Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Language: No linguistic content / Resource Type: still image / Location: California, Southern / Collection: OpenUCLA Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Construction for the Colorado River Aqueduct began in 1933 and ended in 1935, overseen by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. Water first flowed through the completed aqueduct in 1939.
Date:: [between 1933 and 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Photograph of Theodore Roosevelt School with earthquake damage visible in the 2nd story of the projecting centerpiece, with the rubble in a heap on the ground in front of the arched double doorway.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: At center, runaway Beulah Sizemore sleeps. She lies face down in a bed. To the right of her, another unidentified child sleeps.
Date:: [circa August - September, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: At center, runaway John Sizemore, Jr. sleeps. He is viewed close-up as he lies, face-up, in a bed. To the left of him, another unidentified child sleeps.
Date:: [circa August - September, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: This photograph appears in "What Became of the 20-Mule Freighters?" Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct 1935: H16.
Date:: [circa October 13, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: A scenic shot taken in the desert of jutting rocks surrounded by greenery.
Date:: [between 1930-1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Seven visible girls and two priests ride a float draped with light colored fabric, fabric swags and flowers, riding on a street with parade onlookers.
Date:: circa March 1, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: At left, Major Eldo A. Peterman stands on the wing of an airplane. He stands with his back to camera and faces right. The Major also wears his flying uniform, including a parachute which hangs down his back. To the right of him, Captain George C. Sherwood sits in the cockpit of the same plane. He smiles as he looks towards Major Peterman. The plane is viewed close-up and from its side; it faces towards the left. Along the side of the plane, the number 4 is painted as is a silhouetted image of the California bear. The plane appears to sit within a hangar; the pilots' shadows cast onto a ceiling visible in the distance.
Date:: [between July-September 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Possibly related to the dedication of the new church of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Calexico. Reported in "Catholics set for dedication," Los Angeles Times, 26 March 1939: B14.
Date:: circa March 1, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Seated at a table on a lawn are, from left, Emily von Romberg (later Tremaine) with James Ross Clark II and his wife Barbara Clark (formerly actress Barbara Fritchie). Three men in white jackets beneath umbrellas are visible in the background.
Date:: circa August 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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