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A man and his adobe house, Los Angeles County, 1920s

Description:: A man stands beside the door of his adobe house, which is located on a flat expanse of land.
Date:: [1920s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

University of Southern California graduation, woman graduate and older man, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: Woman graduate, in cap and gown, holding University of Southern California diploma, standing with older man in jacket, vest, and tie, holding hat, with decoratives trees, other graduates, and audience in background
Date:: June 14, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

University of Southern California graduation, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1931

Description:: Line of graduating students, in caps and gowns, marching across Coliseum field, led by faculty, with decorated pavilion in left foreground, orchestra in white in right foreground, peristyle in background
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

University of Southern California graduation, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1931

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, June 6, 1931, Trojan Events Today Doubled, Doheny Memorial Precedes Graduation, Coliseum to See Conferring of 1330 Diplomas, Ground-Breaking to Initiate Commemorative Library
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Testimonial dinner for Rabbi Magnin, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: This photograph is related to the article, "Honor Paid to Magnin," Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov 1935: A1.
Date:: November 6, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Young men playing with large exercise ball at homecoming "brawl," University of Southern California, Los Angeles, [1928?]

Description:: Possibly related to Los Angeles Times article, October 18, 1928, Trojan Sophs Win Right to Rule, Freshmen Lose Liberties—and Shirts—in Annual Brawl
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Senator McKinley presenting the Ling Foundation medal to Frank A. Bouelle, Los Angeles, 1931

Description:: State Senator James Wilfred McKinley presenting the Ling Foundation medal to Frank A. Bouelle, Superintendent of School in Los Angeles. Bouelle was awarded to medal for establishing the first school playground with equipment in Los Angeles in 1906 and for years directed safety work in the city schools.
Date:: December 16, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Judge Benjamin Franklin Bledsoe with fist raised, [Los Angeles?], [1925?]

Description:: A similar photograph appears with the article “Bledsoe Thrills Great Mayoral Rally, Sways Throng With Appeal For Real City Government, Thousands Cheer Jurist as He Denounces Foes of Los Angeles and Pledges Himself to Program of Efficiency, Honesty, and Accomplishment.” Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 1925: A1
Date:: [1925?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Frances Mabel Willis holds her murder weapon, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, “Article 1 – No Title,” Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 1935: 3.
Date:: December 10, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Still on a table with some connection to the Angelus Temple, Los Angeles, 1930-1933

Description:: In another photograph, William P. Carr, Deputy Prosecutor, stands next to this still.
Date:: [between 1930-1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Aviators George Haldeman and Shirley Short at Mines Field after their transcontinental race, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: The pilots flew a Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker airplane. Referenced by Science Photo Library online resource.
Date:: Spetember 14, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Military vehicles in parade at President's Day Ceremony, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1933

Description:: About 11 military vehicles in line on Coliseum track, photographed from high in stands, with large crowd at right and in foreground, reviewing stand and group of horses at left on Coliseum infield, peristyle in background
Date:: April 30, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Young men playing with large exercise ball at homecoming "brawl," University of Southern California, Los Angeles, [1928?]

Description:: Possibly related to Los Angeles Times article, October 18, 1928, Trojan Sophs Win Right to Rule, Freshmen Lose Liberties—and Shirts—in Annual Brawl
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Gold Rush pack train in the parade of the Old Spanish Days Fiesta, Santa Barbara, 1930

Description:: Horseman on white horse holding rope and leading several pack horses evoking the California Gold Rush days in the Santa Barbara Old Spanish Days Fiesta
Date:: August 7, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

William Jennings Bryan, Jr. at train station, [Los Angeles?], 1934

Description:: William Jennings Bryan, Jr. talking to another man, both in suits, ties, and straw hats, next to train and with about 7 men, women, and children in background
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Reknowned criminologist and former police chief August Vollmer, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: August Vollmer, former police chief of Berkeley and Los Angeles and noted criminologist, arrives in Los Angeles in the Matson liner after lecturing at the University of Hawaii.
Date:: August 9, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Police Chief James E. Davis and Gertrude Rounsavelle enter police car, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: A different photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "P.-T.A. Women Ride Police Cars in Study of Traffic," Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb 1935: A1.
Date:: February 5, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Roy S. Stockton, Chief of the State Division of Employment Service, with Jean Milovich, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Roy S. Stockton, Chief of the State Division of Employment Service, seated at his desk as Jean Milovich stands next to him assisting him in his work.
Date:: December 5, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Henry L. Woodruff, likely on trial, California, 1934

