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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

Model Lois Ward in bathing suit and beach robe, Times Fashion Show, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
Lois Ward in light-colored one-piece bathing suit with braided rope trim and belt, with flying fish decoration at leg, and beach robe decorated with anchors, ropes, and sailboat. The show took place in the Los Angeles Times building on 202 West 1st Street, most likely inside what is now the Harry Chandler Auditorium.
Date:
1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Model Lois Ward in bathing suit and beach robe, Times Fashion Show, Los Angeles, 1936

Robert S. James, convicted in Lois Wright morals case and suspect in Mary Emma James murder case, at sentencing, with lawyer Samuel Silverman, 2 filmstrip images, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
Robert S. James' real name was Major Raymond Lisenba. He was known as Robert S. James during his marriage to Mary Emma Busch James and at the time of her death in 1935, and, after her murder by rattlesnake bite and drowning, as "Rattlesnake James."
Date:
June 1, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Robert S. James, convicted in Lois Wright morals case and suspect in Mary Emma James murder case, at sentencing, with lawyer Samuel Silverman, 2 filmstrip images, Los Angeles, 1936

Paul Hoffman, Mayor Frank Shaw, and W.J. Braunschweiger at luncheon, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Pictured from left to right: Studebaker Corporation executive Paul G. Hoffman, Los Angeles Mayor Frank L. Shaw, and Bank of America executive Walter J. Braunschweiger stand surrounding a cake that reads, "47th Anniversary." In the background, a large chandaliered room can be seen, with suited men seated at white-clothed tables. Photograph was taken at the Chamber of Commerce's 47th anniversary event in the Biltmore Hotel's Biltmore Bowl, the hotel's ballroom. S.E. Gates (not pictured), as president of the Rotary Club, co-organized the luncheon.
Date:
October 11, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Paul Hoffman, Mayor Frank Shaw, and W.J. Braunschweiger at luncheon, Los Angeles, 1935

Atanas Katchmakoff, sculptor, with his bronze Madonna sculpture, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Another photograph of Atanas Katchmakoff, with this sculpture, with his attorney Saul Ruskin, and art expert Dr. Ernest L. Tross appears in a Los Angeles Times article on 4/17/1935 titled: "Worth of Statue Debated: Value of Lost Madonna Estimated in Cost Case." At this time Katchmakoff sued Fred Keeler, the owner of the foundry that cast his Madonna sculpture for losing the plaster original. Two bronze sculptures had been made, but the owner of the bronze Madonnas had refused to allow his bronzes to be used to produce a new plaster cast.
Date:
April 16, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Atanas Katchmakoff, sculptor, with his bronze Madonna sculpture, Los Angeles, 1935

Los Angeles Mayor Frank Shaw and and group from Hotel Greeters of San Francisco, [Los Angeles?], 1935

Description:
This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, June 7, 1935, One Way to Spread Good Will. Miss Emily White, winner of [popularity] contest sponsored by Hotel Greeters of San Francisco, calls on Mayor Shaw with letter from Mayor Rossi. The group shows, left to right, in foreground, Mayor Shaw, Miss White and Harvey Toy; rear, William Jacobs and Frank F. Royston.
Date:
June, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Los Angeles Mayor Frank Shaw and and group from Hotel Greeters of San Francisco, [Los Angeles?], 1935

Los Angeles County Supervisor Frank Shaw with re-election petition certificates, [Los Angeles?], 1932

Description:
This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, June 16, 1932, Friends Petition Shaw to Campaign, Shaw Urged to File for Re-Election, Petition Bearing Names of Second District Backers Handed to Supervisor, and appears with California Eagle article, June 24, 1932, Supervisor Frank L. Shaw Given Surprise Demonstration of Esteem
Date:
June 15, 1932
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Los Angeles County Supervisor Frank Shaw with re-election petition certificates, [Los Angeles?], 1932

Composer John Philip Sousa receiving gift of baton from Jennie Jones, supervisor of orchestral music in the Los Angeles public schools, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:
Related to Los Angeles Times article, 1/8/1926, "Children Greet Band King, Sousa Presents Trophies, Conducts Combined School Orchestra, Receives Gift and Plays Concert. … The gift given the bandmaster was a black ebony baton … presented during intermission by Miss Jennie Jones, supervisor of orchestral music in the Los Angeles public schools. …"
Date:
January 7, 1926
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Composer John Philip Sousa receiving gift of baton from Jennie Jones, supervisor of orchestral music in the Los Angeles public schools, Los Angeles, 1926

