Subject: Mayors--California--Los Angeles / Genre: news photographs / Collection: OpenUCLA Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Mayor George E. Cryer standing behind microphones gives a speech at the dedication of the new City Hall located at 1st and Spring St., Los Angeles. In the background is a Baldwin grand piano with trophies on it and the new building.
Date:: Apr. 26, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A different photograph shows the location as Fort Moore Hill near the Broadway Tunnel. A billboard ad for the movie Tarzan and his Mate dates the photograph to 1934. (uclamss_1429_5558)
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: From left to right: Frank H. Brumby; Mayor Frank Shaw; Harry L. Harper, president of Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce; Frederick P. Woellner; W. A. Simpson. They are seated at a banquet table at the Ambassador Hotel with a mural depicting a Spanish dancer and musicians is on the wall behind them.
Date:: [circa February 23, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: John C. Porter seated at table with judge sitting at table to his left with gavel in his hand. The commission might of been established to look into the troublesome noise that railroads were causing during a study in 1931.
Date:: [circa 1931]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: John M. Larronde was president of the fire commission. James Cairns was chairman of the Junior Chamber of Commerce Fire Prevention Committee. Bert M. Blake was Deputy Chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department. William O. Harris was also the head of Kiwanis International.
Date:: [circa March 12, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Reported in the article "Mayor Heard In Harbor Quiz: Francis and Simon Brothers Also Give Testimony: Los Angeles Times, 12 May 1933: 1.
Date:: May 11, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A similar photograph appears with the caption, "Diagnosing Mayor Shaw's Personality," Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 1935: 16
Date:: [circa January 23, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: The men and women form a half circle around Mayor Shaw, seated at his desk.
Date:: October 15, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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