Subject: Mayors--California--Los Angeles / Genre: news photographs / Names: Porter, John C. (John Clinton), 1871-1959 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Group portrait of former mayors George E. Cryer, John C. Porter, W.D. Stephens, Meredith P. Snyder, and F.T. Woodman, gathered to support Republican gubernatorial candidate Frank F. Merriam. George Edward Cryer served as mayor from 1921-1929. John Clinton Porter served as mayor from 1929-1933. William Dennison Stephens served as mayor from 1909 and Governor of California from 1917-1923. Meredith Pinxton Snyder served as mayor in 1897-1898, 1900-1904, and 1919-1921. Frederick Thomas Woodman served as mayor from 1916-1919.
Date:: October 19, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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:: 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:: This photograph was likely taken on September 4, 1931, during the Parade of Four Flags. 200,000 spectators gathered to watch the Parade on opening day of La Fiesta de Los Angeles. The parade route was along Figueroa St, between Olympic Blvd and Washington Blvd.
Date:: [circa September 4, 1931]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photograph of United States Vice-President Charles Curtis and Assistant Secretary of the United States Navy from 1929-1933 Ernest Lee Jahncke being received by the Reception Committee at Los Angeles for the 10th Olympic Games. The committee consisted of [not limited to] Col. William May Garland, Los Angeles Mayor John C. Porter and Motion Picture producer Louis B. Mayer. They all wear badges on their lapels that read, "Reception."
Date:: July 29, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: John C. Porter speaking in front of microphone to the right of the American flag. Male spectators are on both sides. There are a couple of large books on a table to his right.
Date:: [circa 1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photo appears with the article "Hopis make chief of mayor: Circus Performers Go to City hall," Los Angeles Times, 05 Feb. 1930: A2.
Date:: February 4, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Los Angeles Mayor John C. Porter speaking at a microphone at an outdoor event.
Date:: [between 1929-1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Los Angeles Mayor John C. Porter bids farewell to group in 19th century costumes departing Los Angeles in a stagecoach for the 2-day journey to the Old Spanish Days Fiesta in Santa Barbara, where they were to participate in the parade and deliver an invitation to the Los Angeles World Congress of Rough Riders and Rodeo. The group includes: (front, L to R) Hilton McCabe, Francis Josef Hickson (stage actor), Marion Parks (California history advocate), John C. Porter, Thomas Workman Temple (early California family member), (in coach, L to R) Miss Irene Tillinghast (of the Los Angeles Museum of History and Science), Orpha Klinker (California artist), (on top) Jose Arias, left, and his celebrated Mexican orchestra (Jose Arias Troubadours) holding guitars and possibly a mandolin, with driver Buster Trow (silent Westerns actor). "U.S. Mail" and "Louisville and..." are painted on the stagecoach.
Date:: August 16, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: John C. Porter was mayor of Los Angeles from 1929-1933. He ran twice more for re-election but lost both times. He was also a member of the California State Park Commission.
Date:: [circa September 30, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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