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Interior of the Otis Art Institute during a student exhibition (?), Los Angeles, between 1918-1939

Description:
View of the interior of a stately house, probably the 1898 house of General Harrison Grey Otis, which became the Otis Art Institute in 1918 (located at 2410 Wilshire Blvd.). There is carved chest supporting a floral bouquet in front of a fireplace with a carved stone mantle. In the room beyond there appears to be art work on exhibition.
Date Created:
[between 1918-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection
Interior of the Otis Art Institute during a student exhibition (?), Los Angeles, between 1918-1939

Stylized landscape painting and decorative metalwork objects by a Otis Art Institute students, Los Angeles, 1918-1939

Description:
Photograph of a stylized landscape painting by an Otis Art Institute student, with a view towards a lawn and house from a front gate. The painting is on a wall above a table covered with fabric and holding a footed metal bowl flanked by decorative metal candle holders and small paintings in decorative metal frames.
Date Created:
[between 1918-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection
Stylized landscape painting and decorative metalwork objects by a Otis Art Institute students, Los Angeles, 1918-1939

Workers creating upholstered furniture in the Roberti Brothers' furniture factory, Los Angeles, circa 1920-1930

Description:
Workers creating upholstered furniture in the Roberti Brothers' furniture factory, located at the corner of 14th St. and McGary St. in Los Angeles. In the foreground, a worker holding a hammer tacks down fabric on an upholstered chair supported by a saw horse with the springs visible. On the right, a craftsman works on a wooden chair frame.
Date Created:
[between 1920-1930]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection
Workers creating upholstered furniture in the Roberti Brothers' furniture factory, Los Angeles, circa 1920-1930

Tabin Kato, Japanese civic leader, hosts a dinner at his cafe for members of the Japanese community, 1920-1936, Los Angeles

Description:
Photograph of over 40 members of the Los Angeles Japanese community gathered in the café of Tabin Kato for a dinner. Kato is seated at a table with a large turkey on a platter next to (former?) police Chief George K. Home. Three boys at the table behind Kato wear scout uniforms.
Date Created:
[between 1920-1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection
Tabin Kato, Japanese civic leader, hosts a dinner at his cafe for members of the Japanese community, 1920-1936, Los Angeles

Dancing Chinese lion during festival in Chinatown, Los Angeles, circa 1920-1939

Description:
Dancing Chinese lion during festival in Chinatown on unpaved street with spectators on the sidewalk. The man supporting the front holds the lion's head high above his own head and is smiling. There is allot of dust or smoke in the foreground. A sign on a commercial building reads: "Eastern Grocery Co."
Date Created:
[circa 1920-1930]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection
Dancing Chinese lion during festival in Chinatown, Los Angeles, circa 1920-1939

County assesor Hopkins in his office, Los Angeles

Description:
This is a picture of noted Los Angeles county assesor Ed W. Hopkins, who served from 1910 until his death in 1938. He was repeatedly voted back into office by the public. In this picture, he appears to be looking through a file in his office. In the background is a desk, a shelf lined with books, papers, files, and a feather duster.
Date Created:
[Between 1920 and 1938]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection
County assesor Hopkins in his office, Los Angeles

California National Guard members at train station, Los Angeles, circa 1920-1933

Description:
About 150 uniformed soldiers, most in campaign hats with rifles on shoulders, most marching in lines on Exposition Blvd. between train in left background and cars in right foreground, with about 15 civilians near cars. Some of the women wear cloche hats (popular 1920-1933). The Science and Technic Building (aka Flatiron Building or S&T) at the intersection of Exposition Blvd. and Figueroa Blvd., on the campus of the University of Southern California is in the background. A sign reading "College of Dentistry..." is painted on the side of the building; this building began to house the students in the first 2 years of the dental school program in 1920. The Exposition Park Armory is across the street, out of the frame of the photograph, on the right.
Date Created:
[between 1920-1933]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection
California National Guard members at train station, Los Angeles, circa 1920-1933

Adobe house in the Sonora Town neighborhood of Los Angeles, ca. 1920s

Description:
View of a street with utility poles and an adobe house on the right. Children play on the sidewalk. A sign above them reads "Gotting Pl." A truck is parked in the street beyond. A hill is visible in the background on the left, possibly Bunker Hill or Poundcake Hill. A sign on a building on the hill reads "Auto Club of America."
Date Created:
1920s
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection
Adobe house in the Sonora Town neighborhood of Los Angeles, ca. 1920s

Nineteenth century (?) synagogue, repurposed as a boarding house, (Los Angeles?)

Description:
Photograph of a former synagogue narrow, pointed windows, finished in clapboard siding and with a circular Star of David window on the main façade above the entrance. The "rooms" sign above the doorway indicates that the building was repurposed as a boarding house. A man is seated in the garden in front of the building and the building is situated between an automotive shop, with the sign "[Co]mplete Lubrication," and an industrial building, perhaps a factory.
Date Created:
[between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection
Nineteenth century (?) synagogue, repurposed as a boarding house, (Los Angeles?)

Los Angeles Times feature editorial writer, S. Fred Hogue, Los Angeles, [1920-1939]

Description:
Photograph of S. Fred Hogue, feature editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times. An expert in art, international affairs, history and modern problems, Mr. Hogue was with the Times from 1914 to his death in 1941. He was also one of 12 reporters chosen to be a part of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Date Created:
[bBetween 1920-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection
Los Angeles Times feature editorial writer, S. Fred Hogue, Los Angeles, [1920-1939]

California National Guard members inside Exposition Park Armory, Los Angeles

Description:
Possibly related to the article "'Los Angeles Own' – the 160th U.S. Infantry," Los Angeles Times, 25 July 1926. The article states: ... the five designations of the regiment from first to last: The Los Angeles Guard, the Eagle Corps, the Seventh Regiment, the Ninth Infantry, and the 160th Infantry, "Los Angeles Own." The crest is that prescribed for the National Guard organizations of California. ...
Date Created:
[between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection
California National Guard members inside Exposition Park Armory, Los Angeles
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