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Dr. Walter Carter, entomologist, with Guatemalan jungle flies, Los Angeles, 1932

Description:
Dr. Walter Carter, entomologist, sits on a liner with two boxes next to his right. The boxes are filled with 1 million Guatemalan jungle flies en route to Hawaii in efforts to control a pineapple crop pest, the mealy bug. To his left is a steamer trunk standing on end, with two luggage stickers. He holds a pipe in his right hand. This was taken on the liner, Saint Teresa, in Los Angeles.
Date:
November 25, 1932
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Howe, Frank B., 1897-1963
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Dr. Walter Carter, entomologist, with Guatemalan jungle flies, Los Angeles, 1932

Wells J. Mosher, ex-confidential secretary to Mayor Porter, and his lawyer, Charles Ostrom, Los Angeles, 1932

Description:
Wells J. Mosher (left) and Charles W. Ostrom stand next to each other in a hallway. To the right of Ostrom is a wall calendar and a locked door. Behind them are a table and a radiator. On the wall behind them are several framed portraits, a sticker (?) portrait, and a sign for a barbecue. Mosher wears a suit, jacket unbuttoned, and had his hands crossed in front of him, holding a light-colored hat. A pencil and a pair of glasses is in his jacket pocket. Ostrom wears a tweed suit, jacket also unbuttoned, and has his hands clasped behind his back.
Date:
[July 7, 1932]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Wells J. Mosher, ex-confidential secretary to Mayor Porter, and his lawyer, Charles Ostrom, Los Angeles, 1932

Eugene Williams, Deputy District Attorney, pointing to floorplan of 10587 Holman Avenue during Louis Payne trial, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:
Eugene Williams, Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney, pointing to a bedroom on a floorplan of 10587 Holman Avenue, Los Angeles. This photograph was possibly taken during the July, 1934 trial of Louis Payne, who confessed to murdering his mother and brother at this address.
Date:
July, 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Eugene Williams, Deputy District Attorney, pointing to floorplan of 10587 Holman Avenue during Louis Payne trial, Los Angeles, 1934

Dancing Chinese lion during festival in Chinatown, Los Angeles, circa 1920-1939

Description:
Dancing Chinese lion during festival in Chinatown on unpaved street with spectators on the sidewalk. The man supporting the front holds the lion's head high above his own head and is smiling. There is allot of dust or smoke in the foreground. A sign on a commercial building reads: "Eastern Grocery Co."
Date:
[circa 1920-1930]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Dancing Chinese lion during festival in Chinatown, Los Angeles, circa 1920-1939

Baseball pitcher Satchel Paige in a baseball field ready to pitch, Los Angeles, circa 1933

Description:
Famed baseball pitcher Satchel Paige with his arms raised about to pitch. A sign on the fence in the background reads: "New, Clean Grade-Marked Lumber, $1800 per 1000 ft., Owens-parks Lumber Co., 2100 E. 38th St., 5 blocks East" which is a Los Angeles address. The location may be Thomas Jefferson High School at Hopner and 41st St.
Date:
[circa 1933]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Baseball pitcher Satchel Paige in a baseball field ready to pitch, Los Angeles, circa 1933

Boxing Champion Billie Bachelis replaces a punching bag at a May Company demonstration, Los Angeles, 1931

Description:
Billie Bachelis, Women's Amateur Lightweight Boxing Champion, and a department store clerk replace the punching bag at her demonstration at The May Company. A similar image taken on the same occasion appears with a front page photo titled "There's Punch in Her Career: Girl Boxer Earns Cash for College," Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 1931: A1.
Date:
December, 1931
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Boxing Champion Billie Bachelis replaces a punching bag at a May Company demonstration, Los Angeles, 1931

Excavation event at the Fort Moore Hill entrance to the Broadway Tunnel, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:
View towards the Broadway Tunnel and Fort Moore Hill from the intersection of Spring Street from the intersection with Sunset Blvd. (now Cesar Chavez Avenue). At the base of the hill a group of people gather around Myers & Co. On a platform cordoned off with a stars and stripes fabric the group of men includes Mayor Frank L. Shaw, and another man speaks into a microphone. Signs read "Myers & Co., Excavating Contractors, MU.6306". A billboard advertisement for the movie "Tarzan and his Mate" dates the photograph to 1934. A second billboard reads "No extra cost for Tetraethyl, the higher anti-knock Leader". A sign on a large house on top of the hill, known as the Banning Mansion, reads "Apartments".
Date:
1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Excavation event at the Fort Moore Hill entrance to the Broadway Tunnel, Los Angeles, 1934

George K. Brandriff, Laguna Beach artist, with his painting "Hit Me!", Biltmore Salon, Los Angeles, 1933

Description:
Laguna Beach artist George K. Brandriff standing by his painting entitled "Hit Me!" The painting depicts a clown toy, playing cards, and chips; the frame is composed of Los Angeles Times articles chiefly about the New Deal. This photograph was taken at the Biltmore Salon in Los Angeles, where an exhibition of Brandriff's Los Angeles Times-inspired paintings was held during May, 1933.
Date:
May, 1933
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
George K. Brandriff, Laguna Beach artist, with his painting "Hit Me!", Biltmore Salon, Los Angeles, 1933

Outside kidnap victim Zeke Caress's Hollywood Hills residence, Los Angeles, circa 1931

Description:
The reporters and investigative journalists (19 men and 7 women) stand outside Zeke’s residence. Skid marks from the kidnappers’ car is shown. Zeke’s residence was Hollywood Hills, 2230 Hollyridge Drive, Los Angeles, CA. Zeke (E. L., Ezekiel Logan) Caress, his wife Helen Caress and their chauffeur were kidnapped from their Hollywood Hills home on December 20, 1930. They were held in a house near El Sereno, and freed after their abductors were captured by on their way cash the ransom checks.
Date:
[circa 1931]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Outside kidnap victim Zeke Caress's Hollywood Hills residence, Los Angeles, circa 1931

Zensaku Azuma in the cockpit of the plane he would fly from the United States to Tokyo, Los Angeles, 1930

Description:
Pilot Zensaku Azuma in the cockpit of his plane on which is painted "City of Tokyo / U.S.A. To Japan" and an inscription in Japanese. Azuma flew from Los Angeles to New York. He then had his plane shipped to London, from which he flew to Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Siberia, and then on to Korea and Japan. A similar image taken on the same occasion appears with the article "Dream Built on Chop Suey: Japanese Restaurant Man Ready to Fly Home as Climax to Years of Planning," Los Angeles Times, 4 Jun. 1930: A2.
Date:
June 15, 1930
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Zensaku Azuma in the cockpit of the plane he would fly from the United States to Tokyo, Los Angeles, 1930