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MS 170/604 : Narrative of Her Captivity in Barbary, 1756. Journal of a Voyage by Sea from Calcutta to Madras, and of a Journal from there back to Dacca. (December 13, 1774-June 20,1775) / Marsh, Elizabeth Crisp

Description:: Dates of execution from Elizabeth Marsh's journal, dated, presumably in her own hand, Dec. 13, 1774-June 20, 1776. Bound with a copy of her captivity narrative in the hand of her brother John Marsh. The captivity narrative, an account of the seven months in 1756 she was held in Morocco as prisoner of the sultan Sidi Muhammad, has title "Narrative written by Miss Elizabeth Marsh during her captivity in Barbary in the year 1756."
Date:: 1756-1775
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Bound Manuscripts Collection

A journal of a voyage to the South seas, in His Majesty’s ship the Endeavor...[1784]

Description:: Full title:A journal of a voyage to the South seas, in His Majesty’s ship the Endeavor: faithfully transcribed from the papers of the late Sydney Prksin, draughstman to Sir Joseph Banks, bart. in his expedition with Dr. Solander round the world ... To which is now added, Remarks on the preface, by the late John Fothergill ... and an appendix, containing an account of the voyages of Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, Monsieur Bougainville, Captain Cook, and Captain Clerke
Date:: 1784
Collection:: Rare Books (YRL Special Collections)

MS 170/587: Lectures on Chemistry by Doctor Black and Doctor Hope taken by Lovell Edgeworth

Description:: In most of the manuscript, text is only written on one side of each page.
Date:: 1796
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Bound Manuscripts Collection

Translation, 1839 June 28, John A. Sutter, Jr. sale of Sacramento, Calif. property to Archibald Peachy

Date:: June 28, 1839
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Halleck, Peachy & Billings Records, 1842-1862

MS 170/650: Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq. begun by himself, and concluded by his daughter, Maria Edgeworth.

Date:: 1844
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Bound Manuscripts Collection

MS 170/339: Record of the voyage of the transport Loo Choo from New York to San Francisco

Description:: Record of the voyage of the transport Loo Choo from New York to San Francisco carrying units of Colonel Jonathan D. Stevenson's 1st New York Volunteer Regiment to participate in the military conquest of California. Included are descriptions of life aboard the vessel, in San Francisco and at Santa Barbara, where the troops were on garrison duty.
Date:: September 26, 1846-July 3, 1847
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Bound Manuscripts Collection

170/508: Disenos : maps and plans of ranchos of Southern California, mostly within Los Angeles and Orange counties

Description:: Digitization took place as part of the California Cultures Project.
Date:: 1852
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bound Manuscripts Collection

California

Description:: Scale not given
Date:: 1853
Resource Type:: cartographic
still image
Collection:: Pamphlet Maps Collection 1750-1965

Map of the United States, Canada, Mexico and the West Indies with Central America, showing all the routes to California with a table of distances [cover]

Description:: Scale not given
Date:: 1854
Resource Type:: cartographic
still image
Collection:: Pamphlet Maps Collection 1750-1965

The grammar of ornament, by Owen Jones. Illustrated by examples from various styles of ornament.

Description:: "Books referred to for illustrations, literary and pictorial": 1 p. preceding pl. LXXIV.
Date:: 1856
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Rare Books (YRL Special Collections)

Bancroft's map of California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona [cover]

Description:: Digitization took place as part of the California Cultures Project.
Date:: circa 1864
Resource Type:: cartographic
still image
Collection:: Pamphlet Maps Collection 1750-1965

Yosemite photographs by Muybridge

Description:: Binder’s title.
Date:: circa 1867
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904
Collection:: Rare Books (YRL Special Collections)

Yosemite photographs by Carleton E. Watkins

Description:: Copyrighted by C.E. Watkins in 1867
Date:: 1867
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Collection:: Rare Books (YRL Special Collections)

Photographs showing landscapes, geological and other features, of portions of the western territory of the United States...

