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

Description:: Webster (on left) and Dr. Sproul, incoming President of the University of California (center), stand outside Royce Hall following the Dedication ceremony. Webster, Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of St. Andrews, had given a keynote address titled "One Touch of Nature". 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

Description:: Standing at the entrance to Royce Hall, Dr. Sproul, incoming President of the University of California (on left), and Webster share thoughts following the Dedication ceremony. Webster, Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of St. Andrews, had given a keynote address titled "One Touch of Nature". 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

Description:: Standing at the entrance to Royce Hall, Dr. Sproul, incoming President of the University of California, converses with an unidentified man. 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.
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

Description:: Webster, Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of St. Andrews, stands outside of Royce Hall following the Dedication ceremony. Webster had given a keynote address titled "One Touch of Nature". 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.
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

Description:: Students lined up on the Esplanade on their way into Royce Hall (not pictured). The Physics Biology Building (Humanities Building)--on left--and the Library (Powell Library)--on right--appear in the background. The Esplanade is more generally called Royce quadrangle and is known today as Dickson Plaza. 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:: February 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: From L to R: Allan C. Balch (William Kerckhoff's business partner), Ernest C. Moore (Director of UCLA), Louise E. Kerckhoff, Governor James Rolph, Jr., Lucy Guild (ASUCLA Vice President, 1931 graduate), and Earle Swingle (ASUCLA President, 1931 graduate).
Date:: January 20, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: 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. [Note: Original print is damaged]
Date:: c.1941
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: This photograph looks west down the Royce Hall colonnade, which appears here populated by students during registration. 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:: February 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 "UCLA on the Move," page 49.
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

Description:: Onlookers observe the dedication ceremony on the Kerckhoff Hall patio with the west side of the Education Building (Moore Hall) as a backdrop.
Date:: January 20, 1931
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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