Description:: Henry L. Woodruff, former deputy County Treasurer, sits likely in a courtroom during his trials.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Firefighters attend the fire destroying the First Baptist Church of Hollywood, Hollywood, 1935

Description:: Related to the articles, "Church Prey to Flames. Loss Placed at $100,000. Hollywood's First Baptist Razed and Three Hurt Fighting Blaze." Los Angeles Times, 4 May 1935: A1, "Church Destroyed in $100,000 Hollywood Fire - Spring Festivals Begin." Los Angeles Times, 4 May 1935: 16, and "Tent Will Be Temple. First Baptist Congregation, Undaunted by Disaster, to Carry on Today." Los Angeles Times, 5 May 1935: 14.
Date:: May 3, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Son of London publisher Lord Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, studies newspapers in America, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "London Journalist Studies Press Here," Los Angeles Times, 04 Jan 1936: A1.
Date:: January 4, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Old farm equipment next to an out building at Rancho Camulos, near Piru

Description:: The ranch was included in the 48,612-acre Rancho San Francisco granted to Antonio del Valle, administrator of Mission San Fernando, by Governor Juan B. Alvarado on January 22, 1839, after the secularization of the missions. The rancho remained in the del Valle family until it was sold in 1924.
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Ten-foot segment removed from Commercial Exchange Building, Los Angeles, between 1935-1936

Description:: In the mid-1930’s, the Commercial Exchange Building on Eighth and Olive Streets was re-sized to accommodate a street-widening project. A ten-foot segment was cut along the thirteen-story building, removed, and the two halves of the building pushed together. The job was supervised by Walker & Eisen and conducted by Kress House Moving Company.
Date:: [between 1935-1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Robert Brennan, Milton H. Berry, and Rupert Hughes at luncheon, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: From left to right: Robert Brennan; Milton H. Berry, standing; Rupert Hughes. The three men are at a dining table with a large floral arrangement in the center.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Six young women who hold the banner announcing the start of the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1928

Description:: Six young women who hold the banner announcing the start of the Tournament of Roses Parade, posing for their photograph without the banner.
Date:: January 2, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Dr. John Herman sitting down, Los Angeles, 1938-1939

Description:: Dr. John Herman, seated.
Date:: [between 1938 and 1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Car surrounded by flood and mudslide debris behind the Holy Redeemer Church, La Crescenta-Montrose, 1934

Description:: Car surrounded by flood and mudslide debris after a catastrophic flood and mudslide (in January or October). Timber and the remains of a low stone wall are on the left; the church is in the background.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Mr. and Mrs. James Roy Willis show a map of the oil land they inherited, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Mr. James Roy Willis stands next to his wife, who sits on the arm of a chair. Together they hold a map.
Date:: March 15, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Arthur W. Stebbins and his soon-to-be wife, actress Anne Darling apply for a marriage license, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, "Film Player to Wed Soon: Anne Darling and Broker File Notice, but Date Remains Uncertain," Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 1935: 2.
Date:: December 5, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Local shelter overflows with dogs after holiday fireworks, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: A different photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Noise Phobia Fills Pound," Los Angeles Times, 11 Jul 1935: A8.
Date:: July 10, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

A display at the San Bernardino Orange Show, San Bernardino, 1936

Description:: Two women holding baskets of oranges sit in front of designs of people surfing, canoeing, and riding a yak.
Date:: February 20, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Interior view of a building heavily damaged by the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933

Description:: Interior view of a brick building heavily damaged by the Long Beach earthquake. There are concrete and brick pillars in an open space with a collection of wooden mission style chairs amid the rubble.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

E. G. Richardson beside the telescope that he constructed for Whittier College, Whittier, 1947

Description:: Restored negative
Date:: November, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Residential street with toppled tree during or after a heavy rainstorm, Los Angeles County, 1927

Description:: View of a toppled tree on a residential street during or after a heavy rainstorm. Three apartment buildings are behind the tree and a gas station is on the far right in the background with a sign reading "Associated Gasoline."
Date:: February 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Produce store on a flooded street during or after a rainstorm, Los Angeles County, 1927