Description:: At head of title: War department, Corps of engineers, U.S. army.
Date:: 1873 [?]
Photographer:: Bell, William
O’Sullivan, Timothy H.
Collection:: Rare Books (YRL Special Collections)

Photographs of the Yellowstone National Park and views in Montana and Wyoming territories

Description:: Each photograph accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letter-press. Desscriptive letter-press information has been included as the caption for each photograph.
Date:: 1873
Photographer:: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
Collection:: Rare Books (YRL Special Collections)

Map of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode, state of Nevada, showing the latest changes up to Jan. 1875

Description:: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights
Date:: 1875
Resource Type:: still image
cartographic
Collection:: Pamphlet Maps Collection 1750-1965

Map of Rancho La Ballona, Centinela Rancho, Inglewood, Sausal Redondo Rancho, Los Angeles Trust Co. Land, Walnut and Bean Land Co. and Playa del Mar

Description:: Scale: 1:24,800
Date:: circa 1880
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Tract Maps and Cadastral Maps of Southern California, 1868-1937

Griffith, Griffith J., naturalization certificate, 1877

Description:: Certificate of act of naturalization for Griffith J. Griffith, a native of Wales, signed October 22, 1877, in San Francisco, CA.
Date:: October 22, 1877
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Griffith Family Papers, 1845-1973

170/24: Gillette, Gibson and Wood, firm, examiners of titles in Los Angeles.

Description:: Abstract of title of that certain real property in the county of Los Angeles, state of California, bound and described as follows : Rancho San Jose de Buenos Ayres
Date:: November 6, 1883-June 29, 1887
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bound Manuscripts Collection

MS 170/13: Gillette and Gibson Firm, Examiners of Titles in Los Angeles.

Description:: Continuation by the Title Insurance and Trust Company (p. [288]-291), dated "... this 29th day of January, 1894 ..." (p. 291)Pagination after p. 285 incorrect on item; final 6 leaves have been numbered by leaf rather than by page
Date:: March 6, 1884-January 29, 1894
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bound Manuscripts Collection

Faust's map of city and county of San Francisco California

Description:: Scale not given
Date:: circa 1892
Resource Type:: still image
cartographic
Collection:: Pamphlet Maps Collection 1750-1965

MS 170/25: Gillette, Gibson and Wood, firm, examiners of titles in Los Angeles

Description:: Physical Description: Document. 129pp.
Date:: October 26, 1887-August 10, 1889
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bound Manuscripts Collection

Plan of Redondo Beach, Los Angeles County, California

Description:: Current and future cable railway lines indicated. Caption in lower left corner: "Redondo Beach Co., capital: $3,000,000"
Date:: 1888
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Tract Maps and Cadastral Maps of Southern California, 1868-1937

Lands of the Hemet Land Company in San Jacinto Valley situated in sections

Description:: Includes ancillary map: "Map of Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego & Orange Counties"
Date:: circa 1894
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Tract Maps and Cadastral Maps of Southern California, 1868-1937

The Conquest of the Moon : a story of the Bayouda / by A. Laurie ; with numerous illustrations

Description:: Special Collections copy binding: Blue publisher’s cloth, stamped in gilt.
Date:: 1889
Collection:: Rare Books (YRL Special Collections)

Annotated sleeve for a negative of the gate to the Street of the Tombs in Athens taken by William Sachtleben, 1891

Description:: William Lewis Sachtleben stayed in Athens before embarking on a bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.
Date:: 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Note accompanying negatives for photographs taken by William Lewis Sachtleben during his trip to Turkey to search for missing cyclist Frank Lenz, 1895

Description:: William Sachtleben was in Turkey in 1895 to investigate the disappearance of cyclist Frank Lenz who had last been seen near Erzurum. Notes accompanying negatives indicate that during this trip, Sachtleben was in Bursa and travelled from Trabzon to Erzurum.
Date:: 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

William Lewis Sachtleben Athens travel diary

Description:: Entries in pen and ink
Date:: January 3, 1891-February 5, 1891
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841
Sachtleben (William) Diaries

William Lewis Sachtleben Turkey travel diary

Description:: William Lewis Sachtleben’s diary, notebook “No. 10”, covers a portion of their journey through the Armenian area of Turkey from April 12 to May 9 (there is a 2-page reading list at the end). During this time they rode from Ankara (Angora in the diary) to Sivas, to Merzifon (Mersovan in the diary).
Date:: April 12, 1891-May 9, 1891
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841
Sachtleben (William) Diaries

Africa : accurata tabula

Description:: Relief shown pictorially
Date:: 1893?
Resource Type:: cartographic
Collection:: Southern African Maps in Books

Africa according to Pigafetta, 1591

Description:: Relief shown pictorially.
Date:: 1893?
Resource Type:: cartographic
Collection:: Southern African Maps in Books

Africa. European possessions in 1885, after the Berlin Conference

Date:: 1893?
Resource Type:: cartographic
Collection:: Southern African Maps in Books

