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Advisor Harry Hopkins and others during President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s visit to Los Angeles, October 1, 1935

Description:
Hopkins was a close advisor to President Roosevelt and credited as a major architect of the New Deal and the Works Progress Administration. Photo was taken during Roosevelt’s trip to Los Angeles. Other men are unknown, most likely related to New Deal and WPA (Works Progress Administration) agencies.
Date:
October 1, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Advisor Harry Hopkins and others during President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s visit to Los Angeles, October 1, 1935

Alleged blackmailer George Wallace, alias Robert M. Nixon, with U.S. Marshal William S. Sweeney, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:
George Wallace (alias Robert M. Nixon) with U.S. Marshal William S. Sweeney. Wallace is accused of blackmailing lawyer and horse owner Neil S. McCarthy. McCarthy received four letters, allegedly from Wallace, threatening to maim his race horses with poisoned-needle darts if he didn’t pay up. Wallace testified that he had written the letters, but he had been acting on behalf of a gang of “tough eggs” that were behind the scheme.
Date:
[February 14, 1940]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Alleged blackmailer George Wallace, alias Robert M. Nixon, with U.S. Marshal William S. Sweeney, Los Angeles, 1940

Arch-Abbott S. Ohtani presents Mayor Frank L. Shaw with a gift, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:
Arch-Abbott S. Ohtani of the Hongwanji Buddhist movement presents Major Frank L. Shaw with a bronze incense burner after visiting American temples. From left to right in the front is Mayor Shaw and Arch-Abbott S. Ohtani. Directly behind them, left to right, is Rev. H. Sasaki of the local temple and Rev. T. Sasaki, secretary to the Arch-Abbott. The three unidentified men are possibly Rev. J. Yukawa, Rev. J.A. Goldwater, Rev. E. Washioka or F. Yano.
Date:
December 31, 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Arch-Abbott S. Ohtani presents Mayor Frank L. Shaw with a gift, Los Angeles, 1934

Arch-Abbott S. Ohtani presents Mayor Frank L. Shaw with a gift, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:
Arch-Abbott S. Ohtani of the Hongwanji Buddhist movement presents Mayor Frank L. Shaw with a bronze incense burner while visiting American temples. Left to right, Mayor Shaw and S. Ohtani are the two figures in the center. Directly behind them, left to right, is Rev. H. Sasaki of a local temple and Rev. T. Sasaki, secretary for S. Ohtani. The unidentified men possibly include Rev. J. Yukawa, Rev. J.A. Goldwater, Rev. E. Washioka, and F. Yano.
Date:
December 31, 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Arch-Abbott S. Ohtani presents Mayor Frank L. Shaw with a gift, Los Angeles, 1934

Arizona National Guard members filling canteens at water's edge, Colorado River, near Parker, Arizona, 1934

Description:
In 1934, with plans in place for United States Reclamation Service and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to build Parker Dam on the Colorado River between Arizona and California, Arizona governor Benjamin B. Moeur protested the diversion of water to California by sending members of the Arizona National Guard to the dam construction site. A local ferry service also participated under the informal name of the Arizona Navy.
Date:
1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Arizona National Guard members filling canteens at water's edge, Colorado River, near Parker, Arizona, 1934

Arizona National Guard members setting up camp, near Parker, Arizona, 1934

Description:
Related to Los Angeles Times article, March 13, 1934, “Dam Watch Continues in Arizona, State’s Army Expedition ‘Observes’ Water District Workers in California," Arizona’s Colorado River National Guard expeditionary force--two buck privates, a cook, a radio man, a truck driver and a major--continued today to follow order of Gov. Moeur and “observe” what the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is doing about the building of a diversion dam across the river north of here. …they peered watchfully at workmen on barges … It seemed likely to go on for some time.
Date:
1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Arizona National Guard members setting up camp, near Parker, Arizona, 1934

Arizona National Guard sergeant Ernest Mendoza transmitting report by radio, near Parker, Arizona, 1934

Description:
In 1934, with plans in place for United States Reclamation Service and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to build Parker Dam on the Colorado River between Arizona and California, Arizona governor Benjamin B. Moeur protested the diversion of water to California by sending members of the Arizona National Guard to the dam construction site. A local ferry service also participated under the informal name of the Arizona Navy.
Date:
1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Arizona National Guard sergeant Ernest Mendoza transmitting report by radio, near Parker, Arizona, 1934

Arizona state senator Nellie T. Bush, husband Joe Bush, and another man, near Parker, Arizona, 1934

Description:
In 1934, with plans in place for United States Reclamation Service and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to build Parker Dam on the Colorado River between Arizona and California, Arizona governor Benjamin B. Moeur protested the diversion of water to California by sending members of the Arizona National Guard to the dam construction site. A local ferry service also participated under the informal name of the Arizona Navy.
Date:
1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Arizona state senator Nellie T. Bush, husband Joe Bush, and another man, near Parker, Arizona, 1934

