Genre: photographs / Resource Type: still image / Subject: University of California, Los Angeles--Royce Hall - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: The original UCLA victory flag (flown the day after sports victories) flies on the original wooden Gimbel Flagstaff with Royce Hall in the background.
Date:: March 9, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: The annual Junior-Senior Football Game held on the Athletic Field with campus in the background. Royce Hall, Kerckhoff Hall, and the Education Building (Moore Hall) are visible. In 1931, the juniors were the victors 6-0.
Date:: December 9, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: Photographed from the Physics-Biology Building (Kinsey Hall, subsequently the Humanities Building), the Goodyear Blimp flies over Royce Hall. The airship--named the "Volunteer"--was used by Thelner Hoover for aerial photography of campus. Here the airship joins the festivities of the annual freshman "Green Day" in the Spring of 1931. The Library (Powell Library) is in the foreground and the Provost's Residence (University Residence) is in the distant background.
Date:: c.1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: The north side of the Library (subsequently known as College Library and, after 1966, the Lawrence Clark Powell Library) is photographed here from the foot of the Chemistry Building (Haines Hall). By the close of the first academic year on the Westwood Campus, landscaping around all of the Esplanade buildings had been completed.
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:: May 31, 1929, a day that came to be known as "Moving Day," saw a caravan of more than 500 vehicles filled with students, moving boxes, furniture, and equipment make its way from Vermont Avenue to the new Westwood campus. Ernest C. Moore, Director of UCLA, declared the day a half-holiday, and the ROTC band accompanied the procession. In this photograph, students unload a truck before Royce Hall. [Note: Handwritten date in the margin is incorrect]
Date:: May 31, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) 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:: Summer, 1929
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 58.
Date:: April 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: An earthmover excavates the site of the building's north wing addition. The Physics-Biology Building was renamed Kinsey Hall and is today known as the Humanities Building.
Date:: April 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: The facade of Royce Hall is just visible through the outer wall of the west side of the Physics-Biology Building (Kinsey Hall, subsequently Humanities Building). Both buildings are in their final stage of construction.
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:: Captain W.A. Ross of the UCLA Police Department and Lawrence Houston (UCLA 1930)--to Ross' left--joke around during the sale of ASUCLA membership cards at the north (rear) entrance to Royce Hall. Surrounding students or staff are unidentified. 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:: February 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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