Description:: View of a produce store with produce on stands beneath an awning on a flooded commercial street. The stands hold bananas, cauliflower and other produce. A temporary sign reads "Channel Swim tonight, Axle Grease Free Crawl Stroke."
Date:: February 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Ripley Nicholas Baylies celebrating his 90th birthday with daughter Mrs. Harriet Tilden at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, 1935

Description:: View of Ripley Nicholas Baylies, seated in glasses, collared shirt, tie, jacket, presents on lap, cigar in left hand, his daughter, Mrs. Harriet Tilden, seated behind him, in blouse, dress, with arms around her father. Baylies, a former Iowa Circuit Court judge, attributes his long life to eating whatever he wants and living mostly outdoors.
Date:: September 5, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Joseph Mesmer, Mary Franklin and Kay Sugahara at the banquet at the Kawafuku Cafe for the 2nd annual Nisei festival, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Joseph Mesmer wears the same suit and award ribbon in a photograph taken at the Nisei festival banquet on 8/13, 1935, published in the Los Angeles Times on 8/14/1936.
Date:: August 13, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Dave Foore and Dick Wehner, USC track athletes, at an Olympic Club track meet, Los Angeles, 1932

Description:: The Olympic Club track meet was held at Patterson Field, Occidental College.
Date:: April 16, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Irma Warner announces her re-marriage to Al Rogell, Los Angeles, 1939

Description:: A photograph of a snapshot of Irma Warner, leaning against a pillar and wearing a black dress and white gloves with a fur garment. The story does not disclose the location of this particular photograph, but biographical information indicates it was most likely Los Angeles.
Date:: April 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Marlborough School graduates at a luncheon at the Los Angeles Country Club, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Marlborough School graduates, left to right, Misses Elsie Jane Shirey, Nancy McKinnie, Barbara Bekins, Nathalie Whiting, Natalie Hill, and Virginia Sanderson at Nathalie Whiting's luncheon at the Los Angeles Country Club.
Date:: August 6, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

William Mulholland laid to rest at Forest Lawn, Glendale, 1935

Description:: This photograph is related to the article, “Mulholland Laid to Rest,” Los Angeles Times, 26 Jul 1935: A1.
Date:: July 25, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Buron Fitts, Percy Starmmon, and Herbert Payne watch as Elliot B. Thomas signs a check, Los Angeles, 1932

Description:: Dist.-Atty. Fitts, County Auditor Payne, and Percy observe as Thomas signs a check.
Date:: October 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

House destroyed by a catastrophic flood and mudslide, La Crescenta-Montrose, 1934

Description:: View of a house destroyed by a catastrophic flood and mudslide (in either January of October) with a car half-buried by mud and a dry runoff ravine on the left, and another house in the background on the right.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Charles F. Lummis shows the Duke of Alba an antique chair, Los Angeles, 1924

Description:: The home of Charles F. Lummis is located at 200 E. Ave. 43, Los Angeles.
Date:: October 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Mary Gene Hutters and Mrs. Wendell Hatteroth pose wearing stylish knitwear and hats at a party hosted by the Assistance Guild, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Clubwomen Face Study of Many Weighty Problems During Coming Season: Recreation of Summer to Give Zest: Vacations Given Over to Wholesome Enjoyment," 18 Aug. 1935: B10.
Date:: August 14, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Detective Lieutenants Everett Harris and Joe Gentry inspect fire damage to a boarding house, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Event covered in "Fire Routs Score in Night Attire," Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 1935: A3.
Date:: August 9, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Portrait of William Bainbridge displayed in the museum on the USS Constitution, San Pedro, 1933

Description:: Engraved portrait of William Bridgebain, a commodore of the US Navy and commanded the USF Constitution during the War of 1812.
Date:: [February-March, 1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Rain-flooded intersection of Sixth Street and Catalina Streets, Los Angeles, 1927

Description:: Another similar photograph of 6th street during this storm is captioned: J. Pluvius Has Field Day With Los Angeles Traffic and Business. The outlying districts were not the only ones to feel the effects of the continuous downpour of the last few days. This photo at Sixth and Catalina streets in the heart of the apartment house district. (Photos by George R. Watson, Times Staff Photographer) [Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 1927: 8]
Date:: February 15, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Watson, George R., 1892-1977
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Maude Royden shakes hands with Dr. Frank Dyer as Mabel Dyer looks on, Pasadena, 1928

