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20 Mule Team borax wagons, Pasadena, [1920-1939?]

Description:
3 borax wagons, with man and palm trees in foreground, mountains in background, and sign reading "Throop Co. materials and feed" partially visible behind wagons. Signs on 2 wagons read: "20-Mule Team Borax" and "The original 20 Mule Team wagons, used for hauling BORAX out of Death Valley for the Pacific Coast Borax Co."
Date:
[1920-1939?]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
20 Mule Team borax wagons, Pasadena, [1920-1939?]

Actor Leo Carrillo, writer Frank Condon, and Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce president Robert L. McCourt boarding a train for Mexico, 1936

Description:
This photograph, cropped, appears with Los Angeles Times article, March 4, 1936, Leaders Depart for Resort, Los Angeles Party Goes to Mexico Hotel Opening. Off to attend the opening of a new tourist resort hotel, the Playa de Cortes at Guaymas, Sonora ...
Date:
March 3, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Actor Leo Carrillo, writer Frank Condon, and Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce president Robert L. McCourt boarding a train for Mexico, 1936

Aerial coastline view of the Rancho Malibu la Costa development area, Malibu, circa 1927

Description:
Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit was a 13,316-acre Spanish land grant given by Spanish Governor José Joaquín de Arrillaga in 1804 to José Bartolomé Tapia. In 1892 Frederick Hastings Rindge and May Knight Rindge, purchased the rancho. In 1926, the Marblehead Land Company, formed by May Knight Rindge, made a $6 million deal with Harold G. Ferguson to develop the La Costa area (between Las Flores Canyon and Carbon Canyon), but that deal fell apart when Ferguson was sentenced to jail for securities fraud in 1931. Ferguson laid out the development with street names as they remain today: Rambla Vista, Paseo Serra, etc. It took until the mid 1930's for development of the area to begin in earnest.
Date:
[circa 1927]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Aerial coastline view of the Rancho Malibu la Costa development area, Malibu, circa 1927

Aerial coastline view of the Rancho Malibu la Costa development area, Malibu, circa 1927

Description:
Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit was a 13,316-acre Spanish land grant given by Spanish Governor José Joaquín de Arrillaga in 1804 to José Bartolomé Tapia. In 1892 Frederick Hastings Rindge and May Knight Rindge, purchased the rancho. In 1926, the Marblehead Land Company, formed by May Knight Rindge, made a $6 million deal with Harold G. Ferguson to develop the La Costa area (between Las Flores Canyon and Carbon Canyon), but that deal fell apart when Ferguson was sentenced to jail for securities fraud in 1931. Ferguson laid out the development with street names as they remain today: Rambla Vista, Paseo Serra, etc. It took until the mid 1930's for development of the area to begin in earnest.
Date:
[circa 1927]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Aerial coastline view of the Rancho Malibu la Costa development area, Malibu, circa 1927

Aerial view from Tupolev ANT-25 airplane flown from Moscow to San Jacinto, CA, breaking the world long-distance flight record. July 14, 1937.

Description:
Aerial view from the Tupolev ANT-25 long-range Soviet airplane that Mikhail Gromov, Andrei Yumashev, and Sergei Danilin piloted from Moscow to a field outside San Jacinto, CA. The flight broke the record for longest non-stop flight, and helped to popularize the polar air route from Europe to North America. July 14, 1937.
Date:
July 14, 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Aerial view from Tupolev ANT-25 airplane flown from Moscow to San Jacinto, CA, breaking the world long-distance flight record. July 14, 1937.

Aftermath of locomotive pile-up in train tunnel, with bystanders looking on, Tehachapi, 1937

Description:
Train accident in railroad tunnel with the resulting pile-up seen in the tunnel's entrance. Bystanders, men, stand throughout the image, on the bridge above the tunnel, in the nearby hillside, and around the wreckage. The bridge has the year, "1915" etched into it. The surrounding area is a rural, grassy field, with barbed wire fencing and trees.
Date:
[Probably March 15, 1937]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Aftermath of locomotive pile-up in train tunnel, with bystanders looking on, Tehachapi, 1937

Alexander & Baldwin Building and Oregon Building, view from Bishop Street, Honolulu, 1930

Description:
Exterior view of the Alexander & Baldwin headquarters building (right) and the Oregon Building (left) on Bishop Street in downtown Honolulu. Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. was once part of the "Big Five" companies in Hawaii. Today (2012), it operates in shipping, sugar cane, real estate and agriculture. Address for the building is: 822 Bishop Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813
Date:
September 26, 1930
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Cornell, Ralph D.
Collection:
Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972
Alexander & Baldwin Building and Oregon Building, view from Bishop Street, Honolulu, 1930

