View of women in push carts, each guided by a young man in a cap, on a road at the California Pacific International Exposition in Balboa Park on the opening day
Photograph of a women being questioned during the coroner's inquest into the shooting murder of Harry Meagher. The woman could be his wife, Fern Meagher, or the friend he had been visiting just before hi murder, Velva Nalley. Three men can be seen sitting in the jury box on the right, a man stands beside the bench of the coroner, and a man is seated at a table in front of the bench.
Young actress Ada Williams Ince, 21, divorces her husband of 5 years, William "W.T." Ince, on claims of abuse due to her husband's violent temper. Williams was granted the divorce in Superior Judge Edmond's court, and attributed it to the date of Friday the 13th, her "lucky number", contrary to popular convention.
William Edward Hickman, third from left, poses for a photograph with police officers and prison officials. On the far right is Los Angeles County Jailer Frank Dewar and second from right is Undersheriff Eugene Biscailuz.
W. H. Bowers and Olive Orr Brugen-Schmidt Bowers, married three just months, seated together at a court proceeding. Olive Bowers was accused of plotting with Elmer M. Archer to poison her husband. The plot was discovered when their conversations were overheard on a 2-party telephone line.
View of a tow truck connected to an automobile with a rope at the flooded intersection at West First Street and Juanita Avenue. A man next to the car has the hood up and is looking at the engine. Signs on the truck read "Transfer" and "Express."
An unknown man applying false eyelashes to Elsie the Borden Cow, the unofficial mascott for Borden dairy products. After appearing at the New York World's Fair, Elsie was chosen by R.K.O. producer Gene Towne to star in the 1940 film "Little Men," based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott. Elsie arrived in Los Angeles on July 12, 1940
Unidentified man in court for the murder trial of crossing guard Albert Dyer. Dyer had lured three Inglewood girls into the hills, where he strangled them with rope and his hands. He was eventually found guilty and executed.
View of plywood shack at unemployment camp at 84th & Alameda Sts. during the Depression in Los Angeles. Signs in view read "ACE FOUNDRY INC.,"NATIONAL BANK," and a portion of a sign reading "8440 So. Alamada."
View of trucks driving down a flooded street. The front truck carries 2 trailers, the front one covered with a large tarp, and has a sign reading "Pioneer Truck Co." A sign painted on a building reads "Compton Iron-Metal Salvage." Houses are in the background on the right.
The "Treasure Ship" float with a Spanish galleon bearing golden gifts; the intended inhabitants of the float were driven away by the rain. The Pasadena Memorial Flagpole (Goodhue Flagpole) is visible behind the float in its original location in the middle of the intersection of Orange Grove and Colorado Boulevard. The float was entered by the Hotel Vista del Arroyo.
"Submarine Garden" float from Educational Pictures at the Electrical Parade and sports pageant in the Memorial Coliseum, a charity event produced by local film studios. A sign on the float reads "Educational Pictures."
Hayward Thompson successfully drove for five hours and thirteen minutes, a total of 100 miles, through congested traffic all while completely blindfolded. The affair was his 333rd exhibition and the longest since his sixty mile drive in Miami.
Photograph of storm-flooded intersection of Beverly Boulevard and Lake Street. Several automobiles and a bus are traveling through the floodwater on the street. Commercial signs read "Pacific Duco Auto Finishing," "Broadway Hill and Seventh presents...Frances Denney's Herbal Throat and Neck Blend, Corrects 'Crepey' Throat," "Grace Tabernacle...," "Pasadena laundry, 20% off on Laundry Left Here," "Van de Kamps Bakers," and on the bus "E..s Railway 2011."
A $50,000 Derby day at the Santa Anita racetrack on February 22, 1937. The crowd in attendance was estimated at 45,000 spectators. Twenty-three horses raced that day, beating out the Kentucky Derby's record of twenty-two starting horses at that time. The $50,000 purse was won by the horse Fairy Hill.
