Adelbert Barlett, in bow tie and hat, and another man, in checked cap and sunglasses with one foot on bench, standing near bench mounted between trees, among row of eucalyptus trees, with shadows of trees falling toward camera and road in background
Edward M. Blatchford, Near East Relief director, in light suit, standing upright, and Adelbert Bartlett, in suit and holding pith helmet, leaning forward, both photographed through stone or plaster archway or gate
View of plant debris and a muddy agricultural field with evenly spaced plantings beyond in the path of the flood caused by the failure of the Saint Francis Dam. A straight, elevated area in the background may be a road.
Albert Dyer and his lawyers William Neeley and Ellery Cuff at Dyer's murder trial. Dyer lured three Inglewood girls to the hills, where he strangled them to death with his hands as well as rope. From left to right is Albert Dyer and public defenders Neeley and Cuff.
Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the United States and Archbishop of Laodicea in Phyrigia, seated on the throne during the elevation ceremony of Bishop John Joseph Cantwell to Archbishop of the newly created Roman Catholic Province of Los Angeles. He offers his hand to Bishop Cantwell who is half-kneeling oppposite him. Using the powers vested in him by Pope Pius XI Cicognani presided over the ceremony, which took place at the Cathedral of Saint Vibiana in Los Angeles.
Arthur Hohl was a character actor who appeared in dozens of films from the 1920's to the 1940's, including films produced by Columbia Pictures from 1933-1940.
Another photograph of Atanas Katchmakoff, with this sculpture, with his attorney Saul Ruskin, and art expert Dr. Ernest L. Tross appears in a Los Angeles Times article on 4/17/1935 titled: "Worth of Statue Debated: Value of Lost Madonna Estimated in Cost Case." At this time Katchmakoff sued Fred Keeler, the owner of the foundry that cast his Madonna sculpture for losing the plaster original. Two bronze sculptures had been made, but the owner of the bronze Madonnas had refused to allow his bronzes to be used to produce a new plaster cast.
A large group of people are gathered eating at outdoor picnic tables. American flags are strung over the road and a large structure can be seen in the background.
Related to the article “Bottarini Injured as Angel Regulars Lose, Foul Tip Puts Catcher on Shelf; Cy Malis Hurls Three-Hit Ball as Rookies Win, 4 to 1.” Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 1936. The article states: “Catcher John Bottarini went on the hospital list today with a badly split finger … Bottarini was catching for the regulars when a foul tip struck the end of one of his right-hand fingers, causing a deep laceration …”
Legible business signs include: Bay Lumber Co. Venice, Auto Park, Craig's Market Meat Fruit Vegetables, Virginia Apts, Lee H. Young Ocean Park Public Market, Drugs, Lee H. Young Cash and Carry Grocery, Hardware, Bargain Shop, Crescent Apts. Rooms by Day Week or Month, The Minnesota Apts Rooms 1 2 and 3 Rooms Furnished, Kolbs Grocery Delicatessen, New & Used Clothing Cleaning Pressing, U.S. Shoe Renewing Carlson & Sons
Constructed in 1929, the Gothic Revival style building was originally a residential stock co-operative, was converted to a hotel after the Great Depression, returned to being a stock co-operative in the mid nineteen fifties and converted to condominium titles in 1991. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located at 800 East Ocean Boulevard
George W. McDill, member of the 1935 Los Angeles Board of Education, sits looking solemn. McDill was a part of the law and rules committee of the Board.
3 boys, identified as Jackie Stone, Raymond Robinson, and possibly Max Tyler, with helmets, brooms, and flag, standing in dusty yard with fence in background
A list accompanying the "negs of plots" images identifies a similar photograph as a brush plot over the north tunnel [in] Devil Canyon, an area north of San Bernardino.
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Photograph of buildings on Royal Street, around the 700 block, in the French Quarter of New Orleans with buildings with wrought iron balconies and a carriage on the cobblestone or brick street. Street car tracks are in the street with electrical lines above. The sign on top of a building reads "The King of Wheat Foods. UneedaBiscuit..."
California state assemblymen Jack B. Tenney of San Diego, right, and Fred Muldoon of Ventura, left, participate in an interim committee on labor and capital. The interim committee was formed in order to assess the C.I.O./United Mine, Mill, and Smelters Union strike at the San Jacinto tunnel of the Colorado River aqueduct project. The committee met first on October 27, 1937 at the California state building in Sacramento.
Photograph of Carl and Lula Hopping (L) with Frank and Kate Hopping at a table at the annual Iowa Association picnic at Bixby Park. Other participants are visible in the background among the trees.
Carolyn Bartlett, about 4 years old, standing near Christmas tree with holding telephone, with doll, wicker doll carriage, elephant, teacups, and other presents, indoors with floor lamp and candle in background
This collection consists of glass photonegatives, glass positive transparencies, and black & white photographic prints of the photographer C.C. Pierce (1861-1946). The subject matter primarily covers Los Angeles and the surrounding vicinity.
This photograph appears with the article, "Spurned Suitor's Love for Slain Girl Pledged by Tender Notes on Playing Cards: Ardent Love Exhibit in Girl-Slaying," Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 1934: A2.
