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Description:: Various students or staff--including Lawrence Houston (UCLA 1930), center in dark suit--sell ASUCLA membership cards at the north (rear) entrance to Royce Hall. This rear entrance to Royce Hall is no longer visible due to the addition of a scenery shop in 1953 and further renovation in 1984 and 1998. Royce Hall was the center of activity during the mid-February registration for the "second half-year" (Feb. - June) of the first academic year on the new Westwood campus.
Date Created:: 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Thelner and Louise Hoover Photographic Collection

Description:: Military commissions are awarded to ROTC graduates. UCLA commencement ceremonies were held at the campus Open Air Theater from 1941 to 1949. This photograph likely depicts the first commencement held on the Westwood campus on June 14, 1941. The Open Air Theater (sometimes referred to as the Greek Theater) was located at the south end of campus where the Public Health Building stands today. The Open Air Theater was bulldozed for the expanding campus in 1952.
Date Created:: 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Thelner and Louise Hoover Photographic Collection

Description:: Ernest C. Moore, Director of UCLA, turns the first shovel of earth at the new Westwood campus. From L to R: Charles H. Rieber, James R. Martin, Margaret Satori, Virginia Janss, Edward A. Dickson, Ernest C. Moore, Harold Janss, Edwin Janss, Florence Janss, Elizabeth Janss, John Goodwin, Jeannette Goodwin, Robert M. Underhill, George Kingdon, A. L. Page, Robert Sagehorn, and unidentified man holding blueprints.
Date Created:: 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Thelner and Louise Hoover Photographic Collection

Description:: Photographed looking west, the Men's Gymnasium (Student Activities Center)--on the left--and the Women's Gymnasium (Kaufman Hall)--on the right--stand amid the melting snow following a rare snowfall on campus.
Date Created:: 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Thelner and Louise Hoover Photographic Collection

Description:: The west side of the Library during construction viewed from the eventual location of Janss Steps. Originally known simply as the Library, Powell Library was known as College Library prior to 1966.
Date Created:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Thelner and Louise Hoover Photographic Collection

Description:: The south (or front) side of Josiah Royce Hall appears here midway through its construction. The perspective is from the Library (Powell Library), which was at a similar stage of construction at the time.
Date Created:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Thelner and Louise Hoover Photographic Collection

Description:: UCLA notables gather for groundbreaking ceremony on the new Westwood campus. Elizabeth Janss is seen in the foreground being helped onto the bulldozer.
Date Created:: 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Thelner and Louise Hoover Photographic Collection

Description:: UCLA football coaches pose during practice. From L to R: Fred Oster, Hugh McDonald, William H. (Bill) Spaulding, and A. J. Sturzenegger.
Date Created:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Thelner and Louise Hoover Photographic Collection

Description:: Celebrants include (from L to R): Lawrence C. Powell (University Librarian), Paul A. Dodd (Dean of the College of Letters and Science), Vern O. Knudsen (physics professor and Dean of the Graduate Division), Bonnie Dodd, and Florence Knudsen. UCLA Founders Day is an annual event that highlights the university's history and accomplishments. The astronomical observatory of William A. Clark Memorial Library is visible behind the celebrants.
Date Created:: 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Thelner and Louise Hoover Photographic Collection

Description:: Prior to the opening of Kerckhoff Hall in 1931, a temporary building located south of the Library served as the student union and bookstore. From L to R: The Library (Powell Library), the south side of the Chemistry Building (Haines Hall), the Physics-Biology Building, and (foreground, right corner) the temporary student store. Likely photographed from Education Building (Moore Hall) construction site. [Handwritten date in margin may be inaccurate; summer is more likely actual date than spring]
Date Created:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Thelner and Louise Hoover Photographic Collection

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