Description:: Similar photograph appears with the article, "Maude Royden Explains Aims," Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar 1928: A1.
Date:: March 12, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Ensign Leland P. Kimball and new bride, Helen Werner Kimball, Beverly Hills, 1935

Description:: Photograph of Ensign Leland P. Kimball and new bride, Helen Werner Kimball on their wedding day. The couple wed at the Werner home in Beverly Hills.
Date:: June 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Supervisors Gordon L. McDonough and Herb Prince, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Supervisor Herb Prince (right) hands Supervisor McDonough (left) a stack of documents. Similar documents appear to be wrapped in a gift basket, placed on the table between them.
Date:: December 24, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Virginia Smith and Lawrence Earl Opsahl model winter fashion, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Photograph of Virginia Smith (Mrs. Edward L. Smith) and Lawrence Earl Opsahl sitting in a fireplace and reading a book. They are modeling some of the latest winter fashions.
Date:: December 18, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Navy's USS Richmond light cruiser, San Pedro, 1923-1939

Description:: The Navy's USS Richmond, a light cruiser, with the shore visible in the background.
Date:: [between 1923-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Mayor Frank Shaw walking into grand jury room, Los Angeles, ca. 1936

Description:: Mayor Shaw, wearing a hat and black blazer, is photographed walking into a Grand Jury room.
Date:: [between 1933 and 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Amon Carter and Will Rogers Jr. converse about California and Texas, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Related to the article, "Publisher Visits City. Amon G. Carter Declares California Ranks Second Only to Texas." Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 1935: A1.
Date:: August 5, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Woman serves samples behind a display at the Food and Household Show, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: The Ambassador Auditorium was a convention center located on the grounds of the Ambassador Hotel.
Date:: November 3, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Mark L. Herron and Gavin Craig during the Italo bribery trial, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: Gavin w. Craig has surrendered on a Federal indictment charging him and two others with conspiracy to bribe government prosecutors in the Italo mail fraud case.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Road and sign, Rancho Santa Anita, Arcadia, 1938

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, March 27, 1938, "Rancho Santa Anita, A Los Angeles County Beauty Spot. For many years closed to the public, the thirty-acre Rancho Santa Anita Park, with its lake, fifty-one varieties of shrubs and trees, some of them the largest in Southern California, and its historic buildings of the late E.J. (Lucky) Baldwin occupancy, now is open …"
Date:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Howard Chandler Christy visits California, Beverly Hills, 1925

Description:: A similar photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Bob Artistic, Christy Says," Los Angeles Times, 28 July 1925: A1
Date:: July 27, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Jerome and Julia McGee, copy print, 1935

Description:: A different photograph of Jerome McGee was used in the article, "Crash Kills Oil Official: Auto Hits Tree at Sharp Turn," Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 1935: 6.
Date:: August 24, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Esther Swedlow, missing woman, copy print, 1935

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Wide Quest for Missing Girl Begun: Rest Home Patient Sought Here and Also in Denver After Week's Absence," 17 Aug. 1935: A12.
Date:: August 16, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Groundbreaking ceremony for Watts City Hall, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: A crowd is gathered around a digger at the ground breaking ceremony for a new municipal building in Watts. From left to right: Councilman Franklin P. Buyer, with his hand on his hip; Emily Vincent; Paul G. Ritter, president of Board of Public Works; Mayor Frank Shaw; Otto B. Frank, with shovel in hand.
Date:: January 16, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Baskerville Bible, featured at the Rare Book Exhibition at Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Photograph of the title page of the Baskerville Bible. In English, it reads, “The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New: Translated out of the Original Tongues and with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revifed, By His Majesty’s Special Command, Appointed to be Read in Churches. Cambridge, Printed by John Baskerville, Printer to the University, M DCC LXIII. Cum Privilegio.”
Date:: July 9, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Henry O'Melveny in his garden in Stone Canyon, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Mr. O'Melveny crouches beside one of the rows of daffodils in the garden of his Stone Canyon home at 1709 Stone Canyon Rd.
Date:: March 19, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Two drummers, a fief player, and a man carrying an American flag at the Pageant of Liberty, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:: This photograph appears with photo page, "Pageant of Liberty Stirs Throng of 50,000 at the Coliseum," Los Angeles Times, 6 Jul. 1926: A12.
Date:: July 5, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Rolf McPherson and Roberta Semple, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:: Another photograph of Roberta Semple and Rolf McPherson taken on the same occasion appears with the headline, "Evangelist's Son, in Los Angeles, Believes His Mother is Dead," 3 June 1926: A12.
Date:: June 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Head shot of Maxine Collins, Actress [rephotographed], Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Copy photograph of a headshot of actress Maxine Collins taken the day before an article detailing a theft in her house was published.
Date:: Aug 9, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Football game, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1925

