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Typewritten narrative about Los Angeles Library murals and Dean Cornwell (pg. 2), 1932

Description:
This narrative is about Dean Cornwell, an American painter and illustrator who was prominent in the early 20th century. His works include illustrations for Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, and Good Housekeeping. He also painted several other murals besides those for the L.A. library, including for the locations: the Warwick Hotel New York, 10 Rockefeller Plaza New York, and the Sevier State Office Building in Tennessee. He is mentioned in several L.A. Times articles, including one dated June 21, 1931, which covers his research process for the murals for the L.A. library.
Date:
1932
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Typewritten narrative about Los Angeles Library murals and Dean Cornwell (pg. 2), 1932

Typewritten narrative about Los Angeles Library murals and Dean Cornwell (pg. 1), 1932

Description:
This article is about Dean Cornwell, an American painter and illustrator who was prominent in the early 20th century. His works include illustrations for Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, and Good Housekeeping. He also painted several other murals besides those for the L.A. library, including for the locations: the Warwick Hotel New York, 10 Rockefeller Plaza New York, and the Sevier State Office Building in Tennessee. He is mentioned in several L.A. Times articles, including one dated June 21, 1931, which covers his research process for the murals for the L.A. library.
Date:
1932
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Typewritten narrative about Los Angeles Library murals and Dean Cornwell (pg. 1), 1932

Typewritten letter from Adelbert Bartlett requesting an invitation for Eugene R. Plummer to appear in Pioneer Days parade, 1936

Description:
Eugene R. Plummer and his family once owned sections of Los Angeles including the Hancock Park area, mid-Wilshire, Hollywood Hills, and West Hollywood. The site of his home was purchased by the County of Los Angeles in 1937 and is known as Plummer Park, West Hollywood.
Date:
June 26, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Typewritten letter from Adelbert Bartlett requesting an invitation for Eugene R. Plummer to appear in Pioneer Days parade, 1936

Typewritten documents describing photographs of shipments of Easter lilies from Los Angeles, 1931

Description:
5 short typewritten documents, probably adhesive label captions for photographs, with edges torn. Text reads in part: 1. 1931 514 BA Delivering Easter flowers by air. Bob Lloyd receiving a box of California Easter lillues [sic] for shipment ot [sic] the Jane Addams settlement in Chicago, the gift of high school girls in Glendale, Cal. 2. California's half million dollar Easter lilly crop. Scene in the hothouse where easter lillies are in full bloom. 3. 1931 512 BA Shipping Easter Lillies by air. Pilot Bob Lloyd, aerial flower delivery agent, receives boxes of Easter lillies. 4. 1931 513 BA California's half million dollar Easter lilly crop is ready for shipment. 5. Loading part of California's half million dollar easter lillies into trucks for shipment to the markets throughout the country. Left to right Rosine McDougall, Grace Wilkiemeyer, and Marjorie Franklin.
Date:
1931
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Typewritten documents describing photographs of shipments of Easter lilies from Los Angeles, 1931

Typewritten description of photographs of Will Rogers lighthouse building and Mary Virginia McCormick residence, Pacific Palisades, 1930

Description:
Text reads in part: Adelbert Bartlett, 535 15th Street, Santa Monica. 281R1694, 287R1694, 286R1694, 285R1694, 284R1694. NOTE: See copies of newspaper stories attached in re McCormick family member of which is Will Roger's next door neighbor in story below -- Will Rogers private beach and "lighthouse" bathouse, cafe, soft drink and hot dog stand, below Huntington Palisades, Santa Monica (Los Angeles beach), California, will shortly pass into ownership of the County of Los Angeles, if plans of supervisors in their effort to acquire more privately owned beach lands for public use go through ... Will's beach has been free to all comers. ... Will has for immediate neighbors Miss Virginia McCormick and her large staff ... on the choicest building plot ... relatives all multimillionaire heirs of the McCormick harvester millions. (see negatives enclosed) The McCormick estate stands high and secluded ... tightly-locked gates ... Will Roger's open-handedness in making the public at home on his beach near-by is in striking contrast with the McCormick situation mentioned above.
Date:
1930
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Typewritten description of photographs of Will Rogers lighthouse building and Mary Virginia McCormick residence, Pacific Palisades, 1930

Typewritten description of photographs of Mary Van Ness Leavitt, sister of Herbert Hoover, and copies of photographs from Hoover family album, 1928

