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Dueling challenger W. P. Blake in conversation with two women, Los Angeles, 1933

Description:
Related to the article “Trial on Anti-Dueling Law Charge Brings Conviction of Inventor Accused by Attorney, Duel Seeker Found Guilty, Verdict Carries Possibility of San Quentin Term, Request for Meeting with Pistols Sent Plaintiff, Defendant Denounces State Ban on Such Conflict,” Los Angeles Times, 17 June 1933: A2. The article states: … W.P. Blake, 53-year-old inventor, was … convicted … of challenging another person to a duel. The charge was brought against Blake by Herman Miller … who asserts he received a challenge from Blake to meet him in Griffith Park, there to fight a duel. … Two guns, exactly similar in appearance, were to be provided, one loaded, the other empty. Miller was to have his choice of the two weapons and the man who received the unloaded weapon was expected to die. … Blake … admitted writing the challenge but … believed it was the only way he could obtain justice. ...
Date:
1933
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Dueling challenger W. P. Blake in conversation with two women, Los Angeles, 1933

David Mdivani and Serge Mdivani sit in court on the opening day of their trial, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:
From left to right, David Mdivani and Serge Mdivani are viewed close-up as they sit behind their table on the opening day of their trial. David Mdivani hunches over the table and flips through a book. Serge Mdivani looks up attentively towards the left. A man appears to walk behind them at right. In the background, spectators sit, filling the courtroom.
Date:
[circa January 15, 1934]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
David Mdivani and Serge Mdivani sit in court on the opening day of their trial, Los Angeles, 1934

Panorama of police officers standing on the field at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum during a police inspection, Los Angeles, 1927

Description:
Police officers stand in rows across the width of the field at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. They are viewed from above. The rows shorten in length as they extend back towards the left side of the field. A dirt track wraps around the field. In the foreground, stadium seating spans the lower left corner as it slopes down towards the field. A few spectators occupy the seats. Empty stadium seating stretches across the background.
Date:
May 2, 1927
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Panorama of police officers standing on the field at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum during a police inspection, Los Angeles, 1927

Judge Frank Monfort and Vernon D. Wood on the witness stand, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
The late Mrs. Alexander was frustrated over several failed screen tests she had taken, which provoked a fight with her husband that culminated in two self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head. She died the following day at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. Alexander's business manager Vernon D. Wood called to deliver the message to Mrs. Alexander's father.
Date:
December 12, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Judge Frank Monfort and Vernon D. Wood on the witness stand, Los Angeles, 1935

Composer John Philip Sousa and music supervisor Kathryn E. Stone awarding trophies to music students, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:
This photograph appears with the Los Angeles Times article, January 8, 1926, Children Greet Band King, Sousa Presents Trophies, Conducts Combined School Orchestra, Receives Gift and Plays Concert. … Mr. Sousa awarded the music-memory contest trophies to representatives of the Santa Barbara-avenue and the Soto-street schools during the matinee intermission, with the assistance of Miss Kathryn E. Stone, supervisor of music in the elementary schools …
Date:
January 7, 1926
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Composer John Philip Sousa and music supervisor Kathryn E. Stone awarding trophies to music students, Los Angeles, 1926

Robert Kenny, Fred Dapprich, and C. J. Ver Halen, judging the Los Angeles Times Amateur Snapshot Contest, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Photograph of (L to R): Superior Judge Robert Kenny, photographer Fred Dapprich, and C. J. Ver Halen, editor of American Cinematographer (publication of the American Society of Cinematographers). The men, who are seated and standing at a table covered with photographs, are judging the Los Angeles Times Amateur Snapshot Contest.
Date:
[circa August 25, 1935]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Robert Kenny, Fred Dapprich, and C. J. Ver Halen, judging the Los Angeles Times Amateur Snapshot Contest, Los Angeles, 1935

Mrs. Leafie Sloan-Orcutt, Dr. J. W. Todd and Miss. Jeanie MacPherson, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Aunt Sunway's Dinner Party was a promotional contest sponsored by the Los Angeles times, in which contestants submit what they think is the best seating arrangement for Martha "Aunt" Sunway's eight dinner guests, based on information about her and her guests in a 31-page booklet. The prizes were worth a total of $12,000, and a model home designed by architects H. Roy Kelley, Edgar F. Bissantz, and Harold G. Spielman was awarded as First
Date:
Aug 6, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Mrs. Leafie Sloan-Orcutt, Dr. J. W. Todd and Miss. Jeanie MacPherson, Los Angeles, 1935

Geologists Malcolm Bissell and Arthur Tieje discussing drought and desert, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
This photograph appears with the article “Geologists Picture Midwest as Sahara, New Desert Foreseen in Dust-Swept Area,” Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 1935: 2. The article states: The theory that another great American desert is in the process of formation in the drought-stricken, wind-swept section of the Midwest was advanced yesterday … Their prediction is based on the dry years experienced in the Midwest since 1930, the drought and intense heat of 1934, and the current dust storms which have swept over Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Texas, and Iowa. …
Date:
April 7, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Geologists Malcolm Bissell and Arthur Tieje discussing drought and desert, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1935

Ray Hays at the trial concerning Thelma Todd's death, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
Ray Hays was the business manager for actress Thelma Todd, who was found dead on December 16, 1935. Her death was initially ruled a suicide but evidence of foul play ignited a deeper investigation conducted by a grand jury. Hays was one of the executors of her will, entrusted with managing her estate. Todd's death was ruled as "accidental with possible suicide tendencies."
Date:
January 2, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Ray Hays at the trial concerning Thelma Todd's death, Los Angeles, 1936