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Joan Dix wins lawsuit against Frank Tipper for injuries in car crash, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
View of Joan Dix seated on desk, in jacket, holding right wrist. Joan Dix was a screen actress and dancer who complained she suffered from headaches and dizzy spells which had prevented her working because of a collision between her car and Frank Tipper's, as reported in the article, "Suit Winner: Dancer Wins Crash Cash." Los Angeles Times 3 Sept. 1935.
Date:
September 2, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Joan Dix wins lawsuit against Frank Tipper for injuries in car crash, Los Angeles, 1935

Storm-flooded Beverly Blvd. at the intersection with Lake St., Los Angeles, circa 1927-1939

Description:
Photograph of storm-flooded intersection of Beverly Boulevard and Lake Street. Several automobiles and a bus are traveling through the floodwater on the street. Commercial signs read "Pacific Duco Auto Finishing," "Broadway Hill and Seventh presents...Frances Denney's Herbal Throat and Neck Blend, Corrects 'Crepey' Throat," "Grace Tabernacle...," "Pasadena laundry, 20% off on Laundry Left Here," "Van de Kamps Bakers," and on the bus "E..s Railway 2011."
Date:
[circa 1927-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Storm-flooded Beverly Blvd. at the intersection with Lake St., Los Angeles, circa 1927-1939

Young women carrying the "Huntington Park High School Band" banner in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1931

Description:
Young women carrying the "Huntington Park High School Band" banner, followed by a drum majorette and the band. The Orth Storage building on the left was located at 238 West Colorado Blvd. (the block later became a freeway overpass). On the right, signs painted on the side of a commercial building read: "Chevrolet, Gwynn Johnson, 245," and "H. R. Slayden."
Date:
January 1, 1931
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Young women carrying the "Huntington Park High School Band" banner in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1931

Cement runways underneath Commercial Exchange Building, Los Angeles, between 1935 and 1936

Description:
In the mid-1930’s, the Commercial Exchange Building on Eighth and Olive Streets was re-sized to accommodate a street-widening project. A ten-foot segment was cut along the thirteen-story building, removed, and the two halves of the building pushed together. The job was supervised by Walker & Eisen and conducted by Kress House Moving Company.
Date:
[between 1935 and 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Cement runways underneath Commercial Exchange Building, Los Angeles, between 1935 and 1936

Nurses Alta May Stuart and William Partin treat patients Elizabeth Jones, Anne Morrissey, Rose Partridge, Constance Krueger, and June Price, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
Several women were overcome by gas fumes from leaking pipes while sewing on a WPA project at 1108 West Thirty-fifth Street. Those who were not treated on scene were taken to Georgia-Street Receiving Hospital where they were effectively treated.
Date:
March 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Nurses Alta May Stuart and William Partin treat patients Elizabeth Jones, Anne Morrissey, Rose Partridge, Constance Krueger, and June Price, Los Angeles, 1936

Veterans of the American Legion City Hall Post 387 with Mayor Shaw outside City Hall, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Photograph of Los Angeles Mayor Frank L. Shaw and World War veteran members of the American Legion City Hall Post No. 387, Clifford K. Steele, A. D. Endsley and city hall engineering department accountant Harry Whittington in front of City Hall before the members of the American Legion Post went to Fresno for a convention. The Summer of 1935 faced a heat wave in the San Joaquin Valley, due to which the veterans took their own water wagon. A mountain pump was rigged which was to be used as a shower bath. Photograph shows the wagon hitched to a car. Ross Olney stands next to the water pump. The wagon has a banner reading, "Showed Baths Given Here, And How," and the barrel of water has a sign reading, "A Los Angeles Rain Storm, The Climate of Los Angeles is Cool, Have Some,". The Wagon itself has a sign painted to the side reading, "Keep Cool with Los Angeles City Hall Post, A Los Angeles Rain Storm, our weather is unique, warm up with Fresno." C. K. Steele is standing in the back row, holding a small box reading, "Los Angeles City Hall Post No. 387, California." The veterans and the Mayor protect themselved from the water shower with umbrellas.
Date:
Aug 9, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Veterans of the American Legion City Hall Post 387 with Mayor Shaw outside City Hall, Los Angeles, 1935

Charlotte Ethel Lee takes the witness stand beside Judge Charles S. Burnell, Los Angeles, 1927

