Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Two men in a narrow canyon in Griffith Park during or after a fire, Los Angeles, 1933

Description:: The 1933 Griffith Park Fire was a brush fire that occurred on 3 October 1933 in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, resulting in the deaths of at least 29 civilians who were trying to fight the fire. It was one of the deadliest firefighter disasters in United States history.
Date:: October 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Barney Oldfield, Los Angeles, 1920s

Description:: Barney Oldfield, race car driver, sitting on the couch with a woman holding a document in his hand and a cigar in his mouth.
Date:: [1920s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Judge Ruben Schmidt, 1935

Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Ethelmae Brandon watches, as Chief E. L. Messinger of Hermosa Beach points out the parking regulations, Hermosa Beach, 1936

Description:: Ethelmae Brandon stand in front of a car, holding a dog on a leash. Chief E. L. Messinger holds a pad and pencil, pointing at the curb with the parking restrictions stenciled on it. He wears a badge, and his lapel has 3 stars and reads "H. P. D." His hat also has 3 stars. She wears a midi skirt, a cardigan, and a scarf tied around her neck.
Date:: January 10, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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U.C.L.A. Bruins play Oregon State Beavers at Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Different photographs taken on the same occasion appear under the headline, “Dramatic Highlights and Sidelights as Bill Spaulding Bows Out as Coach,” Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec 1938: A11.
Date:: December 10, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Samuel Morris sitting next to Herbert Hoover, Pasadena, 1935

Description:: Samuel Morris is second one from the left seated, Herbert Hoover is third one from the left seated.
Date:: April 19, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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"Chinese Empress" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936

Description:: View of the Chinese Empress Wan Qua Fei float. The float features a carriage lead by dragons with Lili Arikawa seated on a throne as the empress with 2 girls seated below her, hanging baskets and lanterns, and with 'Long Beach' written on top. All of the participants are dressed in light-colored Chinese silk, including 5 outwalker boys with baskets suspended from shoulder poles. Following is the Huntington Park's "Vanishing Race" float
Date:: January 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, Bill
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Band at U.S.C. Graduation, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:: View of the band, the temporary stage with the graduating class, and the crowd in the stands.
Date:: June 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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General Álvaro Obregón, president of Mexico, during a visit, Los Angeles, 1920s

Description:: General Álvaro Obregón, president of Mexico, seated at a desk in a hotel room.
Date:: [1920s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Attendees of the Iowa Picnic in Bixby Park stroll on the lawn, Long Beach, 1935

Date:: [August 10, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Produce market, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Theodore Roosevelt School heavily damaged by an earthquake, Long Beach, 1933

Description:: Photograph of Theodore Roosevelt School with earthquake damage visible in the 2nd story of the projecting centerpiece, with the rubble in a heap on the ground in front of the arched double doorway.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Mayor Ernest Cragin and Lieut. Governor Fred. S. Alward at Helldorado Days, Las Vegas, 1935

Description:: Helldorado Days started in 1934, and consisted of a festival with a parade and rodeo events that still occurs today.
Date:: April, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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General Patrick J. H. Farrell, Los Angeles, [1920-1939]

Description:: General Patrick J. H. Farrell posing in uniform with military baton. The initials "U.S." appear on his collar. One of the things Farrell was known for was starting the first boy scouts organization in the United States.
Date:: [1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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"Cameo of Jewels" float at the Electrical Parade in the Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1932

Description:: Restored negative
Date:: September 24, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Center Street bridge spanning the San Gabriel River swollen with rainstorm flooding, Los Angeles County, 1927

Description:: Onlookers gathered on the Center Street bridge with wooden trusses spanning the Los Angeles River, swollen with flood water from a torrential rain storm
Date:: February 16, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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A. P. Giannini, banker, arrives by train, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Amadeo Pietro Giannini was an Italian-American banker who founded the Bank of Italy, which became Bank of America.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Art Nouveau style stage curtain of the Grand Theatre, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: "Grand Theatre" curtain, detail of right medallion, showing the initials F and H in a heart. This might refer to the theater that opened as Childs' Opera House (110 S. Main St.) built by the entrepreneur Ozro W. Childs in 1884.
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Alfred C. Read in court during his wife's balm lawsuit, Los Angeles, 1932

