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Dray Williams, Pomona College hurdler, poses at Patterson Field during a track meet, Los Angeles, 1932

Description:
A photograph of a race at the same meet appears under the title, "SURPRISE VICTOOR IN HALF MILE," and with the caption, "Here's Dick Pollard, left, as he hit the tape to win the 880 for Pomona in yesterday's meet with Occidental. The Sagehen sophomore has just nosed out Mel Caldwell of Oxy at the finish. Bob McKee is the man to the rear, while Nord, who finished third, is hidden by Caldwell. [photo by Fred Coffey, Times staff photographer]," Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 1932: E3
Date:
[circa March 12, 1932]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Dray Williams, Pomona College hurdler, poses at Patterson Field during a track meet, Los Angeles, 1932

Drawings by cartoonist Robert Day in the Otis Art Institute end-of-year student exhibition, Los Angeles, 1921

Description:
Robert Day was born in California, worked in the art department of the Los Angeles Times from 1919-1927 while a student at the Otis Art Institute, and went on to become a cartoonist. Among other accomplishments, he published more than 1800 cartoons in the New Yorker from 1931-1976 and created 8 New Yorker covers.
Date:
June 1921
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Drawings by cartoonist Robert Day in the Otis Art Institute end-of-year student exhibition, Los Angeles, 1921

Drawing of the Women's Club Clubhouse by architect Robert H. Orr, Azusa, circa 1928

Description:
The clubhouse was designed by noted Los Angeles architect Robert H. Orr, and was built by Azusa contractor Charles Mace. The building is located at 1003 N. Azusa Avenue. Orr designed many structures in the Los Angeles area including the iconic Wilshire Christian Church, and he was the supervising architect for Pomona College. Orr began his career as a draftsman for the architect William H. Weeks in Salinas in 1898 and was active as an architect in the Los Angeles area by 1908. Orr founded the firm Orr, Strange, Inslee & Senefeld in 1949 and he worked with this firm up to 1962, two years before his death.
Date:
[circa 1928]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Drawing of the Women's Club Clubhouse by architect Robert H. Orr, Azusa, circa 1928

Dr. A.M. Wilkinson, vice crusader, testifies before the Los Angeles County Grand Jury. September 8, 1937.

Description:
Dr. A.M. Wilkinson pictured in court, on the day of his testimony before Los Angeles County grand jury regarding an ongoing investigation into religious racketeering. During his testimony, Wilkinson admitted to accepting $4400 from "gambling czar" Guy McAfee. The money was used to pay outstanding bills incurred by "The Last Days of Pompeii" pageant, presented by the Federated Church Brotherhood, of which Wilkinson was chairman. In his testimony, Wilkinson avowed that the funds received from McAfee came without strings attached, and that he and the notorious gambler had prayed for an end to the latter’s gambling addiction. Wilkinson, who was a vice crusader, resigned from the Citizens' Independent Vice Investigating Committee following his testimony. However, his resignation was denied by several Committee members, who believed that accepting the funds should not affect Wilkinson's position on the Committee.
Date:
September 8, 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Dr. A.M. Wilkinson, vice crusader, testifies before the Los Angeles County Grand Jury. September 8, 1937.

Dr. A.M. Wilkinson, vice crusader, testifies before the Los Angeles County Grand Jury. September 8, 1937.

Description:
Dr. A.M. Wilkinson pictured in court, on the day of his testimony before Los Angeles County grand jury regarding an ongoing investigation into religious racketeering. During his testimony, Wilkinson admitted to accepting $4400 from "gambling czar" Guy McAfee. The money was used to pay outstanding bills incurred by "The Last Days of Pompeii" pageant, presented by the Federated Church Brotherhood, of which Wilkinson was chairman. In his testimony, Wilkinson avowed that the funds received from McAfee came without strings attached, and that he and the notorious gambler had prayed for an end to the latter’s gambling addiction. Wilkinson, who was a vice crusader, resigned from the Citizens' Independent Vice Investigating Committee following his testimony. However, his resignation was denied by several Committee members, who believed that accepting the funds should not affect Wilkinson's position on the Committee.
Date:
September 8, 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Dr. A.M. Wilkinson, vice crusader, testifies before the Los Angeles County Grand Jury. September 8, 1937.

Dr. A.M. Wilkinson, vice crusader, testifies before the Los Angeles County Grand Jury. September 8, 1937.

Description:
Dr. A.M. Wilkinson pictured in court, on the day of his testimony before Los Angeles County grand jury regarding an ongoing investigation into religious racketeering. During his testimony, Wilkinson admitted to accepting $4400 from "gambling czar" Guy McAfee. The money was used to pay outstanding bills incurred by "The Last Days of Pompeii" pageant, presented by the Federated Church Brotherhood, of which Wilkinson was chairman. In his testimony, Wilkinson avowed that the funds received from McAfee came without strings attached, and that he and the notorious gambler had prayed for an end to the latter’s gambling addiction. Wilkinson, who was a vice crusader, resigned from the Citizens' Independent Vice Investigating Committee following his testimony. However, his resignation was denied by several Committee members, who believed that accepting the funds should not affect Wilkinson's position on the Committee.
Date:
September 8, 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Dr. A.M. Wilkinson, vice crusader, testifies before the Los Angeles County Grand Jury. September 8, 1937.

