Search

Browse items

–

Current results range from 1911 to 1964

View distribution

Search Constraints

You searched for: Subject People ✖Remove constraint Subject: People Genre acetate film ✖Remove constraint Genre: acetate film Language No linguistic content ✖Remove constraint Language: No linguistic content
Start Over

199 Catalog Results

Number of results to display per page
View results as:
List Created with Sketch. List View List Gallery Created with Sketch. Gallery View Gallery

Search Results

Actor Neil Hamilton and daughter Patricia on beach holding wooden shoes, Malibu, 1937

Description:
A similar photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, October 24, 1937, Present from Holland, with caption: The Dutch influence came to Hollywood when Neil Hamilton, pictured on the beach at Malibu with his small daughter, Patricia, presented her with a pair of wooden shoes he brought back from abroad. This was just one of the many presents she received on her birthday.
Date:
October 20, 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Actor Neil Hamilton and daughter Patricia on beach holding wooden shoes, Malibu, 1937

Murder victim Midi Takaoko, 1936

Description:
Probably related to Los Angeles Times article, August 12, 1936, "Nipponese Girl Slain, Actress Victim of Jealousy, Her Throat Cut in Love Triangle Involving Two American Men." … Midi Takaoko, beautiful 25-year-old Japanese actress, is dead … Police immediately began a search for Raymond Johnson, 39-year-old cook … William J. Bachand … heard her screams … Bachand told police he had planned to marry Miss Takaoka [sic] and that Johnson had been extremely jealous. …
Date:
1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Murder victim Midi Takaoko, 1936

Lucille S. King, ventriloquist, with child actors, dummy and dolls, 1951

Description:
Lucille S. King, ventriloquist, stands on the right holding a dummy, while two child actresses pose in doll like stances. A boy playing a pipe organ stands to the left. Another boy holding an accordion stands onthe far left, only partially visible. Also seen are various pieces of furniture and dolls.
Date:
September 20, 1951
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Lucille S. King, ventriloquist, with child actors, dummy and dolls, 1951

Helena Burnett in dress and bonnet sitting next to a pond, 1947-1950

Description:
Helena Burnett, child actress and dancer, sits on stones on the edge of a pond. She wears a fancy dress with a gathered skirt, a bonnet with lace trim, and open toe sandals. She squints at the camera, as if the sun is in her eyes. Houses can be seen in the background.
Date:
[between 1947 and 1950]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Helena Burnett in dress and bonnet sitting next to a pond, 1947-1950

Dane Gorrell with 1888 horseshoe-shaped shell art wreath made by poet Ina Donna Coolbrith, Santa Monica, 1953

Description:
Dane Gorrell, with 1888 horse-shoe-shaped shell art wreath made by poet Ina Donna Coolbrith. The flowers represented include Mariposa lily, Shasta daisy, Copa de Oro, camelia, rose and other flowers. The wreath was a gift to Elizabeth Dalton Perry and William Hayes Perry. At the time of this photograph the wreath belonged to the Perrys' nephew John H. Crum of Santa Monica. The shell wreath is an example of Victorian era domestic crafts.
Date:
1953
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Dane Gorrell with 1888 horseshoe-shaped shell art wreath made by poet Ina Donna Coolbrith, Santa Monica, 1953

Lucille S. King, ventriloquist, with child actors, dummy and dolls, 1951

Description:
Lucille S. King, ventriloquist, stands to the left on stage, holding a dummy, while three child actresses pose in doll like stances. A boy holding an accordion stands on th far left, only partially visible. Also seen onstage are various pieces of furniture and dolls and another ventriloquist dummy. An audience can be seen in the foreground.
Date:
September 20, 1951
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Lucille S. King, ventriloquist, with child actors, dummy and dolls, 1951

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

Child ballerina and accordian player perform with ventriloquist Lucille King, 1951

Description:
On a stage, in the foreground, are a child ballerina and accordion player. To the far right sits an ventriloquist Lucille S. King, on a couch with her dummy, and an actor, dressed as a clown, sits on the floor. Even father to the left, offstage, stand several women.
Date:
September 20, 1951
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Child ballerina and accordian player perform with ventriloquist Lucille King, 1951

Lucille S. King, ventriloquies, with 2 dummies, 1951

Description:
Lucille S. King, ventriloquiest, stands on a stage next to 2 dummies (ventriloquial figure), a girl and a boy. Her long skirt has a floral print, and her jacket is made of rich velvet like cloth. Other dolls and a dollhouse are visible in the background. The dolls are props from a performance.
Date:
September 20, 1951
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Lucille S. King, ventriloquies, with 2 dummies, 1951

Portrait of Dr. St. Louis Albert Estes, between 1933 and 1936

Description:
Dr. St. Louis Albert Estes (1876-1951) was an American doctor (dentist) and the author of Raw Food and Health. He lived in Van Nuys, California in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and had 3 children with his first wife in the 1910s, 12 children with his second wife in the 1920s and 1930s.
Date:
[between 1933 and 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Portrait of Dr. St. Louis Albert Estes, between 1933 and 1936