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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 Ina Branson and Helen Seelye, witnesses at Hickman kidnapping case, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:
This is a portrait of Ina Branson and Helen Seelye, both of whom testified at the William E. Hickman kidnapping trial in 1928. Both Western Union employees, Helen Seelye identified one of the two telegrams sent to Marion Parker's father; and Ina Branson identified Hickman as the man who sent the kidnap telegrams.
Date:
1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Portrait of Ina Branson and Helen Seelye, witnesses at Hickman kidnapping case, Los Angeles, 1928

Portrait of Estelle De Broglie, United States (?), circa 1926

Description:
Estelle Alexander, an American from San Francisco, married French aristocrat François Marie Constant Amédée Robert de Broglie (known as Prince Robert de Broglie) in the early 1900s, after which she was known as (Princess) Estelle de Broglie. They had a daughter, Jassemonde Estelle Siglinde de Broglie. According to newspaper accounts, they gave concerts, with Estelle, a soprano, singing, and Robert conducting the orchestra. The marriage was eventually annulled. Estelle continued to live in France and visited the United States in 1929 intending to regain U.S. citizenship. She died at Auschwitz in 1944, and is identified as "Estelle Alexander 1872" on the Mémorial de la Shoah (Shoah Memorial) in Paris. In documents, her name is sometimes given as Estella Dolores Alexander. Photo appears with the article: "CHIEF ATTRACTION FAILS TO APPEAR: PRINCESS SIDESTEPS ON SHOW Mrs. Astor Has to Put on Fashion Event Without Piece de Resistance," Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 1929: 3. In an earlier article: "PRINCE BUILDS TIMEPIECES: Scion of French Nobility, Visiting Here, Heads Works for Manufacturing Electric Clocks," Los Angeles Times, 27 May 1926: A8, this photograph is mis-identified as the wife of Robert de Broglie's brother, Jacques de Broglie.
Date:
circa 1926
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Portrait of Estelle De Broglie, United States (?), circa 1926

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

Pi Sigma Alpha Honorary Society page in the El Rodeo yearbook, 1930

Description:
Edwin Lucius Jefferson was a 1931 graduate of the University of Southern California Law School. He was the first African American judge west of the Mississippi when he was appointed to the L.A. Municipal Court in 1941, and the first African American Justice for the California 2nd Appellate Court of Appeals. Jefferson was a civic leader, who in 1943 served on a committee to improve the housing situation for minorities in Los Angeles.
Date:
[1930]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Pi Sigma Alpha Honorary Society page in the El Rodeo yearbook, 1930

Photographer Adelbert Bartlett, Los Angeles, circa 1927

Description:
Bartlett's photographic excursions and general impact on the field are reported in "Camera Folk Exhibit Work: Southland Club Shows Art in Annual Display," Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 1925: B21; "Photographers Honored," Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 1927: B2; "Olive Hills' Owner Goes into Greece: Miss Aline Barnsdall to Study Ancient Theaters and Build Replica Here," Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 1927: A11; and "Calls Greece Old-World California: Globe-Trotting Photographer Describes Country," Los Angeles Times, 26 Jun. 1927: G6.
Date:
[between 1925-1927]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Photographer Adelbert Bartlett, Los Angeles, circa 1927

PFC Jackie Foreman stands outside of Clifton's [Pacific Seas] Cafeteria, Los Angeles, 1943

Description:
Photograph of PFC Jackie Foreman standing and posing outside Clifton's Cafeteria (Pacific Seas) on South Olive Street (no longer standing). Jackie Foreman stands in the foreground, left-of-center. He is dressed in uniform and looks to the camera. In his hands his holds a rolled up magazine (TIME?) and a camera. Directly behind him, a lamppost stands and extends beyond the top frame. The sidewalk extends behind him at center and right, narrowing as it approaches the horizon. People walk and sit along the sidewalk at right. Hovering over the sidewalk is the marquis for Clifton's Cafeteria. The neon lit underside is in full view and is decorated in a flower and vine pattern. A terrazzo-like inlay decorates the sidewalk beneath the marquis. South Olive Street stretches into the distance along the left frame. A couple of cars are parked along the curb behind and to the left of Jackie; they face away from the camera. Tall buildings in the far distance line the opposite side of the street.
Date:
September, 1943
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
PFC Jackie Foreman stands outside of Clifton's [Pacific Seas] Cafeteria, Los Angeles, 1943

P.F.C. H. H. West, Jr. stands outside the West's residence while visiting on a 3-day pass, Los Angeles, 1944

Description:
Photograph of H. H. West, Jr. standing in front of the West's residence on North Ridgewood Place. H. H. West, Jr. stands, left-of-center, and looks to the camera as he rests his hands behind his back. He is dressed in his military uniform. Behind him at right, the front porch of the dwelling stands in partial view. A short set of steps lead up to the arched entry to the porch. Directly behind H. H., Jr., the building extends towards the left. A walkway extends on a diagonal to the left beneath and behind H. H., Jr. A neighboring house stands in the background at left.
Date:
August 10, 1944
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
P.F.C. H. H. West, Jr. stands outside the West's residence while visiting on a 3-day pass, Los Angeles, 1944

PFC H. H. West, Jr. stands in the snow near camp, Attu Island, 1944

Description:
Photograph of H. H. West, Jr. taking a break while standing in the snow at camp on Attu Island. H. H. West, Jr. stands in the snow at center and dons goggles that sit atop his head. He gazes off towards the left. H. H., Jr. holds a cigarette in one hand and rests his other hand in his pocket. The snowy landscape stretches into the distance. A building in the near distance enters frame at left. Another structure stands in the distance to the right of H. H., Jr. Snow-covered mountains rise in the background.
Date:
April, 1944
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
PFC H. H. West, Jr. stands in the snow near camp, Attu Island, 1944

