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Mrs. A. Julliard Hall, Mrs. Oscar C. Wilcox, Mrs. Priestly A. Horton, and Mrs. Glynn C. Ellsworth, Los Angeles, circa 1940

Description:
Mrs. A. Julliard Hall, Mrs. Oscar C. Wilcox, Mrs. Priestly A. Horton, and Mrs. Glynn C. Ellsworth standing around a small table in an otherwise empty room. Mrs. Hall is recording secretary for the Wilshire Woman's Club. Mrs. Horton and Mrs. Ellsworth are members of the Ebell Club. Mrs. Hall and Mrs. Horton are shaking hands across the table.
Date:
[1940]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Mrs. A. Julliard Hall, Mrs. Oscar C. Wilcox, Mrs. Priestly A. Horton, and Mrs. Glynn C. Ellsworth, Los Angeles, circa 1940

Film actor Clark Gable eating a sandwich and reading a newspaper in an office, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:
Film actor Clark Gable eating a sandwich and looking at a newspaper in a cluttered office with two unidentified men. Gable had been visiting the Federal Court in order to serve as a witness against Mrs. Violet Wells Norton and Jack L. Smith, who were charged with attempting to extort money from the actor.
Date:
[circa April 21, 1937]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Film actor Clark Gable eating a sandwich and reading a newspaper in an office, Los Angeles, 1937

Mrs. William E. Beatty, chairman of the bowling event during a Women's Field Day Challenge, May 1939

Description:
Mrs. W.E. Beatty, chairman of the bowling event held during the Los Feliz Woman's Club and Glendale Athletic Club's Field Day Challenge. This event, which was held in May of 1939, was the first time in the history of local woman's clubs that a field day featuring two clubs in competiton occurred
Date:
between May 24 and May 28, 1939
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Mrs. William E. Beatty, chairman of the bowling event during a Women's Field Day Challenge, May 1939

Tony Cornero on his newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill or Lux, Los Angeles, 1946

Description:
Tony Cornero on his newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill (also known as the Lux), which was meant to operate offshore of Los Angeles. After the Bunker Hill’s opening night, however, Cornero and five of his aides were arrested on felony charges of criminal conspiracy to conduct gambling games and serve alcohol without a license. After his arrest, Cornero announced that he was ready to go to the United States Supreme court to keep the Bunker Hill running. Cornero was also “admiral” of the Rex, another gambling vessel which was forced to suspend operations in 1938.
Date:
August 9, 1946
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Tony Cornero on his newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill or Lux, Los Angeles, 1946

Mrs. Zella Jeffers, accused of engaging in immoral acts with her husband, Reverend Joseph Jeffers, in front of guests in their home, Los Angeles, 1939

Description:
Mrs. Zella Jeffers on the witness stand in the courtroom of Judge Charles W. Fricke. She is accused of performing immoral acts with her husband, Reverend Joseph Jeffers, in front of guests in their home. Mrs. Jeffers claimed that on the night of her arrest she was drugged by neighbor Vincent Higgins, a District Attorney’s detective, and didn’t remember the events that were supposed to have taken place. A film reviewed by the prosecution showed Reverend and Mrs. Jeffers disrobing in front of their guests. Behind Mrs. Jeffers is a floor plan of her home, which she described for the jury.
Date:
June 27, 1939
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Mrs. Zella Jeffers, accused of engaging in immoral acts with her husband, Reverend Joseph Jeffers, in front of guests in their home, Los Angeles, 1939

Beverly Hills home of William F. Gettle, kidnapping victim. May 1934.

Description:
Beverly Hills home of businessman and millionaire William F. Gettle, at 723 North Linden Drive. Gettle was kidnapped from the grounds of from his Arcadia ranch house during a party on the eve of May 9th. The kidnapping attracted a great deal of attention in the community, with Mrs. Gettle even addressing the kidnappers through the pages of the Los Angeles Times. The kidnappers demanded a $60,000 ransom for the return of Gettle, which Mrs. Gettle agreed to pay. However, before the ransom was paid, two detectives of the LAPD, Chester Burris and H.P. Gearhardt, broke the case after installing a dictaphone in the home of a bank robbery suspect. Information from the dictaphone led them to a La Crescenta home where Gettle was held. He was returned, unharmed, to his family on the eve of May 14th.
Date:
[circa May 10, 1934]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Beverly Hills home of William F. Gettle, kidnapping victim. May 1934.

