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Seventh Street decorated for the 1932 Olympics, Los Angeles, 1932

Description:
Street scene looking east at intersection of 7th Street and Hope Street, with commercial buildings, pedestrians, cars, and banners and decorations for the Xth Olympiad, including signs for individual countries (China and Canada visible). Business signs include: Owl Drug Co., Victoria Hotel, Union Oil Bldg.
Date:
July, 1932
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Seventh Street decorated for the 1932 Olympics, Los Angeles, 1932

Rosemary Chew and Olive Young standing in front of the Elk's Lodge No. 99, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:
Rosemary Chew and Olive Young standing hand in hand in front of the former Elk's Lodge No. 99 building (607 Park View Street) with arched windows, two angel statues and frieze near roof. The building is an outstanding example of Gothic Revival architecture style (Neo-Gothic), and was designed by Claud Beelman.
Date:
1928
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Rosemary Chew and Olive Young standing in front of the Elk's Lodge No. 99, Los Angeles, 1928

Rosemary Chew and Olive Young in the garden of the Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:
Olive Young was an actress who was a major star at the Great Wall studio in Shanghai from 1926 to 1929. Born Olive Young in St. Joseph, Missouri, she first visited China at the age of 16, when her parents sent her to Hong Kong to complete her education. Two years later she began her acting career in Shanghai. After 1929, she returned to the United States and had a brief acting career in Hollywood.
Date:
1928
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Rosemary Chew and Olive Young in the garden of the Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1928

Respected "senior citizens" and sportsmen, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:
Seated, L to R: a man called Hobart, unidentified man, Walter Lawson, unidentified man (a world champion high-jumper), Fred Williams, Mrs. Rich Baker, Rich Baker, unidentified man, Kid North. Standing, L to R: the father-in-law of Edward Atkinson, unidentified man (well-known poker player), Mr. Moore.
Date:
[1940s?]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Sheffield Studio
Collection:
Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection
Respected "senior citizens" and sportsmen, Los Angeles, 1940s

People picnicking near Saddle Peak, Los Angeles, 1929

Description:
4 people picnicking, woman standing, man standing near automobile, woman seated, woman mostly obscured behind seated woman, near oak trees with brush, hills, and wooden outbuilding in background. Oak tree in foreground has wooden steps nailed to trunk and sign reading Closed area, smoking prohibited, Spence D. Turner, county fire warden. Water pump partially obscured behind car.
Date:
1929
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
People picnicking near Saddle Peak, Los Angeles, 1929

Party at the residence of Lillian and Jack Chase, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:
Melba Foppe is seated in the second row, 1st from the left (dressed in striped shirt and holding a glass, eyes closed). A row of men is behind the crowd: James Garcia is in this row (1st from the left, facing the camera, behind a woman in a hat). Louise Brooks is the older woman seated on the couch against the window. The others in the photo are unidentified.
Date:
[1940s?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection
Party at the residence of Lillian and Jack Chase, Los Angeles, 1940s

Party at photographer George Cutler's house, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:
Seated on floor (L to R): Lillian Fentress, Chester Washington, Bessie Gant, an unidentified woman, Cullen Fentress. Seated on the couch (L to R): Maudelle Richardson, Gladys Hill, Herman Hill, an unidentified woman, a man identified by his last name "Stubberfield" and an unidentified man. Standing (L to R): an unidentified woman and man, Lois Evans, and George Cutler.
Date:
[1940s?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection
Party at photographer George Cutler's house, Los Angeles, 1940s

Miriam Matthews, Angelique DeLavallade and unidentified individuals, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:
The woman (fourth from the left, in the back wearing a necklace) is Angelique DeLavallade. Miriam Matthews is fifth from the left, dressed in a black coat. The other individuals in the photo are unidentified, although Walter Gordon believed that the woman standing to the right of the man in uniform ran an escrow company.
Date:
[1940s?]
1940/1949
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection
Miriam Matthews, Angelique DeLavallade and unidentified individuals, Los Angeles, 1940s