Genre: news photographs / Subject: Medals - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Los Angeles police officers H.W. Card, Arthur S. Shivell, Eugene Biscailuz, S.F. Griggers, C.J. Salazar, W.R. Stark and C.E. Pealer, with the trophies they won in a shooting competition with policemen in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Each team competed in their home city and the scores were transmitted by radiogram. The Los Angeles team won five out of the six events.
Date:: August 4, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A medal presented to John C. Austin is viewed close-up. The medal hangs down from a ribbon that stretches across the top of the image. It is star-shaped. Within the star is some Arabic script. Above the star's top point, a small laurel wreath attaches to a small ring. It rests against an unknown larger, leather object.
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A close-up photograph of the medal. It bears a profile outline of Roosevelt and two rows of words encircling his depiction. The outermost description is: Franklin Delano Roosevelt 31st President of the United States, and the innermost is: 1933 1937 John Nance Garner Vice President
Date:: March 30, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photo appears with the article "WINNING SPIRIT MAKES CHAMP: Coach Tells Requirements of Winner," Burns, Ted, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 1928: A5.
Date:: [circa February 12, 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Medal with a profile bust and the inscription "P. H. Ling." Per (or Pehr) Henrik Ling was a Swedish physical therapist, developer and teacher of medical-gymnastics.
Date:: December 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A young Mrs. Lewis is shown dressed in an elegant gown complete with crown, scepter and a very long cloak on the day of her award.
Date:: April 4, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Dr. Felix Janovsky, Czechoslovakia consul in Los Angeles, pins the Order of the White Lion on William May Garland, president of the 1932 Olympiad in Los Angeles. Standing next to Garland is Dr. Madilene Veverka (aka Madeline), who was head supervisor of Los Angeles city schools, kindergarten and primary grades. The Order of the White Lion was an award of merit by Czechoslovakia for foreign citizens.
Date:: May 9, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Long-Lost Gift Found," Los Angeles Times, 03 Apr 1936: A1.
Date:: April 3, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Mrs. Rogers Given Medal," Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct 1935: A1.
Date:: October 29, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to the article, "Echo Heard of Lusitania. Medal Carried by U-Boat Operator Found Giving Expected Sinking Date," Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 1935: 8. The story related in this article, stating that the medal was struck for the submarine crew in advance of the sinking of the Lusitania, is fiction.
Date:: November 23, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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