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Post card views of the Villa de Leon, Pershing Square and Venice Beach, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, and Venice, between 1920 and 1934

Description:
Lower photo: View of sunbathers on the beach in Venice. The wide, sandy beach runs from the foreground at left into the background at right. A multitude of people in bathing suits can be seen on the sand or in the water. Behind the beach in the background, several large beach club buildings and can be seen.
Date:
[between 1920 and 1934]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934
Post card views of the Villa de Leon, Pershing Square and Venice Beach, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, and Venice, between 1920 and 1934

Morro Castle, Havana, Cuba

Description:
This fine old fortress of solid stone was built in 1587 by Philip II of Spain of whiom it was said: "the Sun never sets on his dominions." In 1762 the English attacked Havana and this fort made a glorious defense, being assaulted by land. The tower was built in 1844 for a lighthouse. Morro Castle being no longer needed as a fortress, is now used as a Military Academy.
Date:
circa 1900-1969
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Cuban Ephemera
Cuba Collections
Latin American & Caribbean Collections
Morro Castle, Havana, Cuba

Fraternity Park, Havana, Cuba

Description:
Cuban telephone co. bldg. in the background. As a remembrance of the VI Pan-American Conference, the Fraternity Tree was planted in this square, which has taken this name. Secretary of P.W., Mr. Cespedes, has made great success in planning this handsome square of Parisian lines built in the tropics, with tropical gardens and plants and colonial details. Havana is continually beautifying herself: this is only the start. Sooner or later Havana will be the prettiest city of all of the Americas. Come again.
Date:
circa 1928-1965
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Cuban Ephemera
Cuba Collections
Latin American & Caribbean Collections
Fraternity Park, Havana, Cuba

Entrance to Sutro Tunnel, Virginia City, Nevada, 1933

Description:
An unidentified young man or boy stands by an automobile parked outside the entrance to the Sutro Tunnel in Virginia City, Nevada. The door is propped open by a small barrel, but the entrance is blocked by metal bars. The young man is wearing a newsboy cap and overalls and has his left arm bent and left hand resting on his hip.
Date:
[circa December 10, 1933]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Entrance to Sutro Tunnel, Virginia City, Nevada, 1933

Curb-side produce store in front of a building damaged by the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933

Description:
The Long Beach earthquake of 1933 took place on March 10, with a magnitude of 6.4, causing widespread damage to buildings throughout Southern California. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach on the Newport-Inglewood Fault. An estimated fifty million dollars' worth of property damage resulted, and 120 lives were lost.
Date:
March 1933
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Curb-side produce store in front of a building damaged by the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933

Family at a temporary branch of the Bank of America in the Oil Equipment and Engineering Exposition hall after the Long Beach earthquake, Compton, 1933

Description:
Photograph of parents and a young girl at a teller booth in a temporary branch of Bank of America after the Long Beach earthquake. The location is the Oil Equipment and Engineering Expositiion hall in Compton where all of the Compton Boulevard businesses re-located temporarily after the earthquake. There is a partition with a bare light bulb attached to it behind the long teller booth and an exposed beam ceiling with suspended industrial light fixtures high above. A framed "Bank of America" poster stating "Resources" and "Liabilities" as of December 1932 is on an easel on the left above another framed poster stating "United like strands of a mighty cable...410 Branches united in strength, spirit and service. Each branch has the strength of All...".
Date:
March 1933
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Family at a temporary branch of the Bank of America in the Oil Equipment and Engineering Exposition hall after the Long Beach earthquake, Compton, 1933