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Yucca brevifolia, Antelope Valley

Date:

[1920-1952?]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Cornell, Ralph D.

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Three matches burning beneath a box of Ohio Blue Tip Matches, 1925-1939

Description:

Photograph of 3 wooden matches with one burnt out and 2 still burning, placed below a box of Ohio Blue Tip Matches

Date:

[between 1925-1939]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Connell, Will, 1898-1961

Collection:

Connell (Will) Papers

Three matches burning beneath a box of Ohio Blue Tip Matches, 1925-1939

Description:

Photograph of 3 wooden matches with two burnt out and 1 still burning, placed below a box of Ohio Blue Tip Matches

Date:

[between 1925-1939]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Connell, Will, 1898-1961

Collection:

Connell (Will) Papers

Text for Savabrush advertisement "Savabrush Restores old Paint Brushes," 1925-1939

Description:

Text for Savabrush advertisement: "Savabrush Restores old Paint Brushes." Text combined with photograph in image ark no. 21198/zz002j90z7

Date:

[between 1925-1939]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Connell, Will, 1898-1961

Collection:

Connell (Will) Papers

Text for Savabrush advertisement "Of Course You Want To Sell new Brushes," 1925-1939

Description:

Text for Savabrush advertisement "Of Course You Want To Sell new Brushes." Text combined with photograph in image ark no. 21198/zz002j90z7.

Date:

[between 1925-1939

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Connell, Will, 1898-1961

Collection:

Connell (Will) Papers

Sign or label for film (?) by Dr. St. Louis Albert Estes, between 1928 and 1936

Description:

Dr. St. Louis Albert Estes (1876-1951) was an American doctor and the author of Raw Food and Health. He lived in Van Nuys, California in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and had 3 children with his first wife in the 1910s, 12 children with his second wife in the 1920s and 1930s.

Date:

1928 to 1936

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Ruth Iva Cornell reading with her four-year-old daugther Rosita Dee, California, 1935

Description:

Two pictures of landscape architect Ralph D. Cornell's wife, Ruth Iva, and daughter, Rosita Dee, reading together in a bedroom.

Date:

March 10, 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Cornell, Ralph D.

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Rosita Dee Cornell holding a housecat, California, 1935

Description:

Two pictures of Rosita Dee Cornell, daughter of landscape architect Ralph D. Cornell, in one she is sitting cross-legged on the floor; in the other she is holding a housecat

Date:

November 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Cornell, Ralph D.

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Ralph Bellamy, actor, seated on a chair, perhaps at home, 1932-1939

Description:

Ralph Bellamy's decades-long film career began in the early 1930's. He appeared in many films produced by Columbia Pictures, the first of which was Forbidden in 1932.

Date:

[circa 1932-1939]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Columbia Pictures stills and key books

Prickly poppies in a desert, California

Description:

Prickly poppies in a desert landscape.

Date:

[1920-1952?]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Cornell, Ralph D.

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Pierce Brothers Mortuary, Los Angeles, 1925-1939

Description:

Exterior view of the Pierce Brothers Mortuary located at 720 W. Washington with an arcaded walkway or porch at the ground level and a sign above an arch reading "Pierce Brothers Funeral Direct[..]."

Date:

[between 1925-1939]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Connell, Will, 1898-1961

Collection:

Connell (Will) Papers

Paint brush on crutches for a "Savabrush" advertisement, 1925-1939

Description:

Paint brush on crutches with "Help!" printed beneath it for a "Savabrush" advertisement.

Date:

[between 1925-1939]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Connell, Will, 1898-1961

Collection:

Connell (Will) Papers

Paint brush in an advertisement for "Savabrush," 1925-1939

Description:

Image of a paint brush on a table for an advertisement for "Savabrush" with a superimposed advertising message: "Of Course You Want To Sell new Brushes. Savabrush, Restores old Paint Brushes."

Date:

[between 1925-1939]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Connell, Will, 1898-1961

Collection:

Connell (Will) Papers

Mountain sheep

Description:

Copy print of mountain sheep on a rocky slope with mountains in the background.

Date:

[1922-1952?]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Motion picture camera on a camera dolly at Columbia Pictures Studio, Los Angeles, 1926-1939

Description:

Motion picture camera on a camera dolly at Columbia Pictures Studio. A sign on the camera reads "Studio Equipment Co. Hollywood." A sign on the dolly reads "Fox Velocilator made by Fearless Camera Co. "

Date:

[between 1926-1939]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Columbia Pictures stills and key books

Mini Academy Awards Oscar statuettes with a Columbia Pictures seal, 1935

Description:

Miniature Academy Awards issued by Columbia Pictures in 1935 when the film, It Happened One Night, became the first motion picture to win the five major Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Screenplay.