Africa. European possessions in 1884, before the Berlin Conference

Date:: 1893?
Resource Type:: cartographic
Collection:: Southern African Maps in Books

List of photographs of "Broussa" by William Sachtleben taken during his trip to Turkey to search for the missing cyclist Frank Lenz, 1895

Description:: William Sachtleben was in Turkey in 1895 to investigate the disappearance of cyclist Frank Lenz who had last been seen near Erzurum. Notes accompanying negatives indicate that during this trip, Sachtleben was in Bursa and travelled from Trabzon to Erzurum.
Date:: 1895
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

List of photographs of "Broussa" by William Sachtleben taken during his trip to Turkey to search for the missing cyclist Frank Lenz, 1895

Description:: William Sachtleben was in Turkey in 1895 to investigate the disappearance of cyclist Frank Lenz who had last been seen near Erzurum. Notes accompanying negatives indicate that during this trip, Sachtleben was in Bursa and travelled from Trabzon to Erzurum.
Date:: 1895
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

List of photographs by William Lewis Sachtleben in and near Trabzon, Turkey, during his trip to search for the missing cyclist Frank Lenz, 1895

Description:: William Sachtleben was in Turkey in 1895 to investigate the disappearance of cyclist Frank Lenz who had last been seen near Erzurum. Notes accompanying negatives indicate that during this trip, Sachtleben was in Bursa and travelled from Trabzon to Erzurum.
Date:: 1895
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Inscribed envelope for negatives taken by William Sachtleben near Trabzon, Turkey, probably taken during his trip to search for the missing cyclist Frank Lenz, 1895

Description:: William Sachtleben was in Turkey in 1895 to investigate the disappearance of cyclist Frank Lenz who had last been seen near Erzurum. Notes accompanying negatives indicate that during this trip, Sachtleben was in Bursa and travelled from Trabzon to Erzurum. Sachtleben's 1891 photographs of his bicycle tour across Asia have a circular format.
Date:: 1895
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

List of photographs by William Lewis Sachtleben taken during his trip to Turkey to search for the missing cyclist Frank Lenz, 1895

Description:: Handwritten list of photographs taken by William Lewis Sachtleben.
Date:: 1895
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Deed from Harry J. and Annie L. Pinney to J. Edward Goodell

Date:: March 19, 1896
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Griffith Family Papers, 1845-1973

Deed of Rancho Los Feliz from Griffith J. Griffith and his wife to the city of Los Angeles

Description:: Typescript copy
Date:: March 5, 1898
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Griffith Family Papers, 1845-1973

Farmhouse in Red Bird, Oklahoma

Description:: Farmhouse in a field.
Date:: [circa 1906?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Red Bird, Oklahoma glass plate negatives.

Walter L. Gordon, Sr.'s shoeshine parlor, Santa Monica, 1910s

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [circa 1906?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Griffth, Griffith J., typescript copy of letter to his son, San Quentin Prison, December 20, 1905

Date:: December 20, 1905
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Griffith Family Papers, 1845-1973

Map of Los Angeles

Description:: Caption above map: "Los Angeles Investment Company, largest real estate and investment company in Western America and largest co-operative building company in the world"
Date:: circa 1913
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Tract Maps and Cadastral Maps of Southern California, 1868-1937

Tolstoy, Leo, autograph letter signed to "Dear Sir," [e.g. Griffith J. Griffith], Jasnaja Poliana 3/16 April 1910

Description:: The letter was written from Tolstoy's home Yasnaya Polyana in Russia, and is dated in both the Julian and Gregorian styles.
Date:: April 3/16 1910
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Griffith Family Papers, 1845-1973

Los Angeles Herald newspaper article, Dec. 31, 1910

Description:: Article entitled "Angeleno Prizes Tolstoy's Letter: Probably Last of Sage's Communications Was Received by Griffith J. Griffith." Includes facsimilie of letter.
Date:: December 31, 1910
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Griffith Family Papers, 1845-1973

Official transportation and city map of Los Angeles, California and suburbs

Description:: Scale not given
Date:: 1911
Resource Type:: still image
cartographic
Collection:: Pamphlet Maps Collection 1750-1965

Griffith, Griffith J., typed letter to the Mayor and City Council of Los Angeles, December 21, 1912

Date:: December 21, 1912
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Griffith Family Papers, 1845-1973

Annoucement of Georgia Bullock's admission to California Bar, from Chicago, Ill, publication, 1913

Date:: 1913
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Georgia Philipps Morgan Bullock Papers, 1890-1957

