Search

Browse items

–

Current results range from 1911 to 1940

View distribution

Search Constraints

You searched for: Genre news photographs ✖Remove constraint Genre: news photographs Collection OpenUCLA Collections ✖Remove constraint Collection: OpenUCLA Collections Date 1931 ✖Remove constraint Date: 1931
Start Over

659 Catalog Results

Number of results to display per page
View results as:
List Created with Sketch. List View List Gallery Created with Sketch. Gallery View Gallery

Search Results

David G. Lorraine in a courtroom, Los Angeles, circa 1931

Description:
Living in Texas in the 1920s and financed by $18,000 from his first wife, Rose, David G. Lorraine invented and patented oil-field machinery. In 1925, David G. Lorraine offered Rose $10,000 for her share of the corporation, claiming he was about to go bankrupt. He then divorced her, moved to California, remarried, and his company prospered, making him wealthy. Rose initiated a law suit to gain her rightful share of the wealth, claiming Lorraine had deliberately deceived her. She won her law suit.
Date:
[circa 1931]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
David G. Lorraine in a courtroom, Los Angeles, circa 1931

General Andrés Pico, circa 1860-76 (copy print 1920-1936)

Description:
Andrés Pico was a Californio who became a successful rancher, fought in the contested Battle of San Pascual during the Mexican–American War, and negotiated promises of post-war protections for Californios in the 1847 Treaty of Cahuenga. After California became one of the United States, Pico was elected to the state Assembly and Senate. He was appointed as the commanding brigadier general of the state militia during the U.S. Civil War.
Date:
[1920-1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
General Andrés Pico, circa 1860-76 (copy print 1920-1936)

Los Angeles aqueduct, damaged section of channel or pipe, Inyo County, [1924-1931?]

Description:
The Los Angeles aqueduct was bombed or otherwise vandalized in at least 10 incidents from 1924 to 1931. Cf. (1) Los Angeles Times article, 20 June 1927, “City Aqueduct Again Blasted, Dynamite Tears Out Sixteen-Foot Section, Fourth Recent Outrage Done During Night Hours, Explosion Occurs Two Miles South of Lone Pine.” The article states: “A heavy charge of dynamite exploded in the fourth attempt within the past month … shattered a sixteen-foot panel of waterway at the Puddle Creek Delta, two miles southwest of Lone Pine … Other outrages. Previous acts of violence against the Aqueduct are as follows: On the 5th inst., the side walls of a large open concrete conduit at the mouth of Cottonwood Canyon were wrecked by a charge of dynamite … May 28, 1927: Approximately 300 feet of the Aqueduct system was blown out at Big Pine … May 27, 1927: … a charge of explosive in No Name Canyon destroying about 450 feet of iron pipe … May 14, 1926: A ten-foot hole was torn out of the concrete Aqueduct by dynamite … about one mile south of the spillway in the Alabama Hills. November 24, 1924: A mob of men … opened the Alabama control gates … between Independence and Lone Pine … May 21, 1924: A heavy charge of dynamite was set off against an open portion of the Aqueduct at a point two miles north of Lone Pine. … No actual damage …” Cf. (2) Los Angeles Times article, 17 July 1927, “Blasts Peril Owens Mills, New Aqueduct Dynamitings Bring Contingency, Lake Level May Tie Up Chemical Plants, Large Repair Crews Rush Reconstruction Work.” The article states: “… two dynamite blasts … early yesterday wrecked the Aqueduct … The latest explosions occurred at Thebaut gate, eight miles north of Independence, and at Tuttle Creek south of Lone Pine. …” Cf. (3) Los Angeles Times article, 3 Nov. 1931, “Officers Trail Aqueduct Dynamiting Suspects, One of Pair Sought Here as Blast Rips Grapevine Siphon; No Water Shortage.” The article states: “Two men were being sought last night for complicity in the explosion of a terrific charge of dynamite which … tore out a section of the grapevine siphon on the Los Angeles Aqueduct, about fifty miles north of Mojave. …”
Date:
[1924-1931?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles aqueduct, damaged section of channel or pipe, Inyo County, [1924-1931?]

Lobby of the unfinished California State Building in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

Description:
The State Building was completed in 1931 at a cost of more than $2 million, and was dedicated the day before the opening of the 1932 Olympics. It occupied most of the block bounded by 1st & Temple Streets, and Spring and Broadway. The building sustained significant damage from the 1971 San Fernando earthquake, and was torn down in 1975 or 1976.
Date:
[between 1931 and 1932)
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Lobby of the unfinished California State Building in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

Don Pio Pico's El Ranchito, exterior view from the side, Whittier, [between 1920-1939]

Description:
The west-facing side of Pio Pico's adobe mansion is viewed at an angle as it stretches back through the image. In front of it at right, the ruins of a wall stand. A wooden window frame remains inset into the ruins. At left, overgrown plants grow in front of the building. Three dormers sit atop El Ranchito's sloped roof.
Date:
[between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Don Pio Pico's El Ranchito, exterior view from the side, Whittier, [between 1920-1939]