Artist Ada May Sharlpess next to the model for her sculpture "Nuestra Reina de Los Angeles" now in Echo Park, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Born in Hilo, Hawaii on Aug. 16, 1899. Ada May Sharpless was raised in Santa Ana, CA and graduated from USC. Her art studies began in Los Angeles at Otis Art Institute and continued in Paris in the late 1920s with Antoine Bourdelle. She was active in Los Angeles until the early 1940s. Sharpless' work can also be found at General Hospital (L.A. County-USC Medical Center) and at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana.
Date:
1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Artist Ada May Sharlpess next to the model for her sculpture "Nuestra Reina de Los Angeles" now in Echo Park, Los Angeles, 1935

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

George Jessel speaking at the memorial service for will Rogers at Twentieth Century Fox Studio, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Description accompanying negative: Scene of the memorial services for Will Rogers held at the departed star's own studio, 20th Century-Fox, at whose Movietone City plant in Westwood Hills 2,500 of the star's co-workers gathered in the open air to pay their final tribute. Stars, directors, executives and laborers joined in common grief as George Jessel, famed star of sage and screen, Jason Joy, studio executive, and the Reverend Josiah Hopkins eulogized the nation's idol [ark no. 21198/zz002d96wf ].
Date:
August 22, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
George Jessel speaking at the memorial service for will Rogers at Twentieth Century Fox Studio, Los Angeles, 1935

Crown Prince Gustav Adolf and Crown Princess Louise of Sweden at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:
In 1926-1927, Crown Prince Gustav Adolf and Crown Princess Louise of Sweden made an international trip around the world to benefit Swedish interests, which was described as a great success, especially the trip to the USA, during which they travelled over the nation from New York to San Francisco.
Date:
July 22, 1926
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Crown Prince Gustav Adolf and Crown Princess Louise of Sweden at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, 1926

Marie Gray, stage dancer, recovers from fall from a hotel window, 1935

Description:
View of Marie Gray in hospital gown, bandage on head, lying and strapped into hospital bed at General Hospital. Marie Gray, stage dancer, was cited to appear before Superior Judge Bullock in Psychopathic Court in the event of her recovery. She reportedly checked into a hotel, was assigned to a room on the second floor and five minutes later was seen to fall from a front window. She was treated for a broken left leg, a deep cut on the head and possible internal injuries.
Date:
September 14, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Marie Gray, stage dancer, recovers from fall from a hotel window, 1935

W.J. Braunschweiger, S.E. Gates, and Paul Hoffman at headtable, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Sideview of Bank of America executive Walter J. Braunschweiger, Los Angeles Rotary Club president S.E. Gates, and Studebaker Corporation executive Paul G. Hoffman--seated at headtable with anniversary cake in front. Hoffman stands at small podium with microphone. Behind them are a Rotary Club banner and another cake. In the overall background, numerous men can be seen socializing in a large, chandaliered room. Photograph was taken at the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce's 47th anniversary event in the Biltmore Hotel's Biltmore Bowl, the hotel's ballroom.
Date:
October 11, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
W.J. Braunschweiger, S.E. Gates, and Paul Hoffman at headtable, Los Angeles, 1935

Harold G. Ferguson outside courtroom, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
At the time this photograph was taken, Harold G. Ferguson had served in San Quentin State Prison for the grand theft of investment funds in the 1929 sale of the Malibu La Costa beachfront properties--faciliated by his former real estate company the Harold G. Ferguson Corporation. After his release, Ferguson testified at this 1935 trial, in which the Malibu investors were ultimately denied the recovery of $443,000 from the Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association and the Marblehead Land Company, the third-party companies Ferguson used to broker the Malibu deals.
Date:
October 14, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Harold G. Ferguson outside courtroom, Los Angeles, 1935

Mabel V. Socha, Agnes Fredericks, and Artie W. Burtnett standing at luncheon table, Los Angeles, 1933

Description:
Possibly connected to Los Angeles Times article, August 17, 1933, Bel-Air Fete to Raise Fund to Beautify City. …The meeting was called by Mrs. John D. Fredericks, president of the Women’s Service Auxiliary of the [C]hamber [of Commerce] … sponsored by the vacant lots and parkways section of the chamber’s civic beautification committee, of which Mrs. Gerald B. Burtnett is chairman … Features of the fete will include … a buffet lunch at noon … Mayor Shaw and the City Park Commission, of which Mrs. Max Socha is president, have offered their assistance
Date:
1933
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Mabel V. Socha, Agnes Fredericks, and Artie W. Burtnett standing at luncheon table, Los Angeles, 1933

George Jessel speaking at the memorial service for will Rogers at Twentieth Century Fox Studio, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Description accompanying negative: Scene of the memorial services for Will Rogers held at the departed star's own studio, 20th Century-Fox, at whose Movietone City plant in Westwood Hills 2,500 of the star's co-workers gathered in the open air to pay their final tribute. Stars, directors, executives and laborers joined in common grief as George Jessel, famed star of sage and screen, Jason Joy, studio executive, and the Reverend Josiah Hopkins eulogized the nation's idol [ark no. 21198/zz002d96wf].
Date:
August 22, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
George Jessel speaking at the memorial service for will Rogers at Twentieth Century Fox Studio, Los Angeles, 1935