Miss Lil Tokio Alice Watanabe extends an invitation to Mayor Frank L. Shaw for the annual Nsei festival, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Frank L. Shaw accepts an invitation to the formal opening of the Nsei festival from "Miss 'Lil Tokio" Alice Watanabe and her attendants. In front, left to right, Fukiko Hori, Alice Watanabe, Frank L. Shaw, and Kay Okamoto. In the back, left to right, Miye Fujioka and Mary Ota.
Date:
August 12, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Miss Lil Tokio Alice Watanabe extends an invitation to Mayor Frank L. Shaw for the annual Nsei festival, Los Angeles, 1935

Beverly Hills home of William F. Gettle, kidnapping victim. May 1934.

Description:
Beverly Hills home of businessman and millionaire William F. Gettle, at 723 North Linden Drive. Gettle was kidnapped from the grounds of from his Arcadia ranch house during a party on the eve of May 9th. The kidnapping attracted a great deal of attention in the community, with Mrs. Gettle even addressing the kidnappers through the pages of the Los Angeles Times. The kidnappers demanded a $60,000 ransom for the return of Gettle, which Mrs. Gettle agreed to pay. However, before the ransom was paid, two detectives of the LAPD, Chester Burris and H.P. Gearhardt, broke the case after installing a dictaphone in the home of a bank robbery suspect. Information from the dictaphone led them to a La Crescenta home where Gettle was held. He was returned, unharmed, to his family on the eve of May 14th.
Date:
[circa May 10, 1934]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Beverly Hills home of William F. Gettle, kidnapping victim. May 1934.

Young girl sits amongst the harvest from a community garden, circa February 1934.

Description:
Young Los Angelino Yvonne Marion Wolff sits piled under produce grown in a local community garden.Beginning in 1933, small tracts of land throughout Los Angeles county were used by the government as locations for community gardens, where men left unemployed by the Great Depression could work and grow food to feed their families. In 1933, 890 acres of land in Los Angeles County were used toward this purpose; the program expanded to 2,500 acres of land in 1934. This land was approximately enough to grow the vegetables consumed by 20,000 county welfare families.
Date:
[circa February, 1934]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Young girl sits amongst the harvest from a community garden, circa February 1934.

Mrs. Ellwood K. Lightholder, Mrs. Henry H. Robinson, and Mrs. John H. Harris, clubwomen playing cards, Los Angeles, circa 1940

Description:
Mrs. Ellwood K. Lightholder, president of the Los Angeles County California Federation of Women's Clubs, Mrs. Henry H. Robinson, president of the El Sereno Friday Morning Club, and Mrs. John H. Harris playing cards. Could possibly be at the first annual press luncheon for the El Sereno Friday Morning Club, held to promote the club on January 24, 1938.
Date:
[1930s and 1940s]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Mrs. Ellwood K. Lightholder, Mrs. Henry H. Robinson, and Mrs. John H. Harris, clubwomen playing cards, Los Angeles, circa 1940

Beverly Hills Chief of Police Charles C. Blair, District Attorney Buron Fitts, and Gettle family lawyer Ernest E. Noon, Beverly Hills, 1934

Description:
A photograph of Chief of Beverly Hills Police Charles C. Blair, District Attorney Buron Fitts, and lawyer Ernest E. Noon. The three men were involved in the search for kidnapping victim William F. Gettle and the prosecution of the kidnappers after Gettle's safe recovery.Charles C. Blair was the first Chief of Police of Beverly Hills, serving from 1927-1942. Ernest E. Noon was the attorney of the Gettle family. He was intimitely involved with the attempts to recover William F. Gettle, directing via the Los Angeles Times that the kidnappers send any ransom requests to him, as Mrs. Fleeta Gettle was ill with nervous prostration after the kidnapping of her husband and under medical supervision.Buron Fitts was the district attorney of Los Angeles from 1928-1940. Fitts was in charge of co-ordinating the police agencies in their search for Gettle and his kidnappers.
Date:
[circa May, 1934]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Beverly Hills Chief of Police Charles C. Blair, District Attorney Buron Fitts, and Gettle family lawyer Ernest E. Noon, Beverly Hills, 1934

"Prince" Michael Romanoff, popular Hollywood pretender to Russian royal blood, Los Angeles, 1934 (?)