Description:: About 8 uniformed football players and possibly a referee in motion on field, about 3 on ground, with goal post at right, wooden fence at edge of field, houses in background, building at right with sign over door reading Trojans
Date:: 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Attorney William Mosely Jones walking with briefcase, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Attorney William Mosely Jones walking with briefcase followed by older man.
Date:: July 9, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Vaudeville singer Ruth Veloise, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Veloise, a vaudeville and concert performer, sits with a pen in her mouth and a pad of paper before her.
Date:: November 5, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

James Bailes, excluded from voting registration on the basis of illiteracy, with wife and child, 1935

Description:: The related article sites a 1931 California law that required applicants pass a literacy test to obtain a voter registration card. Bailes feared that his lacking a registration card would hamper his ability to attain a job under the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Date:: August 21, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Flood relief workers (?) eating at a u-shaped bar following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Description:: Flood relief workers (?) eating at a u-shaped bar following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam. There are 7 women food workers in the center and 3 women in the background. The 2 women wearing white headdresses might be Red Cross volunteers.
Date:: March 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Interior door in the home of murder victim Jacob Denton, Los Angeles, 1920-1921

Description:: Close up of a door in the home of Jacob Denton, a wealthy mining engineer whose body was found in the basement three months after he disappeared. The house was located at 675 South Catalina Street.
Date:: [between 1920-1921]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Sixteen-year-old Robert N. Buck sets new flying record, Los Angeles, 1930

Description:: On Monday 16-year-old Robert flew from Newark, New Jersey, and proceeded to make stops at Martins Ferry, Ohio, Columbus, Ohio, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Wichita, Albuquerque, and Kingman, before arriving in Los Angeles in 28 hours and 33 minutes.
Date:: October 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Residents seeking building permits after the earthquake stand in line at the municipal building, Long Beach, 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

Former Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Russ Miller, Southern California, 1929

Description:: Miller is photographed after throwing the ball to someone out of the frame.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

President and Mrs. Hoover, Admiral Sims and others at Tournament of Roses luncheon, Pasadena, 1934

Description:: Refer to image Ark: 21198/zz002dhpsb
Date:: Jan 1, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Los Angeles Supervisor Roger W. Jessup addressing a crowd, Los Angeles, 1932-1939

Description:: Roger W. Jessup was appointed as an LA Supervisor in 1932 and remained until after 1939.
Date:: [between 1932-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Banquet for Lincoln Ellsworth at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Reported in “Ellsworth welcomed: receives royal welcome here: thrilling aerial conquest of Antarctica related by adventurer,” Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 1936.
Date:: April 14, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Track athlete at an Olympic Club track meet, Los Angeles, 1932

Description:: Track athlete crouched at the starting line at an Olympic Club track meet with spectators in the grand stand in the background.
Date:: April 16, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Jesse Lynch Williams, witness in Aimee Semple McPherson trial, Los Angeles, [1926?]

