Genre: black-and-white photographs and acetate film / Resource Type: still image / Subject: Entertainment and Events - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Color guard in jackets, ties, striped trousers, and military hats, carrying American and British flags, with crowd on sidewalk and two-story building reading Hitchcock Building in background
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: View from grandstand of uniformed band on fenced track, horseback riders on track and in infield area, with audience in foreground, mountains in background
Date:: March 17, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: A long row of men on horseback face the Desert Circus Rodeo audience in the grandstands (not visible, on the left) with two riders placed in front of them. The riders wear hats and are dressed in formal riding attire, with the exception of the rider in the front who wears a shiny silk shirt and a cowboy hat.
Date:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Actor playing the role of Adolf Hitler standing in front of three large loud speakers on a stand and next to the horse arena fence, and giving the Hitler salute at the Palm Springs Field Club during the Desert Circus Rodeo
Date:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Float depicting Ocean Park amusement rides, with about 10 riders, including about 8 children, visible, with crowd, trees, and houses in background. The float was entered by the city of Santa Monica.
Date:: January 1, 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Race car driver Bob Burman, in vest and tie, at wheel of Blitzen Benz race car, with cars and horse and cart in background
Date:: 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Two cars, marked 1 and 2, in cloud of dust, with four men in foreground, crowd in grandstand in background. Two men in car #1 are in helmets, goggles, and shirts reading Isotta Fraschini. Man or men in car #2 are obscured by dust.
Date:: 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Two race cars in motion, marked 9 and Stutz 3, each with 2 men in helmets and goggles, with crowd in flag-decorated grandstand in background
Date:: 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Race car in motion, with 2 men, with wall and 1 spectator in background
Date:: 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Two women and one man on horseback, wearing silk shirts and cowboy hats at the Desert Circus Rodeo. Four riders are visible behind them
Date:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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