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Harold Bell Wright, author, Los Angeles

Description:
Harold Bell Wright (May 4, 1872-May 24, 1944) , author, poses in Los Angeles. Wright was a novelist and playwright who worked in Hollywood. He wrote fifteen original screenplays and he sold five of his novels to moviemakers (1926-1941). Movies based on his novels include The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926) and The Shepherd of the Hills (1941). Wright died in La Jolla and was buried in San Diego.
Date:
[between 1926-1941?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Harold Bell Wright, author, Los Angeles

Side view of "The Tombstone", a slab of the St. Francis Dam visible after its disastrous collapse, San Francisquito Canyon, 1928

Description:
Side view of a section of the St. Francis Dam, nicknamed "The Tombstone", after the dam collapsed on March 12, 1928. The resulting flood killed over 400 people, and was considered one of the worst civil engineering failures in American history. The dam collapse caused the second greatest loss of life in California history, second only to the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. The St. Francis dam was built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon, near present-day Santa Clarita. William Mulholland was the engineer behind the dam's construction, and the dam failed just hours after he had personally given it a safety inspection, effectively ending his career.
Date:
[circa March 13, 1928]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Side view of "The Tombstone", a slab of the St. Francis Dam visible after its disastrous collapse, San Francisquito Canyon, 1928

Crowd outside the Goodwill Industries premises in the Baker Block building, picture taken before a fire occurred at the site on January 14, 1938

Description:
Crowd outside the Goodwill Industries premises in the Baker Block building, where a fire occurred on January 14, 1938. Remarkably, 400 crippled and elderly men and women, as well as 20 children in the nursery, escaped the event unharmed. Firefighters were able to keep the blaze from spreading throught the entire building, which had been in use since 1868. A short circuit in the electrical department on the ground floor was suspected to be the cause of the fire. Photograph looks to have been taken pre-fire
Date:
between 1925 and January 14, 1938
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Crowd outside the Goodwill Industries premises in the Baker Block building, picture taken before a fire occurred at the site on January 14, 1938

Dave Getzoff posing in chair, Los Angeles, circa 1928

Description:
Possibly Dave Getzoff who was a co-defendant, along with his father Ben Getzoff in the bribery case brought against District Attorney Asa Keyes in Janurary-February 1929. The case against Dave Getzoff was dismissed due to lack of evidence against him; however, his father, Ben Getzoff, was found guilty on conspiracy charges late in 1928.
Date:
Between 1928-1930?
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Dave Getzoff posing in chair, Los Angeles, circa 1928