Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Language: No linguistic content / Subject: Lawyers--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

A. B. Murchison testifies during Aimee Semple McPherson's preliminary hearing, Los Angeles, circa 1926

Description:: At center, A. B. Murchison sits on the witness stand during the preliminary trial regarding Aimee Semple McPherson's disappearance. He sits facing towards the right and looks at a map unfolded in front of him. Two lawyers stand to the left of the witness box. Behind and to the right of Murchison, Judge Blake sits up at the bench and looks down towards the witness. In the foreground at right, a few lawyers sit at the counsel's table.
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

A. Brigham Rose, William G. Bonelli, Carlos S. Hardy, and Merle Templeton at the liquor license bribe trial, Oct. 1939 - May 1940

Description:: William G. Bonelli (second from left), State Board of Equalization member, and Merle Templeton (far right), Chief Liquor Control Officer, both charged with involvement in a liquor license bribe scandal in which they allegedly conspired to extort money from liquor retailers under threat of causing them to lose their liquor license. Far left is A. Brigham Rose, attorney for Ed Levine, another alleged member of the pay-off ring, which included at least six members. Second from right is Judge Carlos S. Hardy, who was not the judge for the trial
Date:: between October 24, 1939 and May 29, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

A. Calder MacKay, James M. Beck, and Reade H. Ellis at the American Bar Association Convention, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: From left to right: A. Calder MacKay, James M. Beck, and Reade H. Ellis. Beck stands as though he is about to deliver a speech.
Date:: July 17, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Accused murderer Frances Mabel Willys with attorneys Torrance C. Welch and Paul Palmer, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Frances M. Willys, common-law wife of Dr. Walter Hammond, has been convicted in his murder. Ms. Willys' claims that she drunkenly acted in self defense by beating him with the hammer. Her attorney Welch took the witness stand to testify on her behalf.
Date:: December 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Accused murderer Paul A. Wright being questioned in court, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the witness stand, being questioned by an attorney. Wright, an airport executive, shot his wife and his best friend while they sat together on a piano bench. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Date:: [circa January 13, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Accused murderer Paul A. Wright being questioned in court, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the witness stand, being questioned by his attorney, Jerry Giesler. Wright, an airport executive, shot his wife and his best friend while they sat together on a piano bench. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Date:: [circa January 13, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Accused murderer Paul A. Wright being questioned in court, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the witness stand, being questioned by his attorney, Jerry Giesler. Wright, an airport executive, shot his wife and his best friend while they sat together on a piano bench. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Date:: [circa January 13, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Accused murderer Paul A. Wright being questioned in court, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the witness stand, being questioned by an attorney. Wright, an airport executive, shot his wife and his best friend while they sat together on a piano bench. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Date:: [circa January 13, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Accused murderer Paul A. Wright being questioned in court, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the witness stand, being questioned by his attorney, Jerry Giesler. Wright, an airport executive, shot his wife and his best friend while they sat together on a piano bench. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Date:: [circa January 13, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Accused murderer Paul A. Wright conferring with an attorney in court, Los Angeles, 1938.

Description:: Airline executive Paul A. Wright, defendant the "white flame" double homicide trial, photographed at his trial conferring with an attorney. Wright was charged with the shooting deaths of his wife Evelyn and best friend John Kimmel, whom he claimed to have caught in an "inappropriate" embrace in the Wright home.Wright's defense team, led by famed Los Angeles defense attorney Jerry Giesler, argued that Wright was not guilty by reason of insanity. The jury found Wright guilty of two counts of manslaughter, and subsequently ruled that he had been insane at his sanity trial.
Date:: [between January 17-February 18, 1983]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Accused murderer Paul A. Wright conferring with an attorney in court, Los Angeles, 1938.

Description:: Airline executive Paul A. Wright, defendant the "white flame" double homicide trial, photographed conferring with an attorney at his trial. Wright was charged with the shooting deaths of his wife Evelyn and best friend John Kimmel, whom he claimed to have caught in an "inappropriate" embrace in the Wright home.Wright's defense team, led by famed Los Angeles defense attorney Jerry Giesler, argued that Wright was not guilty by reason of insanity. The jury found Wright guilty of two counts of manslaughter, and subsequently ruled that he had been insane at his sanity trial.
Date:: [between January 17-February 18, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Accused murderer Paul A. Wright conferring with an attorney in court, Los Angeles, 1938.

Description:: Airline executive Paul A. Wright, defendant the "white flame" double homicide trial, photographed conferring with an attorney at his trial. Wright was charged with the shooting deaths of his wife Evelyn and best friend John Kimmel, whom he claimed to have caught in an "inappropriate" embrace in the Wright home.Wright's defense team, led by famed Los Angeles defense attorney Jerry Giesler, argued that Wright was not guilty by reason of insanity. The jury found Wright guilty of two counts of manslaughter, and subsequently ruled that he had been insane at his sanity trial.
Date:: [between January 17-February 18, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Accused murderer Paul A. Wright in court during his double homicide trial. Los Angeles, 1938.

Description:: Airline executive Paul A. Wright, defendant the "white flame" double homicide trial, photographed at his trial. Wright was charged with the shooting deaths of his wife Evelyn and best friend John Kimmel, whom he claimed to have caught in an "inappropriate" embrace in the Wright home.Wright's defense team, led by famed Los Angeles defense attorney Jerry Giesler, argued that Wright was not guilty by reason of insanity. The jury found Wright guilty of two counts of manslaughter, and subsequently ruled that he had been insane at his sanity trial.
Date:: [between January 17-February 18, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the witness stand, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the stand. Wright, an airport executive, shot his wife and his best friend while they sat together on a piano bench. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Date:: [circa January 13 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the witness stand, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the witness stand, being questioned by his attorney, Jerry Giesler. Wright, an airport executive, shot his wife and his best friend while they sat together on a piano bench. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Date:: [circa January 13, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the witness stand, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the witness stand, being questioned by his attorney, Jerry Giesler. Wright, an airport executive, shot his wife and his best friend while they sat together on a piano bench. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Date:: [circa January 13, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the witness stand, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the witness stand, being questioned by his attorney, Jerry Giesler. Wright, an airport executive, shot his wife and his best friend while they sat together on a piano bench. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Date:: [circa January 13, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the witness stand, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the witness stand, being questioned by an attorney. Wright, an airport executive, shot his wife and his best friend while they sat together on a piano bench. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Date:: [circa January 13, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Accused murderers Libbie and Albert Olson with Leonard Wilson, Los Angeles, 1932

Description:: Mr. and Mrs. Olson, after having been proven guilty of first-degree murder of their friend, and benefactor, Charles Henry Scull, are to be retried on January 6th.
Date:: December 12, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Actor George Brent and his attorney A. Ronald Button in Municipal Court, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Lawsuit involved theatrical agent Leo Morrison suing the actor George Brent for unpaid commissions. Morrison lost the case, May 22, 1935.
Date:: May 13, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Actress Madge Bellamy and Attorney Jack Irwin at court, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: In a pew Mr. Irwin and Miss Bellamy face each other with less than an inch of space between them.
Date:: December 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

A. H. Van Cott and Raymond Turney, Los Angeles, circa 1929

Description:: A. H. Van Cott, left, and Raymond Turney, right, are seated at a desk with books and documents before them. Both are concentrated on a large volume.
Date:: [circa 1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Aimee Semple McPherson and David Hutton meet with lawyers Edward A. Adams and Benjamin Lewis and stenographer Ruth Tuttle, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: The estranged McPherson and Hutton meet for inquiry. A strenuous day sent Semple McPherson to her bed.
Date:: January 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Aimee Semple McPherson and Ma Kennedy appear in court, Los Angeles, circa 1926

