Most likely related to the yearly mud battle between first and second year students and the first time female students took part. Students unknown. LAJC is now known as Los Angeles City College located near Vermont and Santa Monica Blvd.
A $50,000 Derby day at the Santa Anita racetrack on February 22, 1937. The crowd in attendance was estimated at 45,000 spectators. Twenty-three horses raced that day, beating out the Kentucky Derby's record of twenty-two starting horses at that time. The $50,000 purse was won by the horse Fairy Hill.
The children of William F. Gettle, millionaire and kidnapping victim, posing on tricycles for a photograph after their father's safe return. Circa May 15, 1934.William F. Gettle, Beverly Hills millionaire, was kidnapped from the grounds of his Arcadia ranch home during a housewarming party on the eve of May 9th. The kidnapping attracted a great deal of attention in the community, with Mrs. Gettle even addressing the kidnappers through the pages of the Los Angeles Times. The kidnappers demanded a $60,000 ransom for the return of Gettle, which Mrs. Gettle agreed to pay. However, before the ransom was paid, two detectives of the LAPD, Chester Burris and H.P. Gearhardt, broke the case after installing a dictaphone in the home of a bank robbery suspect. Information from the dictaphone led them to a La Crescenta home where Gettle was held. He was returned, unharmed, to his family on the eve of May 14th.
A man surveys the newspapers available for reading at an open-air public library in Pershing Square, downtown Los Angeles. The Pershing Square outdoor library was opened in December of 1936, and was staffed by W.P.A. workers. Visitors to the library could choose to borrow a book by simply leaving their name. The library was quite popular, circulating 24,000 books in its first six months of operation, and spawning other outdoor libraries in Los Angeles.
3 boys, identified as Jackie Stone, Raymond Robinson, and possibly Max Tyler, with helmets, brooms, and flag, standing in dusty yard with fence in background
Wooden tree house with balcony, windows, and stairs to roof, built in eucalyptus tree, with two children standing below. Floor of tree house is higher than roof of house in background.
Mrs. Jack Pfister, hand on cluster of dates, and A. Boyd Mewborn, holding wooden box, standing near date palm with clusters of dates draped in cloth, stack of boxes at their feet reading Property of Deglet Noor Date Growers Assn., Indio, Calif.
View through stone archway of woman, sidesaddle, and man on horseback, woman standing, all in Spanish-style dress, near pueblo-style wall with rough wooden supports and director's chair
Double image. Top: Claudine, Claudette, and Angella Mawby, about age 8 or 9, lying in sand, in bathing suits and caps, with teddy bears on each side and fence in background. Bottom: Claudine, Claudette, and Angella Mawby, about age 8 or 9, playing on toy pirate ship decorated with flag, parrot, and monkeys, in fur-trimmed dresses, caps, and white gloves, with backdrop decorated with ocean and birds
Woman in dark dress, standing, pointing, and girl in light skirt and blouse and knit cap, seated on edge of path, overlooking lake with miniature Pagoda of Nara on small island, with foliage and other people on path in background
4 young women in bathing suits on dock, 3 standing holding canoe paddles, 1 seated on paddle handle waving, with lake, canoes, and lakeshore with trees in background
Girl, about 6 years old, seated on tree stump in water at edge of lake, with shore in left foreground, toy sailing ship floating nearby, wire fox terrier with front paws on stump, and lakeshore with trees in background
Interior view of large room with brocade couches and chairs, Italianate ceiling with decorated beams and panels, chandeliers, paintings, Oriental rugs, statue of woman and horse on table, and fireplace below large mounted elk head
Page 2 of an undated, handwritten 3-page letter of apology to Dr. Leonard Siever from Peg. The letter is written on the stationary of the El Mirador Hotel in Palm Springs
Prince Kaya of Japan, center, with (front row l-r) Frank Shaw (Mayor of Los Angeles); Harry L. Harper (President of the Chamber of Commerce); (back row l-r) Col. Senichi Kushibuchi (aide to the Prince); and Tomokazu Hori (Japanese consul of Southern California) at a luncheon at the Biltmore Hotel hosted by the city and the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. The flags of the United States and Japan are on the wall behind the group.