Date:

[1935]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Columbia Pictures stills and key books

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

Machinery room at Columbia Pictures Studio, Los Angeles, 1926-1939

Description:

Machinery room at Columbia Pictures Studio. A sign reads "Warning, Automatic Machine, Hands Off."

Date:

[between 1926-1939]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Columbia Pictures stills and key books

Kangaroos in the Australian bush

Description:

Photograph of an illustration featuring two sets of female kangaroos and their young in the Australian bush. Caption: “A Kangaroo can’t carry more than two…” The illustration is signed, “Kuhn.” This is probably a page from a magazine or travel brochure (the shadow of a headline can be seen printed in reverse at top).

Date:

[between 1920-1965]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966

Collection:

Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Illustration featuring the Columbia Pictures logo and other elaborate drawings, circa 1935-1938

Description:

The date of this image is based on other images related to the Academy Awards in this collection.

Date:

[circa 1935-1938]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Columbia Pictures stills and key books

Illustration featuring the Columbia Pictures logo and other elaborate drawings, circa 1935-1938

Description:

The date of this image is based on other images related to the Academy Awards in this collection.

Date:

[circa 1935-1938]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Columbia Pictures stills and key books

Henry H. Clock residence, rose garden with arbor, Long Beach, 1935

Description:

View towards arbor with two benches in rose garden

Date:

July 1, 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Henry H. Clock residence, rose garden with arbor, Long Beach, 1935

Description:

View towards arbor with two benches in rose garden

Date:

July 1, 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Henry H. Clock residence, main entrance to the house, Long Beach, 1935 or 1939

Description:

Main entrance to the house with brick path bordered by flower beds and doorway flanked by trees

Date:

1935 or 1939

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Cornell, Ralph D.

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Henry H. Clock residence, gate in rose garden, Long Beach, 1935 or 1939

Description:

View towards wall and rose garden gate, with two trees forming an arch above, and house beyond

Date:

1935 or 1939

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Grassy hillside with lupines, San Joaquin Valley, 1935

Description:

Grassy hillside with lupines in foreground, craggy rocks and cross in background

Date:

March 14, 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Cornell, Ralph D.

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Grassy hillside with lupines in foreground, craggy rocks in midground, San Joaquin Valley, 1935

Date:

March 14, 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Cornell, Ralph D.

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Grassy hillside with lupines in foreground, craggy rocks in midground, San Joaquin Valley, 1935

Date:

March 14, 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Cornell, Ralph D.

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Grassy hillside with lupines in foreground, craggy rocks in background, San Joaquin Valley, 1935

Date:

March 14, 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Cornell, Ralph D.

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Grassy hillside with lupines in foreground, craggy rocks in background, San Joaquin Valley, 1935

Date:

March 14, 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Cornell, Ralph D.

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Garden study for Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Stewart, Los Angeles

Description:

Plan is a three dimensional sketch of the garden.Arthur Chichester Stewart (possibly this Arthur C. Stewart), who died in 1998, was the senior vice president of Union Oil Co.

Date:

[1922-1944?]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Garden for Everett Swing, San Bernardino

Description:

Dates based on the time Herbert Kopp worked in Los Angeles

Date:

[1932-1942]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Garden design for the Mr. and Mrs. Byron F. Hill residence, Calif.

Description:

F.A.S.L.A. is an acronym for Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. The garden plan does not note a date or location.

Date:

[1922-1952?]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Dr. and Mrs. P. G. White residence, view towards parterre beds and lathhouse in cutting garden, Los Angeles, 1933-1938

Description:

View of the parterres and lathhouse in the cutting garden

Date:

1933-1938

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Cornell, Ralph D.

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Dr. and Mrs. P. G. White residence, view towards lathhouse in cutting garden, Los Angeles, 1933-1938

Description:

View from curved walk way towards lathhouse on the right

Date:

1933-1938

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Cornell, Ralph D.

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Dr. and Mrs. P. G. White residence, view towards lathhouse in cutting garden, Los Angeles, 1933-1938

Description:

View down the central walkway in the cutting garden, lined with trees and flower beds, towards the lathhouse

Date:

1933-1938

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Cornell, Ralph D.

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Dr. and Mrs. P. G. White residence, view towards cutting garden during construction, Los Angeles, 1933-1938

Description:

View of the wooden parterre, walkway and lathhouse frames of cutting garden during construction of the cutting garden, with man visible in the lathhouse area in the background

Date:

1933-1938

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Cornell, Ralph D.

