Genre: exterior views / Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Related to another photograph published in the Los Angeles Times, 4/24/1932, "City Dedicates Official Home. Beverly Hills Takes Over Municipal Hall. Structure Built at Cost of More Than $1,000,000. Rogers, One-Time Mayor, Speaker of Day."
Date:: April 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: St. Sophia Cathedral, located at 1324 South Normandy Ave., opened in 1952. It was commissioned by theater executive Charles R. Skouras. Designed by the firm Walker, Kalionzes & Klingerman, it is frequently attributed to Gus Kalionzes. Artist William Chavalas, who trained at the Academy of arts in Athens and was the artistic director at 20th Century Fox designing film sets and movie theaters, created the wall paintings and designed the stained glass. St. Sophia is Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #120.
Date:: March 16, 1956
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to the article This photograph appears with the article: "Citizens in the Making. Lark Ellen Home Teaches Boys How to Become Useful Members of Society Despite Handicaps." 18 May 1924: A1
Date:: May 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Griffith Observatory was created using a design developed by architects John C. Austin and Frederick M. Ashley based on preliminary sketches by Russell W. Porter.
Date:: [circa 1934-1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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

Description:: Biltmore Hotel, with Grand Avenue with foreground, some construction visible on ground floor, smoke visible in background
Date:: [1920s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Sears, Roebuck & Company Mail Order Building is located in the Boyle Heights neighborhood at Soto St. and Olympic Blvd. (formerly 9th St.; 2650 Olympic Blvd.).
Date:: [between 1927-1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Exterior view of the Wilshire Boulevard Congregational Church at Plymouth and Wilshire Boulevards, just after the exterior scaffolding came down. Signs on the church advertised a fundraising effort to acquire donations to complete the construction project: "Save The Tower! $25,000 will do it. Will You Give It?" and "$50,000 Will Save This Church. Have You Given Your Bit for Religion? This Church belongs to Everybody" and "Save The Church In May, $50,000 Needed..." The edifice is now the home of the Wilshire United Methodist Church. The building was designed by the architectural firm Allison and Allison Architects.
Date:: May 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This image appears (cropped and reversed) with the article "Churches Hard Hit In Tremor. Earthquake Takes Toll of All Religious Edifices in Channel City." Los Angeles Times, 1 Jul 1925: 2.
Date:: June 29, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Watson, George R., 1892-1977
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the facade of the Santa Barbara Mission following the earthquake. The bell towers are heavily damaged, although the bells remain in place, and the top of the pediment is gone. Rubble from the towers is piled on the plaza in front of the church. The Misison is located at 2201 Laguna Street.
Date:: June 30, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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