Soldiers in old military uniforms stand next to others wearing the new "streamlined" style during a military show for National Defense Week. The show was held at the Los Angeles Airport and more than 60 officers and men participated.
Laundry hanging in a slum. Part of the housing study carried out by the State Emergency Relief Administration. County officials were asked to make a study of housing conditions in their city.
Republican presidential nominee Herbert Hoover undertook a day-long trip throughout southern California on August 17, 1928. He visited Santa Barbara, Glendale, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Pasadena, and San Bernardino.
View of the "Sea Serpent" float with 3 women. The Pasadena Memorial Flagpole (Goodhue Flagpole) is visible behind the float in its original location in the middle of the intersection of Orange Grove and Colorado Boulevard. The float was entered by the city of Venice.
An official and Salvation Army volunteers prepare a ribbon cutting ceremony to open the doors of Wilcox Cafeteria on Christmas. A number of homeless and people in need line up with meal tickets.
Robert H. Scott (right) [probably the one who was a juvenile court judge in Los Angeles 1926-1943], at an officious occasion shaking the hand of another man at a desk with baskets of flowers and with an American flag behind him
This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, June 18, 1932, University’s Commencement Held in Hollywood Bowl, U.C.L.A. Grants 1090 Diplomas, Vast Crowd Sees Exercises at Hollywood Bowl, President Sproul Speaks of “New World” Problems, Intelligence Only Progress Surety, Moore Tells Class
Roberta, Jack, Marguerite, and Jack sit around a square table covered with a white tablecloth. Couples dance in the background. Their table is engaged in conversation with one another and their table is covered with half-eaten plates of food and drinking glasses.
Reverend Van Deerlin passed away following an illness of several weeks. Several months before his death the Reverend penned his will, picked out his own casket and arranging for his final rites. Born in England, he was a member of the priesthood for 66 years and a former missionary. He is survived by his nine children.
Admiral William F. Halsey ended his 45-year naval career aboard the U.S.S. South Dakota in the Los Angeles Harbor. He commanded the Third Fleet during the Pacific War against Japan. The ceremony consisted of the changing of his four-starred flag to the two-starred flag of his successor, Rear-Admiral Howard F. Kingman. The ship's entire company was present during the brief ceremony. After the ceremony, Halsey left the battleship on a crash boat and the U.S.S. South Dakota fired a 17-gun salute.
View of a toppled tree on a residential street during or after a heavy rainstorm. Three apartment buildings are behind the tree and a gas station is on the far right in the background with a sign reading "Associated Gasoline."
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.
View of a produce store with produce on stands beneath an awning on a flooded commercial street. The stands hold bananas, cauliflower and other produce. A temporary sign reads "Channel Swim tonight, Axle Grease Free Crawl Stroke."
Prince and Princess Kaya undertook a seven-month world tour in 1934, visiting the United States, Great Britain, France, and Germany. The tour received extensive press coverage at the time.
Portrait painter Josef Sigall with his wife Marie Sigall. Josef wears a double-breasted suit with a vest and Marie wears a felt hat and a coat with a fur collar and fur cuffs.
Related to the article "Two Killed In Air Crash: Biplane Dives to Earth. Pilot and HIs Passenger Burned to Death in Wrecked Craft," Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 1935: A1
Float with a Miss Frank Alexander in an open jewelry box with a red satin lining and a strand of pearls half out of the box in the Tournament of Roses Parade. Floral signs on the float include "Safe Keeping" on the lid of the jewelry box and "Banks" on the front. Signs on the corner commercial building behind the float read: "Latest Model Cars for Hire Without Drivers...," "Pasadena Vulcan...g Works," and "Hotel Franklin." Spectators are standing along the parade route and on top of the corner building.
Painting of King Gustav V, in military uniform with sword, printed as a plate in a book and photographed from open book on mat or carpet. Caption under plate reads: H. M. King Gustaf V of Sweden (In the Swedish Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A.)