The Trooper of Troop K in 3 parts [motion picture poster]

Date:: 1917
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: George P. Johnson Negro Film Collection, 1916-1977

Six men at home plate, Los Angeles, 1920s

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [1920s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

The Sport of the Gods by Paul Laurence Dunbar [motion picture poster]

Date:: 1921
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: George P. Johnson Negro Film Collection, 1916-1977

The official map of Orange County, California and portions of adjoining counties

Description:: Digitization took place as part of the California Cultures Project.
Date:: 1924
Resource Type:: cartographic
still image
Collection:: Pamphlet Maps Collection 1750-1965

Transatlantic Review, vol. 1, no.6, 1924 [periodical cover]

Description:: Contents lists under Prose : The Makig of Americans III Gertrude Stein.
Date:: 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Gilbert A. Harrison Collection of Material by and Relating to Gertrude Stein, 1922-1984

Advertisement for Hydro-Pura laundry soap, 1925-1939

Description:: Advertisement for Hydro-Pura laundry soap in the form of a bird's-eye view of a box of Hydro-Pura laundry soap and water softener with a lightening banner in front with the text "Down Goes The Price."
Date:: [between 1925-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Paint brush on crutches for a "Savabrush" advertisement, 1925-1939

Description:: Paint brush on crutches with "Help!" printed beneath it for a "Savabrush" advertisement.
Date:: [between 1925-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Paint brush in an advertisement for "Savabrush," 1925-1939

Description:: Image of a paint brush on a table for an advertisement for "Savabrush" with a superimposed advertising message: "Of Course You Want To Sell new Brushes. Savabrush, Restores old Paint Brushes."
Date:: [between 1925-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Dirty paint brushes in an advertisement photograph for Savabrush, 1925-1939

Description:: Dirty paint brushes next to a small box labeled "The Original Savabrush, Restores Old Paint Brushes."
Date:: [between 1925-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Dirty paint brushes in an advertisement photograph for Savabrush, 1925-1939

Description:: Dirty paint brush hovering above a wooden floor and "Savabrush Will Save It 10¢"
Date:: [between 1925-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Advertisement for Ghirardelli chocolate bars

Description:: Advertisement for Ghirardelli chocolate bars. Three chocolate bars appear to float one above the other in the foreground; "Ghirardelli's" and the profile of a baker in a chef's hat and holding a baker's peel appear as shadows in the background. "Ghirardelli Since 1852" is embossed ion the top chocolate bar.
Date:: [between 1925-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Text for Savabrush advertisement "Savabrush Restores old Paint Brushes," 1925-1939

Description:: Text for Savabrush advertisement: "Savabrush Restores old Paint Brushes." Text combined with photograph in image ark no. 21198/zz002j90z7
Date:: [between 1925-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Pierce Brothers Mortuary, Los Angeles, 1925-1939

Description:: Exterior view of the Pierce Brothers Mortuary located at 720 W. Washington with an arcaded walkway or porch at the ground level and a sign above an arch reading "Pierce Brothers Funeral Direct[..]."
Date:: [between 1925-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Ribbons and medals for prizes won by Adohr Farms dairy at the Los Angeles County Fair and a San Fernando Valley event

Description:: Two ribbons and medals for prizes won by Adohr Farms dairy at the Los Angeles County Fair and a San Fernando Valley event.
Date:: [between 1925-1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Wood floor and box of "Waxoff" for an advertisement, 1925-1939

Description:: "Before You Rewax, Waxoff," advertisement for Waxoff.
Date:: [between 1925-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Materials on a table used to create a photographic advertisement for Ghirardelli chocolate bonbons

Description:: View of the materials on a table used to create a photographic advertisement for Ghirardelli chocolates: chocolate bon-bons on a wooden board and materials used to create the backdrop. The backdrop with the word "uniform" and the line of profile women making chocolates is created using 2 props: a line of women in profile cut out of a piece of paper and the work "Uniform" created with letters applied to a plate of glass. Both items are arranged so that they create a gray shadow of a piece of paper when illuminated. The wooden handle of a tool (hammer?) and 2 small boxes of photographic supplies are in the foreground. The finished result is visible in image ark no. 21198/zz002j907c .
Date:: [between 1925-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Photograph for "Sunjius" with the message "Fumigation Pays"

Description:: Advertisement photograph for "Sunjius" with oranges on a branch and the message "Fumigation Pays."
Date:: [between 1925-1960]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Photograph for "Sunjius" showing a glass of orange juice

