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Description:: Actress Boots Mallory seated at a desk and writing on a piece of paper, with a standing man observing (either Commander Walker or Chief Dice), in an office. A life preserver on the wall identifies the location as "Santa Monica [Harbor] Dept." Mallory is wearing a harbor department with a badge on it jacket similar to the one worn by the man.
Date:: December 20, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Actress Boots Mallory raising maritime signal flags on top of a building of the Santa Monica Harbor Department as a Harbor official observes. The official is either Commander Walker of Chief Dice.
Date:: December 20, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Edna Aslin, in long shot with hands on hips and with buildings in background, modeling bathing suit embellished with donkeys and elephants
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: A different photograph of Admiral Kenwa Kanna appears with the article, "Japanese Finds Jingo Talk False: Admiral Kanna Returning After Finding No Adverse Sentiment in California." Los Angeles Times, 26 Sept. 1927.
Date:: September 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Hopkins was a close advisor to President Roosevelt and credited as a major architect of the New Deal and the Works Progress Administration. Photo was taken during Roosevelt’s trip to Los Angeles. Other men are unknown, most likely related to New Deal and WPA (Works Progress Administration) agencies.
Date:: October 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A similar photograph appears with the Los Angeles Time article, February 7, 1926, "The California Fruit Exposition at Alhambra," with caption: The beautiful booth of the Alhambra Chamber of Commerce.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Possibly related to Los Angeles Times article, June 21, 1935, “Pistol Champions Show Skill, Ontario Dedicates Range, Police Pistol Grounds Opening Attracts Marksmen of Southland for Carnival of Skill.” … Teams of the valley competing … Alhambra Team No. 1 … Alhambra No. 2 …
Date:: April 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Alice Carter, daughter of Santa Monica mayor William H. Carter, seated on high post or stool with hammer, on deck of S.S. Constitution, with sailor holding plaque against mast, another young woman standing near mast, Captain Louis J. Gulliver in foreground, ropes and ship's wheel at left and right
Date:: March 10, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: George Wallace (alias Robert M. Nixon) with U.S. Marshal William S. Sweeney. Wallace is accused of blackmailing lawyer and horse owner Neil S. McCarthy. McCarthy received four letters, allegedly from Wallace, threatening to maim his race horses with poisoned-needle darts if he didn’t pay up. Wallace testified that he had written the letters, but he had been acting on behalf of a gang of “tough eggs” that were behind the scheme.
Date:: [February 14, 1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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