Autogiro, Missing Link, flies low over an air field, Los Angeles vicinity, 1931

Description:
A similar photograph of the Missing Link autogiro in flight is captioned, "Crowd Marvels at Strange Aircraft Autogiro as it appeared when dropping vertically to the ground at Los Angeles Airport and inset, John Miller of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., pilot of machine's first transcontinental trip," Los Angeles Times, 30 May 1931: A3
Date:
[circa May - June, 1931]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Autogiro, Missing Link, flies low over an air field, Los Angeles vicinity, 1931

Whalen Curio Store and other shops on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

Description:
At the center of the photograph is the Whalen Curio Store, which the store's awning advertises as selling Navajo Indian Blankets & Curios. To the right is the Michigan Misfit Clothing store. Above that store, windows on the 2nd floor advertise Doctor Alvarez, Physician.
Date:
[between 1930 and 1932]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Whalen Curio Store and other shops on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

Views of Los Angeles in the 1860s, photographed 1920-1939

Description:
Caption: 1) Map of Wilmington Harbor and Government Breakwater. 2) Main street from Temple Block. 3) Cathedral. 4) Cosmopolitan School. 5) High School. 6) Grand Central Hotel. 7) Governor Downey's Residence. 8) Mission San Gabriel. 9) University of Southern California. 10) Temple Block and County Bank. 11) Bake Block. 12) Fort Street. 13) Pico House. 14) Downey Block.
Date:
[1920-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Views of Los Angeles in the 1860s, photographed 1920-1939

Broadway Tunnel, Fort Moore Hill and the Hall of Justice seen from Spring Street, Los Angeles, 1925-1939

Description:
View down Spring Street from the intersection with Sunset Blvd. (now Cesar Chavez Avenue), facing SW towards the Broadway Tunnel on the right, and the Hall of Justice of the left beyond Fort Moore Hill. A Standard [gas] Station is on the corner. A sign reading "IT'S IN THE EXAMINER" (seen from the back) is visible in the upper center of the photograph. There are 4 billboard signs above and to the left of Broadway Tunnel advertising Carnation Milk and " Aunt Jemina's Daddy!". Rear view of the Hall of Justice Building. A gas station (Standard Stations Inc.) is in the shot as well.
Date:
[between 1925-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Broadway Tunnel, Fort Moore Hill and the Hall of Justice seen from Spring Street, Los Angeles, 1925-1939

Autogiro, Missing Link, sits on the tarmac outside Hangar One at Mines Field, Los Angeles, 1931

Description:
A similar photograph of the Missing Link autogiro in flight is captioned, "Crowd Marvels at Strange Aircraft Autogiro as it appeared when dropping vertically to the ground at Los Angeles Airport and inset, John Miller of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., pilot of machine's first transcontinental trip," Los Angeles Times, 30 May 1931: A3
Date:
[circa May - June, 1931]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Autogiro, Missing Link, sits on the tarmac outside Hangar One at Mines Field, Los Angeles, 1931

Bird's-eye view of the USC and Stanford football game at the Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1931

Description:
The camera looks east and pans down at the Coliseum's field during the USC and Stanford football game of 1931. Along the bottom edge, crowds fill stands that descend towards the field. The field sits in the near distance at center. Players on the field line up for a play at right, just beyond the near end zone. Crowds fill the stands as they wrap around the long sides of the field. The main entrance to the Coliseum rises at the far end of the field in the distance at center.
Date:
[circa November 7, 1931]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Bird's-eye view of the USC and Stanford football game at the Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1931

Armistice Day observance, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1931

Description:
Probably related to Los Angeles Times article, November 8, 1931, Minute of Memory Caps Armistice Day Program, All City to Pause in Silent Token of Respect to Fallen Heroes of War at 11 a.m. … Presentation of stand of colors to Legion of Valor … by Senator Shortridge. … unit will be commanded by Frank J. Irwin, a D.S.C. man and former National Commander of the Disabled American Veterans …
Date:
1931
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Armistice Day observance, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1931

Joseph Scott disembarks from a plane, Los Angeles vicinity, circa 1930s

Description:
Off-center to the right, Joseph Scott poses while disembarking from an airplane. He stands on the middle step of a step stool near the plane's rear door. Joseph Scott holds a hat in his hand as he looks to camera. Behind him, the plane's fuselage stretches across the image. Text along the side of the plane reads, "[...]ENTRALES. S.A.," and "[...]X[...]."
Date:
[circa 1930s]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Joseph Scott disembarks from a plane, Los Angeles vicinity, circa 1930s

Major General Malin Craig inspects Sixty-third Coast Artillery (antiaircraft) at Fort MacArthur, San Pedro, 1930s

Description:
Text from note: Ca ve--San Pedro, Identification: Major General Malin Craig, commanding general, Ninth Corps Area, inspecting Sixty-third Coast Artillery (antiaircraft) reigment at Fort MacArthur. --(left to right) General Craig, Col. Charles H. Hilton, commandant of Fort MacArthur and Lieut. Col. Homer R. Oldfield, commanding Sixty-third Coast Artillery."
Date:
[1930s]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Major General Malin Craig inspects Sixty-third Coast Artillery (antiaircraft) at Fort MacArthur, San Pedro, 1930s