PFC H. H. West, Jr. stands in front of H. H. West's residence, Los Angeles, 1944

Description:
Photograph of Henry H. West, Jr. posing in front the West's residence while home for Christmas. The front lawn stretches across the bottom edge in the foreground. H. H. West, Jr. stands, left-of-center, on a concrete walkway that runs through the image horizontally. He dons his military uniform and rests his arms behind his back as he looks to the camera. Immediately behind him, shrubbery and small trees grow in front of the West's building, extending towards the right. The building is viewed close-up. A window is inset behind and to the right of H. H., Jr. To the left of him, the porch juts out to the left and a cut-out, arched window is inset on the side of the porch.
Date:
[circa December 25, 1944]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
PFC H. H. West, Jr. stands in front of H. H. West's residence, Los Angeles, 1944

PFC H. H. West, Jr. sits behind a desk while stationed at Dutch Harbor, Dutch Harbor, 1943

Description:
Photograph of PFC H. H. West, Jr. sitting behind a desk while stationed in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. A desk spans the foreground. Beyond the desk, H. H. West, Jr. sits, right-of-center. He is viewed from the torso up and faces towards the left. Walls occupy the background with a corner of the room stretching vertically behind H. H. at right.
Date:
May, 1943
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
PFC H. H. West, Jr. sits behind a desk while stationed at Dutch Harbor, Dutch Harbor, 1943

PFC H. H. West, Jr. poses with halibut, Aleutian Islands, 1943

Description:
Close-up photograph of PFC Henry H. West, Jr. posing with halibut on an Alaskan shoreline while stationed in the Aleutian Islands. Henry H. West, Jr. stands at center and looks to the camera. At left, he holds up a halibut and in the other hand he simultaneously holds a soda bottle and a fishing rod. A sandy shore stretches horizontally behind him. Beyond the shore, a body of water stretches into the distance. Mountains rise in the far distance at right.
Date:
July 14, 1943
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
PFC H. H. West, Jr. poses with halibut, Aleutian Islands, 1943

PFC H. H. West, Jr. poses while eating near the shoreline, Aleutian Islands, 1943

Description:
Close-up photograph of PFC Henry H. West, Jr. posing on an Alaskan shoreline while stationed in the Aleutian Islands. Henry H. West, Jr. stands at center, facing slightly left, and gazes past the camera. In one hand he holds a soda bottle and in the other he holds what looks like either a piece of bread or an apple. A sandy shore stretches horizontally behind him. Beyond the shore, a body of water stretches into the distance.
Date:
July 14, 1943
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
PFC H. H. West, Jr. poses while eating near the shoreline, Aleutian Islands, 1943

P.F.C. H. H. West, Jr. poses outside the West's residence while visiting on a 3-day pass, Los Angeles, 1944

Description:
A slightly out-of-focus photograph of H. H. West, Jr. standing in front of the West's residence on North Ridgewood Place. H. H. West, Jr. stands, left-of-center, and looks to the camera as he rests his hands behind his back. He is dressed in his military uniform. Behind him at right, the front porch of the dwelling stands in partial view. A short set of steps lead up to the arched entry to the porch. Directly behind H. H., Jr., the building extends towards the left. A walkway extends on a diagonal to the left beneath and behind H. H., Jr. A neighboring house stands in the background at left.
Date:
August 10, 1944
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
P.F.C. H. H. West, Jr. poses outside the West's residence while visiting on a 3-day pass, Los Angeles, 1944

P.F.C. H. H. West, Jr. poses outside the West's new residence, Los Angeles, 1944

Description:
Photograph of H. H. West, Jr. posing on the front walkway of the West's new residence on North Ridgewood Place. A concrete walkway extends at an angle from the lower right and up towards the left. H. H. West, Jr. stands in the near distance at center, along the walkway. He faces slightly left and turns his head to look towards the camera. H. H. West, Jr. just arrived in Los Angeles from the Aleutian Islands. He is dressed in his military uniform. Behind him at right, a low set of wide steps leads up to a porch that juts out from the front of the building. An arch arcs over the front steps. It is flanked by a cut-out window on the left. A large shrub stands behind H. H., Jr. and in front of the building. In the background at left, a neighboring house stands in partial view; it is viewed from the side.
Date:
May, 1944
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
P.F.C. H. H. West, Jr. poses outside the West's new residence, Los Angeles, 1944

PFC H. H. West, Jr. poses on the walkway in front of H. H. West's residence, Los Angeles, 1944

Description:
Photograph of Henry H. West, Jr. posing in front the West's residence while home for Christmas. H. H. West, Jr. stands at center on a walkway in the near distance. The walkway enters frame from the lower right corner and stretches on an upward angle to the left. He stands at the edge of the walkway and faces slightly left while looking to the camera. H. H., Jr. wears his military uniform. Behind him and to the right of the walkway, trees and shrubbery stand, slightly obscuring the porch. Beyond the shrubbery, the front porch of the West's residence juts out from the right and towards the left. A cut-out, arched window sits on the side of the porch at right. An archway on the front of the porch stands behind H. H., Jr. Beyond the porch, a neighboring house stands in the distance, facing to the left.
Date:
[circa December 25, 1944]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
PFC H. H. West, Jr. poses on the walkway in front of H. H. West's residence, Los Angeles, 1944