Genre: Portrait photographs and cellulose nitrate film / Subject: People - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Oswald Garrison Villard, journalist, 1920s

Description:: Photographic portrait of the journalist Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of The Nation.
Date:: [1920s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Portrait of Leo Katz standing next to his "Youth Arisen" mural panel at the Frank Wiggins Trade School, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: The mural was controversial especially because of the depictions of nudity and references to war in the central panel. The central panel was removed from the Frank Wiggins Trade School lobby (now LA Trade Tech) and returned to the Public Works Administration in 1935 and the other two panels were returned in 1939.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Photograph of Ray Hanners, newspaperman, 1934

Description:: A photograph of newspaperman Ray Hanners. He was a veteran reporter for the Los Angeles Daily News, and previous to that was bureau chief for the Associated Press in Phoenix, Arizona.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Portrait of artist Leo Katz wearing a suit and tie, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Portrait of artist Leo Katz wearing a suit and tie. The photograph was taken in the lobby of the Frank Wiggins Trade School (now LA Trade Tech) at the time that he completed his mural panels on the theme of the history of the uses of tools serving the creative and destructive passions of man within the context of the Toltec and Aztec cultures.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

A. E. Boynton, California State Senator, 1920-1930

Description:: Portrait of California State A. E. Boynton
Date:: [between 1920-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Artist Maroussia Valero standing next to her painting of a spanish woman, circa 1932

Description:: Artist Maroussia Valero standing next to her painting of a Spanish woman. The large canvass is unframed.
Date:: [circa 1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Marthe Ellen Boschke, 1890-1900 [?] rephotographed, 1926

Description:: Martha E. Boschke and her family lived on Boschke's Island and later on Rattlesnake Island (later Terminal Island) in San Pedro Bay from 1875 to 1928. This photograph probably belonged to Boschke, who was interviewed for the article "Harbor Was Waste of Sand and Slough Fifty Years Ago," in the Los Angeles Times, January 24, 1926
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Portrait of Kathleen Gerber at the California Pacific International Exposition in Balboa Park, San Diego, 1935

Description:: Portrait of Kathleen Gerber wearing a tall, cylindrical straw hat with floral trim at the California Pacific International Exposition in Balboa Park
Date:: August 28, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Portrait photograph of Harry S. Carroll, rephotographed, 1920

Description:: Rephotographed 1/4 length portrait photograph of Harry S. Carroll wearing a suit, signed by the original photographer.
Date:: 1920
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Artist Maroussia Valero seated in profile, circa 1932

Description:: Portrait photograph of the artist Maroussia Valero seated in profile in a chair upholstered in floral fabric, with her painting of a nude woman visible in the background on the left against a masonry wall.
Date:: [circa 1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Portrait of Judge C. P. Carpenter, circa 1920-1936

Description:: A similar photograph appears with the article "Friends Hail Judge at 99," Los Angeles Times, May 15, 1936.
Date:: [circa 1920-1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Moses H. Sherman, [1929?]

Description:: Portrait of land developer and Pacific Electric Railway Company official Moses Hazeltine Sherman, seated, in suit and tie
Date:: [1929?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Portrait of Catherine Toberman for wedding announcement, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Portrait Catherine Toberman, in light-colored top with short curly hair. Related article describes Toberman's impending marriage to Ernest Ian Torrence, Jr., son of Ernest Torrance the film actor.
Date:: October 20, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Artist Maroussia Valero seated before her painting of a sleeping nude, circa 1932

Description:: Artist Maroussia Valero was born in St Petersburg, Russia. Valero was a resident of Los Angeles in 1932.
Date:: [circa 1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Moses H. Sherman, [1929?]

Description:: Portrait of land developer and Pacific Electric Railway Company official Moses Hazeltine Sherman, seated, in suit and tie
Date:: [1929?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Portrait of two of the pilots who flew the bodies of Will Rogers and Wiley Post to Union Air Terminal, Burbank, 1935

Description:: Portrait of engineer Tom Ward and pilot Joe Crosson in the Pacific Automotive Corp hangar at the Union Air Terminal after arriving in a plane transporting the bodies of Will Rogers and Wiley Post. Crosson brought the bodies of Rogers and Post out of the wilds of Alaska to Seattle.
Date:: August 19, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Prince and Princess Kaya of Japan at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: The version of the photograph that was published in the Los Angeles Times is cropped
Date:: August 28, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Samuel L. Carpenter, State Insurance Commissioner, California, 1935

Description:: This photograph (cropped) appears in the article "Official to be Honored, Fete Tonight for Carpenter, New Insurance Commissioner to be Dined by Local Organizations," Los Angeles Times May 7, 1935
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Composer Ernest Bloch, 1924

Description:: Photographic portrait of the compose Ernest Bloch
Date:: 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