Description:: Advertisement photograph with an orange-laden branch suspended above a glass of orange juice and the word "Sunjius."
Date:: [between 1925-1960]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Three matches burning beneath a box of Ohio Blue Tip Matches, 1925-1939

Description:: Photograph of 3 wooden matches with one burnt out and 2 still burning, placed below a box of Ohio Blue Tip Matches
Date:: [between 1925-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Advertisement for Ghirardelli chocolate bars

Description:: Advertisement photograph for Ghirardelli chocolate bars with a chocolate bar in the foreground, and with "Ghirardelli's" and the profile of a baker in a chef's hat and holding a baker's peel appearing as shadows in the background. In addition, "Ghirardelli's" appears in bold black letters applied to a plate of glass -- used to create the shadow. "Ghirardelli Since 1852" is embossed ion the top chocolate bar.
Date:: [between 1925-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Advertisement photograph with "Ghirardelli's Coatings" spelled with chocolate bon-bons

Description:: Advertisement photograph with "Ghirardelli's Coatings" spelled with chocolate bonbons.
Date:: [between 1925-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Text for Savabrush advertisement "Of Course You Want To Sell new Brushes," 1925-1939

Description:: Text for Savabrush advertisement "Of Course You Want To Sell new Brushes." Text combined with photograph in image ark no. 21198/zz002j90z7.
Date:: [between 1925-1939
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Three matches burning beneath a box of Ohio Blue Tip Matches, 1925-1939

Description:: Photograph of 3 wooden matches with two burnt out and 1 still burning, placed below a box of Ohio Blue Tip Matches
Date:: [between 1925-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

The Walled oasis of Biskra "in the Coachella Valley" : an interpretation of the American Desert in the Algerian manner

Date:: [1928]
Collection:: Rare Books (YRL Special Collections)

"Food" in metal letters with food products in the "O-O" which forms a pair of eyeglasses, 1928-1939

Description:: For props used to create this photomontage, see image ark nos. 21198/zz002j928v and 21198/zz002j929c
Date:: [between 1928-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Sketched advertisement layout for the Brock & Company jewelry and gift store, 1928-1939

Description:: Sketch of an advertisement layout of gift photographic images for the Brock & Company jewelry and gift store with roughly sketched illustrations in labeled rectangular compartments. The top banner reads" Gifts for the Ho[...]. The lower banner reads: Brock's [...]. Label captions include: Boys, Watches, Bracelets, Cigarette Cases, Charms, Jade, Clips, Clocks, and Rings.
Date:: [between 1928-1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Packaged food products on a table, 1928-1939

Description:: This image was created for use in a photomontage (see image ark no. 21198/zz002j92cd).
Date:: [between 1928-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Logotype for the "Mission Dry Sparkling" beverage set up to be photographed, Los Angeles, circa 1930

Description:: Vintage advertisements posted online for Mission Dry Sparkling beverages showing these bottle labels date to 1930 and identify the California Crushed Fruit Corporation as the manufacturer.
Date:: [circa 1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Advertisement poster for Fitzgerald's by Jacob Asanger, 1930-1941

Description:: Advertisement poster created by artist Jacob Asanger with images of musical instruments including a keyboard, violin and trumpets with the message: "Everything in Music, Fitzgerald's"
Date:: [between 1930-1941]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Photomontage with Mission Dry Sparkling beverage bottles arranged in a grid with the logotype above, Los Angeles, circa 1930

Description:: Downward view towards bottles of Mission Dry Sparkling carbonated beverage arranged on diamonds in a grid formation with the brand logotype overlaid. Flavors indicated on the bottle tops include lemon, orange and grapefruit. The diamonds appear to be created by cast shadows. [
Date:: [circa 1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

"Make Old Floors New," advertisement photograph of "Double X Floor Cleaner," circa 1934

Description:: Advertisement photograph for "Double X Floor Cleaner with a three-dimensional message, "Make Old Floors New," on a hardwood floor.
Date:: [circa 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Photomontage advertisement for "Double X Floor Cleaner," circa 1934

Description:: Photomontage advertisement for "Double X Floor Cleaner" with a can of the product on a wooden floor. A line of 14 repeated images of a woman mopping, and a circle of 19 images of a men mopping have cleaned areas of a wooden floor. "Double X Makes Old Floors New" is displayed in three-dimensional letters and "Makes Varnish Vanish" appears on a circular cleaned area of the floor.
Date:: [circa 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Photograph for an advertisement for "Double X Floor Cleaner," circa 1934