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Dr. and Mrs. P. G. White residence, view of lathhouse in cutting garden, Los Angeles, 1933-1938

Description:

Close-up view of the lathhouse with floral ornament on the doors.

Date:

1933-1938

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Cornell, Ralph D.

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Dr. and Mrs. P. G. White residence, view of garden gate framed by arbor, Los Angeles, 1933-1938

Description:

View towards arbor-framed gate in wall of upper garden.

Date:

1933-1938

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Cornell, Ralph D.

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Dr. and Mrs. P. G. White residence, two views of the cutting garden during construction, Los Angeles, 1933-1938

Description:

Two views of the cutting garden area during site preparation with boards used as walkways placed on the ground: looking towards the house and the upper level walled garden (above) and looking away from the house (below)

Date:

1933-1938

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Cornell, Ralph D.

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Double portrait of Ruth Iva Cornell

Description:

Double portrait of Ruth Iva Cornell, wife of landscape architect Ralph D. Cornell. One of the portraits is obscured by a white rectangle, maybe a piece of tape that was stuck on the negative. Ruth is wearing a hat and not smiling in the pictures, she appears to be seated on a stool.

Date:

[1922-1942?]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Cornell, Ralph D.

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Double portrait of Ruth Iva Cornell

Description:

Double portrait of Ruth Iva Cornell, wife of landscape architect Ralph D. Cornell. In one portrait she is looking at the camera, in the other she is looking up and off into the distance. Ruth is wearing a hat and not smiling in the pictures, she appears to be seated on a stool.

Date:

[1922-1942?]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Cornell, Ralph D.

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Dickie Moore, actor, copy print signed by baseball players, circa 1932-1935

Description:

The image bears the signatures of baseball players, including Whitey Whitehead, Dizzy Dean, Joe Medwick, Pepper Martin, and Charley Gelbert.

Date:

[circa 1932-1935]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Columbia Pictures stills and key books

Cutting garden for Dr. and Mrs. P. G. White residence, Los Angeles, 1933-1938

Description:

Below the landscaping plan there is also a distant perspective view of the cutting garden. The house on the property was probably designed by the architecture firm of Webber, Stanton and Spaulding. It was constructed in 1927 by the firm Chisholm, Fortine & Meikle, Architecture, Engineering & Construction. The house was featured in Architectural Digest in 1928. The date for the cutting garden is from the nitrate negative sleeves for the photographic images.

Date:

1933-1938

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Close-up of two pine cones on a Dammar pine tree

Description:

Close-up of two cones on a Dammar pine tree

Date:

[1922-1952?]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Cornell, Ralph D.

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Chaparral growing on a desert hillside, Coachella Valley, 1935

Description:

Specimen photograph of larrea divaricata growing in Coachella Valley. Larrea divaricata is also known as chaparral. Coachella Valley is located in Riverside County and extends for approximately 45 miles.

Date:

April 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Cornell, Ralph D.

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Chaparral growing near mountains in the desert, Coachella Valley, 1935

Description:

Specimen photograph of larrea divaricata growing in Coachella Valley. Larrea divaricata is also known as chaparral. Coachella Valley is located in Riverside County and extends for approximately 45 miles.

Date:

April 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Cornell, Ralph D.

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Chaparral growing in the desert nest to a sand dune, Coachella Valley, 1935

Description:

Specimen photograph of larrea divaricata growing in Coachella Valley. Larrea divaricata is also known as chaparral. Coachella Valley is located in Riverside County and extends for approximately 45 miles.

Date:

April 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Cornell, Ralph D.

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

California Poppies blooming, Tehachapi Mountains, 1935

Description:

Specimen photograph of California poppies. The Tehachapi Mountains is a mountain range in California that extends for approximately 40 miles in southern Kern County and northeastern Los Angeles County. The California poppy (Eschscholzia californica) is a perennial and annual plant native to the United States. The plant is the official state flower of California.

Date:

March 13, 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Cornell, Ralph D.

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Brochure or advertisement describing 6-day lecture series by Dr. St. Louis Albert Estes in health efficiency and brain breathing, 1929 or 1935

Description:

Lecture dates: March 2nd to March 7th, including Sunday, March 3rd. These dates could be 1929 or 1935.

Date:

1929 or 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Brochure or advertisement describing 6-day course by Dr. St. Louis Albert Estes in helath efficiency and brain breathing, 1929 or 1935

Description:

Dr. St. Louis Albert Estes (1876-1951) was an American doctor and the author of Raw Food and Health. He lived in Van Nuys, California in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and had 3 children with his first wife in the 1910s, 12 children with his second wife in the 1920s and 1930s.