Children fly kites near Silver Spray Pleasure Pier, Long Beach, [between 1920-1939]

Description:
In the foreground, people crowd the beach on the north side of Silver Spray Pleasure Pier in Long Beach. Children on the beach carry or fly kites. From the middle of the crowd, a kite with a long tail sails over the beach at center. Across the kite, text reads, "LONG BEACH." The crowd extends back towards the pier, which stretches across the background. Along the side of the pier, a sign reads, "SILVER SP[...] PLEASURE PIER." A roller coaster sits behind it on the pier. About a couple dozen kites are visible sailing through the sky in the distance.
Date:
[between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Children fly kites near Silver Spray Pleasure Pier, Long Beach, [between 1920-1939]

Looking outside from an entrance of the unfinished California State Building in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

Description:
The State Building was completed in 1931 at a cost of more than $2 million, and was dedicated the day before the opening of the 1932 Olympics. It occupied most of the block bounded by 1st & Temple Streets, and Spring and Broadway. The building sustained significant damage from the 1971 San Fernando earthquake, and was torn down in 1975 or 1976
Date:
[between 1931 and 1932)
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Looking outside from an entrance of the unfinished California State Building in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

Pilot Johnny Miller stands with 2 unidentified men beside the autogiro, Missing Link, Los Angeles vicinity, 1931

Description:
A similar photograph of the Missing Link autogiro in flight is captioned, "Crowd Marvels at Strange Aircraft Autogiro as it appeared when dropping vertically to the ground at Los Angeles Airport and inset, John Miller of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., pilot of machine's first transcontinental trip," Los Angeles Times, 30 May 1931: A3
Date:
[circa May - June, 1931]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Pilot Johnny Miller stands with 2 unidentified men beside the autogiro, Missing Link, Los Angeles vicinity, 1931

Los Angeles aqueduct, damaged section of channel, Inyo County, [1924-1931?]

Description:
The Los Angeles aqueduct was bombed or otherwise vandalized in at least 10 incidents from 1924 to 1931. Cf. (1) Los Angeles Times article, 20 June 1927, “City Aqueduct Again Blasted, Dynamite Tears Out Sixteen-Foot Section, Fourth Recent Outrage Done During Night Hours, Explosion Occurs Two Miles South of Lone Pine.” The article states: “A heavy charge of dynamite exploded in the fourth attempt within the past month … shattered a sixteen-foot panel of waterway at the Puddle Creek Delta, two miles southwest of Lone Pine … Other outrages. Previous acts of violence against the Aqueduct are as follows: On the 5th inst., the side walls of a large open concrete conduit at the mouth of Cottonwood Canyon were wrecked by a charge of dynamite … May 28, 1927: Approximately 300 feet of the Aqueduct system was blown out at Big Pine … May 27, 1927: … a charge of explosive in No Name Canyon destroying about 450 feet of iron pipe … May 14, 1926: A ten-foot hole was torn out of the concrete Aqueduct by dynamite … about one mile south of the spillway in the Alabama Hills. November 24, 1924: A mob of men … opened the Alabama control gates … between Independence and Lone Pine … May 21, 1924: A heavy charge of dynamite was set off against an open portion of the Aqueduct at a point two miles north of Lone Pine. … No actual damage …” Cf. (2) Los Angeles Times article, 17 July 1927, “Blasts Peril Owens Mills, New Aqueduct Dynamitings Bring Contingency, Lake Level May Tie Up Chemical Plants, Large Repair Crews Rush Reconstruction Work.” The article states: “… two dynamite blasts … early yesterday wrecked the Aqueduct … The latest explosions occurred at Thebaut gate, eight miles north of Independence, and at Tuttle Creek south of Lone Pine. …” Cf. (3) Los Angeles Times article, 3 Nov. 1931, “Officers Trail Aqueduct Dynamiting Suspects, One of Pair Sought Here as Blast Rips Grapevine Siphon; No Water Shortage.” The article states: “Two men were being sought last night for complicity in the explosion of a terrific charge of dynamite which … tore out a section of the grapevine siphon on the Los Angeles Aqueduct, about fifty miles north of Mojave. …”
Date:
[1924-1931?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles aqueduct, damaged section of channel, Inyo County, [1924-1931?]

Outlet tunnel at Devil's Gate Dam, La Cañada Flintridge

Description:
The Devil's Gate Dam was the first flood control dam constructed in Los Angeles County. Designed by the flood engineers from the Los Angeles County Flood Control District and completed in 1920 Bent Brothers company, it formed the Hahamongna flood basin. The dam is located in La Cañada Flintridge at Devil's Gorge, the narrowest point on the Arroyo Seco. The Arroyo Seco is a seasonal river and watershed that begins at Red Box Saddle near Mount Wilson in the San Gabriel Mountains and ends at the confluence with the Los Angeles River near Elysian Park, north of Downtown Los Angeles.
Date:
[between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Outlet tunnel at Devil's Gate Dam, La Cañada Flintridge