Page 2 of an undated, handwritten 3-page letter of apology to Dr. Leonard Siever from Peg. The letter is written on the stationary of the El Mirador Hotel in Palm Springs
Related to the article “Caltech Acquires ‘Ossie,’ Oscillograph to Photograph Atoms at Rate of 100,000,000 Per Second Unique Device.” Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 1928. “… known to well-informed electrical engineers as a cold cathode ray oscillograph which, in unscientific language, is a giant camera that records the antics of the electron particles composing an electric current. …”
A man surveys the newspapers available for reading at an open-air public library in Pershing Square, downtown Los Angeles. The Pershing Square outdoor library was opened in December of 1936, and was staffed by W.P.A. workers. Visitors to the library could choose to borrow a book by simply leaving their name. The library was quite popular, circulating 24,000 books in its first six months of operation, and spawning other outdoor libraries in Los Angeles.
View of 2 workers moving wooden beams inside the clock tower of the old Los Angeles Times Building as it was being prepared for the May1938 demolition. Beams and blocks of stone or concrete litter the floor and commercial buildings of Los Angeles are visible through triple arch opening in the tower wall.
The Long Beach earthquake of 1933 took place on March 10, with a magnitude of 6.4, causing widespread damage to buildings throughout Southern California. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach on the Newport-Inglewood Fault. An estimated fifty million dollars' worth of property damage resulted, and 120 lives were lost.
This photograph appears with the article "Defenders Refused to be Tricked Into False Move; Bulwark of Seaplanes Saves Los Angeles Harbor," 3 Oct. 1920: I1.
An unidentified lawyer approaching Robert S. James as he sits in the witness stand. A map of his home is visible behind him. He was most likely testifying in his own defense for the murder trial of his wife Mary Emma James. He purportedly had an affair with his niece, which spurred him to tie down his wife and have a rattlesnake bite her, and then later drown her in their fish pond. He was supposedly helped by his friend, ex-sailor Charles H. Hope, who was also charged with murder.
The mural, funded by the WPA (Works Project Administration), was controversial especially because of the depictions of nudity and references to war in the central panel. The central panel was removed from the Frank Wiggins Trade School lobby (now LA Trade Tech) and returned to the Public Works Administration in 1935 and the other two panels were returned in 1939.
Most likely related to the yearly mud battle between first and second year students and the first time female students took part. Students unknown. LAJC is now known as Los Angeles City College located near Vermont and Santa Monica Blvd.
Queen Boardman, in long skirt, blouse, and hat, and Lugo Machio, about age 12, in long dress and printed robe, hanging decorations on large Christmas tree in pot, with tables set with glasses and plates in background, waiter at left, decorated arched ceiling at top
![Trucks driving down flooded street, Compton [1927?]](https://iiif.library.ucla.edu/iiif/2/ark%3A%2F21198%2Fzz002dddcx/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg)
![Robert H. Scott, juvenile court judge [probably], 1928](https://iiif.library.ucla.edu/iiif/2/ark%3A%2F21198%2Fzz002ckpvv/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg)
![Robert G. Sproul, in cap and gown, speaking at UCLA graduation ceremony at Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, [1930s?]](https://iiif.library.ucla.edu/iiif/2/ark%3A%2F21198%2Fzz002cm1jg/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg)
![Photographic portrait of Al Jolson, [copy neg. 1920-1939]](https://iiif.library.ucla.edu/iiif/2/ark%3A%2F21198%2Fzz002dhzn4/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg)
![Painting of King Gustav V of Sweden by Pierre Tartoue, photographed from book, [1933?]](https://iiif.library.ucla.edu/iiif/2/ark%3A%2F21198%2Fzz002cngcm/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg)
![Mrs. Queen Boardman and Lugo Machio decorating Christmas tree, [1934?]](https://iiif.library.ucla.edu/iiif/2/ark%3A%2F21198%2Fzz002dbffj/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg)