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Cover of pamphlet "Julian Thieves," by Robert P. (Bob) Shuler, [1930?]

Description:
Probably related to Los Angeles Time article, July 16, 1930, Shuler Tract in Evidence, Prosecutor Holds “Julian Thieves” Booklet as Exhibit in Connection With Flint Slaying. “Julian Thieves,” a semipolitical pamphlet, written by Rev. R. P. Shuler, was officially recognized by the District Attorney’s office yesterday as evidence in the case of Frank D. Keaton, slayer of Motley Flint. …
Date:
[1930?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Cover of pamphlet "Julian Thieves," by Robert P. (Bob) Shuler, [1930?]

Mrs. Fern Carlin, defense witness in trial against councilman Carl I. Jacobson, Los Angeles, 1927

Description:
Photograph of Mrs. Fern Carlin, called as a witness for the defence in the trial against Thirteenth district councilman Carl I. Jacobson for violation of the moral code, to support the argument that the councilman was being framed. The councilman was later freed of all charges.
Date:
[Between August 1927-October 1927]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Mrs. Fern Carlin, defense witness in trial against councilman Carl I. Jacobson, Los Angeles, 1927

Hydroelectric generators at Power House no. 2, 1.5 miles downstream from the location of the failed Saint Francis Dam, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

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
Hydroelectric generators at Power House no. 2, 1.5 miles downstream from the location of the failed Saint Francis Dam, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Damaged house following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam and resulting flood, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

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
Damaged house following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam and resulting flood, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Gertrude Rounsavelle, Mrs. William Miller, and Mrs. D. G. Blair speak at the Averill Study Club luncheon at the Mayfair Hotel, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
President of the Tenth District California Congress of Parents and Teachers Mrs. Gertrude Rounsavelle, retiring president Mrs. William Miller, and newly elected president Mrs. D. G. Blair are speakers at the annual luncheon of the Averill Study Club at the Mayfair Hotel.
Date:
May 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Gertrude Rounsavelle, Mrs. William Miller, and Mrs. D. G. Blair speak at the Averill Study Club luncheon at the Mayfair Hotel, Los Angeles, 1935

Order of the White Lion medal, an award for merit by Czechoslovakia for foreign citizens

Description:
The Order of the White Lion medal, an award for merit by Czechoslovakia for foreign citizens. This medal is the civil version, as noted by the two crossed palms above the badge, instead of two crossed swords, which would indicate military. This award was given to William May Garland in Los Angeles.
Date:
May 9, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Order of the White Lion medal, an award for merit by Czechoslovakia for foreign citizens

Donald Armstrong, Helen Werner, and Joseph Lewinson in court, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
The Italo Petroleum Corporation was originally charged with trying to defraud investors, saddle them with heavy losses over the failed purchase of another oil company. The fraud was allegedly conducted through letters mailed to the investors, hence the charge of mail fraud. Justice Gavin Craig, former political figure Helen Werner, and political lobbyist Joseph Weinblatt were all tried for attempting to bribe the U.S. Attorney General on behalf of the Italo Petroleum Corp.
Date:
February 27, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Donald Armstrong, Helen Werner, and Joseph Lewinson in court, Los Angeles, 1935

Mrs. Grace Du Bois, accused of the murder of her son, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Mrs. Grace W. Du Bois was jailed on suspicion of killing her 33-year-old son Dr. Charles N. Du Bois with a gunshot to the back of the head in the kitchen of his home. Mrs. Du Bois, who claims an intruder is responsible for the murder, was quoted with the confusing statement: "You say I might have done it. I don't believe I did, although I might have done it. I still think I am right in what I told you at first. I believe there was a young man there. Maybe there wasn't- but I believe there was."
Date:
December 25, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Mrs. Grace Du Bois, accused of the murder of her son, Los Angeles, 1935

Professional Boxer Jack Dempsey with family on vacation, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Boxer Jack Dempsey with wife Hannah Dempsey and daughter Joan Hannah while on a cross-country vacation with his mother. Jack Dempsey was an American professional boxer and a cultural icon of the 1920s. He held the World Heavyweight Championship from 1919 to 1926. He is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. His wife, popular as Hannah Williams, was a musical comedienne.
Date:
July 30, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Professional Boxer Jack Dempsey with family on vacation, Los Angeles, 1935

California Institute of Technology halfback Don Rooke throwing football, Pasadena, 1933

Description:
Related to the article “Caltech Grid Squad Working Twice Daily for Opening Game With Loyola Next Week, Five Veterans Out For Team, ‘Fox’ Stanton Not Optimistic Over Prospects, Usual Tricky Formations on Parade at Pasadena, Engineer Open Season With Lions at Ball Park,” Los Angeles Times, 13 Sept. 1933
Date:
1933
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Ledford, Duke Emmett, 1894-1961
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
California Institute of Technology halfback Don Rooke throwing football, Pasadena, 1933

Judge Frank H. Lowe turns seventy-six, Glendale, 1933

Description:
To celebrate Judge Lowe's 76th birthday he was given a mock trial that found him guilty in open court of "the unusual offense of seventy-six years of useful and worth while living, as charged by his fellow citizens." The trial was attended by a large number of attorneys, city officials and business men. His sentence was "incarceration in the grateful hearts of his fellow-citizens."
Date:
1933
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Judge Frank H. Lowe turns seventy-six, Glendale, 1933

Four Pomona College football players on the field on the first day of practice, Pomona, 1933

