Genre: news photographs and cellulose nitrate film / Location: Pomona (Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Fair at Pomona Best in History: Los Angeles County Events Now in Full Blast: Exhibits Excel All Records in Size and Beauty: Race Track Laurels Expected to Set New Mark," 18 Sept. 1929: A1.
Date:: [circa September 1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Louise Lovey and Alberta Boggs take pari-mutuel bets at the Los Angeles County Fair. Both women wear buttons that read, "Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona, Calif" plus either the number 38 or 39, along with a ribbon that reads, "Messenger." They both hold notepads and pencils.
Date:: [circa September 1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of Bob Miller and Joe Hester making an outdoor campfire at the Los Angeles County Fair. They are kneeling on the ground and are wearing Boy Scout uniforms. Joe holds an axe.
Date:: September 14, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of fairgoers as they walk by various stands. The stands have signs in English. From left to right they read, “Badu The Iron Tongue Man”, “Moroccan Moments”, “Torture of Delhi”, “Julianne The Mystery”, and “World’s Fair Freaks”.
Date:: September 14, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of two children petting a calf in front of a barn. In the background a man in overalls watches over them. To the side a sign in English reads, “No Smoking”.
Date:: September 13, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Men prepare children to race go-karts at the Los Angeles County Fair. A crowd looks on. Flags hang above the crowd. The track is made of wooden planks.
Date:: [circa September 1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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

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

Description:: The historical pageant, La Fiesta de la Rancho San Jose, at the Los Angeles County Fair celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the first Spanish settlers, Don Ygnacio Palomares and Don Arcardo Vejar to the Pomona Valley.
Date:: September 20, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of an Arabian horse at the ranch owned by W. K. Kellogg.
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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