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

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

Harold E. Pomeroy, director of Los Angeles County Relief Administration, Los Angeles County, 1935

Description:
Portrait photograph of Harold E. Pomeroy, who was assistant director and director of public relations of the Los Angeles County Relief Administration, the local branch of the State Emergency Relief Administration (S.E.R.A.). S.E.R.A. provided relief funds during the Great Depression.
Date:
[July 29, 1935?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Harold E. Pomeroy, director of Los Angeles County Relief Administration, Los Angeles County, 1935

Eugene M. Brown, regional agent for the State Emergency Relief Administration, and executive secretary for Los Angeles County Emergency Relief Commission, Los Angeles County, 1934

Description:
Eugene M. Brown was the regional agent of the State Emergency Relief Administration for Los Angeles County, and was charged, along with several others, with conspiracy to defraud the government in 1934. He was also the executive secretary for the Los Angeles County Emergency Relief Commission. Charges were eventually dismissed.
Date:
1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Eugene M. Brown, regional agent for the State Emergency Relief Administration, and executive secretary for Los Angeles County Emergency Relief Commission, Los Angeles County, 1934

Arthur B. Dodge, art director of the Los Angeles Times, 1936

Description:
Arthur Burnside Dodge was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and his family moved to California in 1864. For ten they lived in Grass Valley, then settled in San Francisco. There he began his career as a wood engraver at age 18 and spent five years in New York City studying art. Upon returning to San Francisco, he was an illustrator for local newspapers from 1890 until 1901. He then moved to Los Angeles where he continued newspaper work. After four years at the Morning Herald, he spent 42 years as art director at the Los Angeles Times. Known as "Boss" to his friends, he died in Los Angeles in 1952.
Date:
[circa May 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Arthur B. Dodge, art director of the Los Angeles Times, 1936

Harry H. Streshly poses with an envelope addressed to Santa Claus, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
At right, Harry H. Streshler sits behind his desk and smiles to camera as he holds up an envelope addressed to Santa Claus. The envelope appears to have been rerouted back to Los Angeles. Markings on the envelope read, "Santa Claus, North Pole," "AFTER 5 DAYS, RETURN TO [...] LOS ANGELES, CALIF.," "LOS ANGELES, CALIF NOV 26 12 M 1935," and "BUY U.S. SAVINGS BONDS ASK YOUR [POSTMA]STER." H. H. Streshly rests his elbow to the his desk, which sits at left and stretches straight back. In the background, a map hangs from the wall at left and a door stretches alongside the right edge.
Date:
December 2, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Harry H. Streshly poses with an envelope addressed to Santa Claus, Los Angeles, 1935

Bill Paine, Southern California restaurateur, 1934

Description:
Portrait photograph of Wiliam E. Paine (Bill Paine) wearing a three piece suit and a textured tie. He is photographed from the chest up, leaning forward. A handkerchief is in his breast pocket, and he wears a lapel pin studded with diamonds of a crescent moon interlaced with a scimitar. The pin is a symbol of the Shriners.
Date:
1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Bill Paine, Southern California restaurateur, 1934

Charles F. Abbott of the American Institute of Steel Construction, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:
Charles F. Abbott of American Institute of Steel Construction cropped portrait. Photo appears with the article, "STRESS STEEL'S PART IN WORLD: Engineers Arrive Here for Series of Addresses Advancement of Commodity in Building Outlined Advantage of Local Product Over Foreign Shown," Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 1926: A1.
Date:
[circa March 30, 1926]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Charles F. Abbott of the American Institute of Steel Construction, Los Angeles, 1926