Description:: A similar photograph is titled, "Panorama of Opposing Forces in Battle Over Angelus Temple Leader," Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 1926: A11
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Aimee Semple McPherson and Ma Kennedy sit in court during a preliminary hearing, Los Angeles, circa 1926

Description:: A similar photograph is titled, "When Strain Proved too Much for Mother of Evangelist," Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 1926: A1
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Albert A. Mors and Deputy District Attorney Fricke sit in court during the Kid McCoy case, Los Angeles, 1924

Description:: A similar court scene appears in a photo spread titled, "Woman Captures Burglar Suspect at Point of Revolver," Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 1924: 8
Date:: [circa December 1924]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Albert Dyer with his lawyer Ellery Cuff in court, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Albert Dyer and his lawyer Ellery Cuff at Dyer's murder trial. Dyer lured three Inglewood girls to the hills, where he strangled them to death with his hands as well as rope. From left to right is Albert Dyer and public defender Cuff.
Date:: [circa August 10, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Albert Dyer with his lawyer Ellery Cuff in court, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Albert Dyer and his lawyer Ellery Cuff in court. Dyer lured three Inglewood girls to the hills, where he strangled them to death with his hands as well as rope. From left to right is Albert Dyer and public defender Cuff.
Date:: [circa August 10, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Albert Dyer with his lawyers William Neeley and Ellery Cuff in court, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Albert Dyer and his lawyers William Neeley and Ellery Cuff at Dyer's murder trial. Dyer lured three Inglewood girls to the hills, where he strangled them to death with his hands as well as rope. From left to right is Albert Dyer and public defenders Neeley and Cuff.
Date:: [circa August 10, 1937]
1937-08-10
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Albert Dyer with his lawyers William Neeley and Ellery Cuff in court, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Child-murderer Albert Dyer and his public defenders William Neeley and Ellery Cuff in court at Dyer's trial. Dyer lured three Inglewood girls to the hills, where he strangled them to death with his hands as well as rope. From left to right, Albert Dyer, Neeley, and Cuff.
Date:: [circa August 10, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Albert Dyer with his lawyers William Neeley and Ellery Cuff in court, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Child-murderer Albert Dyer with his lawyers Ellery Cuff and William Neeley in court. Dyer lured three Inglewood girls to the hills, where he strangled them to death with his hands as well as rope. He was eventually found guilty and executed. From left to right, Albert Dyer, Ellery Cuff, and William Neeley.
Date:: [circa August 10, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Alexander Armstrong, chairman of the executive committee of National Conference on Uniform Laws, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Alexander Armstrong, Baltimore attorney and chairman of the executive committee of National Conference on Uniform Laws, in Los Angeles during a conference.
Date:: July 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Alexander Pantages talking with his defense attorney, Jerry Giesler during his trial, Los Angeles, 1929

Description:: Alexander Pantages (left) talking with his defense attorney, Jerry Giesler (right) during his 1929 rape trial where he was accused of raping 17 year old dancer Eunice Alice Pringle. There is a man slightly visible in the background.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Alfred Lundin, business leader, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Lundin is visiting Los Angeles to negotiate business on behalf of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, Washington State Industrial Council and a representative of the Industrial Relations Association of Oregon and of the Portland Chamber of Commerce.
Date:: September 4, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

A. L. Scott and Earle Evans at the American bar Association conference, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: This photograph is likely related to the article, "Bar Upholds Sanctity of High Court," 17 Jul 1935: 1.
Date:: July 16, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

American Bar Association Convention, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: A man stands and speaks with a notepad and pencil in his hand while several lawyers and others are seated from other states. The tables are separated by state and the name of the state is on the placard.
Date:: July, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Anna Laura Barnett goes to court, accompanied by her lawyer Thomas Cruce and Maxine Sturgess, Los Angeles, 1933