Robert G. Sproul and George E. Montgomery at a Rotary Club luncheon, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:
Probably connected to Los Angeles Times article, June 9, 1934, Sproul Raps Communism, Rotarians Hear U.C. Head, Says Reds Will Never Be Tolerated in California or United States, Painting of Universities as Hot Beds of Radicalism Decried by Speaker. Communism was attacked yesterday by Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul, president of the University of California, in an address at a Los Angeles Rotary Club luncheon in the Biltmore … George E. Montgomery, president of the local Rotary Club, presided.
Date:
June 8, 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Robert G. Sproul and George E. Montgomery at a Rotary Club luncheon, Los Angeles, 1934

Actresses Lona Andre, Ida Lupino, Toby Wing, Grace Bradley and actor Baby Le Roy meet with Judge Marshall McComb to obtain contract approvals, Los Angeles, 1933

Description:
A similar photograph appears with the caption "Infant Star Voices Approval of Judicial Procedure; Judge McComb fixes up papers for young actor who, pencil in hand, awaits chance to sign. Surrounding the pair are, left to right, Lona Andre, Ida Lupino, Toby Wing and Grace Bradley," with the article, "Baby Leroy's Screen Contract Approved, Four Comedy Actresses Also Signed by Studio for Film Jobs," Los Angeles Times, September 20, 1933.
Date:
September 19, 1933
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Actresses Lona Andre, Ida Lupino, Toby Wing, Grace Bradley and actor Baby Le Roy meet with Judge Marshall McComb to obtain contract approvals, Los Angeles, 1933

Atanas Katchmakoff, sculptor, with his bronze Madonna sculpture, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Another photograph of Atanas Katchmakoff, with this sculpture, with his attorney Saul Ruskin, and art expert Dr. Ernest L. Tross appears in a Los Angeles Times article on 4/17/1935 titled: "Worth of Statue Debated: Value of Lost Madonna Estimated in Cost Case." At this time Katchmakoff sued Fred Keeler, the owner of the foundry that cast his Madonna sculpture for losing the plaster original. Two bronze sculptures had been made, but the owner of the bronze Madonnas had refused to allow his bronzes to be used to produce a new plaster cast.
Date:
April 16, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Atanas Katchmakoff, sculptor, with his bronze Madonna sculpture, Los Angeles, 1935

Betty Wang, Journalist, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:
Betty Wang (her Americanized name) was a Chinese journalist who graduated from Shanghai University, worked as a reporter for a daily Chinese newspaper before attending the University of Southern California as a graduate student in journalism in 1933-1934. While in Los Angeles she became a member of the Theta Sigma Phi national honorary and professional journalism sorority and worked as a technical expert on "The Good Earth" at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; she appears in Harry Carr's "Lancer" feature 3 times. In 1934 she became editor of the women's page editor of the China Press newspaper in Shanghai in 1934. Ms. Wang published 2 articles in the Los Angeles Times: Ms. Wang published 2 articles in the Los Angeles Times: "We China Dolls are Free!" 6/3/1934" and "Mass Marriage in Shanghai" 11/24/1935.
Date:
1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Betty Wang, Journalist, Los Angeles, 1934

Lena and Eileen Jeffers attending Times Fashion Show, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
A similar photograph appears with the article, "Noted Omahans View Show," with caption: Mrs. W.M. Jeffers of Omaha and her daughter, Miss Eileen Jeffers, were interested spectator s at The Times’ First Annual Spring Fashion Show last week. They are enjoying a late winter vacation in the Southland, in the Los Angeles Times, March 1, 1936
Date:
1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Lena and Eileen Jeffers attending Times Fashion Show, Los Angeles, 1936

Southern Pacific officials R.E. Kelly, A.M. Merton, and W.H. Whalen with "Prosperity Special" train, Los Angeles, 1922

Description:
This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, July 1, 1922, Thousands See Giant Engines, “Prosperity Special” Reaches Los Angeles, Leviathans of Rail Brought by Southern Pacific, Will be Used to Haul Trains Over Mountains, Monsters of Rail Here to Serve. Cheered by thousands lining the tracks in Southern California towns as it madeits way into Los Angeles, the Southern Pacific Prosperity Special of twenty new Leviathans of the rails reached the city last night and was parked in the Figueroa-street switch at Exposition Park. …
Date:
1922
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Southern Pacific officials R.E. Kelly, A.M. Merton, and W.H. Whalen with "Prosperity Special" train, Los Angeles, 1922