Dr. A.M. Wilkinson, vice crusader, testifies before the Los Angeles County Grand Jury, 1937

Description:
Dr. A.M. Wilkinson pictured in court, on the day of his testimony before Los Angeles County grand jury regarding an ongoing investigation into religious racketeering. During his testimony, Wilkinson admitted to accepting $4400 from "gambling czar" Guy McAfee. The money was used to pay outstanding bills incurred by "The Last Days of Pompeii" pageant, presented by the Federated Church Brotherhood, of which Wilkinson was chairman. In his testimony, Wilkinson avowed that the funds received from McAfee came without strings attached, and that he and the notorious gambler had prayed for an end to the latter’s gambling addiction. Wilkinson, who was a vice crusader, resigned from the Citizens' Independent Vice Investigating Committee following his testimony. However, his resignation was denied by several Committee members, who believed that accepting the funds should not affect Wilkinson's position on the Committee.
Date:
September 8, 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Dr. A.M. Wilkinson, vice crusader, testifies before the Los Angeles County Grand Jury, 1937

Dr. A.M. Wilkinson, vice crusader, before the Los Angeles County Grand Jury, September 8, 1937

Description:
Dr. A.M. Wilkinson testifies against gambling and vice before the county grand jury. During his testimony, Wilkinson admitted to accepting $4400 from "gambling czar" Guy McAfee to use as financing for "The Last Days of Pompeii" pageant presented by the Federated Church Brotherhood, of which Wilkinson was chairman. Wilkinson, who was a vice crusader, resigned from the Citizens' Independent Vice Investigating Committee after this admission. However, his resignation was denied by several Committee members, who believed that accepting the funds should not affect Wilkinson's position on the Committee.
Date:
September 8, 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Dr. A.M. Wilkinson, vice crusader, before the Los Angeles County Grand Jury, September 8, 1937

Dr. Ajika Amano, president of the Los Angeles Japanese Hospital, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
View of Dr. Ajika Amano seated in collared shirt, tie, and doctor's coat with eye diagram in background. Dr. Amano was the president of the Los Angeles Japanese Hospital before and after the hospital merged with the Southern California Japanese Hospital in 1935. The hospital eventually relocated and was renamed City View Hospital in 1961.
Date:
August 26, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Dr. Ajika Amano, president of the Los Angeles Japanese Hospital, Los Angeles, 1935

Downward view towards the remaining center portion of the St. Francis Dam after its disastrous collapse, 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:
Harry French Blaney Papers, 1919-1970
Downward view towards the remaining center portion of the St. Francis Dam after its disastrous collapse, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Downward view towards the remaining center portion of the St. Francis Dam after its disastrous collapse, 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
Downward view towards the remaining center portion of the St. Francis Dam after its disastrous collapse, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Douglas Wood, child heir after his seven mile walk to grandma's house, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
View of Douglas Wood sitting in collared shirt, shorts, and examining right foot. Douglas, grandson of millionaire Horace Boos, decided to visit his grandmother. Police and the boy's mother, Mary L. Wood, feared Douglas had been kidnapped and searched vainly for him. Douglas arrived safely at his grandmother's.
Date:
September 23, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Douglas Wood, child heir after his seven mile walk to grandma's house, Los Angeles, 1935

Douglas Aircraft Company buildings, [Santa Monica?], [1920s?]

Description:
Street view of 2 buildings next to field, single-story in foreground, larger industrial building in background, with cars on street and pedestrians on sidewalk and driveway. Partially visible sign reads: THE DOUGLAS COMP. Other signs on building read: General Office Information, No help wanted. Sign on open gate reads: Positively no admittance.
Date:
1920s?
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Douglas Aircraft Company buildings, [Santa Monica?], [1920s?]

