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Peggy Hamilton, Clara Schofield, Burr McIntosh and ten Navy admirals at the Breakfast Club, Los Angeles, 1932

Description:
Peggy Hamilton, as Hostess of Los Angeles County, with ten admirals and others at the Los Angeles Breakfast Club for a pre-Fourth of July appreciation of the Navy. In front of the group is a sawhorse mascot of the Breakfast Club with a horse's head and tail, labeled "HAM." In the photograph are: Rear-Admiral Bloch, Burr McIntosh, Rear-Admiral Taussig, Rear-Admiral Fenner, Rear-Admiral Marshall, Rear-Admiral Cluverius, Vice-Admiral Standley, Mrs. Schofield, Admiral Schofield, Vice-Admiral McNance, Peggy Hamilton, Vice-Admiral Clark and Rear-Admiral Sellers (this order, from the newspaper caption, is probably not entirely accurate). The Los Angeles Breakfast Club was located at 3213 Riverside Drive in 1932.
Date:
June 29, 1932
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers
Peggy Hamilton, Clara Schofield, Burr McIntosh and ten Navy admirals at the Breakfast Club, Los Angeles, 1932

Cameraman Frank Goodliffe and Margaret Rotha on the Acropolis during the filming of Contact, Athens, 1933

Description:
Photograph of cameraman Frank Goodliffe and Margaret Rotha, wife of filmmaker Paul Rotha, standing behind a Parvo ("Debrie") motion picture camera on a tripod during the filming of "Contact." On a block of stone on the left is a Newman-Sinclair motion picture camera. On the ground in front of Goodliffe is a bottle of wine, two wine glasses and a paper bag.
Date:
January 1933
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980
Cameraman Frank Goodliffe and Margaret Rotha on the Acropolis during the filming of Contact, Athens, 1933

Group portrait of employees of Shell and Imperial Airways next to Shell fuel tanks at a desert runway, Aswān (vicinity) Egypt, 1933

Description:
“Contact" (1933) is a documentary film by Paul Rotha. Made for Imperial Airways and sponsored by Shell-Mex and BP Ltd, "Contact" shows the construction of an airplane and how air travel was opening up the world. It was filmed in England and along air routes in the Middle East, Africa and Athens.
Date:
January 1933
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980
Group portrait of employees of Shell and Imperial Airways next to Shell fuel tanks at a desert runway, Aswān (vicinity) Egypt, 1933

Portrait Iraqi of men and children, Baghdad, 1932

Description:
"Contact" (1933) is a documentary film by Paul Rotha. Made for Imperial Airways and sponsored by Shell-Mex and BP Ltd, "Contact" shows the construction of an airplane and how air travel was opening up the world. It was filmed in England and along air routes in the Middle East, Africa and Athens.
Date:
November 1932-December 1932
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980
Portrait Iraqi of men and children, Baghdad, 1932

Opera singers from a production of Faust, Santa Monica, 1960

Description:
This image is of a opera singers posing as their characters in the opera Faust. They are dressed in their costumes. The singer playing the character Gretchen, turns towards the camera with her hands clasped. Behind her, the singer playing Mephistopheles stands with one hand drawn to his chest, the other at his side.
Date:
[circa May 30, 1960]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Opera singers from a production of Faust, Santa Monica, 1960

Virginia Pizzini (Miss Venice), Eugene Biscailuz, and crowd, Venice, 1929

Description:
Virginia Pizzini, Miss Venice 1929, with Los Angeles County Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz and many others, most with hands and hats raised. Group is posing on a Venice street with a firefighters' life net, set vertically, on which is drawn a U.S. map, printed with "Miss So. California invites all Elkdom to Los Angeles in 1929."
Date:
1929
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Virginia Pizzini (Miss Venice), Eugene Biscailuz, and crowd, Venice, 1929

Dinner party at the Casa Del Mar Hotel, Santa Monica, 1934

Description:
A dinner party is seated at a long table, with the seating arrangement appearing to vary every other person by gender. The table has a coffee service and long taper candles on it. In the background a waiter in a white jacket can be seen. Possible attendees of the party include the names listed in the caption text.
Date:
May 19, 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Dinner party at the Casa Del Mar Hotel, Santa Monica, 1934