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Stylized landscape painting and decorative metalwork objects by a Otis Art Institute students, Los Angeles, 1918-1939

Description:
Photograph of a stylized landscape painting by an Otis Art Institute student, with a view towards a lawn and house from a front gate. The painting is on a wall above a table covered with fabric and holding a footed metal bowl flanked by decorative metal candle holders and small paintings in decorative metal frames.
Date:
[between 1918-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Stylized landscape painting and decorative metalwork objects by a Otis Art Institute students, Los Angeles, 1918-1939

Alfonzo Bell, Elizabeth Tingle, Mrs. Miles Gray and Minnewa Bell playing cards at the Bel-Air Bay Club, Los Angeles, circa 1935-1936

Description:
Photograph of Alfonzo Bell with his daughter Elizabeth Tingle (left), Mrs. Miles Gray (2nd from right), and his daughter Minnewa Bell playing cards at the Bel-Air Bay Club in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles. The little boy standing behind them is probably Ralph Tingle, Jr.
Date:
[circa 1935-1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Alfonzo Bell, Elizabeth Tingle, Mrs. Miles Gray and Minnewa Bell playing cards at the Bel-Air Bay Club, Los Angeles, circa 1935-1936

File photo of Capt. [later Chief of Police] Clemence B. Horrall, Los Angeles, [1934-1939]

Description:
File photo by the American Press Association of Capt. C. B. Horrall of the Los Angeles Police Department. Capt. Horrall had a long career in the police department. In 1934, he was called to Honolulu to assist the local police in reorganization. In 1938, amidst a shake up in the police department, Capt. Horrall was promoted to the post of Vice Squad Head. In 1941, he was made chief of the LAPD. In 1949, he resigned under allegations of perjury in the infamous Brenda Allen vice scandal. This photograph was taken while he was still captain, between 1934 and 1939.
Date:
[Between 1934 and 1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
File photo of Capt. [later Chief of Police] Clemence B. Horrall, Los Angeles, [1934-1939]

Joseph Scott and family, Los Angeles vicinity, circa 1930s

Description:
Joseph Scott, 2 of his sons, Patrick and George, and his wife, Bertha, pose after disembarking from an airplane. Bertha Scott stands at center with her sons standing to either side of her. She holds a cane as she looks to the camera. To the left of Bertha, Patrick Scott stands and looks to camera. At far right, George Scott stands. Both Patrick and George wear their clerical collars. Behind Bertha and between his sons, Joseph Scott stands elevated on a stool at center. He looks to camera. Behind the Scotts, the fuselage of a small aircraft stretches across the image.
Date:
[circa 1930s]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Joseph Scott and family, Los Angeles vicinity, circa 1930s

Carmen Balfour, Lord Annesley, Patrick MacGill, Robert W. Major and Francis Evans seated with papers, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
Photograph of, L to R, Carmen Balfour (voice coach at the Robert W. Majors school of Acting), Lord Annesley (Beresford Cecil Bingham Annesley, 8th Earl Annesley), Patrick MacGill (Irish poet and playwright), Robert W. Major (president of his acting school) and Francis Evans (British Consul in Los Angeles), in a seating area in front of large U.S. and British flags, perhaps at the British Consulate. MacGill holds a sheaf of papers in his lap; Lord Annesley and Major look toward a paper held by Evans.
Date:
January 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Carmen Balfour, Lord Annesley, Patrick MacGill, Robert W. Major and Francis Evans seated with papers, Los Angeles, 1936

Robert S. James, convicted in Lois Wright morals case and suspect in Mary Emma James murder case, at sentencing, with lawyer Samuel Silverman, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
Robert S. James' real name was Major Raymond Lisenba. He was known as Robert S. James during his marriage to Mary Emma Busch James and at the time of her death in 1935, and, after her murder by rattlesnake bite and drowning, as "Rattlesnake James."
Date:
June 1, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Robert S. James, convicted in Lois Wright morals case and suspect in Mary Emma James murder case, at sentencing, with lawyer Samuel Silverman, Los Angeles, 1936

Robert S. James, suspect in Lois Wright morals case and Mary Emma James murder case, and lawyer Samuel Silverman in court, Los Anglels, 1936

Description:
A similar photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, May 28, 1936, James Guilty in Girl Case, Suspect Smiles at Verdict, Jury Convicts Barber on All Three Counts of Morals Offenses. … James … sat stolid and emotionless as a jury decreed him guilty of three separate morals offenses involving his 21-year-old niece. … facing the still more serious charge of murdering his wife last August by rattlesnake venom and drowning …
Date:
1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Robert S. James, suspect in Lois Wright morals case and Mary Emma James murder case, and lawyer Samuel Silverman in court, Los Anglels, 1936

Deputy D. A. George Stahlman feeds a parrot, [Los Angeles vicinity?], 1920-1939

Description:
At left, Deputy District Attorney George Stahlman sits on the corner of a desk and feeds a parrot. He turns towards the right and wags a finger towards the bird while holding birdseed in his other hand. At right, the parrot sits inside a birdcage that sits atop a desk. The parrot perches on a stick and faces towards the left. Mostly empty office walls stretch across the background.
Date:
[between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Deputy D. A. George Stahlman feeds a parrot, [Los Angeles vicinity?], 1920-1939

Newspaper publisher Frank Barham, William Simpson and other guests at dinner or luncheon, Los Angeles, [1930s?]

Description:
Frank Barham (L) and William Simpson (R, head of table), in suit and tie, seated at table set with deserts, coffee cups and saucers and plates with about 6 other men and 1 woman, about 5 other people at another table in background, in room with high windows and about 10 portraits of men lining the walls
Date:
[1930s?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Newspaper publisher Frank Barham, William Simpson and other guests at dinner or luncheon, Los Angeles, [1930s?]

Erwin P. Werner and his wife, Mrs. Helen Werner appear in Federal court, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
The Italo Petroleum Corporation was originally charged with trying to defraud investors, saddle them with heavy losses over the failed purchase of another oil company. The fraud was allegedly conducted through letters mailed to the investors, hence the charge of mail fraud. Justice Gavin Craig, former political figure Helen Werner, and political lobbyist Joseph Weinblatt were all tried for attempting to bribe the U.S. Attorney General on behalf of the Italo Petroleum Corp.
Date:
February 25, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Erwin P. Werner and his wife, Mrs. Helen Werner appear in Federal court, Los Angeles, 1936