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Mayor of New York City, Fiorello La Guardia, presides over the Pacific coast's United States Conference of Mayors. May 15, 1937.

Description:
New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia presides over the Pacific coast regional meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors. Boston Mayor Frederick Mansfield served as Mr. La Guardia's secretary. Approximately 60 Pacific coast mayors attended the conference. Unemployment relief was a focal topic at the conference, which was held at Los Angeles' City Council chamber. May 15, 1937.
Date:
May 15, 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Mayor of New York City, Fiorello La Guardia, presides over the Pacific coast's United States Conference of Mayors. May 15, 1937.

Los Angeles County Courthouse, Los Angeles, circa 1900-1910

Description:
View of the Los Angeles County Courthouse from Broadway. The courthouse, completed in 1891, was located at the corner of Broadway and Temple St. This red sandstone facility utilized aspects of the Richardsonian Romanesque Style, with thick, rusticated stone walls, wall dormers, and central clock tower. The architects were Curlett, Eisen and Cuthbertson; San Diego architect, William S. Hebbard, who was working for the architecture firm of Curlett, Eisen and Cuthbertson as a draftsman, contributed to the design. This court house was demolished in 1936
Date:
[circa 1900-1910]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:
C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934
Los Angeles County Courthouse, Los Angeles, circa 1900-1910

Oscillograph for photographing electrons, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 1928

Description:
Related to the article “Caltech Acquires ‘Ossie,’ Oscillograph to Photograph Atoms at Rate of 100,000,000 Per Second Unique Device.” Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 1928. “… known to well-informed electrical engineers as a cold cathode ray oscillograph which, in unscientific language, is a giant camera that records the antics of the electron particles composing an electric current. …”
Date:
1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Oscillograph for photographing electrons, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 1928

Dr. St. Louis Albert Estes and uniformed men exercising (?) on street corner, between 1933 and 1936

Description:
Dr. St. Louis Estes with five uniformed men (probably firefighters), one man in a cowboy hat, and one woman, on a street corner with a fire wagon in the background. Dr. Estes and most of the men have fists raised, elbows out, as if exercising.
Date:
1933/1936
1933 to 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Dr. St. Louis Albert Estes and uniformed men exercising (?) on street corner, between 1933 and 1936

Santa Monica City Hall dedication, audience, Santa Monica, 1939

Description:
Audience at Santa Monica City Hall dedication, at 1685 Main St.: about 6 people visible in folding chairs at right, about 30 standing behind decorated barrier, with uniformed Boy Scout seated on steps in foreground, in front of new city hall building, decorated with bunting. Fallen sign partially visible in foreground reads Section reserved for program participants
Date:
November 25, 1939
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Santa Monica City Hall dedication, audience, Santa Monica, 1939