Description:: Alfred C. Read had an extra-marital affair with actress Claire Windsor. His wife, Marian Read, sued Windsor for "balm" and ultimately divorced her husband.
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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William Arthur Newman, district engineer, W. E. Reynolds, assistant director of public works, and Alfred Cohn, collector of customs, discussing new post office building plans, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: William Arthur Newman, W. E. Reynolds, and Alfred Cohn were meeting to discuss the building of a new post office.
Date:: September 13, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Paula de Cardo and Robert E. Bell perform at a dance for French war veterans, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Paula de Cardo was the premiere ballerina for the Los Angeles and the San Francisco Grand Opera associations. In 1934, following her first film - "College Rhythm" in 1934, De Cardo traveled to Paris to study dancing with the masters, later returning to Hollywood.
Date:: March 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Admiral William V. Pratt at his roll top desk, San Pedro (Los Angeles), 1929

Description:: Admiral William V. Pratt on a Navy ship, seated at his roll top desk, at the time that he became commander of the combined United States Fleet.
Date:: May 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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
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Read "Speed" Kendall, Los Angeles Times columnist, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: “Filmdom and press pay tribute to Speed Kendal,” Los Angeles Times, 7 Jun. 1952: A5.
Date:: December 7, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Crane on the breakwater in Los Angeles Harbor, San Pedro (Los Angeles), 1920-193

Date:: [1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Sir Benjamin Fuller arrives on the S.S. Monterey, Los Angeles, 1933

Description:: This photograph is likely related to the article, "HARBOR TRAVEL GAIN FORECAST: Shift of Antipodean Traffic From Suez Sighted Voyage to England Shorter by Three Weeks Change Laid to New Matson. Oceanic Service," 13 Aug. 1933: 25
Date:: [circa August 12, 1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Sally St. Clair, on trial for drunk driving, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: St. Clair poses wearing a coat with a fur collar and a hat. She was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor for hitting three cars while driving intoxicated. She was tried and found guilty and her license suspended permanently.
Date:: November 13, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Mrs. Effie Woodward Fifield, novelist and philanthropist, 1935 (copy photo)

Description:: Effie Woodward Fifield was a novelist and wife of Joseph Clark Fifield, a Minnesotan publisher. After her death, she willed her home to the International Sunshine Society, an institution for the elderly and needy.
Date:: August 3, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Dynamite blast in San Gabriel Canyon during construction of the San Gabriel Dam, Azusa, 1929-1933

Description:: The San Gabriel Dam is a rock-fill dam on the San Gabriel River in Los Angeles County, California, within the Angeles National Forest. It was under construction from 1932 to completion in 1939.
Date:: [1929-1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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William G. Walker, Federal deputy administrator for prohibition, Los Angeles, circa 1933

Date:: [circa 1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Large crowd celebrates the 1936 New Year, Los Angeles, 1935 or 36

Description:: Hundreds of people crowd a patio in downtown Los Angeles as they celebrate the New Year. The crowd occupies the majority of the image and are viewed from a bird's'-eye perspective. Most face towards the camera. Some men raise their hats in celebration. Square columns line the left and right sides of the confined space and an elaborate door stands in the background at center.
Date:: [between December 31, 1935 and January 1, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Marion and Stanley Barbee at the El Mirador Hotel, Palm Springs, 1936

Description:: Marion and Stanley Barbee seated on a park bench on the grounds of the El Mirador Hotel.
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Joseph B. Keenan, Ernest R. Utley, Peirson Hall, and William Fleet Palmer discuss upcoming trial, Los Angeles, 1934-1935

Description:: The trial of several former C.W.A. and F.E.R.A officials will be before United States District Judge McCormick.
Date:: 1934-1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Patricia Williams, W. W. Smith, Gardiner W. Spring, and Connie Sturges, celebrating W. W. Smith's birthday, Ontario, 1936

