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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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