Description:: Attorney Cruce stands behind a seated Miss Sturgess and Mrs. Barnett resting one of his hands on the back of Miss Sturgess' chair.
Date:: March 2, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Ann Harding with lawyer Roland Rich Woolley at a deposition, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Photograph of motion picture actress, Ann Harding, as she gives a deposition in the contest between herself and her former husband, Harry Bannister, over the custody of their daughter. She was represented by her attorney, Roland Rich Woolley.
Date:: Aug 3, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

A. P. Giannini and A. J. Scampini arrive by train, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: A. J. Scampini, attorney for Bank of America (left), and A. P. Giannini, founder of the Bank of Italy which became the Bank of America (right) arrive in Los Angeles by train.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Archie Carter and Attorney Stanley Visel at the witness stand, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: The newspaper article that this photograph is associated with contains a photograph that is very similar, but is slightly different from this photograph. The caption for the photograph published in the newspaper states, “In a tense moment in a courtroom murder drama, Archie Carter, right, and Attorney Stanley Visel demonstrate from the witness stand how Carter attempted to wrest the gun from the hand of his wife, Gladys, on trial for murder".
Date:: June 10, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Archie Carter, Gladys Carter, and Virginia Carter look over some paperwork with Attorney Donald MacKay, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, “Wife Aids Husband Who Defended Her: Carters Patch Breach After Girl Death Trial,” Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 1935: A1.
Date:: August 12, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Arthur Veitch questions Dave Allen during the latter's trial, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: At left, Deputy District Attorney Arthur Veitch stands, leaning against a chalkboard and diagram, while questioning Dave Allen. At right, Dave Allen stands up behind the witness box and draws on a chalkboard. Dave Allen and Gloria March were on trial for a morals charge.
Date:: [circa July, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Artist Leo Katz and his attorney James M. Sheridan, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Mooted Mural Removed From School Lobby Wall," Los Angeles Times, 04 Sep 1935: A1.
Date:: September 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Asa C. Call and George I. Cochran, presidents of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: “Civic leader Asa V. Call dies,” Los Angeles Times, 19 Jun. 1978: A5.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Asa V. Call, Director of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: “Civic leader Asa V. Call dies,” Los Angeles Times, 19 Jun. 1978: A5.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Assistant City Attorney Newton Kendall with other city officials deciding parking policies, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: This photograph appears in the article, "Car Tagging to Continue; Court's Decision Held No Bar," Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 1935: A2.
Date:: March 6, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Assistant U.S. Attorney Palmer and Paul A. Herron looking at ledger, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Assistant U.S. Attorney William Fleet Palmer (right) and Paul A. Herron (left) looking at ledger.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Attorney A. Brigham Rose and grand jury member Clifford E. Clinton facing charges of contempt, Los Angeles, December 1937

Description:: Attorney A. Brigham Rose (seated left) and county grand jury member Clifford E. Clinton in the courtroom. Rose and Clinton, along with Clinton's fellow grand jury member Harry L. Ferguson and Rose's legal secretary Pauline Huff were charged with contempt when they allegedly withheld information regarding Clinton's investigation of vice and gambling in Los Angeles county. Superior Judge Wilson dropped the charges, calling them legally insufficient. An attempt to renew the citations of contempt was quickly abandoned when Rose, Clifford, Ferguson, and Huff finally took the stand to testify.
Date:: between November 30 and December 7, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Attorney Ames Peterson outside the State Court of Appeal, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Defense Attorney Ames Peterson outside the Division Two of the Second District of the State Court of Appeal. He was representing Appellate Justice Gavin Craig, accused of conspiracy to bribe the U.S. Attorney in the Italo Petroleum Corporation mail fraud case.
Date:: February 28, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Attorney and convicted tax evader Williamson S. Summers, 1934

Description:: This photograph, cropped, appears with Los Angeles Times article, March 13, 1934, Attorney Given Sentence Stay
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Search

Browse items

Search Constraints

529 Catalog Results

Search Results