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

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:: Interior photograph of worker installing seats into Josiah Royce Hall auditorium during the final stage of construction.
Date:: c.1929
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
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

Description:: Rescue workers and volunteers lift an injured person on a stretcher into an automobile following 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, 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

Description:: Exterior photograph of two female students wearing commencement gowns standing with a Ford Model A automobile in a parking lot. The south side of the Physics Biology Building (Humanities Building) is visible in the background.
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 80 [with the date identified as 1929].
Date:: April 10, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: [Check yearbooks again; is this really Vermont Ave? cut-outs and gable a clue? source of date? Same man appears in early sports team photo (search Vermont YBs for him)-KM]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: [Checked yearbooks; is this really Vermont Ave? cut-outs and gable a clue? Seated man also appears with early sports team-KM]
Date:: n.d.
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Hoover (Thelner B.) and Hoover (Louise E. B.) photographic collection

Description:: Male students engage in a push ball contest on the Vermont Avenue campus. The occasion is likely the Frosh-Soph Brawl, a Fall tradition that pits freshmen against sophomores. The Los Angeles State Normal School moved to this twenty-five acre site on North Vermont Avenue near downtown Los Angeles in September 1914, where it became the Southern Branch of the University of California in July 1919. After a name change to the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1927, the university moved to its present location in Westwood in the May 1929.
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:: Male students engage in a push ball contest on the Vermont Avenue campus. The occasion is likely the Frosh-Soph Brawl, a Fall tradition that pits freshmen against sophomores. The Los Angeles State Normal School moved to this twenty-five acre site on North Vermont Avenue near downtown Los Angeles in September 1914, where it became the Southern Branch of the University of California in July 1919. After a name change to the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1927, the university moved to its present location in Westwood in the May 1929.
Date:: c. 1928
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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