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Visitors to the Los Angeles County Fair stroll along a midway lined by livestock stables, Pomona, 1930

Description:
A wide midway stretches back through the fair grounds at the Los Angeles County Fair. Visitors to the fair walk down the dirt thoroughfare. Along the midway's left side, livestock stables stand in a row, facing right. Signs over the entrances of the stables read, from left to right, "HOGS," "SHEEP," "CATTLE," and "CATTLE." Atop every 3rd stable, an American flag rises from a pole and waves in the wind. At right, a fenced-in structure enters frame. Mountains are visible in the background.
Date:
[between September 12-21, 1930]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Visitors to the Los Angeles County Fair stroll along a midway lined by livestock stables, Pomona, 1930

People lined up at the courthouse to view judicial proceedings for William Edward Hickman, kidnapper and murderer, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:
A line of men and women, both seated and standing, wait within the Los Angeles Courthouse to witness judicial proceedings for William Edward Hickman, who confessed to kidnapping and murdering Marion Parker, aged 12. Hickman was tried and sentenced to death. He was executed at San Quentin, October 22, 1928.
Date:
1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
People lined up at the courthouse to view judicial proceedings for William Edward Hickman, kidnapper and murderer, Los Angeles, 1928

Patty Clark sitting on the Orange county exhibit at the LA County Fair, Pomona, 1934

Description:
Patty Clark sitting on the Orange county exhibit, which features a bounty of fresh oranges, grape juice, and fruit juice . Other produce featured in the picture include avocados, squash, and grapefruit. The display is shaped like a mission, and has a map of Orange county in the center. In the distance decretive lamps and textiles hang from the ceiling.
Date:
September 16, 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Patty Clark sitting on the Orange county exhibit at the LA County Fair, Pomona, 1934

Barracks being demolished, Ross Field, Arcadia, 1932

Description:
Related Los Angeles Times article, March 2, 1932, “Ross Field Wrecking Rushed, Site Soon Will Be Clear of Buildings.” In less than ninety days, Ross Field, headquarters in California of training for army balloon school pilots during the World War, and in the halycon days of “Lucky” Baldwin, the center of activity for the Los Angeles Racing Association, will again be a pleasant rolling plain, dotted with trees, much as it was in the earliest days of the Santa Anita Rancho. ...
Date:
1932
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Barracks being demolished, Ross Field, Arcadia, 1932

Buron Fitts thanks jury after acquittal, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
On February 7, 1936, District Attorney Buron Fitts was acquitted of perjury regarding a 1931 testimony over the sale of a Claremont orange grove. Mrs. Berthall Gregory, Fitts’ sister, sold the grove to Lucien C. Wheeler. Fitts reportedly falsified the amount of money he received through the sale. The perjury trial lasted three weeks.
Date:
February 7, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Buron Fitts thanks jury after acquittal, Los Angeles, 1936

Masonic Temple and other buildings on the first block of East Carrillo Street, Santa Barbara, [1926-1929?]

Description:
Masonic Temple, one building under construction or post-earthquake restoration with scaffolding, construction materials, and workers in and around it, building with arches and round window at right, El Castillo Building partially visible at left, with street and parked cars in foreground. Business signs read: A.B. Watkins, Realtor, Insuror; Kelvinator
Date:
[1926-1929?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Masonic Temple and other buildings on the first block of East Carrillo Street, Santa Barbara, [1926-1929?]

Cathedral of Saint Vibiana, interior view, Los Angeles, circa 1920-1939

Description:
The former Cathedral of Saint Vibiana, located at 214 South Main Street, is one of Los Angeles' few remaining 19th century landmarks and was completed in 1876. The Cathedral was decommissioned at some point between 1994 and 1999 after which it underwent seismic retrofitting and restoration and, in the process, was converted to an event space called Vibiana.
Date:
[circa 1920-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Cathedral of Saint Vibiana, interior view, Los Angeles, circa 1920-1939

Fire burns in the Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:
View towards Pacific Palisades fire from the Pacific Coast Highway and Porto Marina Way, with Thelma Todds Cafe on the right. Black and gray smoke fills the sky beyond the structures of the hills covered in trees. One truck drives towards the smoke, and on the other side of the road a steady stream of traffic is driving the opposite direction.
Date:
November 1938
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Fire burns in the Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, 1938

Siblings Kenneth and Florence Verrill in court for the trial of their mother's murder by Kenneth's estranged wife, Claremont, 1934

