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Description:: Frank Uecker holds a model plane for the Times-Richfield-Jimmie Allen model building contest. He is standing in front of his house.
Date:: July 21, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This is a portrait of Cyril T. Holmes, the main witness in the prosecution of Mrs. Lois Pantages, wife of millionaire Alexander Pantages, convicted of manslaughter for the car accident that lead to the death of a Japanese man, Joe Rokumoto.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Morris sits with one hand on her forehead, holding a piece of paper in the other. She has a fur stole wrapped around her shoulders.
Date:: February, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The theme of the 1933 forty-fourth annual Rose Parade was "Fairy Tales in Flowers."
Date:: January 2, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The women stand outside, arranged in a descending line on a staircase, leaning against a railing partially covered with some vines.
Date:: January 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The theme of the 1929 fortieth annual Rose Parade was "Poems in Flowers"
Date:: January 1, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of a wooden house in damaged by the flood following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam. The house is surrounded by mud. Three men are visible on the left near the back of the house. Power utility poles on both sides of the house are still standing.
Date:: March 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:: March 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, March 18, 1932, Actor Goes to Aid of Actress, Mary Astor’s Property Release Gained. Fredric March, motion-picture actor, and attractive Mrs. Carol Gallagher yesterday went to the aid of Mary Astor, screen actress, by putting up sufficient bond before Superior Judge Smith to release property of Miss Astor held under attachment pending determination of a civil suit in which she is defendant.
Date:: March 17, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, March 6, 1934, Pair Periled in Auto Plunge, Two Escape as Lawyer’s Auto Plunges Down Hill, Attorney, Facing Investigation on Estate Funds, and Fitts’s Aide in 250-Foot Descent. Facing investigation in connection with his handling of the estate of Mrs. Mary J. Chamberlain, Lucas F. Smith, an attorney, was reported by authorities yesterday afternoon to have been in a spectacular dash of his automobile, in which a District Attorney’s investigator, Duffey Seay, was also riding, through a heavy rail on Huntley Drive and a careening trip of some 250 feet down a precipitous hill leading to Second street. Neither of the two was injured to any extent and the car remained upright …
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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