Double-exposure of H. H. West and Mertie West posing at Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park, 1947

Description:
A double-exposed and blurry photograph, from left to right, of H. H. West and Mertie West posing in front of a pool at Badwater Basin. The couple stands at center and appear to look to the camera. Their figures are blurred. Behind them, a pool of water sits in the basin and extends to the right, out-of-frame. Beyond the pool, salt flats stretch into the distance. Mountains rise in the background at left.
Date:
March, 1947
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Double-exposure of H. H. West and Mertie West posing at Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park, 1947

Double bow knot of the Mt. Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railroad, viewed from Mount Tamalpais, Marin County, about 1900

Description:
Photograph looking southeast down the mountainside of Mount Tamalpais towards the double bow knot of the Mt. Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railroad and surrounding area. Shrubbery stands in the immediate foreground. Looking beyond that, a bird's-eye view looking southeast from Mt. Tamalpais looks across the Marin County peninsula. At center, the double bow knot section of railroad tracks climbs up the mountainside. In the distance and to the left of the tracks, Mill Valley is visible. The Marin County peninsula stretches into the background towards San Francisco Bay.
Date:
[circa 1900]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Double bow knot of the Mt. Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railroad, viewed from Mount Tamalpais, Marin County, about 1900

Dottie Siemsen and Jane Sage on the front lawn of the Siemsen home, Glendale, 1938

Description:
Photograph, from left to right, of Dottie (Dorothea) Siemsen and Jane Sage in the front yard of the Siemsen family home in Glendale. Dottie walks towards the left and turns her head to the general vicinity of the camera. Meanwhile, Jane stands at center and holds a jacket (presumably Dottie's). A large tree stands to the right of Jane and blocks the corner of the Siemsen house. A car (partial view) is parked behind Dottie at left.
Date:
December, 1938
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Dottie Siemsen and Jane Sage on the front lawn of the Siemsen home, Glendale, 1938

Dottie Siemsen, Al Siemsen and Wayne West overlooking the bay, Newport Beach, 1941

Description:
Photograph, from left to right, of Dottie Siemsen, Al Siemsen and Wayne West standing on the shore and looking out over Newport Bay. The group stands at center and gazes out towards the bay at right. Dottie Siemsen stands nearest to camera and faces to the right. Al Siemsen stands behind and to the right of her; he too faces towards the right. Wayne West stands behind and to the right of Al; he faces towards the camera, but turns his head towards the right. Large rocks line the shoreline to the right of the group. The rocky shoreline extends from the lower right corner on arc back towards the left. Behind the group, a housing unit stands left-of-center. Two palm trees stand in front of it; a man and young boy stand beneath the palm at left. The bay stretches into the distance along the right side of the image. Boats sail on the water and the opposite shore stands in the far distance.
Date:
January 19, 1941
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Dottie Siemsen, Al Siemsen and Wayne West overlooking the bay, Newport Beach, 1941

Dottie and Richard Siemsen ride the ferry across the bay, Newport Beach, 1941

Description:
Photograph, from left to right, of Dottie Siemsen and Richard Siemsen posing while riding the ferry across Newport Bay. Both kids sit on a bench that stretches along the interior perimeter of the ferry. They look to the camera and rest their hands to their laps. Beneath their seats are life preserver storage compartments. In the distance, boats can be seen on the bay at right and houses stand on the shore at left.
Date:
January 19, 1941
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Dottie and Richard Siemsen ride the ferry across the bay, Newport Beach, 1941

Dot Milbank and Frankie Keith pose on a sailboat, Santa Catalina Island, 1935

Description:
From left to right, Mrs. Nichols Milbank, Jr. (Dot) and Mrs. John B. Keith (Frankie) pose on a sailboat. The camera pans up towards the 2 women, who stand side-by-side, off-center to the left. The boat's hull stretches along the bottom edge and is marked, "A157." Behind the women, masts, rigging and a small cabin sit atop the boat's deck.
Date:
1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Dot Milbank and Frankie Keith pose on a sailboat, Santa Catalina Island, 1935

Dorothy Poynton, Olympic diver, in straight position following a backward start, 1932

Description:
Dorothy Poynton-Hill was an American diver who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics, in the 1932 Summer Olympics, and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1928 she won the silver medal in the 3 metre springboard competition. Four years later she won the gold medal in the 10 metre platform event.In 1936 she won the gold medal in the 10 metre platform competition as well as the bronze medal in the 3 metre springboard event.
Date:
1932
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Dorothy Poynton, Olympic diver, in straight position following a backward start, 1932

Dorothy Poynton, Olympic diver, in straight position during the flight of a dive, 1932

Description:
Dorothy Poynton-Hill was an American diver who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics, in the 1932 Summer Olympics, and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1928 she won the silver medal in the 3 metre springboard competition. Four years later she won the gold medal in the 10 metre platform event.In 1936 she won the gold medal in the 10 metre platform competition as well as the bronze medal in the 3 metre springboard event.
Date:
1932
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Dorothy Poynton, Olympic diver, in straight position during the flight of a dive, 1932

Dorothy Poynton, Olympic diver, in a pike position during the flight of a dive, 1932

Description:
Dorothy Poynton-Hill was an American diver who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics, in the 1932 Summer Olympics, and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1928 she won the silver medal in the 3 metre springboard competition. Four years later she won the gold medal in the 10 metre platform event.In 1936 she won the gold medal in the 10 metre platform competition as well as the bronze medal in the 3 metre springboard event.
Date:
1932
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Dorothy Poynton, Olympic diver, in a pike position during the flight of a dive, 1932