Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Location: Beverly Hills (Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: View towards the Beverly Hills Hotel, steps and terraced lawn with palm trees from Sunset Boulevard. The hotel, opened in 1912 by Margaret J. Anderson and her son, Stanley S. Anderson, was designed by Pasadena architect Elmer Grey in the Mediterranean Revival style, and the gardens were designed by the landscape architect Wilbur David Cook.
Date:: [between 1912 and 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Possibly related to the article, "Kidnapers of Officer Hunted, Five Armed Autoists Abduct Street Superintendent, Escape is Made in Motor Car Believed Stolen, Plot to Rob Beverly Hills Bank Suspected," Los Angeles Times, April 1, 1921. The article states: "Five armed men believed to have been planning to hold up the First National Bank of Beverly Hills, yesterday morning abducted C.B. Duncan, Superintendent of Streets of Beverly Hills, and after forcing him into an automobile drove to a clump of eucalyptus trees near Culver City, where he was released..."
Date:: 1921
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Possibly related to the article, "Kidnapers of Officer Hunted, Five Armed Autoists Abduct Street Superintendent, Escape is Made in Motor Car Believed Stolen, Plot to Rob Beverly Hills Bank Suspected," Los Angeles Times, April 1, 1921. the article states: "Five armed men believed to have been planning to hold up the First National Bank of Beverly Hills, yesterday morning abducted C.B. Duncan, Superintendent of Streets of Beverly Hills, and after forcing him into an automobile drove to a clump of eucalyptus trees near Culver City, where he was released…"
Date:: 1921
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Probably related to article, "Kidnapers of Officer Hunted, Five Armed Autoists Abduct Street Superintendent, Escape is Made in Motor Car Believed Stolen, Plot to Rob Beverly Hills Bank Suspected," Los Angeles Times, April 1, 1921. The article states: "Five armed men believed to have been planning to hold up the First National Bank of Beverly Hills, yesterday morning abducted C.B. Duncan, Superintendent of Streets of Beverly Hills, and after forcing him into an automobile drove to a clump of eucalyptus trees near Culver City, where he was released…"
Date:: 1921
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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