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Description:: View at night across the reflecting pool in the Plaza del Pacifico (Plaza de Panama in 1915) towards the illuminated House of Charm. A crowd is gathered next to the reflecting pool.
Date:: [between 1935-1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Night time view facing west towards the Palace of Photography and the California Building with its high tower at the California Pacific International Exposition, with automobiles parked along the roadside.
Date:: [1935-1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View at night of the Arco del Porvenir (Arch of the Future) with Exposition visitors strolling all around in the Plaza del Pacifico (Plaza de Panama in 1915) .
Date:: [between 1935-1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times articles, "Record-Smashing Run of Streamline Train Tomorrow to Write Railroad History: Covered Wagon Trail Will See Speed Demon: Old and Colorful Chapter in Romance of Transportation to End as Blunt-Nosed Arrow Darts Out Into Night," 27 Oct. 1934: A4; "Streamline Train Here to Make Test Run Test: Union Pacific Officials Arrive in City as Passengers on Company's New Speed Equipment," 20 Oct. 1934: A1; “Tomorrow’s ‘Iron Horse’ Draws Throng: Rail Rocket Off Tonight: Union Pacific’s Streamliner Speedster To Start Sixty-Hour Trip to New York at 10 o’Clock,” 22 Oct. 1934: A2; “Rail Chiefs Ride New Flyer: Streamline Train Here To Make Test Run East: Union Pacific Officials Arrive in City as Passengers on Company’s New Speed Equipment,” 20, Oct. 1934: A1.
Date:: October 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Dr. F.E. Townsend, disembarks from an American Airlines plane. Townsend was likely arriving to deliver a speech at the Hollywood Bowl about the "Townsend Plan", an old-age pension proposal that influenced the establishment of the Social Security System.
Date:: [circa September 28, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times articles, "Record-Smashing Run of Streamline Train Tomorrow to Write Railroad History: Covered Wagon Trail Will See Speed Demon: Old and Colorful Chapter in Romance of Transportation to End as Blunt-Nosed Arrow Darts Out Into Night," 27 Oct. 1934: A4; "Streamline Train Here to Make Test Run Test: Union Pacific Officials Arrive in City as Passengers on Company's New Speed Equipment," 20 Oct. 1934: A1; “Tomorrow’s ‘Iron Horse’ Draws Throng: Rail Rocket Off Tonight: Union Pacific’s Streamliner Speedster To Start Sixty-Hour Trip to New York at 10 o’Clock,” 22 Oct. 1934: A2; “Rail Chiefs Ride New Flyer: Streamline Train Here To Make Test Run East: Union Pacific Officials Arrive in City as Passengers on Company’s New Speed Equipment,” 20, Oct. 1934: A1.
Date:: October 22, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Probably related to the article, "Mountain Fire Under Control. Army of Men Still on Job to Prevent Flare-ups. Lack of Wind Help Quell 5500-Acre Blaze. Watershed Loss in Millions; Few Homes Burned." Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 1933: A1.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times articles, "Record-Smashing Run of Streamline Train Tomorrow to Write Railroad History: Covered Wagon Trail Will See Speed Demon: Old and Colorful Chapter in Romance of Transportation to End as Blunt-Nosed Arrow Darts Out Into Night," 27 Oct. 1934: A4; "Streamline Train Here to Make Test Run Test: Union Pacific Officials Arrive in City as Passengers on Company's New Speed Equipment," 20 Oct. 1934: A1; “Tomorrow’s ‘Iron Horse’ Draws Throng: Rail Rocket Off Tonight: Union Pacific’s Streamliner Speedster To Start Sixty-Hour Trip to New York at 10 o’Clock,” 22 Oct. 1934: A2; “Rail Chiefs Ride New Flyer: Streamline Train Here To Make Test Run East: Union Pacific Officials Arrive in City as Passengers on Company’s New Speed Equipment,” 20, Oct. 1934: A1.
Date:: October 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Art director Juan Larrinaga invented a motif for the ground level of the building that mayhave been inspired by repeat key patterns on the walls of the Place of the Dead in Mitla, Oaxaca. The cleanly articulated geometric designs on the tower were Art Deco in style.
Date:: [1935-1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Owens, Charles H.
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: About 3 lighted boats or floats and other lights onshore, with water in foreground and buildings visible in darkness at right
Date:: June 17, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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