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Student organizer Celeste Strack, 1934 or 1935

Description:
Possibly related to Los Angeles Times article, October 30, 1934, U.C.L.A. Ousts Five in Anti-Radical Drive, Student Body President Among Group Ousted for Failing to Curb Trend in Campus Activities. Five students of the University of California at Los Angeles, including John Burnside, student body president, were suspended … Others suspended were Sidney Zsagri, chairman of the forensic board; Thomas Lambert, chairman of the men’s board; Mendel Lieberman, chairman of the scholarship committee, and Miss Celeste Strack, former university debater. …
Date:
1934-1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Student organizer Celeste Strack, 1934 or 1935

Brick buildings destroyed by 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
Brick buildings destroyed by the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933

Reporters (probably) standing outside "The Daily News" building 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
Reporters (probably) standing outside "The Daily News" building after the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933

Motorcycle show at the Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona, 1935

Description:
Photograph of a crowd watching a man and a motorcycle on a raised wooden stage. A sign behind the man with the motorcycle reads in English, “MOTOR DROME America’s Greatest DARE DEVILS offer a new sensation in TRICK and ACROBATIC RIDING with MOTORCYCLES and AUTOS RISKING THEIR LIVES DAILY FOR NEW THRILLS AT 60 MILES PER HOUSE ON THESE STRAIGHT…” The rest of the sign is covered by the motorcycle.
Date:
September 14, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Motorcycle show at the Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona, 1935

Carmelita Park, Pasadena, [1934?]

Description:
Possibly related to the article “The Southland’s Oldest Memory Garden, Soaring Trees Are Pioneer’s Fine Monument, Early Pasadenan’s Love of Nature Attested by Park Grove.” Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 1934. The article states: … Carmelita Gardens, once a private estate, now a part of the Crown City municipal park system … on West Colorado Street …
Date:
[1934?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Carmelita Park, Pasadena, [1934?]

Atanas Katchmakoff, sculptor, with his bronze Madonna sculpture, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Another photograph of Atanas Katchmakoff, with this sculpture, with his attorney Saul Ruskin, and art expert Dr. Ernest L. Tross appears in a Los Angeles Times article on 4/17/1935 titled: "Worth of Statue Debated: Value of Lost Madonna Estimated in Cost Case." At this time Katchmakoff sued Fred Keeler, the owner of the foundry that cast his Madonna sculpture for losing the plaster original. Two bronze sculptures had been made, but the owner of the bronze Madonnas had refused to allow his bronzes to be used to produce a new plaster cast.
Date:
April 16, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Atanas Katchmakoff, sculptor, with his bronze Madonna sculpture, Los Angeles, 1935

Night time view towards the House of Charm and tower of the Palace of Science at the California Pacific International Exposition, San Diego, 1935-1936

Description:
View at night across the reflecting pool in the Plaza del Pacifico (Plaza de Panama in 1915) towards the illuminated House of Charm and the tower of the Palace of Science. A wall of the Arco del Porvenir (Arch of the Future) is visible in the right foreground.
Date:
[1935-1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Night time view towards the House of Charm and tower of the Palace of Science at the California Pacific International Exposition, San Diego, 1935-1936

"Adohrable Babies" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1932

Description:
"Adhorable Babies" float carrying 18 children in a golden, cup-shaped trophy in the center with a floral sign reading "Our Future Champions" and 29 children on the main platform dressed in costumes of different countries competing in Olympiads. The float is decorated with shields ornamented to look like coats of arms with carnations and pigeons were steadily released from the trophy during the parade. The float was lead by another small float in the form of a swan (image no. 21198/zz002cp5vz) and was entered by the Adohr Creamery Company. the float location in the image is the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
Date:
January 1, 1932
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
"Adohrable Babies" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1932

Notable city socialites and philanthropists planning President Roosevelt's birthday celebrations, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Photograph of prominent society members of Los Angeles who gathered together to plan out an extensive ticket campaign to ensure successes of two fetes to honor the birthday of President Roosevelt. Those in the photograph include socialites and activists Mrs. Samuel Cary Dunlap (Anna May), Mrs. Leafie Sloan Orcutt, Mrs. Hancock Banning (Anne Ophelia) and Mrs. Leiland A. Irish (Florence M.), Grace Stoermer; Showman Sid Grauman; and Los Angeles Health Department Head Dr. George Parrish.
Date:
Jan 18, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notable city socialites and philanthropists planning President Roosevelt's birthday celebrations, Los Angeles, 1935

State code commissioners William G. Hale, Perry Evans, and T.C. Ridgway, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Commission member, Thomas Perry, stands between fellow commissioners William G. Hale and Thomas C. Ridgway, who are both seated at a table strewn with documents. The California Code Commission, tasked with revising and codifying laws from thousands of specific state statutes, met to outline its objectives. Members were chosen from the legal and academic community. Commissioners included: President Thomas Caldwell Ridgway, former president of the California bar association; Vice-chairs, USC Dean William Green Hale and Perry Evans of San Francisco; Secretary Fred B. Wood; Don G. Bowker of Los Angeles; Gerald Hanna Hagar of Oakland; Berkeley's Professor Alexander Marsden Kidd; Stanford's Professor William B. Owens, and Norris N. Montgomery of Santa Barbara. Hagar and Kidd's names are misspelled in the Los Angeles Times caption and nitrate negative captions.
Date:
October 5, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
State code commissioners William G. Hale, Perry Evans, and T.C. Ridgway, Los Angeles, 1935

Los Angeles County Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz, William Traeger, and Arthur Jewell, 1933

Description:
Possibly related to the article “Sheriff Issues Staff Changes, Dozen Executives Affected by Personnel Shift, Wright Elevated to Post of Chief Deputy, Croushorn Becomes Captain of Crime Division.” Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 1933: A1. The article states: … The chief deputy position was vacated by A. C. Jewell when he was made undersheriff by Biscailuz on being appointed Sheriff to serve the unexpired term of William I. Traeger, elected a Representative in Congress at the last general election. …
Date:
1933
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Los Angeles County Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz, William Traeger, and Arthur Jewell, 1933

South Gate float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1939

Description:
A multi-tiered float features ten women. In the center, Mrs. Joseph Parr "playing" the harp, Patricia Shaw seated in the back, and behind her two trumpeters, Donna Mullenger and Saraine Furie. The six other women on the float are, in no order: Josephine Larusso, Leona M. Roberts, Jeanne Hutchens, Mary Henderson, Gloria Crocker, and Dorothy Brown.
Date:
January 2, 1939
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
South Gate float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1939