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Sea Scout Karl Cantner with rope on Pinta, Balboa peninsula (Newport Beach), 1937

Description:
This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, November 28, 1937, "A Day With the Sea Scouts. Sea Scouts of the Crescent Bay Council, Santa Monica, are shown on this page learning navigation and sea ways aboard their ship Pinta, which they reconstructed themselves from an old Navy whaleboat. They are among the 2000 Southland Sea Scouts who now are participating with their fellow Sea Scouts of California, Utah, Nevada and Arizona in the annual regional rendezvous at Balboa." (Times photos by E.J. Spencer)
Date:
1937
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Spencer, E. J. (Elias James), 1868-1945
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Sea Scout Karl Cantner with rope on Pinta, Balboa peninsula (Newport Beach), 1937

California governor C.C. Young, Miss Canada, Miss Mexico, and crowd at ribbon-cutting ceremony, Roosevelt Highway, Malibu, 1929

Description:
C.C. Young, at center, in suit and tie, holding knife, smiling, with Grant Donley, in skirt, sweater, knitted hat, and Miss Canada sash, waving, seated on car at left, and Marianita Servin (daughter of Dr. Guillermo Servin), in skirt, sleeveless blouse, necklace, and Miss Mexico sash, waving, at right, with tangle of paper ribbons in foreground, uniformed officers and crowd, many waving hats, and hillside in background
Date:
1929
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
California governor C.C. Young, Miss Canada, Miss Mexico, and crowd at ribbon-cutting ceremony, Roosevelt Highway, Malibu, 1929

Charles B. Wilson, Civil War veteran who escorted Abraham Lincoln to Richmond after the end of the war, Los Angeles, 1927

Description:
Civil War veteran Charles B. Wilson in his home at 2328 Eleventh Avenue, standing next to a wall case with military medals. Another photograph of Charles B. Wilson taken at the same photo session appears in an article titled: "Sidelights on Lincoln Given: Memories of Emancipator Recalled by Angeleno; Civil War Veteran Tells of His Acquaintanceship; Birthday to be Observed by Many Organizations" on 2/12/1927. The article reports 2 stories told by Charles B. Wilson about his encounters with Abraham Lincoln during and after the Civil War.
Date:
February 1927
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Charles B. Wilson, Civil War veteran who escorted Abraham Lincoln to Richmond after the end of the war, Los Angeles, 1927

Bouquet Canyon earth-fill dam under construction, 1933

Description:
Caption for a similar photograph taken on the same occasion: Bouquet Canyon Earth-Fill Dam Rapidly Taking on Permanent Form. Work Progressing. The city's dam in Bouquet Canyon to furnish storage for both water and power and to replace the ill-fated St. Francis Dam is rising steadily each day to the tune of rumbling trucks hauling earth from the pits to the dam site. The view here is from upstream looking at the concrete covered upstream face. The white streaks are streams of water poured on to aid the concrete to cure properly [Los Angeles Times, 6 Sept. 1933].
Date:
September 1933
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Bouquet Canyon earth-fill dam under construction, 1933

Kidnap victim Mary B. Skeele, blindfolded with detectives, outside the bungalow house where she was held, Pasadena, 1933

Description:
Mary B. Skeele, wearing coat, face obscured by blindfold, in the driveway near porch of the bungalow house of Luella Pearl Hammer where she was held (623 Buckeye St.), with son Franklin B. Skeele guiding her, Detective Joe Taylor at left, and 2 other men on porch, with garage in left background and potted plants on porch wall
Date:
February 9, 1933
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Kidnap victim Mary B. Skeele, blindfolded with detectives, outside the bungalow house where she was held, Pasadena, 1933

Griffith Observatory, exterior view of the west and central domes the during construction, Los Angeles, circa 1934-1935

Description:
Oblique exterior view of the south faces of the west and central domes of the Griffith Observatory from the west-south-west during the final phase of construction. Signs of construction include a tall ladder resting against a buttress of the central dome, wheel barrows next to the west dome and a pile of dirt in the foreground. The original concrete surface is visible; consistent with other similar architecture of the day, the Observatory's concrete walls were left unpainted in the 1930s and 1940s.
Date:
[circa 1934-1935]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Griffith Observatory, exterior view of the west and central domes the during construction, Los Angeles, circa 1934-1935