Alice Carter nailing plaque to mast, S.S. Constitution, San Diego Harbor, San Diego, 1934

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
Alice Carter nailing plaque to mast, S.S. Constitution, San Diego Harbor, San Diego, 1934

Alice Carter nailing plaque to mast, S.S. Constitution, San Diego Harbor, San Diego, 1934

Description:
Plaque designed by Tess Razalle. Plaque reads: Commemorating the visit of Old Ironsides to Santa Monica Bay, October Fifth, Nineteen Hundred Thirty Three. "Constitution" reconstruction made possible by the children of the United States of America. This plaque presented by the children of Santa Monica California.
Date:
March 10, 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Alice Carter nailing plaque to mast, S.S. Constitution, San Diego Harbor, San Diego, 1934

Alice Carter nailing plaque to mast, S.S. Constitution, San Diego Harbor, San Diego, 1934

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
Alice Carter nailing plaque to mast, S.S. Constitution, San Diego Harbor, San Diego, 1934

Ambulance driver Harry T. Meredith on the witness stand during the murder trial of Paul A. Wright, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:
Ambulance driver Harry T. Meredith on the witness stand during the Paul A. Wright "white flame" double murder trial. During the trial Meredith recounted transporting Evelyn Wright and Johnny Kimmel, wife and best friend of Paul A. Wright, from the Wright residence to the hospital on the night of their murders. Paul A. Wright is accused of shooting the two after allegedly finding them in an embrace on a piano bench in his home.
Date:
January 24, 1938
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Ambulance driver Harry T. Meredith on the witness stand during the murder trial of Paul A. Wright, Los Angeles, 1938

Ambulance driver Harry T. Meredith takes the witness stand during the murder trial of Paul A. Wright, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:
Ambulance driver Harry T. Meredith on the witness stand during the Paul A. Wright "white flame" double murder trial. During the trial Meredith recounted transporting Evelyn Wright and Johnny Kimmel, wife and best friend of Paul A. Wright, from the Wright residence to the hospital on the night of their murders. Paul A. Wright is accused of shooting the two after allegedly finding them in an embrace on a piano bench in his home.
Date:
January 24, 1938
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Ambulance driver Harry T. Meredith takes the witness stand during the murder trial of Paul A. Wright, Los Angeles, 1938

Antoinette Jones welcomes Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins upon her arrival by train, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:
Antoinette Jones (left), wife of lawyer Mattison Boyd Jones, welcomes Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins upon her arrival in Los Angeles for the opening of the first airplane apprentice school at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Perkins visited Los Angeles for two days to welcome the new class of 37 junior employees who were to begin the program.
Date:
February 15, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Antoinette Jones welcomes Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins upon her arrival by train, Los Angeles, 1940

Arden float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1933

Description:
Floral birds pulling a float with a large globe in the center and three floral parasols above platforms at the back providing shade for 2 visible maidens. Atop the globe is a uniformed man with "Adore" (probably for Adore Dairy) written on the back of his shirt. The float is on a reidential street, probably Orange Grove Blvd.
Date:
January 2, 1933
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Arden float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1933

Asphalt roller on road under construction in Huntington Palisades, Pacific Palisades, 1929

Description:
View of road under construction in the Huntington Palisades area of Pacific Palisades. An asphalt roller is on the road in the middle ground. In the background are workers spreading asphalt and talking in small groups, and parked cars. The curbs and sidewalks are complete and one street light is visible. The landscape is populated by eucalyptus trees
Date:
1929
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Asphalt roller on road under construction in Huntington Palisades, Pacific Palisades, 1929

Asphalt trucks and workers on road under construction in Huntington Palisades, Pacific Palisades, 1929

Description:
View of road under construction in the Huntington Palisades area of Pacific Palisades. The curbs and sidewalks are complete. Three trucks with asphalt, two asphalt rollers and fifteen workers holding rakes and shovels are on the road as a man in a light colored suit and cap standing near a parked car observes. Signs on the asphalt trucks read: "...REX TEELE, INC.,...Santa Monica." Signs on the rollers read: "L.A. Paving Co. Incorporated, E. R. Werdin, Gen. Mgr." Eucalyptus trees are visible beyond
Date:
1929
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Asphalt trucks and workers on road under construction in Huntington Palisades, Pacific Palisades, 1929