Assemblywoman Jeanette E. Daley, vice-chairman of a legislative committee appointed to investigate the practices and policies of the S.R.A., Los Angeles, March 5, 1940

Description:
Committee vice-chairman, Assemblywoman Jeanette E. Daley, at the meeting of a joint legislative committee composed of seven Senators and eight Assemblymen, which was appointed to investigate policies and practices of the State Relief Administration. Some topics discussed at the hearing included S.R.A. funding of crossing guards, the transfer of S.R.A. headquarters from San Francisco to Los Angeles, how the S.R.A. leases quarters, and financial conditions, including the controversial 40% cut of relief checks. This last point drew picketers from the Workers Alliance, who marched outside the State Building during the committee’s S.R.A. hearings.
Date:
March 5, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Assemblywoman Jeanette E. Daley, vice-chairman of a legislative committee appointed to investigate the practices and policies of the S.R.A., Los Angeles, March 5, 1940

Assemblywoman Jeanette E. Daley, vice-chairman of a legislative committee appointed to investigate the practices and policies of the S.R.A., Los Angeles, March 5, 1940

Description:
Committee vice-chairman, Assemblywoman Jeanette E. Daley, at the meeting of a joint legislative committee composed of seven Senators and eight Assemblymen, which was appointed to investigate policies and practices of the State Relief Administration. Some topics discussed at the hearing included S.R.A. funding of crossing guards, the transfer of S.R.A. headquarters from San Francisco to Los Angeles, how the S.R.A. leases quarters, and financial conditions, including the controversial 40% cut of relief checks. This last point drew picketers from the Workers Alliance, who marched outside the State Building during the committee’s S.R.A. hearings.
Date:
March 5, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Assemblywoman Jeanette E. Daley, vice-chairman of a legislative committee appointed to investigate the practices and policies of the S.R.A., Los Angeles, March 5, 1940

Assemblywoman Jeanette E. Daley, vice-chairman of a legislative committee appointed to investigate the practices and policies of the S.R.A., Los Angeles, March 5, 1940

Description:
Committee vice-chairman, Assemblywoman Jeanette E. Daley, at the meeting of a joint legislative committee composed of seven Senators and eight Assemblymen, which was appointed to investigate policies and practices of the State Relief Administration. Some topics discussed at the hearing included S.R.A. funding of crossing guards, the transfer of S.R.A. headquarters from San Francisco to Los Angeles, how the S.R.A. leases quarters, and financial conditions, including the controversial 40% cut of relief checks. This last point drew picketers from the Workers Alliance, who marched outside the State Building during the committee’s S.R.A. hearings.
Date:
March 5, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Assemblywoman Jeanette E. Daley, vice-chairman of a legislative committee appointed to investigate the practices and policies of the S.R.A., Los Angeles, March 5, 1940

Audience gathered at the Hollywood Bowl to hear Eleanor Roosevelt speak, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Audience gathered at the Hollywood Bowl to hear Eleanor Roosevelt speak. Eleanor and her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Los Angeles for a day before visiting San Diego. During their time in Los Angeles, the President gave a speech at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and Mrs. Roosevelt gave a speech at the Hollywood Bowl.
Date:
October 01, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Audience gathered at the Hollywood Bowl to hear Eleanor Roosevelt speak, Los Angeles, 1935

Audience gathered at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to hear President Franklin D. Roosevelt speak, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Audience gathered at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to hear President Franklin D. Roosevelt speak. Eleanor and her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Los Angeles for a day before visiting San Diego. During their time in Los Angeles, the President gave a speech at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and Mrs. Roosevelt gave a speech at the Hollywood Bowl.
Date:
October 01, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Audience gathered at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to hear President Franklin D. Roosevelt speak, Los Angeles, 1935

Baja California governor Jose Maria Tapia, California governor C.C. Young, and five other men, [Los Angeles?], 1930

Description:
Possibly related to Los Angeles Times article, February 12, 1930, Gov. Tapia Arrives in City Today, Mexcian Official Will be Guest With Gov. Young at Dinner This Evening. … Both will be honor guests tonight at a banquet tendered by Alfonso Pesqueira, Consul of Mexico in Los Angeles. … attended by … Mayor Porter, President Austin of the Chamber of Commerce, State Senator Lyons, Sheriff Traeger, Emil Klika, president of the Bank of America at San Diego: Consul-General Lubbert of San Francisco, and other executives …
Date:
1930
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Baja California governor Jose Maria Tapia, California governor C.C. Young, and five other men, [Los Angeles?], 1930