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.
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.
"Mertens and Price, Inc." refers to "Mertens and Price Inc. Radio Feature Service syndication" a Hollywood radio promotion company owned (in part, at least) by George Logan Price.
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.
Typewritten and annotated page with information for Sunday Players photo shoots with references to Biblical passages by chapter and verse numbers, quotes from the passages, instructions for poses of the actors and lighting in photographs. Locations are also listed.
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.
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.
The document begins: Eugene Morahan, prominent sculptor, formerly of New York City, who did the Soldiers' and Sailors' monument in Brooklyn immediately after the was, is shown with model of Saint Monica statue...
John Temple was born in Massachusetts in 1796. He changed his name to Juan Bautista Temple in 1827 when he converted to the Catholic faith and shortly before he became a citizen of Mexico.
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.
Text reads: Adelbert Bartlett, 1572 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, Calif. Exclusive. Note: Try the roto section service which is supplied to many colleges for inserts in college newspaper, also health magazines. Picture of girls in a boat: Members of the Row-A-Way Club, recently organized aquatic sports group, at Santa Monica (Calif.) Junior College, take to one of the Los Angeles beach city's new life-guard patrol skiffs for a pretty picture intended as showing "form" at the oars in preparation for mid-winter practice in rowing and sailing in the new Santa Monica yacht harbor, nearest popular Pacific beach to Hollywood and Los Angeles. Virginia Constable is at the tiller-oar. Gym groups work outdoors practically every day all winter long in Sou. Calif., which is said to account for at least some of the pep these young women exhibit (adv.). Left to right the girls are: Virginia Putnam, Nedra Herz, Isobel Millier, Mary McKay, Bettie Lou Slaughter, Margaret Barnhisel, Betty Christy, Flora Mae Prescott, Viola Bunker, Virginia Constable, a number of whom are members of socially prominent families in Southern California. ## Picture of girls lined up with oars: Same group of girls setting up and other maneuvers preparatory to taking rowing exercises. Left to right, Nedra Herz, Mary McKay, Flora Mae Prescott, Bettie Lou Slaughter, Virginia Constable, Marion Kline, Margaret Barnhisel, Viola Bunker, Virginia Putnam, Bettie Christy, Isobel Millier.
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
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)
Text reads: B S/282R1694 WELLS AHA. RUNNING A GANTLET OF OIL DERRICKS. HUNTINGTON BEACH, California--The only highway of its kind in the world--the Coast Highway along the Pacific where it runs through an avenue of oil derricks at Huntington Beach here. S/282R1964 WELLS
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
Typewritten description of photographs of a night-blooming cereus in the yard of the Santa Monica residence of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Hedges, on Twenty-first street. The photographs feature the cereus flower with Carolyn Briggs and, in one image, Mrs. E. E. Hedges or plant owner Mrs. Emma Kantz as well.
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.
Photograph of a typescript document describing a collection of 100-year-old patchwork quilts donated to the Santa Monica municipal welfare center sewing room in Santa Monica. Workers, Marie Finley and Betty Shoemaker are also identified.
The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (NHDVS), Pacific Branch, was an earlier name, in part, for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. Description is of the grounds of what was later named the Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System (U.S.)
Typescript reads: "Must we destroy 200 acres of cotton like this?" ask Mr. and Mrs. A.G. (Gus) Busby. The San Joaquin Valley cotton planter, pictured above with his wife and youngest son, (Eugene) Gene, has his life savings invested in a $14,000 cotton crop ready to be picked. Busby has fallen under the lash of the New Deal's Agricultural Adjustment Administration's cotton curtailment program. [words crossed out] A.G. (Gus) Busby, San Joaquin Valley cotton grower, who says he will lose his life savings if New Deal's Agricultural Adjustment Administration's cotton curtailment program forces him to plow under $14,000 of cotton crop, now ready to pick.
Typescript note related to photograph ark no. 21198/zz002dfvd5, which reads, "Young Ladies Institute of Los Angeles. Misses Lucille Schneiders, 1st vice-president; Mary Fitzgerald, president; Loretto [sic] Mangan, 2nd vice-president and Frances Boyle, past pres.
Photograph of a typescript document that lists the women in related photograph 21198/zz002dfvxx and reads, "Friday Morning Club executive board. Carl A. Heinze; Rose Bryant; Edward M. Kromer; Joseph W. Hammer and Daisy Clark King."
Photograph of a typescript document that lists the women in related photograph 21198/zz002dfw2g, which reads, "Friday Morning Club -- Board of directors. Standing: Mmes. E. C. N. Brett, Cecil Frankel, A. S. Fears and Walter A. Bonynge.
Photograph of a typescript document that lists the women in related photograph ark no. 21198/zz002dfx40 and reads, "Ebell Club 1935-36 officers: Mmes. Helen Moorehouse, chairman of rentals; Robert M. Allan, chm. finance; Mrs. Charles R. Smurr, chm Rest Cottage."
Related to the article, "Eastern Visitors Provide Incentive for Clubwomen's Out-of-Doors Parties. Intimate Grill Suppers Popular Summer Entertainment for Many Clubwomen. Grill Suppers Predominate on Gala List. Mrs. L. F. X. Wilhelm Among Prominent Hostesses." Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 1935: B8.
Photograph of a typescript document that lists the women in related photograph 21198/zz002dfwmr and reads, "Wilshire Juniors Club. Mmes. Paul Guenther [sic], president; Anona Schweitzer, past president; Hal W. Stewart, Past Pres. and Louis Reinard, second vice-president."
Photograph of a typescript document that lists the women in related photograph 21198/zz002dfwbm and reads, "Wilshire Junior Club (Punch Bowl) Mmes. Albert Guenther and George Cockle, hostess and Miss Mary Jo Cockle."
Photograph of a typescript document that lists the women in related photograph 21198/zz002dfwjq and reads, "West Adams Women's Club. Standingg [sic]: Mmes. W. G. Thomas, ways and means chm; Lew Fields, arts and crafts; seated: Mmes. Roy C. Kaiser, membership chm and director; Delos Delano, founder; Hortense Fisher, director and press chm; Hayes Drake, president; J. V. Harrison, treasurer and George Shaw, corresponding secretary."
Photograph of a typescript document that lists the people in related photograph 21198/zz002dfvrb, which reads, "Rancho Los Amigos. At Piano: Seated at piano, Josephine O'Leary, pianist and mezzo soprano, former member of the Vienna Grand Opera Co., now a member of the L.A. Tusenald German Club. Standing: Mrs. Emma Cauley, member of Lynwood Women's Club and war mothers; Mrs. Bessie Barrie of the D.A.R. Ft. Atkinson Chapter, Wisc.,"
Photograph of a typescript document that lists the women in related photograph 21198/zz002dfw6j, which reads, "Women's Law Observance Association. Dr. Clara B. Burdettem [sic], Mrs. William H. Hannold, founder, Mmes Walter H. Fisher, Dora A. Stearns and Susan M. Dorsey."
Photograph of a typescript document listing the women in photograph 21198/zz002dfvg6, which reads, "Mrs. R. E. Filcher and Misses Leah Buchanan and Maude Elizabeth Richards, local club women."
Photograph of a typescript document that lists the women in related photograph 21198/zz002dfvp9, which reads, "Wives of Calif. Bar Asso.--nat conv. Mrs. William Hazlett, pouring, wife of local commissioner and Mrs. W. Jefferson davis."
Photograph of a typescript document that lists the women in related photograph 21198/zz002dfvm8, which reads, "Cosmos Club Juniors, Big Balls. Jane Brown, press chairman and Marilyn Tanner, secretary."
Photograph of a typescript document that lists the women in related photograph 21198/zz002dfw0f, which reads "Los Angeles County Federation of Women's Clubs. Mmes. John Stearns Thayer, Will Lee Austin and Frank C. Owens."
Photograph of a typescript document that lists the women in related photograph 21198/zz002dfvj7, which reads, "Wilshire Women's Club. Mmes. H. M. White, H. E. Bayhi, Genevive Paonessa and Mrs. Donald Jennings, junior past president of the Wilshire Women's Club."
Typescript note related to image ark no. 21198/zz002dfvb4, which reads, "The United Order of True Sisters. Mmes. Robert Kraemer, Joseph Goldstein, president and Miss George H. Davis, hostess of Uplifters party."
Typescript note related to photograph 21198/zz002dfv41, which reads, "West Adams Women's Club. Mrs. Delos Delano, founder; Mrs. D. H. Hayes, retiring president and Mrs. Hayes P. Drake, incoming president.
Related to the article, "Clubwomen Planning to Further Renown of City as Music Center. Euterpe Sets Program for Opera Season. Gala Opening Will be "Romeo and Juliet" Presentation." Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 1935: A6.
Related to the article, "Women's Club Executives Advised to Build Only for Good of Organization. Leader Urges Petty Tactics Be Discarded. Mrs. Mab C. Lineman Hostess to New Presidents." Los Angeles Times, 7 July 1935: B6.
Photograph of a typescript document, which describes the related photograph 21198/zz002dfw8k, that reads, "9. Left to right, Lieutenant-Commander J. B. Noble of Coronado, Mrs. Phillip Chancellor of Beverly Hills and Mr. Chancellor, and Mrs. J. B. Noble, photographed at Santa Barbara-Biltmore at Junior League Horse Show Ball, Saturday night, July 27."
Related to the article, ""Politics Banned by President of American Association of University Women. College Head Arrives Here for Conclave. Education Interests Sister of Virginia Senator." Los Angeles Times, 21 June 1935: A7."
Most likely related to the article, "Basque Fete Will Benefit Bishop's Fund. Fiesta to Be Given on Bel-Air Grounds July 23." Los Angeles Times, 7 July 1935: B2.
Related to the article, "Southland Society Folk Joins Summer Travel Ranks in Increased Numbers. Santa Barbara Horse Show Draws Leaders of Society. Many Entertain Large Parties at Annual Junior League Ball and Supper, Attended by More Than 300." Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 1935: B1.
Related to the article, "George Jessel Signs Agreement with Schenck-Zanuck Studio Organization. Star Joins Actors Busy Behind Screen. Barbara Stanwyck and Preston Foster Leads in Buffalo Bill Feature; Bette Davis to Glean Again in 'Woman From Yesterday'." Los Angeles Times, 22 July 1935: 15.
Photograph of typescript note accompanying photograph 21198/zz002dfx61, which appears to be misfiled, and reads, "Wives of California Bar Association – nat convention. Mmes. Benjamin F. Bledsoe, John Perry Wood and Fanchon Armitage."