Description:
Siblings Kenneth and Florence Verrill in court for the murder trial of Vera Verrill, Kenneth's estranged wife. Vera Verrill plead guilty to second-degree murder for fatally shooting her mother-in-law Ethel Verrill and shooting her sister-in-law during a domestic dispute. The sister-in-law suffered minor injuries.
Date:
March 21, 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Siblings Kenneth and Florence Verrill in court for the trial of their mother's murder by Kenneth's estranged wife, Claremont, 1934

Women washing clothes in a tent laundry after the failure of the Saint Francis Dam and resulting flood, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Description:
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.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Women washing clothes in a tent laundry after the failure of the Saint Francis Dam and resulting flood, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Two women and a child in a relief camp for flood victims following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Description:
View of two women and a child walking in front of a relief camp with tents for people who were displaced by the flood following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam. There are about 12 tents visible, with trash containers, a parked automobile and clothes drying on a clothes line on the left, and mountains in the distance.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Two women and a child in a relief camp for flood victims following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Children in a relief camp for flood victims following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Description:
View of twenty-seven or so children in an open area in front of 5 tents on the left, in a relief camp for people who were displaced by the flood following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam. An automobile is parked in front of a tent and mountains are visible in the distance.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Children in a relief camp for flood victims following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Stagecoach bound for the Santa Barbara Old Spanish Days Fiesta, Los Angeles, 1932

Description:
Los Angeles Mayor John C. Porter bids farewell to group in 19th century costumes departing Los Angeles in a stagecoach for the 2-day journey to the Old Spanish Days Fiesta in Santa Barbara, where they were to participate in the parade and deliver an invitation to the Los Angeles World Congress of Rough Riders and Rodeo. The group includes: (front, L to R) Hilton McCabe, Francis Josef Hickson (stage actor), Marion Parks (California history advocate), John C. Porter, Thomas Workman Temple (early California family member), (in coach, L to R) Miss Irene Tillinghast (of the Los Angeles Museum of History and Science), Orpha Klinker (California artist), (on top) Jose Arias, left, and his celebrated Mexican orchestra (Jose Arias Troubadours) holding guitars and possibly a mandolin, with driver Buster Trow (silent Westerns actor). "U.S. Mail" and "Louisville and..." are painted on the stagecoach.
Date:
August 16, 1932
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Stagecoach bound for the Santa Barbara Old Spanish Days Fiesta, Los Angeles, 1932

Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden clibing into in the cab, or engineer's compartment, of a train, [Los Angeles?], 1926

Description:
In 1926-1927, Crown Prince Gustav Adolf and Crown Princess Louise of Sweden made an international trip around the world to benefit Swedish interests, which was described as a great success, especially the trip to the USA, during which they travelled over the nation from New York to San Francisco.
Date:
July 1926
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden clibing into in the cab, or engineer's compartment, of a train, [Los Angeles?], 1926

Sea Scouts on Pinta cabin and rigging with flags, Balboa peninsula (Newport Beach), 1937

Description:
A similar 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) Caption: Dressing up the ship. Left to right, Larry Harrod, Paul Doose and Bill Boyd.
Date:
1937
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Spencer, E. J. (Elias James), 1868-1945
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Sea Scouts on Pinta cabin and rigging with flags, Balboa peninsula (Newport Beach), 1937

Damaged building seen from across a vacant lot after the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933

Description:
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.
Date:
March 1933
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Damaged building seen from across a vacant lot after the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933

L. E. Behymer, impresario, holds a document about the Los Angeles production of the play, "The Miracle," Los Angeles, 1934

Description:
L. E. Behymer, impresario, is seated in a chair holding a document about the Los Angeles run of the play "The Miracle," produced by Morris Gest. The document is designed in a medieval revival style with calligraphy and illuminated initials. It is dated March 7, 1927 (just after the production of the play at the Shrine Auditorium had ended), and has the seal of the city of Los Angeles in the lower left corner.
Date:
[circa 1935]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
L. E. Behymer, impresario, holds a document about the Los Angeles production of the play, "The Miracle," Los Angeles, 1934

Edward Wehrly, the driver in a fatal traffic accident, testifies at the coroner's inquest, Los Angeles, 1932

Description:
Teenager Edward Wehrly testifies during the coroner's inquest about a fatal, single-car accident in which two teenage girls were killed and a young man was serious injured. Wehrly claimed a strong wind gust caused the accident, but the ruling at the inquest was that he did not take proper precautions.
Date:
December 30, 1932
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Edward Wehrly, the driver in a fatal traffic accident, testifies at the coroner's inquest, Los Angeles, 1932