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Harold E. Pomeroy, director of Los Angeles County Relief Administration, Los Angeles County, 1935

Description:
Portrait photograph of Harold E. Pomeroy, who was assistant director and director of public relations of the Los Angeles County Relief Administration, the local branch of the State Emergency Relief Administration (S.E.R.A.). S.E.R.A. provided relief funds during the Great Depression.
Date:
[July 29, 1935?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Harold E. Pomeroy, director of Los Angeles County Relief Administration, Los Angeles County, 1935

Eugene M. Brown, regional agent for the State Emergency Relief Administration, and executive secretary for Los Angeles County Emergency Relief Commission, Los Angeles County, 1934

Description:
Eugene M. Brown was the regional agent of the State Emergency Relief Administration for Los Angeles County, and was charged, along with several others, with conspiracy to defraud the government in 1934. He was also the executive secretary for the Los Angeles County Emergency Relief Commission. Charges were eventually dismissed.
Date:
1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Eugene M. Brown, regional agent for the State Emergency Relief Administration, and executive secretary for Los Angeles County Emergency Relief Commission, Los Angeles County, 1934

Blanche M. Sewell holding court judgment in Parker vs. Guttman case, Los Angeles County, 1935

Description:
Blanche M. Sewell seated and holding documents, including an August 15, 1935 Los Angeles County Superior Court judgment in which defendant Henry Guttman, Sewell's former business adviser, was ordered to pay plaintiff Harvey M. Parker, to whom Sewell had assigned her claim, $87,888.
Date:
August 15, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Blanche M. Sewell holding court judgment in Parker vs. Guttman case, Los Angeles County, 1935

Alvin Hudson, injured during Busby Berkeley car crash, 1935

Description:
View of Alvin Hudson, in jacket, pants, with bandage on chin, squatting and pointing to car involved with three way collision. Alvin Hudson was a pest control worker from Santa Paula who reported he had pulled into the middle lane on the Roosevelt Highway when all of a sudden two headlights appeared in front of him and the crash occurred. The three way collision occurred 400 yards north of Santa Monica Canyon on Highway 1, and was the fault of Busby Berkeley, film dance director, who was driving in the wrong direction while intoxicated. Six people were injured in the accident, and two died.
Date:
September 12, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Alvin Hudson, injured during Busby Berkeley car crash, 1935

Commercial street flooded during or after a heavy rainstorm, Los Angeles County, 1927

Description:
View of a commercial street flooded, possibly by the Los Angeles River, during or after a heavy rainstorm. Three men are raising the level of a tarp-covered truck with a wooden beam used as a lever in the middle of the street. Another truck with 2 kerosene lamps perched on it is on the right and sections of large pipe are on the side of the street on the far right. A pile of dirt is behind the truck. Signs on and around the commercial buildings read "United States Tires, Sales & Service Depot, Lloyds Service Station," "Quaker State Motor Oil," "Gilmore Gasoline," "Sanitary Kitchen, C. Soper..,...Ice Cream," "Radio Shop, Hardware," and "S. C. Weaver Const. Co."
Date:
February 1927
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Commercial street flooded during or after a heavy rainstorm, Los Angeles County, 1927

Murder suspect Gladys Carter and Los Angeles County Jail matron Vada Sullivan, Los Angeles County, 1935

Description:
Murder suspect Gladys Carter seated at desk in office setting with Los Angeles County Jail matron Vada Sullivan. Carter looks on as Sullivan fills out form. The photograph may have been taken on April 25, 1935, when Carter was taken from Los Angeles General Hospital to Los Angeles Municipal Court, where she was arraigned for the murder of Frances Walker and ordered to be held at Los Angeles County Jail.
Date:
[April 25, 1935?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Murder suspect Gladys Carter and Los Angeles County Jail matron Vada Sullivan, Los Angeles County, 1935

Murder suspect Gladys Carter in stretcher, Los Angeles County, 1935

Description:
Gladys Carter lying in a stretcher, with her mouth open. Two men in white coats carry the stretcher. Behind them is a middle-aged man in a suit and hat. The photograph was possibly taken when Carter was taken to the prison ward at Los Angeles General Hospital, where she was treated for a self-inflicted gunshot wound after killing her boarder, Frances Walker.
Date:
[April 13, 1935?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Murder suspect Gladys Carter in stretcher, Los Angeles County, 1935

Governor Frank Merriam and Major Harry A. Wishard join the Women's Breakfast Club with Marion Fitts, Los Angeles County, 1934

Description:
Three questions the Women's Breakfast Club asked Governor Merriam were, "Before you marry will you consult the Women's Breakfast Club?" "Do you know that anything you say will be held against you?" and "Will you, at a moment's notice, come to a board meeting, a bridge-tea, a dance, and will you allow the whole breakfast club to come to the Governor's mansion as your guest at any time?"
Date:
September 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Governor Frank Merriam and Major Harry A. Wishard join the Women's Breakfast Club with Marion Fitts, Los Angeles County, 1934

Film actor and singer Michael Bartlett with socialite Kate Winnett Candy, Los Angeles County, circa 1936

Description:
Film actor and singer Michael Bartlett seated at a table with Santa Monica socialite Kate Winnett Candy. Candy is smoking a cigarette. On the table is a gingham tablecloth, glasses, a plate, and a bowl. The wooden framework of the wall behind Bartlett and Candy is exposed. To the left is an unidentified woman, also seated.
Date:
[1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Traxel, Mel
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Film actor and singer Michael Bartlett with socialite Kate Winnett Candy, Los Angeles County, circa 1936

James P. Britt, veteran Republican campaigner and vice-chairman of the Los Angeles County Republican Central Committee, Los Angeles County, 1932

Description:
James P. Britt, veteran Republican campaigner and vice-chairman of the Los Angeles County Republican Central Committee, stands with his left hand in his pants pocket and his right arm raised, two fingers upheld, looking off the side of the photograph.
Date:
1932
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
James P. Britt, veteran Republican campaigner and vice-chairman of the Los Angeles County Republican Central Committee, Los Angeles County, 1932

Daughters of the British Empire members Mrs. B.W. Templeman, Cora Dow, Anna Poussette, Ethel Capstaff, Agnes Botterell, and Eva Sedding, Los Angeles County, 1936

Description:
Daughters of the British Empire members Mrs. B.W. Templeman, Cora Dow, Anna Poussette, Ethel Capstaff, Agnes Botterell, and Eva Sedding standing in an awning-covered patio. In the background is a building with a Spanish tile roof and pillars. This photograph was probably taken during the sixteenth annual state convention of the Daughters of the British Empire, which took place on March 30-April 1, 1936 at the Women's Athletic Club. Attendees also visited the British Old People's Home in Sierra Madre.
Date:
[March-April, 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Daughters of the British Empire members Mrs. B.W. Templeman, Cora Dow, Anna Poussette, Ethel Capstaff, Agnes Botterell, and Eva Sedding, Los Angeles County, 1936

Mrs. Marjorie Storkan visits the tax office with her son, Oliver, Los Angeles vicinity, 1938

Description:
At center, Mrs. Marjorie Storkam stands behind a long counter at the tax office. She looks down as she fills out paperwork. Beside her at left, her son, Oliver Storkan, sits up on the counter. He sits with his back towards camera but turns his head to look at the camera.
Date:
November 30, 1938
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Mrs. Marjorie Storkan visits the tax office with her son, Oliver, Los Angeles vicinity, 1938