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Crowd at the 38th annual convention of the State Federation of Labor, Long Beach, September 1937

Description:
Aerial view of the crowd at the 38th annual convention of the State Federation of Labor which was held in Long Beach. Tension between members of the American Federation of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization members, which were then two separate entities, was prominant at the Convention.
Date:
September 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Crowd at the 38th annual convention of the State Federation of Labor, Long Beach, September 1937

Members of the American Federation of Labor at the 38th annual convention of the State Federation of Labor, Long Beach, September 1937

Description:
Members of the American Federation of Labor at the 38th annual convention of the State Federation of Labor, held in Long Beach. Tension between members of the American Federation of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization members, which were then two separate entities, was prominant at the Convention.
Date:
September 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Members of the American Federation of Labor at the 38th annual convention of the State Federation of Labor, Long Beach, September 1937

Jefferson Junior High School destroyed by an earthquake, Long Beach, 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 1033
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Jefferson Junior High School destroyed by an earthquake, Long Beach, 1933

A. Milton Fish, left, and Bert R. Hall, stand by a model plane, Long Beach, 1936

Description:
A. Milton Fish, left, superintendent of Long Beach athletic activities, and Bert R. Hall, instructor in model plane building of the Long Beach Recreation Department, stand by a model plane on a table, with Hall pointing at a piece with a pen in his right hand. Both are wearing three piece suits with badges on their lapels. Fish has a boutonniere above his badge.
Date:
April 16, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
A. Milton Fish, left, and Bert R. Hall, stand by a model plane, Long Beach, 1936

Jefferson Junior High School destroyed by an earthquake, Long Beach, 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
OpenUCLA Collections
Jefferson Junior High School destroyed by an earthquake, Long Beach, 1933

Polytechnic High School damaged by the earthquake, Long Beach, 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
OpenUCLA Collections
Polytechnic High School damaged by the earthquake, Long Beach, 1933

Children fly kites near Silver Spray Pleasure Pier, Long Beach, [between 1920-1939]

Description:
In the foreground, people crowd the beach on the north side of Silver Spray Pleasure Pier in Long Beach. Children on the beach carry or fly kites. From the middle of the crowd, a kite with a long tail sails over the beach at center. Across the kite, text reads, "LONG BEACH." The crowd extends back towards the pier, which stretches across the background. Along the side of the pier, a sign reads, "SILVER SP[...] PLEASURE PIER." A roller coaster sits behind it on the pier. About a couple dozen kites are visible sailing through the sky in the distance.
Date:
[between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Children fly kites near Silver Spray Pleasure Pier, Long Beach, [between 1920-1939]

Mound of oranges for survivors at a East 7th St. and Alamitos Ave. after the earthquake, Long Beach, 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
OpenUCLA Collections
Mound of oranges for survivors at a East 7th St. and Alamitos Ave. after the earthquake, Long Beach, 1933

Spectators and sailors crowd the stands to watch the Pacific Fleet championship track meet, Long Beach, 1922

Description:
Different photographs taken on the same occasion appear with the article, "CALIFORNIA'S ATHLETES CAPTURE THE FLEET TRACK AND FIELD TITLE: FLEET AIR FORCE IS SECOND IN CLOSE MEET; Native Sons Roll Up 38 Points as Aviators Are Collecting 36; Mississippi is Third Sea Dogs in Violent Action," Los Angeles Times, 13 May 1922: III1
Date:
[circa May 12, 1922]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Spectators and sailors crowd the stands to watch the Pacific Fleet championship track meet, Long Beach, 1922

Women's drill team poses as group before the American Legion Parade, Long Beach, 1931

Description:
Eighteen uniformed women stand in a semicircle. A man stands in the midst. A woman to his left wears a whistle and holds a baton, suggesting she is the captain. The photo is quite dark; perhaps it was taken in the early morning before the parade began. Reported in "Patriotic Spectacle in State Legion Parade That Stirred Memories of World Conflict...," Los Angeles Times, 01 Sep. 1931: A1.
Date:
August 31, 1931
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Women's drill team poses as group before the American Legion Parade, Long Beach, 1931

Long Beach City Hall, Long Beach, [1934?]

Description:
The 1923 City Hall was located was located in the middle of Pacific Avenue, at Broadway. Designed by W. Horace Austin and his former partner, civil engineer Harvey H. Lochridge, the building sustained damage in the 1933 earthquake. It was remodeled by Cecil Schilling and engineer C. D. Walles in 1934 in the modern art deco style.
Date:
[1934?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Long Beach City Hall, Long Beach, [1934?]

