Genre: news photographs / Date: 1928 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Oil well tower at Coyote oil fields, Los Angeles County, 1920s

Description:: Oil well tower at Coyote oil fields. Two transportation vehicles are seen at the foot of the oil well where three men are working.
Date:: 1920-1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Coyote oil fields, Los Angeles County, 1920s

Description:: View of Coyote oil fields. Smoke is coming out from a building. Oil wells are seen on the hills in the background.
Date:: 1920-1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Dr. Leo Baughman, Los Angeles, 1928-1937

Description:: Articles that reference Dr. Leo Baughman do not focus on his dental career, although he was a prominent dentist and member of the California State board of dental examination. Baughman was also a speedboat racing enthusiast, owning several world record-holding boats (each one named Blue Streak). Baughman often acted as chief timer for regatta races. These activities are reported on in "Blue Streak Captures Santa Barbara Races," Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 1928: 12; in "Fast Times Feature Outboard Race Card," Los Angeles Times, 17 Jun. 1929: 12; and in "Speedboats in Regatta Today at Long Beach," Los Angeles Times, 14 May 1932: A11, amongst others.
Date:: [between 1928-1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Tennis player Norval Craig, Los Angeles County, 1920s

Description:: Norval Craig on a tennis court, he is holding a tennis racket up in the air with his right hand.
Date:: 1920-1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Maude Royden shakes hands with Dr. Frank Dyer as Mabel Dyer looks on, Pasadena, 1928

Description:: Similar photograph appears with the article, "Maude Royden Explains Aims," Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar 1928: A1.
Date:: March 12, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Navy's USS Richmond light cruiser, San Pedro, 1923-1939

Description:: The Navy's USS Richmond, a light cruiser, with the shore visible in the background.
Date:: [between 1923-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Flood relief workers (?) eating at a u-shaped bar following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Description:: Flood relief workers (?) eating at a u-shaped bar following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam. There are 7 women food workers in the center and 3 women in the background. The 2 women wearing white headdresses might be Red Cross volunteers.
Date:: March 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Commander Richard E. Byrd's plane, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Commander Richard E. Byrd's plane that was used during his arctic exploration, the Fokker Super Universal.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

View of the remaining center portion of the St. Francis Dam visible after its disastrous collapse, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Description:: The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:: March 13, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Administrative building at Harry Chandler's C & M Ranch, Baja California, Mexico

Description:: Harry Chandler's Baja California ranch, the California-Mexico land and Cattle Company (C & M Ranch).
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Judges Thomas Brunton and Louis P. Russill, Los Angeles, 1920s

Description:: Judges Thomas Brunton, of Montreal, Canada, and Louis P. Russill look over documents. The cropped image of Thomas Brunton appears with the article, "HUMANE CITY COURTS GET HIGH PRAISE: Efficiency of Judges in Handling Traffic Cases...," Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 1927: A8.
Date:: [between 1920-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Tennis player Tom Bundy, Los Angeles, 1920s

Description:: Tennis player Tom Bundy (Thomas Clark Bundy) about to hit a tennis ball. Behind him is tennis player Maurice McLoughlin. Both played the US Open Doubles from 1912-1915.
Date:: [between 1920-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Jefferson Myers speaks at the harbor and foreign trade committee luncheon, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Jefferson Myers of the United States Shipping Board claimed on his ten-hour visit from San Francisco that "one of the most vital issues confronting the American people today is the question of adequate sea power."
Date:: May 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Captain Clem Peoples, Los Angeles County Jailer, Los Angeles, 1920-1939

Description:: Portrait of Clem Peoples, county jailer from the 1920s to November, 1940, In uniform.
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Young men in homecoming "brawl," University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Probably related to Los Angeles Times article, October 18, 1928, Trojan Sophs Win Right to Rule, Freshmen Lose Liberties—and Shirts—in Annual Brawl
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Young men playing with large exercise ball at homecoming "brawl," University of Southern California, Los Angeles, [1928?]

Description:: Possibly related to Los Angeles Times article, October 18, 1928, Trojan Sophs Win Right to Rule, Freshmen Lose Liberties—and Shirts—in Annual Brawl
Date:: [1928?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Young men in tug of war at homecoming "brawl," University of Southern California, Los Angeles, [1928?]