Description:
Text reads: [Stamped] Photo by Adelbert Bartlett, 535 15th Street, Santa Monica, Calif. [Handwritten] Hold this copy. [Typewritten] Copies of photographs from the private family album of Mrs. Mary Van Ness Leavitt, 1337 15th Street, Santa Monica, California, sister of Herbert Hoover and Theodore J. Hoover. These pictures are duplicated through the courtesy of Mrs. Leavitt who has supplied the information covering them on the enclosed caption sheet.1- Mary Minthorn, grandmother of the Hoover children on their mother’s side.2- Jesse Clark Hoover and Hulda Minthorn Hoover, parents of the Hoover children, photographed at West Branch, Iowa, between 1880 and 1889.3- Childhood home of the Hoover children at West Branch, Iowa, where the parents died. Herbert Hoover’s mother (then age about 35) stands in the front yard of the house. This house WAS NOT the birthplace of the Hoover children, according to Mrs. Leavitt.4- Standing, left, Theodore J. (“Tad”) Hoover, at age 20, and Herbert (“Bert”) C. Hoover, at 16; seated Mary (“MAY”) Hoover, age 14, now Mrs. Mary Van Ness Leavitt, Santa Monica, Calif. This group of the Hoover children was made at Salem, Oregon, in 1888. Theodore Hoover is now head of the engineering department at Stanford University; Herbert Hoover is [struck out] Secretary of Commerce [handwritten below] President of the United States.5- When Herbert Hoover was a junior at Stanford University -- left to right, Professor Newsome, then instructor in geology; J.K. Means, mining engineer; Herbert C. Hoover.6- Herbert Hoover and a classmate when both were juniors at Stanford University.7- Herbert Hoover as a freshman at Stanford University, age 17.8- Herbert Hoover at the age of 25, photographed at Perth, West Australia, in 1898, when he was serving as mining engineer for the Bewick Moreing Co. (verify name of mining company) of London.9- Herbert Hoover at the age of 34, after he had left Australia and was stationed at London.10--11--12--13 new studies of Mrs. Mary Van Ness Leavitt, only sister of Herbert Hoover, made at her home in Santa Monica, California
Date:
1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Typewritten description of photographs of Mary Van Ness Leavitt, sister of Herbert Hoover, and copies of photographs from Hoover family album, 1928

Typewritten description of photographs of Los Angeles Plaza buildings, Los Angeles, 1929

Description:
Text reads, in part: Adelbert Bartlett, 535 15th Street, Santa Monica, California. Los Angeles, fifth city in the latest census, which is celebrating its 150th anniversary, has cataloged its historical landmarks ... the Plaza, old community center dating from the Spanish occupation ... the Church of Our Lady Queen of the Angels ... original Pico House (now the National Hotel) ... Olvera Street, the old Calle Olvera ... the oldest remaining adobe house in Los Angeles, the Avila home ... (See accompanying pictures)
Date:
1929
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Typewritten description of photographs of Los Angeles Plaza buildings, Los Angeles, 1929

Typewritten description of photographs of Hanriot HD.1 plane, newspaper article describing vandalism to plane, 1928 and 1931

Description:
Text of newspaper article reads, in part: Vandals Mutilate World War Relic. Nungesser Insignia Cut From Fuselage of Famous Plane. One of the priceless relics of the World war, a fighting plane flown by Captain Charles Nungesser, the French ace, has been mutilated by one of the grossest instances of vandalism to come to the attention of police ... Working with a sharp knife, the vandal cut from the side of the fuselage the famous Nungesser emblem ... Removal of the entire panel was not noted until a few days ago and makes the plane almost worthless. Handwritten on clipping: Santa Monica, California, 3/16/31
Date:
1931
1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Typewritten description of photographs of Hanriot HD.1 plane, newspaper article describing vandalism to plane, 1928 and 1931

Typewritten description of photograph of interior of Mount Wilson Observatory, Mount Wilson, 1930-1934

Description:
Text reads: View in observatory which houses the 60-inch telescope at the Carnegie Institute's observatory on the summit of Mt. Wilson in Southern California showing Friday night party of tourists taking their turns at looking through the scope at Jupiter, 130,000,000 miles away. Visibility is generally fine on Mt. Wilson. In addition to the 60-inch telescope shown here the obser vatory is equipped with the 100-inch telescope. Now that the Institute is planning to create a 200-inch telescope, which is to be the world's largest, it is expected that this instrument will also be located on the summit of Mt. Wilson, altho this location has not been definitely settled. Photo by Adelbert Bartlett, 535 15th Street, Santa Monica, Calif.
Date:
[1930-1934]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Typewritten description of photograph of interior of Mount Wilson Observatory, Mount Wilson, 1930-1934