Young people on beach, Long Beach, [1930s]

Description:
Young man in bathing suit and hat, standing on sand at edge of walkway, handing something, possibly an ice cream cone, up to a young woman in bathing suit and hat, seated with 4 other young women in bathing suits on concrete wall, with crowd of people, mostly street clothes and hats, seated on sand at base of wall and standing on walkway leaning on wall, with open boat hanging from wooden supports at left, uniformed lifeguard standing at right, buildings in background, smokestack in distance
Date:
[1930s]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Young people on beach, Long Beach, [1930s]

Spectators gather to watch kite-flyers on the beach, Long Beach, between 1920-1939

Description:
A manicured lawn stretches across the bottom half of the image. Beyond it, spectators line the far side of the beach's strand walkway. They stand with their backs towards the camera. More people with kites crowd the beach. The ocean extends across the background. A pier juts into the water in the distance at left.
Date:
[between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Spectators gather to watch kite-flyers on the beach, Long Beach, between 1920-1939

Cliff Brady, 2nd baseman for the Seattle Indians, during spring training at Shell Oil Park, Long Beach, 1926

Description:
A similar photograph of Cliff Brady appears with the caption: Some of Seattle's Suds: While most of the critics are not giving the Seattle Indians much of a look-in for pennant honors in the coming Coast League flag race, "Red" Killefer, who is sending his charges through the spring training paces at Shell Oil Park, Long Beach, is confident that his team will be up there. Below are pictured some of the Indians. Cliff Brady is back again at second base, while Brett and Lee are new hurlers. Art Griggs, after managing Omaha for two years, is back in the Coast again and will play first for the Suds. Jimmy Caveney will hold down short for the Indians, while Marty Callaghan will frolic in one of the outer gardens [Los Angeles Times, March 14, 1926].
Date:
1926
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Cliff Brady, 2nd baseman for the Seattle Indians, during spring training at Shell Oil Park, Long Beach, 1926

Palmer and Waldrop (U.S.S. New York) and Spies (U.S.S. California) run the 220-yard race during the Pacific Fleet's track championship meet, Long Beach, 1922

Description:
This photograph appears with the article, "CALIFORNIA'S ATHLETES CAPTURE THE FLEET TRACK AND FIELD TITLE: FLEET AIR FORCE IS SECOND IN CLOSE MEET; Native Sons Roll Up 38 Points as Aviators Are Collecting 36; Mississippi is Third Sea Dogs in Violent Action," Los Angeles Times, 13 May 1922: III1
Date:
[May 12, 1922]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Palmer and Waldrop (U.S.S. New York) and Spies (U.S.S. California) run the 220-yard race during the Pacific Fleet's track championship meet, Long Beach, 1922

Herbert Hoover leaving Pacific Southwest Exposition, Long Beach, 1928

Description:
Republican presidential nominee Herbert Hoover undertook a day-long trip throughout southern California on August 17, 1928. He visited Santa Barbara, Glendale, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Pasadena, and San Bernardino. This photo was him leaving Long Beach with men following behind him in hats. Onlookers watch him leave from the shore.
Date:
August 17, 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Herbert Hoover leaving Pacific Southwest Exposition, Long Beach, 1928

Joan A. Merriam Smith loading plane in preparation for solo around the world flight, Calif., 1964

Description:
Joan Merriam Smith successfully completed her around the world solo flight on May 12, 1964 in her plane named "The City of Long Beach." She received the 1964 Harmon Trophy as outstanding aviator. Unfortunately less than a year later she was killed in an airplane accident in California.
Date:
March 18, 1964
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Joan A. Merriam Smith loading plane in preparation for solo around the world flight, Calif., 1964

Weizel family living outside of their house after the earthquake, Long Beach, 1933

Description:
View of the Weizel family living outside of their house after the earthquake. Mr. Weizel is seated on steps and holds a baby and a little girl is seated next to him eating from a bowl as Mrs. Weizel prepares food on the right. a picnic bench draped and holding plates and bread (?) is on the far left. A pile of fallen bricks leans against the wooden house.
Date:
March 1933
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Weizel family living outside of their house after the earthquake, Long Beach, 1933

Construction of an addition to the Southern California Edison Company power plant, Long Beach, 1924

Description:
The Southern California Edison Company's Long Beach steam plant under construction. The materials put into the construction work include sand, concrete, lumber, steel, brick, etc. Reported in "ADDITION TO DOUBLE EDISON'S LONG BEACH STEAM PLANT CAPACITY: COMPLETION WILL RELIEVE PRESENT POWER FAMINE Tremendous Undertaking Expected to Be Done by November 15; $10,000,000 is Cost BEACH PLANT TO DEFEAT FAMINE," Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 1924: E7.
Date:
August 24, 1924
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Construction of an addition to the Southern California Edison Company power plant, Long Beach, 1924

Steel skeleton of the Southern California Edison Company power plant, Long Beach, 1924

Description:
Steel skeleton of new edition to the Southern California Edison Company's Long Beach steam plant. The photo appears to have been taken from a rooftop of a nearby building. Reported in "ADDITION TO DOUBLE EDISON'S LONG BEACH STEAM PLANT CAPACITY: COMPLETION WILL RELIEVE PRESENT POWER FAMINE Tremendous Undertaking Expected to Be Done by November 15; $10,000,000 is Cost BEACH PLANT TO DEFEAT FAMINE," Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 1924: E7.
Date:
August 24, 1924
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Steel skeleton of the Southern California Edison Company power plant, Long Beach, 1924