Description:: W. W. Smith was the secretary of the Chaffey trust fund for about 50 years. Gardiner W. Spring was the president of Chaffey Junior College.
Date:: April 6, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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J. B. Van Nuys, J. F. Bourne, and H. B. R. Briggs inside new post office, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Related to the article, "Non-Closing Postoffice Opens On Spring Street," Los Angeles Times, 25 July 1935: A1.
Date:: July 24, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Hand and footprints of Billy, Betty, Bobby, and Jimmy Gettle, Beverly Hills, 1934

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Pathos Reigns in Gettle Home," Los Angeles Times, 13 May 1934: 2.
Date:: May 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Pages 1 and 4 of Rudolph Schiffman Jr. suicide note to father, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: From letter: "Sat., Aug 24, 1935,"-- "Dear Pop, I am sorry to leave like this without even asking you if I could stay on but you will have to forgive me. You are now rid of your lazy lout boozer, tramp, and jail-bird...."
Date:: August 31, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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West Second Street, Los Angeles, 1920-1935

Description:: Handwritten on negative: Old City Hall of L. A. 213 W. 2nd St.
Date:: 1920-1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Fred Morrison on a golf course, Los Angeles (?), 1930s

Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Produce market, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: A worker attends to produce in crates beside a parked truck at an outdoor produce market. Visible produce includes greens, cabbages and watermelon.
Date:: January 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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U.C.L.A. Bruins play Oregon State Beavers at Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Different photographs taken on the same occasion appear under the headline, “Dramatic Highlights and Sidelights as Bill Spaulding Bows Out as Coach,” Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec 1938: A11.
Date:: December 10, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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U.C.L.A. Bruins play Oregon State Beavers at Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Different photographs taken on the same occasion appear under the headline, “Dramatic Highlights and Sidelights as Bill Spaulding Bows Out as Coach,” Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec 1938: A11.
Date:: December 10, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Emery E. Olson, police chiefs W. W. Weatherly and John D. Fraser, and A. E. Stockburger, 1928

Description:: W. W. Weatherly was the Culver City Chief of Police. John D. Fraser was the Glendale Chief of Police. A. E. Stockburger was the city manager of Alhambra. Emery E. Olson was the director of the division of public administration of the University of Southern California, and a professor of economics.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Young adults on a ride at the Venice Beach fun house, Venice (Los Angeles), 1936

Description:: Possibly related to the article "BEWILDERING MACHINERY OF MIRTH MIXES NEW AND JOLLY COMPLEXITIES," Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 1936: D3.
Date:: February 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Edward Doherty and a policeman in Benedict Canyon where his wife died of an accidental fall, Los Angeles, 1939

Description:: Mildred Doherty worked as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune at the time that she met her future husband, Eddie Doherty, a writer.
Date:: March 16, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Colonel John S. McLean, of the Salvation Army in Toronto, 1930-1937

Description:: Col. John S. McLean served for 40 years as a lieutenant-colonel of the Salvation Army at Toronto, Canada.
Date:: [1930-1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Whole cooked tongue on a platter, 1936

Description:: What appears to be a whole cooked tongue, decorated with a flower motif, rests on a platter with assorted vegetables and a baked apple. Photo has crop marks (also known as trim marks) to show a printer how to crop the photo. Portions of other photographs are visible.
Date:: [January 29, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Jerry Giesler, Buron Fitts, William E. Simpson, and Marion Fitts at perjury trial, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: On February 7, 1936, District Attorney Buron Fitts was acquitted of perjury regarding a 1931 testimony over the sale of a Claremont orange grove. Mrs. Berthall Gregory, Fitts’ sister, sold the grove to Lucien C. Wheeler. Fitts reportedly falsified the amount of money he received through the sale. The perjury trial lasted three weeks.
Date:: February 7, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Speaker at the dedication of the California Institution for Women, Tehachapi, 1932

Description:: Related to the article “Rites Open New Woman’s Prison, Penal Institution Without Walls or Bars, Gov. Rolph and Huge Throng at Dedication, Model Home to Be Entered Early in July.” Los Angeles Times, 23 May 1932: 3
Date:: May 22, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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William E. Simpson, Joe Scott, Buron Fitts, and Jerry Giesler at perjury trial, 1936

Description:: Buron Fitts and his legal team at his perjury trial. From left to right, William E. Simpson, Joe Scott, Fitts, Jerry Giesler.
Date:: January 20, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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