Oscillograph for photographing electrons, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 1928

Description:
Related to the article “Caltech Acquires ‘Ossie,’ Oscillograph to Photograph Atoms at Rate of 100,000,000 Per Second Unique Device.” Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 1928. “… known to well-informed electrical engineers as a cold cathode ray oscillograph which, in unscientific language, is a giant camera that records the antics of the electron particles composing an electric current. …”
Date:
1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Oscillograph for photographing electrons, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 1928

Mexican consuls Joaquin Terrazas and Alejandro V. Martinez, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
A similar photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, February 26, 1935, "Diplomatic Transfer in Effect Today, Mexico Changes Consuls; Terrazas to Serve Here." Caption reads: "Senor Joaquin Terrazas, left, becomes the Mexican Consul in Los Angeles today, and Senor Alejandro V. Martinez, who occupied the local post for two years, goes to Tucson, to take over the Consulate recently directed by the former"
Date:
1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Mexican consuls Joaquin Terrazas and Alejandro V. Martinez, Los Angeles, 1935

Postmaster Henry B. R. Briggs in his office, Los Angeles, 1934-1936

Description:
Henry B. R. Briggs was the Postmaster of Los Angeles from February 1, 1934 to his death (from pneumonia) on September 28, 1936. Prior to that, he was the publisher and editor of the Los Angeles Record. J. F. Bourne, a long-term postal employee, is mentioned in Los Angeles Times coverage of post office news between 1910 and 1938.
Date:
[between February 1, 1934 to September 28, 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Postmaster Henry B. R. Briggs in his office, Los Angeles, 1934-1936

Los Angeles aqueduct, section with sign, 1924

Description:
Related to Los Angeles Times article, May 23, 1924, Quick Grand Jury Action Pledged in Bomb Plot, Inyo Prosecutor Gets Evidence Pointing to Mojave Desert Ranchers, Owens Stockmen. Desert ranchers from Mojave and cattle owners and ranchers from the Owens Valley, moving in swift automobiles and with their faces covered, blew up the Los Angeles Aqueduct early Wednesday morning at the spillway three miles north of Lone Pine, according to evidence …
Date:
1924
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Los Angeles aqueduct, section with sign, 1924

Ceremonial setting of a bronze medallion at the dedication of the Santa Barbara County Courthouse, Santa Barbara, 1929

Description:
At the dedication of the Santa Barbara Courthouse, the ceremonial setting of a bronze medallion provided by the Native Sons of Golden West. The participants are shown mixing the ingredients of water from each of the California missions with sand and gravel from each of the counties in California on the main stage in front of the main entrance to the courthouse.
Date:
August 14, 1929
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Ceremonial setting of a bronze medallion at the dedication of the Santa Barbara County Courthouse, Santa Barbara, 1929

State code commissioners William G. Hale, Perry Evans, and T.C. Ridgway, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Commission member, Thomas Perry, stands between fellow commissioners William G. Hale and Thomas C. Ridgway, who are both seated at a table strewn with documents. The California Code Commission, tasked with revising and codifying laws from thousands of specific state statutes, met to outline its objectives. Members were chosen from the legal and academic community. Commissioners included: President Thomas Caldwell Ridgway, former president of the California bar association; Vice-chairs, USC Dean William Green Hale and Perry Evans of San Francisco; Secretary Fred B. Wood; Don G. Bowker of Los Angeles; Gerald Hanna Hagar of Oakland; Berkeley's Professor Alexander Marsden Kidd; Stanford's Professor William B. Owens, and Norris N. Montgomery of Santa Barbara. Hagar and Kidd's names are misspelled in the Los Angeles Times caption and nitrate negative captions.
Date:
October 5, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
State code commissioners William G. Hale, Perry Evans, and T.C. Ridgway, Los Angeles, 1935

Senator McKinley presenting the Ling Foundation medal to Frank A. Bouelle, Los Angeles, 1931

Description:
State Senator James Wilfred McKinley presenting the Ling Foundation medal to Frank A. Bouelle, Superintendent of School in Los Angeles. Bouelle was awarded to medal for establishing the first school playground with equipment in Los Angeles in 1906 and for years directed safety work in the city schools.
Date:
December 16, 1931
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Senator McKinley presenting the Ling Foundation medal to Frank A. Bouelle, Los Angeles, 1931