended the banquet which is held every year on George Washington’s birthday. The event celebrates the achievements of the Chamber of Commerce over the past year and lays out programs for the coming year.
Date:: February 22, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: From left, Fredericks P. Woellner, Harry A. Wheeler, George Burnham, A. Schleicher, J. A. H. Kerr, and an unidentified man, seated at a banquet table with with a mural depicting a Spanish dancer and musicians is on the wall behind them.
Date:: [February 22, 1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A. Schleicher receives a gavel from J. A. H. Kerr at the annual Chamber of Commerce banquet at the Ambassador Hotel, with a mural depicting a Spanish dancer and musicians is on the wall behind them.
Date:: [February 22, 1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photograph was published in the article: "Chamber Banquet Hails Keynote of Prosperity," Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 1935: A1.
Date:: February 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The photograph depicts Harry L. Harper (right) surrendering his gavel to new president of the Chamber of Commerce, Walter J. Braunschweiger, at a banquet at the Ambassador Hotel.
Date:: February 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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