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Dueling challenger W. P. Blake in conversation with two women, Los Angeles, 1933

Description:
Related to the article “Trial on Anti-Dueling Law Charge Brings Conviction of Inventor Accused by Attorney, Duel Seeker Found Guilty, Verdict Carries Possibility of San Quentin Term, Request for Meeting with Pistols Sent Plaintiff, Defendant Denounces State Ban on Such Conflict,” Los Angeles Times, 17 June 1933: A2. The article states: … W.P. Blake, 53-year-old inventor, was … convicted … of challenging another person to a duel. The charge was brought against Blake by Herman Miller … who asserts he received a challenge from Blake to meet him in Griffith Park, there to fight a duel. … Two guns, exactly similar in appearance, were to be provided, one loaded, the other empty. Miller was to have his choice of the two weapons and the man who received the unloaded weapon was expected to die. … Blake … admitted writing the challenge but … believed it was the only way he could obtain justice. ...
Date:
1933
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Dueling challenger W. P. Blake in conversation with two women, Los Angeles, 1933

Criminal attorneys John S. Cooper and M. G. Phillips with client Liberty A. Hill in court, Los Angeles, 1932

Description:
Photograph of, L to R, criminal attorney John S. Cooper in court with client Liberty A. Hill and attorney M. G. Phillips in court, with spectators behind them. Hill, a former chief deputy county clerk, was ultimately convicted of embezzling $75,000 cash evidence in the Morris Levine - Charles H. Crawford case.
Date:
[1932]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Criminal attorneys John S. Cooper and M. G. Phillips with client Liberty A. Hill in court, Los Angeles, 1932

David Mdivani and Serge Mdivani sit in court on the opening day of their trial, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:
From left to right, David Mdivani and Serge Mdivani are viewed close-up as they sit behind their table on the opening day of their trial. David Mdivani hunches over the table and flips through a book. Serge Mdivani looks up attentively towards the left. A man appears to walk behind them at right. In the background, spectators sit, filling the courtroom.
Date:
[circa January 15, 1934]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
David Mdivani and Serge Mdivani sit in court on the opening day of their trial, Los Angeles, 1934

Panorama of police officers standing on the field at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum during a police inspection, Los Angeles, 1927

Description:
Police officers stand in rows across the width of the field at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. They are viewed from above. The rows shorten in length as they extend back towards the left side of the field. A dirt track wraps around the field. In the foreground, stadium seating spans the lower left corner as it slopes down towards the field. A few spectators occupy the seats. Empty stadium seating stretches across the background.
Date:
May 2, 1927
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Panorama of police officers standing on the field at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum during a police inspection, Los Angeles, 1927

Judge Frank Monfort and Vernon D. Wood on the witness stand, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
The late Mrs. Alexander was frustrated over several failed screen tests she had taken, which provoked a fight with her husband that culminated in two self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head. She died the following day at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. Alexander's business manager Vernon D. Wood called to deliver the message to Mrs. Alexander's father.
Date:
December 12, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Judge Frank Monfort and Vernon D. Wood on the witness stand, Los Angeles, 1935

Composer John Philip Sousa and music supervisor Kathryn E. Stone awarding trophies to music students, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:
This photograph appears with the Los Angeles Times article, January 8, 1926, Children Greet Band King, Sousa Presents Trophies, Conducts Combined School Orchestra, Receives Gift and Plays Concert. … Mr. Sousa awarded the music-memory contest trophies to representatives of the Santa Barbara-avenue and the Soto-street schools during the matinee intermission, with the assistance of Miss Kathryn E. Stone, supervisor of music in the elementary schools …
Date:
January 7, 1926
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Composer John Philip Sousa and music supervisor Kathryn E. Stone awarding trophies to music students, Los Angeles, 1926

Motor boats on display at an auto show, Los Angeles, 1927

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
Motor boats on display at an auto show, Los Angeles, 1927

Wayland Avery compares J. H. Montgomery's model airplane designed like bird's wings and a model of a vulture, Los Angeles, 1930

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
Wayland Avery compares J. H. Montgomery's model airplane designed like bird's wings and a model of a vulture, Los Angeles, 1930

Myrtle St. Pierre, breach of promise plaintiff, holding a bouquet on the steps of the County Courthouse, Los Angeles, 1932

Description:
Photograph of Myrtle St. Pierre, breach of promise plaintiff, on the back steps of the Los Angeles County Courthouse receiving a large bouquet of flowers; she is greeted by a young man and stands next to a woman (probably her sister Mildred Mccaffery). Five people are visible on the steps behind St. Pierre.
Date:
July 5, 1932
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Myrtle St. Pierre, breach of promise plaintiff, holding a bouquet on the steps of the County Courthouse, Los Angeles, 1932

Robert Kenny, Fred Dapprich, and C. J. Ver Halen, judging the Los Angeles Times Amateur Snapshot Contest, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Photograph of (L to R): Superior Judge Robert Kenny, photographer Fred Dapprich, and C. J. Ver Halen, editor of American Cinematographer (publication of the American Society of Cinematographers). The men, who are seated and standing at a table covered with photographs, are judging the Los Angeles Times Amateur Snapshot Contest.
Date:
[circa August 25, 1935]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Robert Kenny, Fred Dapprich, and C. J. Ver Halen, judging the Los Angeles Times Amateur Snapshot Contest, Los Angeles, 1935

Mrs. Leafie Sloan-Orcutt, Dr. J. W. Todd and Miss. Jeanie MacPherson, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Aunt Sunway's Dinner Party was a promotional contest sponsored by the Los Angeles times, in which contestants submit what they think is the best seating arrangement for Martha "Aunt" Sunway's eight dinner guests, based on information about her and her guests in a 31-page booklet. The prizes were worth a total of $12,000, and a model home designed by architects H. Roy Kelley, Edgar F. Bissantz, and Harold G. Spielman was awarded as First
Date:
Aug 6, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Mrs. Leafie Sloan-Orcutt, Dr. J. W. Todd and Miss. Jeanie MacPherson, Los Angeles, 1935