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Two boys playing with a "Tidy Tim" wind-up toy at the Children's Home Society, Los Angeles, 1935-1960

Description:
The tin toy, by Marx, is "Tidy Tim," identified by the inscription on trash bin, which also includes the inscriptions "D.S.C" and "Keep your City Spick & Span Says Tidy Tim the Clean-up Man" (seen online). Online examples of this toy are dated from 1933 into the 1950's.
Date:
[between 1935-1960]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Two boys playing with a "Tidy Tim" wind-up toy at the Children's Home Society, Los Angeles, 1935-1960

Two boys planting flower seeds at the Children's Home Society, Los Angeles, 1935-1960

Description:
The Children's Home Society of California is a non-profit child welfare agency founded in 1891. It became the first licensed child placement agency in California in 1911. It was located at 919 E. 25th St. from the 1920's up to 1942, when the organization moved to the Ozro W. Childs mansion at 3100 W. Adams Blvd. where it remained until 1977.
Date:
[between 1935-1960]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Two boys planting flower seeds at the Children's Home Society, Los Angeles, 1935-1960

Two boys making sandwiches at the Children's Home Society, Los Angeles, 1935-1960

Description:
Photograph of 2 boys seated at a table making sandwiches at the Children's Home Society. The boy on the left is opening a jar with a home-made label reading "Jam." The boy on the right holds a slice of bread lifted from a stack of bread slices on a plate on the table in front of him next to a loaf of bread and a knife. The label on the loaf of bread reads "Honey Kurl Wheat Bread," and the top of the jam jar is labeled "Kraft..."
Date:
[between 1935-1960]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Two boys making sandwiches at the Children's Home Society, Los Angeles, 1935-1960

Trays of apricots drying in the sun, Hemet

Description:
Trays of apricots drying in the sun, photographed at an orchard in Hemet. At right, workers are viewed standing near a small structure, standing over what appears to be a stack of trays. Additional stacks surround the single trays that lay on the ground along with stacks of crates. The orchard is viewed beyond the scene in the background.
Date:
[between 1930-1965]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Trays of apricots drying in the sun, Hemet

Teresa Kirbe, actress, [rephotographed], Los Angeles

Description:
This image appears to be a rephotograph of a print of Teresa Kirbe. Teresa Kirbe was an actress who played the Queen of Paflagonia, in the opera "The Rose and the Ring", as mentioned by the February 25, 1957 articles in the Los Angeles Examiner, the Los Angeles Herald and Express, and the San Diego Tribune. She wears pearl earrings, a pearl necklace, a scoop neck and a swept up hairdo.
Date:
[1950s]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Teresa Kirbe, actress, [rephotographed], Los Angeles

Teresa Kirbe, actress, Los Angeles, circa 1950-1959

Description:
This image is of Teresa Kirbe, an actress who played the Queen of Paflagonia, in the opera "The Rose and the Ring", as mentioned by the February 25, 1957 articles in the Los Angeles Examiner, the Los Angeles Herald and Express, and the San Diego Tribune. She wears pearl earrings, a pearl necklace, a scoop neck and a swept up hairdo.
Date:
[1950s]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Teresa Kirbe, actress, Los Angeles, circa 1950-1959

Teresa Kirbe, actress, Los Angeles, circa 1950-1959

Description:
This image is of Teresa Kirbe, an actress who played the Queen of Paflagonia, in the opera "The Rose and the Ring", as mentioned by the February 25, 1957 articles in the Los Angeles Examiner, the Los Angeles Herald and Express, and the San Diego Tribune. She wears pearl earrings, a pearl necklace, a polka dotted dress with a sash and scoop neck, and a swept up hairdo.
Date:
[1950s]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Teresa Kirbe, actress, Los Angeles, circa 1950-1959

Santa Monica Beach seen from Palisades Park north of Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, 1955-1965

Description:
Santa Monica Beach and Pacific Coast Highway seen from Palisades Park between Montana Avenue and Palisades Avenue. The address of the house on the right is 704 Pacific Coast Highway. The sign on the business on the left reads "Neeny's Sorrento, Neeny's Bath House."
Date:
[between 1955-1965]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Santa Monica Beach seen from Palisades Park north of Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, 1955-1965

Rapp Saloon, Santa Monica, 1950s

Description:
Photograph of the Rapp Saloon, a one-story brick structure with Italianate details and a wooden barn house door. Ornate signage marks every function the building has served: “Town Hall,” “Vitagraph Movie Studio,” “Rapp Saloon,” “Gas Light Café,” “Salvation Army”… “Holland Dutch…Repair Shop” and “City Jail.” At foreground, 1950s era cars are viewed parked along the street and in a parking lot next door. In the background, a high-rise under construction towers over the historic structure; to the right stands another Santa Monica landmark – the Georgian Hotel (1415 Ocean Avenue).
Date:
[1950s]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Rapp Saloon, Santa Monica, 1950s

Photograph of Betty Herrick with roses, 1950s

Description:
Photograph of Betty Herrick standing next to a patch of roses. She is wearing a velvet gown with a half skirt tied at the waist, and long puffed sleeves (both made of the same fabric). She holds a closed fan in one hand and caresses a rose with the other. Viewed in the background are additional garden areas, a grove of trees, and a large two-story brick building.
Date:
[1950s]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Photograph of Betty Herrick with roses, 1950s

Photograph of Betty Herrick with roses, 1950s

Description:
Photograph of Betty Herrick, wearing a velvet gown with a half-skirt tied at the waist, and long, puffed sleeves (both made of the same material). She is kneeling next to a patch of roses. Several people (possibly workers) stand in the background at right. Beyond the scene, a grove of trees are viewed in the distance.
Date:
[1950s]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Photograph of Betty Herrick with roses, 1950s