Description:: Possibly related to Los Angeles Times article, October 18, 1928, Trojan Sophs Win Right to Rule, Freshmen Lose Liberties—and Shirts—in Annual Brawl
Date:: [1928?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Actress and dancer Jean Jarvis, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Jean Jarvis sitting in a chair, likely during proceedings following the assault of her acquaintance Edward Usher.
Date:: January 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Portrait of Mary Marie Hickman [rephotographed], Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Refer to article, "Family Stands by Girl-Slayer." Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 1928: A1
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Sailors mount seaplane onto catapult during training exercise aboard the USS West Virginia, 1924-1939

Description:: This photograph is similar to one captioned “One of the U.S.S. West Virginia’s huge sea planes being catapulted from the ship’s deck, to do scout work preparatory to ‘the big battle,’” Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 1926: A1.
Date:: [between 1924-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Fundraising sign next to the Wilshire Boulevard Congregational Church, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Wilshire Boulevard Congregational Church was designed by the architectural firm Allison and Allison Architects. It is located at 4350 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, and is the home of the Wilshire United Methodist Church (10/2012).
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Betty Gray diving into pool in front of onlookers, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Photograph published in article: "Girls at School Play in Pool: Summer Students Have Water Frolic," Los Angeles Time, 10 Aug. 10 1928: A1.
Date:: Aug. 9, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Mr. Kalmus, co-founder of Technicolor, and Mrs. Kalmus, color director for Technicolor films

Description:: View of Mr. and Mrs. Kalmus standing outside with train car in background. Mr. Herbert T. Kalmus in hat, glasses, collared shirt, tie, jacket, pants, with left arm around Mrs. Natalie Kalmus, in hat, dress, and purse underneath left arm. Mr. Kalmus was a scientist, and the co-founder and president of Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation. Mrs. Kalmus was color director for all Technicolor films made between 1934-1956. The couple divorced in 1922, but continued to live together until 1944.
Date:: [between 1920-1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Los Angeles Times night managing editor, Earl Craven, Los Angeles, 1923-1939

Description:: Photograph of Times employee Earl E. Craven. Mr. Craven was an employee of the Los Angeles Times from 1923 to 1956 (his death), rising through the ranks from assistant telegraph editor to being the assistant managing editor. In the years that he covered the night shift as the news editor and assistant managing editor, Mr. Craven was largely responsible for the make up of the Times' home edition. He also conducted a weekly broadcast on Times programs.
Date:: [between 1923-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Theatrical producer Al Woods reads a script, 1920-1939

Description:: Theatrical producer Al Woods sits smoking a cigar and reading a screenplay from amongst many that sit on his desk.
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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Oil well tower at Coyote oil fields, Los Angeles County, 1920s

Coyote oil fields, Los Angeles County, 1920s

Dr. Leo Baughman, Los Angeles, 1928-1937

Tennis player Norval Craig, Los Angeles County, 1920s

Maude Royden shakes hands with Dr. Frank Dyer as Mabel Dyer looks on, Pasadena, 1928

Navy's USS Richmond light cruiser, San Pedro, 1923-1939

Flood relief workers (?) eating at a u-shaped bar following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Commander Richard E. Byrd's plane, Los Angeles, 1928

View of the remaining center portion of the St. Francis Dam visible after its disastrous collapse, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Administrative building at Harry Chandler's C & M Ranch, Baja California, Mexico

Judges Thomas Brunton and Louis P. Russill, Los Angeles, 1920s

Tennis player Tom Bundy, Los Angeles, 1920s

Jefferson Myers speaks at the harbor and foreign trade committee luncheon, Los Angeles, 1928

Captain Clem Peoples, Los Angeles County Jailer, Los Angeles, 1920-1939

Young men in homecoming "brawl," University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1928

Young men playing with large exercise ball at homecoming "brawl," University of Southern California, Los Angeles, [1928?]

Young men in tug of war at homecoming "brawl," University of Southern California, Los Angeles, [1928?]

Actress and dancer Jean Jarvis, Los Angeles, 1928

Portrait of Mary Marie Hickman [rephotographed], Los Angeles, 1928

Sailors mount seaplane onto catapult during training exercise aboard the USS West Virginia, 1924-1939

Fundraising sign next to the Wilshire Boulevard Congregational Church, Los Angeles, 1928

Betty Gray diving into pool in front of onlookers, Los Angeles, 1928

Mr. Kalmus, co-founder of Technicolor, and Mrs. Kalmus, color director for Technicolor films

Los Angeles Times night managing editor, Earl Craven, Los Angeles, 1923-1939

Theatrical producer Al Woods reads a script, 1920-1939

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