General Charles Summerall, 1927

Description:: General Charles Summerall in uniform
Date:: 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Actress Betty Boyd probably at the time she divorced Charles Henry Over, Jr., Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: Actress Betty Boyd seated in front of a bookcase, probably in 1934 when and Charles Henry Over, Jr. were divorced.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Portrait of Mary Skeele, circa 1895-1910

Description:: Portrait of Mary Skeele as a young woman
Date:: [circa 1895-1910]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Richard Carrington and his mother Mrs. Nell Carrington, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: A similar photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article "Mother Made Son's Guardian, Legal Action Taken to Claim Bequest," Los Angeles Times, January 4, 1933.
Date:: January 3, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Frank N. Belgrano, Jr. and Col. Robert A. Bringham, 1935

Description:: Frank N. Belgrano was a banker. He was probably the president of the United Bank and Trust Company at this time. In 1934-35 he also served as national commander of the American Legion.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Portrait of the five pilots who flew the bodies of Will Rogers and Wiley Post to Union Air Terminal, Burbank, 1935

Date:: August 19, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Claire Borin, Hollywood, (copy) 1935

Description:: A different portrait of Claire Borin appears with the caption: Claire Borin, seeking separate maintenance from her wealthy mate, who seeks divorce [with the article "Borin Wins In Love Row; Court Tells Chicagoan, Now Suing Asher, to Ignore Wife's Mexico Case," Los Angeles Times, August 24, 1935].
Date:: [circa 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Witzel, Albert Walter, 1879-1929
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Newspaper columnist and editor George Sokolsky, 1933

Description:: 1/2 length portrait of George Sokolsky, in suit and tie, with door in background
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Baseball pitcher Satchel Paige seated next to bleachers, Los Angeles, circa 1933

Description:: Baseball pitcher Satchel Paige seated next to bleachers. The location may be Thomas Jefferson High School at Hopner and 41st St.
Date:: [circa 1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Emma May Carroll, operator of the Flores Elysian Stables, who obtained a divorce, 1935

Description:: Photographic portrait of Emma May Carroll, operator of the Flores Elysian Stables, wearing a blouse, coat and hat
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Max E. Socha, newspaper editor and president of the German-American League, 1930

Description:: Portrait of Max E. Socha, newspaper editor and president of the German-American League
Date:: 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Princess Kaya of Japan at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: Prince and Princess Kaya undertook a seven-month world tour in 1934, visiting the United States, Great Britain, France, and Germany. The tour received extensive press coverage at the time.
Date:: August 28, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Actress Diane Carroll, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: Portrait of actress Diane Carroll, seated, wearing a silk dress and light-colored hat with floral trim.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Portrait of actress Mary Lange, 1935

Description:: Half-length portrait of actress Mary Lange wearing a sailor-type blouse of dress
Date:: August 23, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Kismet Sirri, Turkish newspaper columnist, 1935

Description:: Photographic portrait of Kismet Sirri, a Turkish newspaper columnist who attended the University of California at Los Angeles
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Portrait of actor William Boyd, 1925-1939

Date:: [between 1925-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Portrait photograph of Dr. Leonard Siever, 1909-1933

Description:: Dr. Leonard Siever, a prominent Pasadena dentist and socialite, was murdered on December 14, 1933 as he preparing to enter his parked car. The case was never solved.
Date:: [1909-1933?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

George Godfrey, heavyweight boxer, [outside the KJH Radio studio, Los Angeles(?)], circa 1926-1927

Description:: George Godfrey, "The Leiperville Shadow," was the ring name of Feab Smith Williams, a heavyweight boxer from the state of Alabama who fought from 1919-1937. Godfrey twice won the World Colored Heavyweight Championship. In 2003, Godfrey was named to the Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time.
Date:: [circa 1926-1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Walter E. Scott, or "Death Valley Scotty," circa 1925-1935

Description:: Portrait of Walter Scott wearing a white shirt, tie, suspenders and hat
Date:: [circa 1925-1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Cuban boxer Kid Chocolate, circa 1930-1938

Description:: Boxer Kid Chocolate wearing a 3-piece suit and standing at the bottom of a staircase
Date:: [circa 1930-1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Kismet Sirri, Turkish newspaper columnist, 1935

Description:: Photographic portrait of Kismet Sirri, a Turkish newspaper columnist who attended the University of California at Los Angeles
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Kismet Sirri, Turkish newspaper columnist, 1935

Description:: Photographic portrait of Kismet Sirri, a Turkish newspaper columnist who attended the University of California at Los Angeles
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Sister M. Irene, Superior, Queen of Angels Hospital, Los Angeles, 1933

Description:: Portrait of Sister M. Irene, Superior. The photograph was taken on the occasion of the opening of the Queen of Angels Hospital new building located at 2301 Bellevue Ave. in Los Angeles.
Date:: January 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Los Angeles Times photographer Elias J. Spencer, 1936

Description:: This photograph, cropped and reversed, appears with Los Angeles Times obituary, Retired Cameraman, Long on ‘Times,’ Dies
Date:: August 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Actress Berta Singerman, 1934

