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Interior view of The Bachelors haberdashery designed by Julius Ralph Davidson, Los Angeles, circa 1929

Description:
Overhead view of The Bachelors haberdashery from the back of the shop, designed by Julius Ralph Davidson in an art deco style "featuring panels of Makassar ebony set into aluminum frames, brown and tan carpeting laid in strips..." (Christopher Long, "The Rise of California Modern Design, 1930-41." in ed. Wendy Kaplan, California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way (2012), 65.
Date:
[cira 1929]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:
Connell (Will) Papers
Interior view of The Bachelors haberdashery designed by Julius Ralph Davidson, Los Angeles, circa 1929

Travel flask set and travel diary at the Brock & Company jewelry and gift store, Los Angeles, 1930

Description:
Brock & Company Jewelers was the most important jewelry and giftware store in Los Angeles. Founded by George A. Brock in 1903, it was sold in 1964 and the business ended s few years later. It was located at 515 West Seventh St. and had a 2nd location at the Beverly-Wilshire Hotel.
Date:
1930
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:
Connell (Will) Papers
Travel flask set and travel diary at the Brock & Company jewelry and gift store, Los Angeles, 1930

Interior view of The Bachelors haberdashery designed by Julius Ralph Davidson, Los Angeles, circa 1929

Description:
Detail view of art deco cabinet with wood paneling and aluminum strips in The Bachelors haberdashery, designed by Julius Ralph Davidson. Men's brief cases and satchels are on top of the cabinet and a cactus (?) in a pot stands next to the cabinet, in front of venetian blinds functioning as a room divider. The carpeting is composed of brown and tan strips.
Date:
[circa 1929]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:
Connell (Will) Papers
Interior view of The Bachelors haberdashery designed by Julius Ralph Davidson, Los Angeles, circa 1929

Early watercolor version of "Apparition over Los Angeles," (painted in 1931), by Barse Miller, 1931-1939

Description:
“Apparition over Los Angeles,” (1932) presents Sister Aimee McPherson, founder of the Four-Square Church in Echo Park, Los Angeles, in the sky flanked by her mother, also nude, and her husband, above angels wearing high hats, with the Angelus Temple in Echo Park below.
Date:
[between 1931-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:
Connell (Will) Papers
Early watercolor version of "Apparition over Los Angeles," (painted in 1931), by Barse Miller, 1931-1939

Stanley Reckless seated in the studio of his Silver Lake home, Los Angeles, 1930-1939

Description:
Stanley Reckless was born Stanley Zbytniewski. In 1913 he enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), studied under Daniel Garber. In 1915, 1916 he was awarded 2 Cresson Traveling Scholarships, and traveled to Paris, enrolling briefly at the Academie Julian. In 1920 he moved to Lumberville, Pennsylvania and started exhibiting at PAFA, the National Academy of Design, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. In 1924 he settled in New Hope, Pennsylvania, where he painted the landscape and shared a studio with Charles Hargens. In 1930 he moved to California where he painted portraits of members of the film industry. He co-founded the Art Center School in Los Angeles.
Date:
[between 1930-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:
Connell (Will) Papers
Stanley Reckless seated in the studio of his Silver Lake home, Los Angeles, 1930-1939

Stanley Reckless seated in the studio of his Silver Lake home, Los Angeles, 1930-1939

Description:
Photographic portrait of artist Stanley Reckless seated in his studio wearing light-colored trousers, a white shirt and light-colored tie, and holding a drink and a cigarette. Visible behind him are 3 paintings on the wall, and the backs of 2 paintings leaning against the wall.
Date:
[between 1930-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:
Connell (Will) Papers
Stanley Reckless seated in the studio of his Silver Lake home, Los Angeles, 1930-1939

"Apparition over Los Angeles," (1932), by Barse Miller

Description:
“Apparition over Los Angeles,” (1932) presents Sister Aimee McPherson, founder of the Four-Square Church in Echo Park, Los Angeles, nude in the sky flanked by her mother, also nude, and her husband, above angels, one in a high hat presiding over money-bag shaped clouds, with the Angelus Temple in Echo Park below. The painting is in a frame.
Date:
[between 1932-1960]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:
Connell (Will) Papers
"Apparition over Los Angeles," (1932), by Barse Miller

Carlos Vierra working on a painting in his studio, Santa Fe, 1932

Description:
Carlos Vierra (1876 – 1937) studied at the Mark Hopkins Institute (now part of the San Francisco Art Institute) under Gottardo Piazzoni in the 1890s, and also studied illustration in New York. He was the first resident artist in New Mexico and one of the first 3 members of the Santa Fe Art Colony. He was a strong advocate for preserving landmark buildings in New Mexico and promoted a modern architectural style now called the Pueblo Revival Style architecture that reflects this historic architectural heritage.
Date:
1932
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:
Connell (Will) Papers
Carlos Vierra working on a painting in his studio, Santa Fe, 1932

Will Harrison and his wife Evelyn Harrison (probably) in a comic pose with another man behind the curtain holding a rifle, Santa Fe (probably), 1930-1948

Description:
Comical photograph of Will Harrison seated in a wicker chair with a dog in his lap and with his wife, Evelyn (probably) standing next to him with studding in her dress, and another man behind the drape holding a rifle.
Date:
[between 1930-1948]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:
Connell (Will) Papers
Will Harrison and his wife Evelyn Harrison (probably) in a comic pose with another man behind the curtain holding a rifle, Santa Fe (probably), 1930-1948

Walter Willard "Spud" Johnson standing next to a Pueblo Revival building, Santa Fe or Taos, 1932

Description:
Walter Willard "Spud" Johnson was a poet and author of literary criticism, editorial comments and other prose who lived in New Mexico from 1922 to his death in 1968 and who was a major part of the new Mexico literary scene. He was also the publisher of Laughing Horse literary magazine, printed on a small hand press, which he started with others while a student at UC Berkeley and continued in New Mexico. In 1953 he took up painting and drawing as well.
Date:
1932
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:
Connell (Will) Papers
Walter Willard "Spud" Johnson standing next to a Pueblo Revival building, Santa Fe or Taos, 1932

Materials on a table used to create a photographic advertisement for Ghirardelli chocolate bonbons

Description:
View of the materials on a table used to create a photographic advertisement for Ghirardelli chocolates: chocolate bon-bons on a wooden board and materials used to create the backdrop. The backdrop with the word "uniform" and the line of profile women making chocolates is created using 2 props: a line of women in profile cut out of a piece of paper and the work "Uniform" created with letters applied to a plate of glass. Both items are arranged so that they create a gray shadow of a piece of paper when illuminated. The wooden handle of a tool (hammer?) and 2 small boxes of photographic supplies are in the foreground. The finished result is visible in image ark no. 21198/zz002j907c .
Date:
[between 1925-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:
Connell (Will) Papers
Materials on a table used to create a photographic advertisement for Ghirardelli chocolate bonbons

F. E. Olds cornet, Los Angeles, 1933 to 1939

Description:
F. E. Olds was a manufacturer of musical instruments founded by Frank Ellsworth Olds in Los Angeles, in the early 1900s. The company made brass instruments, especially trombones, cornets, and trumpets. Olds was joined by his son Reginald Birdsall (R.B.) Olds in 1920. The company was purchased by Chicago Musical Instruments after World War II, and went out of business in 1979. [
Date:
[between 1933 to 1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:
Connell (Will) Papers
F. E. Olds cornet, Los Angeles, 1933 to 1939