Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Names: Ambassador Hotel / Subject: People - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: From left to right: David Gill, first assistant postmaster general William W. Howes, acting postmaster of Los Angeles Mary D. Briggs, and supervisor John Anson Ford having breakfast at the Ambassador Hotel. Howes was visiting Los Angeles to make the principle address at the Jackson Day dinner, held at the Hotel on the evening of January 8, 1938
Date:: January 7, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The version of the photograph that was published in the Los Angeles Times is cropped
Date:: August 28, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Austin Clapp swimming at the Ambassador Hotel Plunge event. Clapp and several other athletes participated in the Plunge event en route to the senior national outdoor championships at Honolulu.
Date:: August 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Rufus B. von Kleinsmid, President of the University of Southern California, seated next to Prince and Princess Kaya of Japan at a Los Angeles Breakfast Club event at the Ambassador Hotel.
Date:: August 29, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Austin Clapp was an American swimmer and water polo player who competed in the 1928 and 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1928 he won a gold medal in the 4x200 m freestyle relay event and in 1932 he was a member of American water polo team, which won a bronze medal.
Date:: August 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Prince and Princess Kaya undertook a seven-month world tour in 1934, visiting the United States, Great Britain, France, and Germany. The tour received extensive press coverage at the time.
Date:: August 28, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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