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Crowd gathering on the beach from which Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:
A crowd gathers on the sand at Venice Beach the day after Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared from the same beach. The crowd stands across the mid-ground, and most face towards the left. All wear jackets at the beach. A woman in the foreground at right sits on the beach next to a pile of sand. At left, a man in a suit walks towards camera. Behind and to the right of him, a few kids play in the sand. Buildings rise behind the throng of people in the distance at center. On one of the buildings it reads, "HOTEL CADILLAC."
Date:
[May 19, 1926]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Crowd gathering on the beach from which Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared, Los Angeles, 1926

Polytechnic High School auditorium after the earthquake, Long Beach, 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
Polytechnic High School auditorium after the earthquake, Long Beach, 1933

Dr. Townsend advocates old age pension proposal to crowd at La Crescenta picnic, 1935

Description:
Similar to theimage of Dr. Townsend captioned: "Pension advocate addresses 20,000: Dr. Townsend, unperturbed by the plane crash which delayed his arrival at the La Crescenta picnic, addressed a crowd estimated at 20,000 on the old age pension plan which he originated." With the article "Dr. Townsend's Plane Crashes on Way to Picnic - Bowl Debater Heckled" Los Angeles Times 19 Aug. 1935.
Date:
August 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Dr. Townsend advocates old age pension proposal to crowd at La Crescenta picnic, 1935

George Palmer Putnam, widower of Amelia Earhart

Description:
View of George Palmer Putnam standing in glasses, collared shirt, tie, jacket, with overcoat and umbrella in right hand. George Putnam, husband and widower of Amelia Earhart, and Hollywood publisher and writer, was named sole executor of his wife's estate when Earhart was declared legally dead seventeen months after her ill-fated trip.
Date:
[between 1938-1939?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
George Palmer Putnam, widower of Amelia Earhart

View of penstocks and generators on original bases during the reconstruction of the Bureau of Power and Light's Power House #2, San Francisquito Canyon, 1928

Description:
A dirt road stretches along the bottom edge of the image. Behind it, a large pit sinks into the ground at center. Piles of lumber (center) and metal beams (right) sit in front of it. Scaffolding is visible within the pit. To the far left, the power plant's penstocks sit and extend below the ground. To the right of the pit, the 2 generators sit atop their original bases. Beyond the pit, three small buildings stand in a row at the foot of the canyon wall. To the far right, a sawmill stands. The canyon wall stretches across the background. The water line of the St. Francis Dam disaster's flood waters is visible stretching across the canyon wall.
Date:
[circa May 14, 1928]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Watson, George R., 1892-1977
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
View of penstocks and generators on original bases during the reconstruction of the Bureau of Power and Light's Power House #2, San Francisquito Canyon, 1928

Members of the Women's Breakfast Bridge Club at the home of Exa Browning Link, Santa Monica, 1935

Description:
Members of the Women's Breakfast Bridge Club at the home of Exa Browning Link. They surround a cart that is topped with settings for tea, including a samovar, tea cups, and saucers. Exa Browning Link holds a tiered plate and Virginia Reid (Lynne Carver) and Edna Marie Lavin Cobb each hold a cracker (or whatever type of food is on the plates.)
Date:
[circa September 27, 1935]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Members of the Women's Breakfast Bridge Club at the home of Exa Browning Link, Santa Monica, 1935

Workers using tractors to clear flood debris after the flood resulting from the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Description:
View of workers using tractors to clear flood debris, including dead trees and a ruined building, after the flood resulting from the failure of the Saint Francis Dam. The regularly spaced trees in the background appear to be a ruined orchard.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Workers using tractors to clear flood debris after the flood resulting from the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Relief station 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
Relief station after the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933

Toddler Richard Burt was burnt after sticking a cartridge in the family car's socket, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
When baby Richard Burt was left alone in the car to play he found one of his father's .22 caliber cartridges in the side-pocket of the car and pushed the cartridge against the electrical contact points in the empty dash-light socket, which caused it to explode, but only injuring Richard's finger with some powder burns. The bullet from the shell had been melted.
Date:
July 22, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Toddler Richard Burt was burnt after sticking a cartridge in the family car's socket, Los Angeles, 1935

"Venus" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1935

Description:
Birdeseye view of the Long Beach float with Venus, Virginia Johnson, in a sunburst throne with her attendants, Joan Slaughter, Margaret Burley, Mary Lou Turner and Gladys McCleary, dressed in Grecian robes in pastel shades. A huge peacock heads the float, with a fountain in the center supporting 2 green cockatoos with orchid tails.
Date:
January 1, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
"Venus" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1935