Description:: Close-up photograph of actress Berta Singerman
Date:: March 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Actress Berta Singerman with a child [her daughter ?], 1934

Description:: Actress Berta Singerman seated on a sofa with her daughter (?)
Date:: March 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Elliott Roosevelt and Ruth Googins Roosevelt shortly after their marriage, Santa Monica, 1933

Description:: Elliott Roosevelt standing next to his Roadster and Ruth Googins Roosevelt seated in the Roadster in Santa Monica, California shortly after their marriage
Date:: August 4, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Actress Hedy Lamarr, 1939

Description:: The title to the newspaper article states: "Hedy Lamarr Storm Brews, M.G.M. Says It Will Not Allow Actress to Work for Any Other Studio"
Date:: January 19, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Dr. Walter Dill Scott, president of Northwestern University, 1929

Description:: Dr. Walter Dill Scott, president of Northwestern University, seated on a sofa and wearing a tuxedo
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Robert H. Scott, juvenile court judge [probably], 1928

Description:: Robert H. Scott (right) [probably the one who was a juvenile court judge in Los Angeles 1926-1943], at an officious occasion shaking the hand of another man at a desk with baskets of flowers and with an American flag behind him
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

E. A. Bovee, Police Captain of Monrovia, 1920-1939

Description:: Photographic portrait of E. A. Bovee, Police Captain of Monrovia, in uniform and seated in a chair
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Frank A. Bouelle, Superintendent of Schools, Los Angeles, 1929-1937

Description:: Portrait of Frank A. Bouelle, Superintendent of Schools, seated at his desk. Bouelle was the superintendent of the Los Angeles City School District from February 1, 1929 until his retirement in January, 1937.
Date:: [between 1929-1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Portrait of painter Josef Sigall with his wife Marie Sigall, 1933

Description:: Portrait painter Josef Sigall with his wife Marie Sigall. Josef wears a double-breasted suit with a vest and Marie wears a felt hat and a coat with a fur collar and fur cuffs.
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Dr. Eugene Simonyi-Semadam, ex-Prime Minister of Hungary, 1930

Description:: The visit of Dr. Simonyi-Semadam is reported in the article "Great Progress of Hungary Told by Visitor Here," in the Los Angeles Times on May 24, 1930, pg. A2
Date:: May 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Admiral William S. Sims seated in a living room, Pasadena, 1933

Description:: Admiral William S. Sims seated in a living room. This photograph was probably taken in December of 1933 when Admiral Sims was in Pasadena to officiate as the Grand Marshal of the Tournament of Roses Parade.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Samuel F. Bothwell, president of the Central Business District Association, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, "Report Urges Widening of Third Street Tunnel," Los Angeles Times, November 21, 1934
Date:: November 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Artist Maroussia Valero standing before her painting of a seated Spanish couple with the man playing a guitar, circa 1932

Description:: Artist Maroussia Valero standing before her painting of a seated Spanish couple with the man playing a guitar. The large canvass is unframed. Marouissa's signature is visible in the lower left corner of the painting.
Date:: [circa 1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Walter E. Carr, district director of immigration, Los Angeles, 1925

Description:: This photograph, cropped, appears with Los Angeles Times article, "Carr Takes Former Job, Immigration Director Back in Post Here as Duties of Office Increase," December 27, 1934.
Date:: 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Postmaster Henry B. R. Briggs on his first day in office, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: Henry B. R. Briggs, Postmaster of Los Angeles, on the day he was sworn into office
Date:: February 1, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Elias Ransome Sutton seated at his desk, 1930

Description:: Elias Ransome Sutton was a science writer for the Los Angeles Times. He began law practice in Detroit but then turned to writing. He reported the Boer War in South Africa for an American newspaper syndicate, wrote for the New York World, and then went to California.He is the author of several books.
Date:: 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Actress Kathleen Burke with Ruby Bernstein, circa 1933-1934

Description:: Actress Kathleen Burke with Ruby Bernstein
Date:: [circa 1933-1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Allan E. Sedgwick, member of the Board of Education, Los Angeles, 1933

Description:: Allan E. Sedgwick seated in an office
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Lester F. Scott, 1930 or 1935

Description:: Lester F. Scott [movie producer?] seated, wearing a double-breasted suit and smoking a pipe
Date:: [1930 or 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Dr. V. Blanche Slagerman, 1934

Description:: Portrait of Dr. V.[era] Blanche Slagerman
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Deputy Sheriff Joseph S. Sepulveda, circa 1920-1933

Description:: Portrait of Deputy Sheriff Joseph S. Sepulveda dressed in a suit with a vest and wearing a star-shaped sheriff badge.
Date:: [circa 1920-1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Louis Sentous, French Consul, Los Angeles, circa 1920-1927

Description:: Louis Sentous was French Consul in Los Angeles from 1910-1927
Date:: [circa 1920-1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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