Subject: People / Genre: cellulose nitrate film and news photographs / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Subject: Legal / Date: 1931 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Lawyers Harold Lee "Jerry" Giesler and Arthur Veitch on a courtroom stand with Jack Allen. Jerry Giesler was a criminal defense lawyer and the first president of the Criminal Courts Bar Association. Arthur Veitch was a district attorney.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mrs. Berthal Gregory, sister and secretary of District Attorney Buron Fitts, and Mrs. Marion Fitts, Buron's wife, sitting together during a trial. The trial is probably concerning financial transactions within the Fitts family, specifically involving the 1931 sale of an orange grove to Buron from his parents.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Fletcher Bowron, Superior Court Judge (1926-1938), and mayor of Los Angeles (1938-1953).
Date:: [between 1930-1039]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Fletcher Bowron, Superior Court Judge (1926-1938) presiding in his courtroom
Date:: [between 1926-1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Genevieve Rose Cline, first woman judge appointed to the United States Custom Court in 1928, arrived in Los Angeles on May, 14, 1929 to hear 600 cases customs cases. She returned to Los Angeles in 1932 to hear customs cases from Mary Pickford (actress), W.R. Hearst (publisher), and Winfield R. Sheehan. She served as a judge in New York City, New York, for twenty-five years.
Date:: Between 1929-1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Judge Edward R. Brand seated at his desk with papers and a telephone
Date:: [between 1930-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: James Francis Thaddeus O'Connor stands next to Thomas Francis Ford while wearing a suit. He may be singing. O'Connor was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. Before becoming a federal judge, President Roosevelt appointed him Comptroller of the Currency in 1933. He served in this position during the Great Depression and resigned in 1938. Ford was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 14th congressional district from 1933-1945.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Pope was a Municipal Court Judge and the first public defend in Los Angeles, among other positions. Pope's papers are housed at UCLA.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Judge Joseph P. Sproul, in suit and tie, and teenager or young man Carl Barrow, in uniform, both seated at table, with flags and typewriter in background
Date:: [1930-1938?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Judge William R. McKay and Judge Cecil D. Holland reenact traffic scene using model vehicles and roads.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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