Genre: Portrait photographs and cellulose nitrate film / Location: San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Olympic sprinter Stella Walsh poses at center while sitting on a ship's handrail. She sports a long overcoat and rests a hand in her coat pocket as she looks to camera. A pin on her hat is of the Japanese flag. The ship's rail enters frame at left and stretches across the image towards center. A sign below the railing and to the right of Stella's legs reads, "[...] DECK [...] [Japanese characters]." Directly behind Stella Walsh, a ship's cabin stretches across the background.
Date:: [circa 1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: At center, former Mexican President, General Plutarco Calles, sits in a lounge chair on a deck of the Hawaii-bound ship, Malolo. He is viewed close-up and looks directly to the camera.
Date:: August 3, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: This photograph appears with the article, “AMERICANS WIN HEAVILY ON ‘SWEEPS’: Awards Total $956,880 Thirty in Southland Among 432 Fortunates in First-Day Drawing,” Los Angeles Times, 24 May 1936: 1.
Date:: May 24, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to the article, "Swift Views A.A.A. Blow: 'Can't Legislate Nature' Says Packer as He Sets Sail for Antipodes," Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 1936: 5.
Date:: January 9, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Portrait photograph of Admiral William V. Pratt in uniform, taken at the time he became commander-in-chief of the combined United States Fleet. He is in his office on a Navy ship.
Date:: May 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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