Genre: news photographs / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Portrait photograph of H. Newkirk Wheeler, seated and wearing a denim jacket. Wheeler was convicted mail fraud and sentenced for five years for selling land grants for property he did not own.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, “Labor Day May Mean Holiday to Many Thousands But for Others It’s About Busiest Time of Whole Year,” Los Angeles Times, 03 Sep. 1935: A1.
Date:: September 3, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of mwo motorboats and one boat engine on display in an exhibition hall at an auto show. A sign hung up near the ceiling indicates these two boats are property of Fred Thomson Productions. The actor and stuntman Fred Thomson was an avid boatsman and boat collector. Reported in "Southland's Greatest Auto Exhibit in History Mecca for Unprecedented Throngs: Show Setting New Records; Indications Point to Eclipse of Attendance Estimates; Crowds Marvel at Color and Beauty of Display; Planes and Motorboats Also Get Share of Attention," Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 1927: 9.
Date:: [between February 26, 1927-March 6th, 1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Missouri University football team captain Arthur Bond, running with a football on the empty field at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Date:: [between 1922-1924]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Wayland Avery looks at a model of a vulture, which rests just above J. H. Montgomery's model airplane fashioned after a similar bird with rigid wings. Both the model airplane and the vulture model are on wheels; both are placed on a track spanning the length of the room. Reported in "Plane to Have Bird-like Wing: Construction Started Here on New Discovery; Tryout With Pilot Planned Within Two Months; Model Used in Tests Rides Against Strong Wind," Los Angeles Times, 6 Jul. 1930: A1.
Date:: July, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Griffith Park Airport was in the northeast portion of Griffith Park, Los Angeles, in the area later dominated by the 5 and 134 freeways, from about 1925 to about 1943.
Date:: [1928?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Thomas J. Mooney disembarks a United Air Lines plane, surrounded by unidentified men.
Date:: January 15, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Members of the Ebell Club Juniors play on the beach. One of the women leapfrogs over another, while the other three watch. A boardwalk is visible in the distance.
Date:: [circa 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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