Description:
A photograph of "Prince" (not, as captioned here, "Grand Duke") Michael Romanoff, a Hollywood restaurateur and actor, who claimed to be a member of the Russian royal family. This claim was widely known to be false; however, Romanoff kept up the deception throughout his life in Los Angeles.Romanoff was born Hershel Geguzin in Lithuania. He traveled extensively before settling in Los Angeles and into the role of Michael Romanoff. In Hollywood, he acted on stage and in film, but was perhaps most successful as the owner of the restaurant "Romanoff's" in Beverly Hills. The restaurant was popular for its chocolate souffles, and was frequented by many celebrities. It closed its doors in 1962.
Date:
1934?
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
"Prince" Michael Romanoff, popular Hollywood pretender to Russian royal blood, Los Angeles, 1934 (?)

Members of the American Legion Auxillary hold bouquets of artificial poppies on Memorial Day, May 26, 1934.

Description:
Memorial Day, also known as "Poppy Day", May 26, 1934. Pearl Lathrop, Marie Gore, and Emma Wolfegang, members of the Los Angeles American Legion Auxillary, hold bouquets of artificial poppies, made by veterans of the First World War. The poppies were sold by members of the American Legion Auxillary in order to raise money for disabled veterans and their families.Poppies were chosen as representative of Memorial Day due to their presence in the iconic World War I memorial poem, "In Flanders Fields". The poem was written by Canadian physician and Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
Date:
May 26, 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Members of the American Legion Auxillary hold bouquets of artificial poppies on Memorial Day, May 26, 1934.

Marion Williams playing tennis, Midwick Country Club, Alhambra, 1925

Description:
Possibly related to Los Angeles Times article, February 20, 1925, "Midwick Cards Fine Program, National Champions Asked to Show Wares Here, Tennis Feature is Slated for Early in April, Helen Jacobs Also Scheduled to Take Part." The article states: "...Miss Mary K. Browne will head the southern team, with Mrs. May Sutton Bundy playing second position, while Mrs. William M. Henry, who made a wonderful showing in the Northwest last year, and Miss Marion Williams, will complete the team..."
Date:
1925
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Marion Williams playing tennis, Midwick Country Club, Alhambra, 1925

Trans-Pacific Yacht Club secretary John Wallace, 1936

Description:
Possibly related to Los Angeles Times article, May 29, 1936, “Two Yachts Enter Race, List of Boats in Long Sea Dash Swelled to Fifteen by Added Starters.” Two crack yachts entered from San Francisco Bay area, yesterday hoisted the total entry list for the trans-Pacific yacht race from Santa Monica to Honolulu to fifteen boats, Secretary John Wallace of the Trans-Pacific Yacht Club revealed. …
Date:
1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Trans-Pacific Yacht Club secretary John Wallace, 1936

Judge Irvin Taplin and son and daughter on playground slide, Los Angeles Orphans' Home, Hollywood, 1933

Description:
A similar photograph appears with Los Angeles Time article, April 20, 1933, "Party Comes to Orphans’ Home, Judge’s Daughter Shares Birthday Pleasures." The article begins: "In celebration of the seventh birthday of his daughter, Lorena Ann Taplin, and in memory of his own early life in an orphanage, Munipical Judge Taplin yesterday was host at a birthday party to 100 children at the Los Angeles Orphans’ Home, 815 North El Centro avenue, Hollywood. …"
Date:
April 19, 1933
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Judge Irvin Taplin and son and daughter on playground slide, Los Angeles Orphans' Home, Hollywood, 1933