Description:: Possibly related to the article, "STATE STARTS EFFORT TO PROVE M'PHERSON PLOT: 'Miss X' Cottage Owner Grilled as Two Refuse to Identify Pastor; Witness Gets Death Threats," Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep 1926: A1.
Date:: [1926?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

John Parkinson, Los Angeles architect, 1935 (copy photo)

Description:: Portrait photograph of John Parkinson, architect of Los Angeles. Noted buildings he was involved with: Union Passenger Terminal, City Hall, Memorial Coliseum, Bullocks, Pacific Gas and Electric Buildings and the Federal Reserve.
Date:: December 10, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Children sit beneath oleanders along a residential parkway, Los Angeles vicinity, 1935

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, "Watch Your Blossoms--for Poison!," Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 1935: G23
Date:: [circa September, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Aimee Semple McPherson gives a doll to a little girl for Christmas present, Los Angeles,

Description:: Aimee Semple McPherson, in front of a Christmas tree, hands a baby doll to a little girl.
Date:: December 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Los Angeles County Major Disaster Meeting, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Several men standing and sitting in room with tea and coffee set out.
Date:: September 28, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

French naval officers with actress Jetta Goudal at a society function, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Pictured from left, French Navy Lt. Pierre Beret, Dutch actress Jetta Goudal, Lt. Louis Gautier and Dr. Francois Morvan.
Date:: [January 17, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Harry Lee Martin turns a nob on the new Fuller Gold Dredge, Bakersfield, 1935

Description:: This photograph may be associated with the article, “Huge Dry Dredge Built Here Stands Severe Test: INCREASES GOLD SUPPLY WORKING DESERT WASTES,” Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 1935: A13
Date:: September 23, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Heads of National and State Federal Transient Service gather for conference, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: Photograph of Heads of National and State Transient Services as they gather for a conference to discuss the ways to reduce vagrancy. F. H. Holcomb, assistant director of Maryland, Marshall B. Thompson, director of Texas, William J. Plunkert, national director and Harold A. R. Carleton, director of California. California, in that year, had the most transients registered with the Federal Transient Service than any state in the Union.
Date:: July 10, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

View of the remaining center portion of the St. Francis Dam visible after its disastrous collapse, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Description:: The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:: March 13, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Local Republican leaders Leo Anderson, Edward Shattuck and W. E. Evans welcoming Hamilton Fish, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Photograph of Hamilton Fish, national Republican party leader being greeted as the station upon his arrival by local leaders, Leo Anderson and Edward Shattuck, executives of the Los Angeles County Republican Assembly, and W. E. Evans, a former representative.
Date:: Aug 15, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Bishop Ralph Magee of St. Paul, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Bishop Magee of St. Paul opened the sixtieth annual Southern California Methodist Conference with 400 ministers from congregations south of Fresno and from Arizona.
Date:: June 25, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

John J. Berry takes a new position, Redondo Beach, 1933

Description:: Before coming to California Berry was the owner and publisher of the Paducah News-Democrat at Paducah, KY.
Date:: June 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Bert C. Webster, Newhall, 1924

Description:: Similar photograph appears with the headline, "Where Trunk Was Cast Into Ditch by Slayer and Man Held in Case," Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr 1924: 2.
Date:: April 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Dragline excavator on Hansen Dam construction site, San Fernando Valley, 1938

Description:: A dragline excavator on top of a hill at the Hansen Dam construction site.
Date:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Violet Pringle with Eloise the turtle "bride", Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: District Attorney receptionist Violet Pringle bought a female turtle named Eloise to keep company the office's male turtle named Elmer. When Violet put the turtles in a bowl along the window ledge of the sixth story office Eloise jumped out of the bowl and fell to the sidewalk below, but miraculously survived.
Date:: April 13, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Dr. Frank R. Webb inspects remains from murder site as Ray Pinker observes, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Frank R. Webb inspected the charred bones found in the driveway, possibly belonging to Rose Spinelli. She is believed to have been murdered by her husband, William Spinelli.
Date:: December, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Terrell, Maurice
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Burt Reed retires after 49 years, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "School Man Will Retire," Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb 1936: 3.
Date:: Feburary 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Dancer and actress June Knight in court against her former agent, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: A different photograph of June Knight from the same occasion appears with the article, "Actress in Contract Suit; June Knight Agent Tells of Labors in Her Behalf," Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 1935: A9.
Date:: March 4, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Writer Samuel G. Blythe, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:: Probably related to the article “Author Praises Hillsides, Samuel G. Blythe of Journalistic Fame, Lauds Commanding Residence Sites.” Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 1926: E10
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Mourners gather dean William MacCormack's funeral at St. Paul's Cathedral, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:: This photograph is likely related to the article, “Last Rites For Dean Observed,” Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan 1926: 6.
Date:: January 9, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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