Possibly connected to Los Angeles Times article, August 9, 1932, Outline of Golden Rule Week Given, President of Foundation Tells Plan to Observe Period December 11-18. Plans for the local observance of Golden Rule Week … were outlined yesterday by Charles V. Vickrey of New York, executive president of the Golden Rule Foundation … the meeting was in charge of Lincoln Wirt, Pacific Coast director of the foundation. … the public will be asked to deny themselves the extensive meals and other luxuries to which they have become accustomed, and donate the money saved in this way to needy and destitute children. …
This collection contains motion picture stills and key book photographs created by Columbia Pictures mostly from 1932 to 1959. Included are portrait photos, publicity photos, fashion stills, movie stills, and off-camera photographs showing various aspects of production filming. The subjects of the portrait images include actors, writers, directors, producers, composers, lyricists and others engaged in film production. The images are taken from nitrate negatives and corresponding photographic prints, with front and reverse views. The reverse sides of many prints bear date stamps, A.A.C. (Advertising Advisory Council) stamps, press tags, and handwritten notes including names of people involved in publicity and titles of film fan magazines.
Though the negative enclosure attributes this drawing to Robert Kalloch (the name "Arthur Kallock" on the negative enclosure is an error), the text from the image contains a signature which may be C. RAGG, G. RAGG, GRAGG, or CRAGG.
Though the negative enclosure attributes this drawing to Robert Kalloch (the name "Arthur Kallock" on the negative enclosure is an error), the text from the image contains a signature which may be C. RAGG, G. RAGG, GRAGG, or CRAGG.
Three men stand in Harry Chandler's Baja California ranch, the California-Mexico Land and Cattle Company (C & M Ranch). The courtyard's landscaping includes a variety of desert plants.
David L. Hutton, estranged husband of Aimee Semple McPherson, holds a baton and sheet of music as he stands in front of a band in a nightclub. Fabric draped over 2 music stands has the monogram "C de P."
District Attorney Buron Fitts and his sister Mrs. Berthal Gregory appear in a crowded courtroom with Mrs. Marion Fitts and their attorneys Joseph Scott and Jerry Giesler. Seated left to right is Buron Fitts, Mrs. Marion Fitts, and Berthal Gregory. Standing in the back, left to right, is Joseph Scott and Jerry Giesler.
The Long Beach earthquake of 1933 took place on March 10, with a magnitude of 6.4, causing widespread damage to buildings throughout Southern California. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach on the Newport-Inglewood Fault. An estimated fifty million dollars' worth of property damage resulted, and 120 lives were lost.
Dore Schary wrote the screenplays for three Columbia Pictures films: Fury of the Jungle (1933), Fog (1933), and Most Precious Thing in Life (1934). He went on to become president of MGM.
Interior view of large room with brocade couches and chairs, Italianate ceiling with decorated beams and panels, chandeliers, paintings, Oriental rugs, statue of woman and horse on table, and fireplace below large mounted elk head
Dr. John L. Rice, Health Commissioner of New York City (appointed 1933) and Hugh S. Cumming, Surgeon-General of the United States Health Service (retired 1936), standing out doors with trees behind them.
"Drummer Boys of '61" float with the theme song of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" and with a group of 8 aged veterans with fifes and drums. Entered by the John F. Godfrey Post, G.A.R.
A list accompanying the "negs of plots" images identifies the "bare" plots as being on "Edison Avenue." Other locations on the list are in Glen Avon Heights (now Jurupa Valley) and Devil Canyon (north of San Bernardino) (image ark no. 21198/zz002jk848).
Elizabeth Blodget, aka Mother Larke, exhibited her "Village of Lilliput" dollhouse in California for many years. During World War I, she was a Special Asst. to the Morale Officer, “Hostess of the Coast Defense” and “Special Welfare Agent for the Government.”
Exterior view of the former Elks Temple, or Lodge, located at the southeast corner of Main St. and Pier Ave. in Santa Monica. The letters "BPOE" along the cornice of each visible side of the building stand for: Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. The BPOE is an American fraternal order and social club founded in 1868.
View of Ensenada shoreline, with road, trees, and house in foreground, pier prominent in midground, mountains and the Hotel Playa Ensenada in background
Eugene Thackrey (sometimes credited as Gene Thackrey or Eugene Thackeray) was a screenwriter who worked as a technical advisor on the Columbia Pictures film Washington Merry Go-Round (1932).
View towards a large open double-doorway of the brick building housing the Collins Steel Studding. A man holding a structure with long metal rods is standing at the doorway. On the wall above the door the name of the business is painted as well as the address "685". The front corner of a care is visible on the right
![Apartment house at 601 N. Rossmore Ave., Los Angeles, [1920-1939?]](https://iiif.library.ucla.edu/iiif/2/ark%3A%2F21198%2Fzz002bf94g/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg)
![Charles Vickrey and three men, [1932?]](https://iiif.library.ucla.edu/iiif/2/ark%3A%2F21198%2Fzz002bz1k2/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg)
![Commercial street flooded during or after a rainstorm, [Los Angeles County?], 1927](https://iiif.library.ucla.edu/iiif/2/ark%3A%2F21198%2Fzz002ddfj0/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg)
![Drawing room, Elks Lodge 906, Santa Monica, [1925-1942?]](https://iiif.library.ucla.edu/iiif/2/ark%3A%2F21198%2Fzz002bxrm8/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg)