Date:

1929 or 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Blank Academy Awards certificate of merit, circa 1935-1938

Description:

The date of this image is based on other images related to the Academy Awards in this collection.

Date:

[circa 1935-1938]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Columbia Pictures stills and key books

Barton Hepburn residence, patio, Beverly Hills, 1935

Description:

Barton Hepburn (1906-1955) was an actor and also the grandson of Alonzo Barton Hepburn, founder of the Chase National Bank of New York

Date:

1935

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Cornell, Ralph D.

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Barton Hepburn residence, patio and house, Beverly Hills, 1935

Description:

Barton Hepburn (1906-1955) was an actor and also the grandson of Alonzo Barton Hepburn, founder of the Chase National Bank of New York

Date:

1935

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Cornell, Ralph D.

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Architectural movie set at Columbia Pictures Studio, Los Angeles, 1926-1939

Description:

Architectural movie set with 2 men conferring, a motion picture camera and other filming equipment at Columbia Pictures Studio. A sign on a kiosk reads "Stop For Inspection By Order Of Warden."

Date:

[between 1926-1939]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Columbia Pictures stills and key books

Allin L. Rhodes residence, view of front of house, 1935

Date:

August 12, 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Cornell, Ralph D.

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Allin L. Rhodes residence, view of front of house, 1935

Date:

August 12, 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Cornell, Ralph D.

Collection:

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Advertisement poster for Fitzgerald's by Jacob Asanger, 1930-1941

Description:

Jacob Asanger immigrated to the United States from Bavaria in the late 1800's and settled in Los Angeles. He studied at the Los Angeles School of Art and Design and became a landscape painter, poster artist, etcher, craftsman and art teacher.

Date:

[between 1930-1941]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Connell, Will, 1898-1961

Collection:

Connell (Will) Papers

Advertisement photograph with "Ghirardelli's Coatings" spelled with chocolate bon-bons

Description:

Advertisement photograph with "Ghirardelli's Coatings" spelled with chocolate bonbons.

Date:

[between 1925-1939]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Connell, Will, 1898-1961

Collection:

Connell (Will) Papers

Advertisement for Hydro-Pura laundry soap, 1925-1939

Description:

Advertisement for Hydro-Pura laundry soap in the form of a bird's-eye view of a box of Hydro-Pura laundry soap and water softener with a lightening banner in front with the text "Down Goes The Price."

Date:

[between 1925-1939]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Connell, Will, 1898-1961

Collection:

Connell (Will) Papers

Advertisement for Ghirardelli chocolate bars

Description:

Advertisement for Ghirardelli chocolate bars. Three chocolate bars appear to float one above the other in the foreground; "Ghirardelli's" and the profile of a baker in a chef's hat and holding a baker's peel appear as shadows in the background. "Ghirardelli Since 1852" is embossed ion the top chocolate bar.

Date:

[between 1925-1939]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Connell, Will, 1898-1961

Collection:

Connell (Will) Papers

Advertisement for Ghirardelli chocolate bars

Description:

Advertisement photograph for Ghirardelli chocolate bars with a chocolate bar in the foreground, and with "Ghirardelli's" and the profile of a baker in a chef's hat and holding a baker's peel appearing as shadows in the background. In addition, "Ghirardelli's" appears in bold black letters applied to a plate of glass -- used to create the shadow. "Ghirardelli Since 1852" is embossed ion the top chocolate bar.

Date:

[between 1925-1939]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

Connell, Will, 1898-1961

Collection:

Connell (Will) Papers

Academy Award report for the awards for scientific or technical achievement, 1935

Description:

The seventh Academy Awards were held in the Biltmore Bowl of the Biltmore Hotel on February 27, 1935.

Date:

[1935]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Columbia Pictures stills and key books

Academy Award report for the awards for scientific or technical achievement, 1935

Description:

The seventh Academy Awards were held in the Biltmore Bowl of the Biltmore Hotel on February 27, 1935.

Date:

[1935]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Columbia Pictures stills and key books

Academy Award certificate of merit for Best Scoring for One Night of Love, 1935

Description:

The seventh Academy Awards were held in the Biltmore Bowl of the Biltmore Hotel on February 27, 1935.

Date:

[1935]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Columbia Pictures stills and key books

Academy Award certificate of merit for Best Scoring for One Night of Love, 1935

Description:

The seventh Academy Awards were held in the Biltmore Bowl of the Biltmore Hotel on February 27, 1935.

Date:

[1935]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Columbia Pictures stills and key books