Genre: photographs / Subject: Events - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Colonel Miles, professor of military science and tactics, appears on Royce Hall steps in uniform 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.
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:: Dr. Dewey, philosophy professor at Columbia University, passes in front of Royce Hall following the Dedication ceremony. Dr. Dewey had given a keynote address titled "Philosophy and Education." 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]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: Group photo includes Thelner Hoover (second row, far left) and Louise Hoover (third row, standing, far right). Thelner and Louise Hoover are both 1930 graduates of UCLA. Taken on the passenger ship Lurline, interior.
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Unidentified
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: Students register for courses on the cavernous stage of Royce Hall auditorium. 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:: Onlookers observe the dedication ceremony on the Kerckhoff Hall patio with the building's east side 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

Description:: A crowd gathers on Hilgard Avenue to witness the opening of Mira Hershey Hall, a residence hall for female students. The sorority houses are Kappa Alpha Theta (left) and Kappa Kappa Gamma (right).
Date:: October 13, 1931
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: Helen Laughlin (Dean of Women), Robert G. Sproul (President of UCLA), Ernest C. Moore (Provost of UCLA), and Margaret Sartori (UC Regent). Mira Hershey Hall was a residence hall for female students.
Date:: October 13, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: Onlookers gather on Hilgard Avenue to witness the opening of Mira Hershey Hall, a residence hall for female students.
Date:: October 13, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: Photographed across Hilgard Avenue, onlookers gather to witness the opening of Mira Hershey Hall, a residence hall for female students. A few of the towers of Westwood Village are visible in the background.
Date:: October 13, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: Rescue workers and official examine the aftermath of a stand collapse during the Tournament of Roses Festival parade on New Year's Day 1926 in Pasadena, California. The fatal collapse sent hundreds of parade watchers to the hospital and left at least four people dead. Hoover, who at the time was attending Pasadena Junior College, took this photograph of the recovery effort as curious onlookers were kept back by rows of men with outstretched arms. Hoover would go on to attend UCLA, where he became the official photographer for several publications and an unofficial chronicler of UCLA events.
Date:: January 1, 1926
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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