Description:
Miss Lee leans forward from her seat in the witness stand. Judge Burnell is fixated on something that he is writing, as is the court stenographer, who is seated at a lamp lit table in front of Miss Lee. Another unidentified man sits in the foreground, his chair facing the witness stand and his back facing the camera.
Date:
May 1927
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Charlotte Ethel Lee takes the witness stand beside Judge Charles S. Burnell, Los Angeles, 1927

George Godfrey, heavyweight boxer, posing with anvil [outside the KJH Radio studio, Los Angeles(?)], circa 1926-1927

Description:
George Godfrey, "The Leiperville Shadow," was the ring name of Feab Smith Williams, a heavyweight boxer from the state of Alabama who fought from 1919-1937. Godfrey twice won the World Colored Heavyweight Championship. In 2003, Godfrey was named to the Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time.
Date:
[circa 1926-1927 ]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
George Godfrey, heavyweight boxer, posing with anvil [outside the KJH Radio studio, Los Angeles(?)], circa 1926-1927

Roland C. Casad sitting with engraved squash, circa 1935

Description:
View of Roland C. Casad in jacket and tie, sitting behind a table with a large squash on top, right hand holding knife and resting on top of squash. Words engraved into squash read: "YOU MAY NOT LIKE EVERYTHING ABOUT A PERSON, EVEN SO ABOUT A NEWSPAPER, BUT IF YOU WANT TO READ A REAL NEWSPAPER, READ THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, ROLAND C CASAD."
Date:
[circa 1935]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Roland C. Casad sitting with engraved squash, circa 1935

Embarcadero and Ferry Building decorated for California's Diamond Jubilee, San Francisco, 1925

Description:
Probably related to the article “State Jubilee Opens Today, Brilliant Scenes to Mark Start of Seventy-Fifth Birthday Celebration.” Los Angeles Times, 5 Sept. 1925. The article states: San Francisco, Sept. 4.--The State of California begins the celebration of its seventy-fifth birthday here tomorrow. … The joy zone of the Diamond Jubilee, set up on the Embarcadero by the San Francisco steamship executive committee, will be officially opened tomorrow …
Date:
1925
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Embarcadero and Ferry Building decorated for California's Diamond Jubilee, San Francisco, 1925

Two women stand in front of Cucamonga's display at the National Orange Show, San Bernardino, 1934

Description:
Two women stand in front of Cucamonga's display at the National Orange Show. They each hold an armful of oranges. The display consists of an orange-covered based topped with a model of a mountain. A sign on the front reads, "Cucamonga" and one sitting on the display reads in part, "Cucamonga citrus..." In the background, there is a sign reading, "Public Telephones Associated Telephone Company Ltd."
Date:
[circa February 1934]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Two women stand in front of Cucamonga's display at the National Orange Show, San Bernardino, 1934

Blown-out section of pipe along the Los Angeles Aqueduct in No-Name Canyon, Inyo County vicinity, [about 1927]

Description:
This photograph is very similar to another one of a damaged aqueduct pipe captioned, "Views in Owens River Valley Above—The power plant, X showing where second explosion took place. Center—The blown out section of pipe. Below—No Name Canyon, scene of Friday’s dynamiting," Los Angeles Times, 29 May 1927: 2
Date:
[circa May, 1927]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Blown-out section of pipe along the Los Angeles Aqueduct in No-Name Canyon, Inyo County vicinity, [about 1927]

Shriners dressed in stylized costumes of ancient Arabia, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, 1935

Description:
Shriners sit around a carpeted floor, dressed in stylized costumes of ancient Arabia. Five men appear to be part of the fraternal organization, dressed in the ostentatious wear of the nobility, while one man is dressed the part of a servant. The Al Malaikah Shrine Temple of Los Angeles hosted a pageant, of which the theme was One Thousand and One Nights, or Arabian Nights. The event was hosted at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Date:
October 20, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Shriners dressed in stylized costumes of ancient Arabia, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, 1935

Workers move planks of wood at their worksite near the Los Angeles Aqueduct, Inyo County vicinity, [circa 1927]

Description:
A set of makeshift tracks in the foreground enters frame from the left and extends across the image towards center. To the right of the tracks sits a pile of wooden planks. Two men carrying a plank of wood approach the pile from behind. Another man stands behind the tracks at left and looks towards the men carrying the plank. A truck bed enters frame behind and to the left of him. In the background, several other workers mill about the site. Another large pile of wooden planks sits on the ground at center and another truck laden with supplies sits at right.
Date:
[circa May, 1927]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Workers move planks of wood at their worksite near the Los Angeles Aqueduct, Inyo County vicinity, [circa 1927]