Genre: black-and-white photographs / Location: California--Los Angeles / Collection: Connell (Will) Papers - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Close-up view of gas regulator equipment manufactured by the Wilgus Manufacturing Company, illuminated from both sides creating 2 shadows on the table. The parts are metal-cast with embedded inscriptions identifying the company and, on some, the part number, for example: “Wilgus Mfg. Co. 972." The location might be the Wilgus Manufacturing plant located at 1722 East Sixteenth Street from 1921 to at least 1944.
Date:: [circa 1931]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Description:: This photograph appears on page 24 of a catalog of the Chicago Musical Instrument Co. which is dated to 1933 or later (because it contains a reference to Radio City Music Hall which opened in December 1932).
Date:: [between 1933 to 1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Description:: Photograph of an ornate Arrowhead 5 gallon bottle (demijohn) with the diamond-shaped arrow logo embossed over the entire surface of the bottle (over 400 arrowheads) and a paper label. The bottle is set on a stoneware water cooler with "Arrowhead" incised (bottom center) in it.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Description:: This photograph appears on page 24 of a catalog of the Chicago Musical Instrument Co. which is dated to 1933 or later (because it contains a reference to Radio City Music Hall which opened in December 1932).
Date:: [between 1933 to 1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Description:: This photograph appears on page 24 of a catalog of the Chicago Musical Instrument Co. which is dated to 1933 or later (because it contains a reference to Radio City Music Hall which opened in December 1932).
Date:: [between 1933 to 1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Description:: Array of soda siphon (syphon) bottles, or seltzer bottles, with nozzle tops in wooden crates, probably at the Arrowhead-Puritas bottling plant that appears in the upper left corner of the image. Connell has replaced the background with white along the right side of the image.
Date:: [between 1929-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Description:: In 1917, the Arrowhead Spring Company moved its bottling plant to Los Angeles. In 1929 it merged with the company that marketed Puritas water.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Description:: Advertisement photograph of a little girl in a floral dress drinking a glass of water, standing in front of a stoneware Arrowhead water cooler. The dispenser has the Arrowhead-shaped logo in 2 places.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

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