Newlyweds, Onslow Stevens and Phyllis Cooper embrace for publicity shot, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:
Actor Onslow Stevens embraces his new socialite wife Phyllis Cooper. A mustached and carefully groomed Stevens is wearing a suit and a tie, while his wife also wears a suit jacket and light colored ascot. Around six weeks after their elopement, the two divorced and Cooper kept her maiden name.
Date:
[September 1934?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Newlyweds, Onslow Stevens and Phyllis Cooper embrace for publicity shot, Los Angeles, 1934

Chief Luther Standing Bear in jail, 1935

Description:
Related to the article “Indian Chief Begins Term, Standing Bear Deplores His Jailing and Tells of Sioux Punishment.” Los Angeles Times, 8 May 1935. Pring. The article states: "The lines in Chief Luther Standing Bear’s face were sad yesterday. But his voice was strong as he began serving his year sentence in the County Jail on an immorality charge. … and May 6, 1935, “Chief Standing Bear Given Year Term in County Jail.” … The 71-year-old author, actor and educator recently pleaded guilty to making improper advances to a young half-breed Piute girl …"
Date:
May 7, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Chief Luther Standing Bear in jail, 1935

Elsie Kellogg, Jean Kennedy, and Elinor Jordan lounge on a diving board pool, Pasadena, 1935

Description:
Socialites Elsie Kellogg, Jean Kennedy, and Elinor Jordan, sit atop a low-level diving board of a swimming pool at The Huntington Hotel (now The Langham Huntington Hotel). Kellogg wears a dress while Kennedy and Jordan don skirts and blouses. In the background, the rest of the pool, pool chairs, and shrubbery can be seen. The wealthy Kellogg family was visiting from Chicago and stayed in Pasadena, where they passed the time with the locals. Kellogg's profile image in the related article comes from this photograph. Kellogg was incorrectly captioned as "Kennedy" on the negative sleeve. The article also incorrectly names Elinor Jordan as "Eleanor."
Date:
October 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Elsie Kellogg, Jean Kennedy, and Elinor Jordan lounge on a diving board pool, Pasadena, 1935

Los Angeles Mayor Frank Shaw and and group from Hotel Greeters of San Francisco, [Los Angeles?], 1935

Description:
This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, June 7, 1935, One Way to Spread Good Will. Miss Emily White, winner of [popularity] contest sponsored by Hotel Greeters of San Francisco, calls on Mayor Shaw with letter from Mayor Rossi. The group shows, left to right, in foreground, Mayor Shaw, Miss White and Harvey Toy; rear, William Jacobs and Frank F. Royston.
Date:
June, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Los Angeles Mayor Frank Shaw and and group from Hotel Greeters of San Francisco, [Los Angeles?], 1935

Mabel V. Socha, Agnes Fredericks, and Artie W. Burtnett standing at luncheon table, Los Angeles, 1933

Description:
Possibly connected to Los Angeles Times article, August 17, 1933, Bel-Air Fete to Raise Fund to Beautify City. …The meeting was called by Mrs. John D. Fredericks, president of the Women’s Service Auxiliary of the [C]hamber [of Commerce] … sponsored by the vacant lots and parkways section of the chamber’s civic beautification committee, of which Mrs. Gerald B. Burtnett is chairman … Features of the fete will include … a buffet lunch at noon … Mayor Shaw and the City Park Commission, of which Mrs. Max Socha is president, have offered their assistance
Date:
1933
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Mabel V. Socha, Agnes Fredericks, and Artie W. Burtnett standing at luncheon table, Los Angeles, 1933

J.C. McLaughlin, nonagenarian, 1935

Description:
View of J.C. McLaughlin seated in coat and hat, with right hand raised and index finger pointing upward. McLaughlin, 99 years old, refused President Garfield's offer to be Secretary of War. He traveled all over the world during his eleven years at sea and attributes his longevity to "not being a loafer," abstinence from intoxicants, and exercise as reported in the Los Angeles Times.
Date:
1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
J.C. McLaughlin, nonagenarian, 1935