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W.P. Whitsett recounts the tale of the founding of Van Nuys at the city's 23rd birthday party. February 22nd, 1934.

Description:: W.P. Whitsett, one of the founders of the city of Van Nuys, recounts its founding at the city's twenty-third birthday party. February 22nd, 1934.
Date:: February 22, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

W.P. Whitsett recounts the tale of the founding of Van Nuys at the city's 23rd birthday party. February 22nd, 1934.

Description:: W.P. Whitsett, one of the founders of the city of Van Nuys, recounts its founding at the city's twenty-third birthday party. February 22nd, 1934.
Date:: February 22, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Trombone player, Abe Lincoln, with his wife, Isabelle and his son, Abe, Jr., Van Nuys, 1935

Description:: Abram "Abe" Lincoln was an American Dixieland jazz trombonist. He never led his own recording session, though he recorded copiously as a sideman.
Date:: December 26, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Iris Smith with gourd sculpture during the annual gourd festival, Van Nuys, 1935

Description:: During the annual Van Nuys gourd festival, Iris Smith poses beside 2 flamingo sculptures, created from gourds and bamboo sticks, posed next to a water bowl in a garden.
Date:: October 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Florence Kroiss and Marian Waddell feeding Zero, the zebra, Van Nuys, 1936

Description:: Florence Kroiss and Marian Waddell feeding Zero the zebra, who was part of Ken Maynard's circus. The girls stand on a fence and both wear frilly dresses, socks, and Mary Janes.
Date:: [circa February 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Lots for auction in the future Van Nuys, 1922 (copy neg. 1936)

Description:: On February 22, 1911, Van Nuys got its start with an ad in the Los Angeles Times: A free train ride was being offered to the “Van Nuys townsite,” for a free Washington’s Birthday barbecue, a patriotic speech about the birth of a town, and an auction of lots in an undeveloped part of the San Fernando Valley.
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Agnes Fredericks and Queen Walker Boardman, officials of a luncheon sponsored by the Civic Beautification Committee, along with John D. Fredericks, W.W. Orcutt, and Pearl Chase, Van Nuys, 1936

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, "'Make Gateways to Los Angeles Beautiful!': Civic Beauty Drive Urged: More Than 100 Leaders Go to Van Nuys Conference and Hear Plans Outlined," Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 1936: 6.
Date:: January 22, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Ken Maynard shows Florence Kroiss his horse, Tarzan, Van Nuys, 1936

Description:: A different photograph of Florence Kroiss taken on the same occasion appears captioned, "Van Nuys, Marking Anniversary Today, Proud of Its Newest Attraction - the Circus!" Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 1936: A5.
Date:: [circa February 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Ken Maynard introducing Colleen Fitzgerald to one of the camels in his circus, Van Nuys, 1936

Description:: Ken Maynard holds Colleen Fitzgerald in his arms, while also holding onto one of the camels from his circus. Maynard wears a cowboy outfit, complete with gun holsters and cowboy hat. Fitzgerald wears white cowboy boots and a large bow on her head.
Date:: [circa February 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Queen Walker Boardman at a luncheon sponsored by the Civic Beautification Committee, Van Nuys, 1936

Description:: Queen Walker Boardman at a luncheon sponsored by the Civic Beautification Committee. Mrs. Boardman was an official of the committee. She wears a hat and a fur stole and stands in front of a window.
Date:: January 22, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Ken Maynard shows Joan Holt rope tricks, Van Nuys, 1936

Description:: A different photograph of Joan Holt taken on the same occasion appears captioned "Van Nuys, Marking Anniversary Today, Proud of Its Newest Attraction - the Circus!" Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 1936: A5.
Date:: [circa February 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Ken Maynard shows Joan Holt rope tricks, Van Nuys, 1936

Description:: A different photograph of Joan Holt taken on the same occasion appears captioned "Van Nuys, Marking Anniversary Today, Proud of Its Newest Attraction - the Circus!" Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 1936: A5.
Date:: [circa February 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

First female newspaper editor Pat Hollen of Van Nuys High School, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Young Pat smiles happily for the camera, poised at the ready for editorial duties with a pen and papers.
Date:: January 31, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Van Nuys Lieutenant C. C. Johnson, poet laureate of the Los Angeles Police Department, sits at his desk, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: The cluttered desk of Lieutenant C. C. Johnson stretches across the bottom edge. Behind it and off-center to the left, Lieutenant C. C. Johnson sits, facing slightly towards the right, as he holds a telephone. To the right of him, a typewriter sits atop an extension of the desk. A large widow is inset along the back wall behind Lieutenant Johnson.
Date:: January 10, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Frank Hawks and Oscar E. Grubb embarking on a nonstop coast to coast flight, Van Nuys, 1929

Description:: Photograph published with the article, "Hawks Dash Under Way; Nonstop Plane Over Arizona," Los Angele Times, 5 Feb. 1929: 1
Date:: February 4, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Alice Pedersen Orcutt at a luncheon sponsored by the Civic Beautification Committee, Van Nuys, 1936

Description:: Alice Pedersen Orcutt (Mrs. John Logan Orcutt) at a luncheon sponsored by the Civic Beautification Committee. Mrs. Orcutt was a speaker at the event. She stands in front a window and wears a fur stole, a hat, and gloves.
Date:: January 22, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Van Nuys High School facade before demolition, 1934