Description:
A different photograph of Pomona College football players appear with the article, "Pomona College Football Prospects Better This Year, Speed Appears Dominant Factor: FAST BOYS ON SAGEHEN TEAM Don Plumb so Hold Down End Position Potent Backfield Predicted for Claremont Squad Sophomore Players Bolster Nixon's Outfit Eckhoff, Irving," Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep 1933: A10.
Date:
[September 13, 1933]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Four Pomona College football players on the field on the first day of practice, Pomona, 1933

Duke, a Bengal tiger at the California Zoological Gardens, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
At the California Zoological Gardens Duke, a 600-pound Bengal tiger, attacked June, an adult mountain lion, dislocating her vertebra and elbow. The tiger tore through the wire netting between the two cages that separated them. June is reported as healing but very temperamental from the incident. Duke was successfully sedated.
Date:
September 19, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Duke, a Bengal tiger at the California Zoological Gardens, Los Angeles, 1936

Gladys Swarthout, Aurelia Reinhardt, Grace Ashley, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Kate Page Crutcher at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt on stage at the Hollywood Bowl (2nd from R) during a speaking engagement about the employment of charity to relieve human suffering. With her, participating in the program are (L to R): Gladys Swarthout, mezzosoprano; Dr. Aurelia H. Reinhart, president of Mills College; Grace B. Ashley, prominent developer of women's groups; and Kate Page Crutcher, first president of Children's Hospital in Los Angeles. An orchestra is seated behind them and they appear to be singing.
Date:
October 1, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Gladys Swarthout, Aurelia Reinhardt, Grace Ashley, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Kate Page Crutcher at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, 1935

Los Angeles police officer Bert Wallis and murder investigation witness John R. Binan, [Los Angeles?], 1935

Description:
Related to the article “Rich Woman Found Slain, Believed Victim of Robbers, Mrs. Louise Appier’s Beaten Body Discovered by Apartment Tenant.” Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 1935. The article states: The body was discovered by John Binan … in whose apartment Mrs. Appier was slain. Binan summoned police. …
Date:
1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Los Angeles police officer Bert Wallis and murder investigation witness John R. Binan, [Los Angeles?], 1935

Workers retrieving Calvin Darling from a caved-in pit, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Photograph of workers retrieving Calvin Darling from a pit that caved in on him. Two men are seen standing at opposite sides of the pit, with Darling seen at center. Two signs from the gasoline service station provide a buttress against loose earth surrounding the pit. One sign reads: "Vales Ground 75 [cents] per cyl." Darling was working on completion of a storage tank pit at the service station when the incident occurred.
Date:
August 23, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Workers retrieving Calvin Darling from a caved-in pit, Los Angeles, 1935

Pedal powered boat, Los Angeles Boat Show, Los Angeles, 1930

Description:
Posters read: The Bike Boat, Ltd., New York; A sensation, the Bike Boat crossed the English Channel in 8 hours, sold by Bike Boat Ltd, General Motors Bldg., 1775 Broadway, N.Y., Edward Goral, Los Angeles; Europe’s Sea Going Bicycle for rivers, lakes, oceans, endorsed by leading physical culturists for health and reducing purposes. Unsubmersible, uncapsizable, ideal for life guards, water sports, nautical tours, hunting & fishing, going to and from yachts, hydroplanes, and floats. Bike Boat Ltd., General Motors Bldg., 1775 Broadway, NY.
Date:
March 30, 1930
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Pedal powered boat, Los Angeles Boat Show, Los Angeles, 1930

Bird's-eye view of alley behind 900 block of State Street, Santa Barbara, [1926-1929?]

Description:
Bird's-eye view of alley and rear entrances of commercial buildings, with State Street running through center, possibly following rebuilding after 1925 earthquake, with mountains under cloudy sky in background. Business signs read: Don [Bon?] Ton Market, Dollar Sale, Cafeteria, City Cafe Chop Suey, Rose [Theatre], Michel A. Levy Shoes Hosiery, 917 State St. Women's Wear Millinery, Osborne's Book Store. In alley in foreground: sheds, debris, about 6 parked cars, woman in dark dress and light apron
Date:
[1926-1929?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Bird's-eye view of alley behind 900 block of State Street, Santa Barbara, [1926-1929?]

Men investigate an area of the Mojave Desert in search of the remains of murder victims of Gordon Stewart Northcott, Rivrside County, 1928-1929

Description:
Gordon Stewart Northcott was accused of kidnapping, molesting, torturing, and brutally murdering three young boys and aiding in the murder of another in 1928, which his mother admitted to. She received a life sentence in jail. Northcott was found guilty on all accounts and was executed by hanging on October 2, 1930 at the age of 23.
Date:
[between 1928-1929]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Men investigate an area of the Mojave Desert in search of the remains of murder victims of Gordon Stewart Northcott, Rivrside County, 1928-1929

Gordon Stewart Northcott in courtroom during his murder trial, Riverside, 1929

Description:
Gordon Stewart Northcott standing at the front of a courtroom during his murder trials. Northcott was accused of kidnapping, molesting, torturing, and brutally murdering three young boys and aiding in the murder of another in 1928. His mother admitted to the murder and received a life sentence in jail. Northcott was found guilty on all accounts and was executed by hanging on October 2, 1930 at the age of 23.
Date:
[between January 1, 1929-February 7, 1929]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Gordon Stewart Northcott in courtroom during his murder trial, Riverside, 1929