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Baseball pitcher Satchel Paige in a baseball field ready to pitch, Los Angeles, circa 1933

Description:
Famed baseball pitcher Satchel Paige with his arms raised about to pitch. A sign on the fence in the background reads: "New, Clean Grade-Marked Lumber, $1800 per 1000 ft., Owens-parks Lumber Co., 2100 E. 38th St., 5 blocks East" which is a Los Angeles address. The location may be Thomas Jefferson High School at Hopner and 41st St.
Date:
[circa 1933]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Baseball pitcher Satchel Paige in a baseball field ready to pitch, Los Angeles, circa 1933

Pianists Mildred Titcomb Rains and Madelaine Forthmann in recital, Biltmore Hotel ballroom, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
Probably related to Los Angeles Times article, May 10, 1936, "Beau Peep Whispers." … Junior League Musicale … Last Wednesday’s Junior League musicale in the quiet dignity of the Biltmore Ballroom … Madelaine Forthmann, looking blondely lovely in white chiffon, played Beethoven and Bach with exceptional skill, while Mildred (Mrs. William) Rains, in an Alice blue gown, was masterful in her contrasts of Chopin’s gay and somber moods. We thought the program rose to a new high in the talented two-piano playing of Rachmaninoff …
Date:
May 6, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Pianists Mildred Titcomb Rains and Madelaine Forthmann in recital, Biltmore Hotel ballroom, Los Angeles, 1936

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

William P. Carr, Deputy Prosecutor, stands next to a still, Los Angeles, 1930-1933

Description:
William P. Carr, Deputy Prosecutor, stands next to a still composed of a metal can, a metal cylindrical container with a gauge on top and a funnel. According to the annotation to the negative sleeve, there is come connection between the still and the Angelus Temple. On the wall behind Carr is a calendar advertising an insurance provider called the Seyler-Day Co.
Date:
[between 1930-1933]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
William P. Carr, Deputy Prosecutor, stands next to a still, Los Angeles, 1930-1933

Loyola University president Father Joseph Sullivan, [1928?]

Description:
Probably related to Los Angeles Times article, May 21, 1928, Break Ground For Loyola, Ten Thousand Persons Witness Formal Ceremonies Starting Erection of Great University. … The first spadeful of earth was turned by Rt. Rev. John J. Cantwell, bishop of Los Angeles, and he was followed by Rev. Joseph Sullivan, president of the unversity …
Date:
[1928?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Loyola University president Father Joseph Sullivan, [1928?]

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

Mary Jane Fong holding a gong stick and standing next to a Chinese lion in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1927

Description:
Little Mary Jane Fong holding a gong stick and standing next to a Chinese lion. The lion was being prepared for the February 5 New Year celebration in Chinatown. (Although it is identified as a dragon in the newspaper article, another photograph taken on the same occasion identifies it as a lion and shows the shorter lion's body, ark no. 21198/zz002d9cvb).
Date:
February 1927
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Mary Jane Fong holding a gong stick and standing next to a Chinese lion in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1927

Muriel Wallace and her children Billie, Claire, Gloria and Jacqueline, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Muriel Wallace left her husband and took their 4 children from their San Francisco home to Los Angeles to seek a divorce and they resided at the Hand Rescue Mission, later identified as a cult. When her husband, William Wallace, found them, he asked the police for assistance. The Mission was disbanded and the children returned to San Francisco with their father.
Date:
February 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Muriel Wallace and her children Billie, Claire, Gloria and Jacqueline, Los Angeles, 1935

Model Jeannette Warren in chiffon gown and fur wrap, Times Fashion Show, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
Jeannette Warren in light-colored chiffon gown and fur wrap. The location may be the roof terrace of the newly completed Los Angeles Times Building. The fashion 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:
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Model Jeannette Warren in chiffon gown and fur wrap, Times Fashion Show, Los Angeles, 1936

Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden with others at the recently completed Los Angeles Central Library, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:
Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden with others visit the recently completed Los Angeles Central Library (the last building by architect Bertram G. Goodhue). The group stands behind a long, gleaming reading table and pendant lamps, a bookcase and portion of the painted wooden ceiling are visible.
Date:
July 22, 1926
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden with others at the recently completed Los Angeles Central Library, Los Angeles, 1926

George W. Dickinson holding golf club at the Los Angeles Country Club, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
View of George W. Dickinson standing outdoors in hat, glasses, collared shirt, belt, pants, holding golf club underneath left arm, and holding paper and pen in hands. George Dickinson was a pioneer real estate operator in Los Angeles who was responsible for subdividing the Rampart Boulevard district, Moreno Highlands, and tracts in the Silver Lake district. He was also an avid golfer who frequently played at the Los Angeles Country Club where he decided to celebrate his 80th birthday by playing a game of golf. He died the following year due to a heart attack.
Date:
1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
George W. Dickinson holding golf club at the Los Angeles Country Club, Los Angeles, 1935

John Palo-Kangas, sculptor, placing a mold on his plaster of Paris statue "Spirit of the C. C. C." in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
View of sculptor John Palo-Kangas placing a mold on his plaster statue known as the "Spirit of the C. C. C." (Civilian Conservation Corps) at the Civilian Conservation Camp No. 1917 in Griffith Park [now the Travel Town train museum]. The mold was used to create a concrete version of the statue. The statue was a Los Angeles County Relief Administration art project. Palo-Kangas told a reporter that the work would be called "Conservation of Man and Nature." The statue was replaced by a bronze version in 1993.
Date:
August 23, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
John Palo-Kangas, sculptor, placing a mold on his plaster of Paris statue "Spirit of the C. C. C." in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1935

Mining engineer G. Warren Shufelt with radio X-ray device for underground observations, Los Angeles, 1934 or 1935

Description:
A similar photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, January 29, 1934, Lizard Peolpe’s [sic] Catacomb City Hunted, Engineer Sinks Shaft Under Fort Moore Hill to Find Maze of Tunnels and Priceless Treasures of Legendary Inhabitants. … G. Warren Shufelt, geophysical mining engineer now engaged in an attempt to wrest from the lost city deep in the earth below Fort Moore Hill the secrets of the Lizard People of legendary fame in the medicine lodges of the American Indian. …
Date:
1934-1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Mining engineer G. Warren Shufelt with radio X-ray device for underground observations, Los Angeles, 1934 or 1935

Comedian Eddie Cantor and actress Ann Harding at Screen Actors' Guild Film Stars' Frolic, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:
A similar photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, May 19, 1934, Film Star Frolic Seen By 10,000, Ann Harding and Cantor Shine in Screen Guild Show First Performance. …Ann Harding, in a white satin costume studded with pearls … Eddie Cantor … attired in a Roman toga, was master of ceremonies. …
Date:
May 18, 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Comedian Eddie Cantor and actress Ann Harding at Screen Actors' Guild Film Stars' Frolic, Los Angeles, 1934