Genre: photographs / Resource Type: still image / Subject: Education - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Two male students dressed as women attempt to gate-crash this annual women-only variety show put on by the Associated Women Students and are escorted by female students dressed as police out the doors of Royce Hall.
Date:: October 18, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: Two male students dressed as women are escorted out of Royce Hall after attempting to gate-crash this annual women-only variety show put on by the Associated Women Students.
Date:: October 18, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: The east side portico entrance to Josiah Royce Hall appears here midway through the first academic year on the new Westwood campus.
Date:: January 10, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: Oriented to show the building's east side and placed outdoors with a Westwood Hills home sales advertisement in the background.
Date:: c.1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: Distant aerial view of campus and Westwood Hills looking northeast from a Lockheed Vega airplane. Photographed prior to the opening of campus, only five structures were present: Royce Hall, the Library (College Library, subsequently Powell Library), the Chemistry Building (Haines Hall), the Physics-Biology Building (Kinsey Hall, and subsequently the Humanities Building), and the Bridge.
Date:: April 11, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: A puddle near the base of Janss Steps reflects the Library following a heavy rain during the first academic year on the Westwood campus. The Library, the northwest corner of which is seen here, was later known as College Library and, after 1966, Powell Library.
Date:: c.1929, Fall
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: Louise E. Brown (Hoover) of the Delta Zeta, Alpha Chi chapter sorority appears in period costume for a skit titled "All that glitters". The theme of the skit likely references the pioneering spirit of the class of 1929-30 (the first class to meet on the still-rugged Westwood campus; the class (the '29ers) often compared itself to the gold rush '49ers. The skit may have been for a sorority gala or a campus event, such as Campus Capers or the all-female Hi-Jinx. Brown (UCLA 1930) stands in the yard of an unidentified building.
Date:: c.1930
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: Photograph used in "California of the Southland", page 30.
Date:: September 21, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) 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:: September 21, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: Dr. Campbell, outgoing President of the University of California (on left), and Dr. Sproul, incoming President of the University of California, converse on the steps of Royce Hall following the Dedication ceremony. Known formally as the "Dedication of the New Campus and New Buildings of the University of California at Los Angeles", the event brought together regents, professors, students, alumni, and representatives of other educational institutions for four sessions held on March 27 and 28. [Note: Handwritten date in the margin is incorrect]
Date:: March 28, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

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