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Alvin Hudson, injured during Busby Berkeley car crash, 1935

Description:
View of Alvin Hudson, in jacket, pants, with bandage on chin, squatting and pointing to car involved with three way collision. Alvin Hudson was a pest control worker from Santa Paula who reported he had pulled into the middle lane on the Roosevelt Highway when all of a sudden two headlights appeared in front of him and the crash occurred. The three way collision occurred 400 yards north of Santa Monica Canyon on Highway 1, and was the fault of Busby Berkeley, film dance director, who was driving in the wrong direction while intoxicated. Six people were injured in the accident, and two died.
Date:
September 12, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Alvin Hudson, injured during Busby Berkeley car crash, 1935

Bishop James Cannon, Jr., Los Angeles County, 1929

Description:
Bishop James Cannon Jr. standing outside of Justice of the Peace Dyer's office in La Crescenta-Montrose. Bishop Cannon Jr. was a known advocate for prohibition in Virginia and the United States. This photograph may be related to the article, "Bishop Cannon Photographed: Despite Skirmish With News Men Picture Taken Attends Son's Trial and Later Tells Views Offspring Held Innocent of Health, Labor Charges," Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec.1929: A1.
Date:
December 19, 1929
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Bishop James Cannon, Jr., Los Angeles County, 1929

Blanche M. Sewell holding court judgment in Parker vs. Guttman case, Los Angeles County, 1935

Description:
Blanche M. Sewell seated and holding documents, including an August 15, 1935 Los Angeles County Superior Court judgment in which defendant Henry Guttman, Sewell's former business adviser, was ordered to pay plaintiff Harvey M. Parker, to whom Sewell had assigned her claim, $87,888.
Date:
August 15, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Blanche M. Sewell holding court judgment in Parker vs. Guttman case, Los Angeles County, 1935

Commercial street flooded during or after a heavy rainstorm, Los Angeles County, 1927

Description:
View of a commercial street flooded, possibly by the Los Angeles River, during or after a heavy rainstorm. Three men are raising the level of a tarp-covered truck with a wooden beam used as a lever in the middle of the street. Another truck with 2 kerosene lamps perched on it is on the right and sections of large pipe are on the side of the street on the far right. A pile of dirt is behind the truck. Signs on and around the commercial buildings read "United States Tires, Sales & Service Depot, Lloyds Service Station," "Quaker State Motor Oil," "Gilmore Gasoline," "Sanitary Kitchen, C. Soper..,...Ice Cream," "Radio Shop, Hardware," and "S. C. Weaver Const. Co."
Date:
February 1927
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Commercial street flooded during or after a heavy rainstorm, Los Angeles County, 1927

Daughters of the British Empire members Mrs. B.W. Templeman, Cora Dow, Anna Poussette, Ethel Capstaff, Agnes Botterell, and Eva Sedding, Los Angeles County, 1936

Description:
Daughters of the British Empire members Mrs. B.W. Templeman, Cora Dow, Anna Poussette, Ethel Capstaff, Agnes Botterell, and Eva Sedding standing in an awning-covered patio. In the background is a building with a Spanish tile roof and pillars. This photograph was probably taken during the sixteenth annual state convention of the Daughters of the British Empire, which took place on March 30-April 1, 1936 at the Women's Athletic Club. Attendees also visited the British Old People's Home in Sierra Madre.
Date:
[March-April, 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Daughters of the British Empire members Mrs. B.W. Templeman, Cora Dow, Anna Poussette, Ethel Capstaff, Agnes Botterell, and Eva Sedding, Los Angeles County, 1936

Eugene M. Brown, regional agent for the State Emergency Relief Administration, and executive secretary for Los Angeles County Emergency Relief Commission, Los Angeles County, 1934

Description:
Eugene M. Brown was the regional agent of the State Emergency Relief Administration for Los Angeles County, and was charged, along with several others, with conspiracy to defraud the government in 1934. He was also the executive secretary for the Los Angeles County Emergency Relief Commission. Charges were eventually dismissed.
Date:
1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Eugene M. Brown, regional agent for the State Emergency Relief Administration, and executive secretary for Los Angeles County Emergency Relief Commission, Los Angeles County, 1934

Explosion debris in San Gabriel Canyon during the construction of San Gabriel Dam, Los Angeles County, 1929

Description:
Cloud of dust and debris cascading down San Gabriel Canyon wall after explosion during construction of San Gabriel Dam. Reported in "GIGANTIC BLAST AIDS DAM WORK: Ninety Tons of Powder Used at San Gabriel Side of Canyon Seems Molten Before Explosive Engineering Feat Figured to Exact Result," Los Angeles Times, 27 June 1929: A10.
Date:
June 26, 1929
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Explosion debris in San Gabriel Canyon during the construction of San Gabriel Dam, Los Angeles County, 1929