Description:: Photograph for advertisement for "Double X Floor Cleaner" with a container of the cleaner with added arms, legs and eyeglasses on a hardwood floor. The container figure carries a bucket of suds and cleans the floor with mop ends attached to its feet.
Date:: [circa 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Uncle Sam dressed as a construction worker with a Better Housing Program emblem on his cap, circa 1934

Description:: Uncle Sam dressed as a construction worker in a star pattern shirt and striped overalls and a Better Housing Program emblem on his cap. He points to a sign reading "Paint up and cheer up!"
Date:: [circa 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Advertisement for "Double X Floor Cleaner," circa 1934

Description:: Advertisement photograph for Double X Floor Cleaner with a container of the cleaner with added arms, legs and eyeglasses on a hardwood floor. The container figure carries a bucket of suds and cleans the floor with mop ends attached to its feet. Text on the advertisement reads "Double X 'takes' the floor, Makes Varnish Vanish, Makes Old Floors New."
Date:: [circa 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Advertisement photograph for "Double X Floor Cleaner," circa 1934

Description:: The National Housing Act of 1934 created the Federal Housing Administration, a system of federally guaranteed bank mortgages. The administration's Better Housing Program also provided home repair loans to stimulate the construction industry and improve housing conditions.
Date:: [circa 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Photograph with a glass of Arrowhead water on a sign reading "8 A Day," Los Angeles, between 1935

Description:: Advertisement photograph with 2 identical signs reading "8 A Day" on a table with a glass of Arrowhead Spring Water.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

"I came and here I am" article by Gertrude Stein, Hearst's International Cosmopolitan, 1935

Date:: 1935
Collection:: Gilbert A. Harrison Collection of Material by and Relating to Gertrude Stein, 1922-1984

"Double X Floor Cleaner," "Savabrush," and "Waxoff" athletic figures pole vaulting in an advertisement photograph, circa 1936

Description:: Containers of "Double X Floor Cleaner," "Savabrush," and "Waxoff" ornamented to resemble athletes with arms, legs and athletic shorts and shoes added, positioned to look like they are pole vaulting over a bar with a sign reading "A New Sales-High For 1936."
Date:: [circa 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Raymond Chandler and other writers from Black Mask, 1939 [handwritten names-ids]

Date:: January 11, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Raymond Chandler Papers, 1930-1959

Academy Theatre, Inglewood, detail of lobby doors

Description:: The floor plan (2070001) shows how the geometry of overlapping circles shaped the design. The architectural drawing of the façade (2070002) depicts a spool of film unwinding, the inspiration for the spiral form used on the pylon (10102-10103)). Compare the photo of the auditorium (10105) with the floor plan (2070001) and the ceiling plan (2070002).
Date:: 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Academy Theatre, Inglewood, elevations

Description:: The floor plan (2070001) shows how the geometry of overlapping circles shaped the design. The architectural drawing of the façade (2070002) depicts a spool of film unwinding, the inspiration for the spiral form used on the pylon (10102-10103)). Compare the photo of the auditorium (10105) with the floor plan (2070001) and the ceiling plan (2070002).
Date:: 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Academy Theatre, Inglewood, floor plan

Date:: 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

The Carnegie-Myrdal study questionnaire

Description:: Questionnaire sent to Mr. Floyd C. Covington on the status of the Negro in the American life. Sent by Bunche in his capacity as staff member of the Carnegie-Myrdal Study of the Negro in America.
Date:: 1939
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Los Angeles Urban League Records, 1933-1945

Walter L. Gordon Co. Real Estate office, Los Angeles, March 1939

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: March, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Letter, 1939 November 2, Washington D.C. to Mr. Floyd C. Covington, Los Angeles, California

Description:: Cover letter to Mr. Floyd C. Covington, executive director of the Los Angeles branch of the National Urban League, from Ralph Bunche (staff member, Carnegie-Myrdal Study of the Negro in America). Bunche introduces the Carnegie Corporation which is sponsoring the survey on the status of the Negro in American life. Bunche requests that Covington please take the time to answer the questionnaire.
Date:: November 2, 1939
Collection:: Los Angeles Urban League Records, 1933-1945

Angelle DeLavallade, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Merriman, Ted
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Ethel (Sissle) Gordon, Atlantic City, 1940s

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

African American business and legal figures, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Group photograph at a nightclub, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:: Everette Porter, who became a judge, is in the back, center.
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Woods, Clyde, photographer
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Souvenir photograph folder from Club Congo, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

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