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, "Famous Columns Razed," Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 1934: 7
Date:: July 31, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Florence DuPlessis holding a Buff Orpington rooster at the Southern California Poultry Show, Van Nuys, 1935

Description:: Photograph of Florence DuPlessis holding a Buff Orpington rooster to be entered in the Southern California Poultry show in Van Nuys. DuPlessis is wearing a plaid dress and she stands against a wooden lathe door.
Date:: [October 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Van Nuys High School columns after demolition, 1934

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, "Famous Columns Razed," Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 1934: 7
Date:: July 31, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Mary Logan Orcutt at a luncheon sponosred by the Civic Beautification Committee, Van Nuys, 1936

Description:: Mary Logan Orcutt (Mrs. W.W. Orcutt) at a luncheon sponsored by the Civic Beautification Committee. Mrs. Orcutt was a speaker at the event. She stands in front a window and wears a fur stole, a hat, and gloves.
Date:: January 22, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Frank Hawks and Oscar E. Grubb embarking on a nonstop coast to coast flight, Van Nuys, 1929

Description:: Photograph of pilot Frank Hawks, wearing a full-length fur coat, and mechanic Oscar Grubb, wearing a leather flight suit, standing in front of Hawks' Lockheed Air Express Model plane. Hawks is holding up what appears to be a map.
Date:: February 4, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Colleen Fitzgerald rides an ox, while Marian Waddell stands next to her, Van Nuys, 1936

Description:: Colleen Fitzgerald rides an ox, while Marian Waddell stands next to her. Both girls wear bows in their hair. The ox was a part of Ken Maynard's circus.
Date:: [circa February 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Mabel Socha, Agnes Fredericks, Major Harry Bateson, and Mary Logan Orcutt at a luncheon sponsored by the Civic Beautification Committee, Van Nuys, 1936

Description:: Mabel Socha, Agnes Fredericks, Major Harry Bateson, and Mary Logan Orcutt at a luncheon sponsored by the Civic Beautification Committee. All four were speakers at the luncheon.
Date:: January 22, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

John C. Porter, Nell Jeffrey and Cecil Wilcox at the corner stone laying ceremony of the City Hall,

Description:: Reported in the article "Van Nuys Has City Hall Fete," Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 1932: 13.
Date:: October 6, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Violet Mulkey points at attacker George Fousse at the police station, Van Nuys 1935

Description:: Violet Mulkey points at and identifies attacker George Fousse at the police station as Fousse looks away.
Date:: August 16, 1935
1935-08-16
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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W.P. Whitsett recounts the tale of the founding of Van Nuys at the city's 23rd birthday party. February 22nd, 1934.

W.P. Whitsett recounts the tale of the founding of Van Nuys at the city's 23rd birthday party. February 22nd, 1934.

Trombone player, Abe Lincoln, with his wife, Isabelle and his son, Abe, Jr., Van Nuys, 1935

Iris Smith with gourd sculpture during the annual gourd festival, Van Nuys, 1935

Florence Kroiss and Marian Waddell feeding Zero, the zebra, Van Nuys, 1936

Lots for auction in the future Van Nuys, 1922 (copy neg. 1936)

Agnes Fredericks and Queen Walker Boardman, officials of a luncheon sponsored by the Civic Beautification Committee, along with John D. Fredericks, W.W. Orcutt, and Pearl Chase, Van Nuys, 1936

Ken Maynard shows Florence Kroiss his horse, Tarzan, Van Nuys, 1936

Ken Maynard introducing Colleen Fitzgerald to one of the camels in his circus, Van Nuys, 1936

Queen Walker Boardman at a luncheon sponsored by the Civic Beautification Committee, Van Nuys, 1936

Ken Maynard shows Joan Holt rope tricks, Van Nuys, 1936

Ken Maynard shows Joan Holt rope tricks, Van Nuys, 1936

First female newspaper editor Pat Hollen of Van Nuys High School, Los Angeles, 1936

Van Nuys Lieutenant C. C. Johnson, poet laureate of the Los Angeles Police Department, sits at his desk, Los Angeles, 1936

Frank Hawks and Oscar E. Grubb embarking on a nonstop coast to coast flight, Van Nuys, 1929

Alice Pedersen Orcutt at a luncheon sponsored by the Civic Beautification Committee, Van Nuys, 1936

Van Nuys High School facade before demolition, 1934

Florence DuPlessis holding a Buff Orpington rooster at the Southern California Poultry Show, Van Nuys, 1935

Van Nuys High School columns after demolition, 1934

Mary Logan Orcutt at a luncheon sponosred by the Civic Beautification Committee, Van Nuys, 1936

Frank Hawks and Oscar E. Grubb embarking on a nonstop coast to coast flight, Van Nuys, 1929

Colleen Fitzgerald rides an ox, while Marian Waddell stands next to her, Van Nuys, 1936

Mabel Socha, Agnes Fredericks, Major Harry Bateson, and Mary Logan Orcutt at a luncheon sponsored by the Civic Beautification Committee, Van Nuys, 1936

John C. Porter, Nell Jeffrey and Cecil Wilcox at the corner stone laying ceremony of the City Hall,

Violet Mulkey points at attacker George Fousse at the police station, Van Nuys 1935

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