Language: No linguistic content / Names: Scott, R. J. (Ralph James), 1884-1958 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Fire Chief Ralph J. Scott is honored with a surprise party to celebrate his thirty years of service to the fire department. He is receiving a hand-illuminated book signed by every member of the fire department. From left to right, Ralph J. Scott, his wife Addie Scott, Fire Commissioner Edward Lewis, Harlan De Witt of the Fireman's Relief Association, and Mayor Shaw.
Date:: July 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Fire Chief Ralph J. Scott is honored with a surprise party to celebrate his thirty years of service to the fire department. He is receiving a hand-illuminated book signed by every member of the fire department. From left to right, Ralph J. Scott, his wife Addie Scott, Fire Commissioner Edward Lewis, Harlan De Witt of the Fireman's Relief Association, and Mayor Shaw.
Date:: July 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Photograph of R. J. Scott, Fire Chief, in uniform, standing next to a fire hydrant with a hose attached to it, on the 16th anniversary of his appointment to the job. He holds a wrench for tightening a bolt on the fire hose attachment.
Date:: July 18, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, “Torrid Weather Fills Beaches. Worries Fire Chief and Wilts Capital,” Los Angeles Times, 16 Jul. 1935: 24.
Date:: July 16, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 6 men in suits and ties, standing, smiling, some with arms on each other's shoulders, behind desk with blotter, probably in Judge Samuel R. Blake's office, with Judge Blake's certificate on wall at right and window with drawn blinds at left
Date:: 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Fire Chief R. H. Scott, in a suit and holding a straw hat, and his wife Adeline Scott, in a dress, hat, gloves and corsage, rest on deck chairs aboard the ocean liner Monterey before departing on a six week vacation trip to Australia.
Date:: August 21, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: R. J. Scott, left, and Mayor Shaw, right, aim their guns toward the camera. They appear to be at a shooting range.
Date:: [circa 1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Fire Chief Ralph J. Scott is honored with a surprise party to celebrate his thirty years of service to the fire department. He is receiving a hand-illuminated book signed by every member of the fire department. From left to right, Ralph J. Scott, his wife Addie Scott, Fire Commissioner Edward Lewis, Harlan De Witt of the Fireman's Relief Association, and Mayor Shaw.
Date:: July 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Fire chief Ralph Scott, in suit and tie, Mrs. Adeline Scott, in polka dotted dress and hat, and O. [?] Edwards, in uniform, all standing at table with basket of roses and cake decorated with badge, with wall of photographs and portraits in background
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Fires swept through Topanga Canyon and along the Santa Monica mountains in late November of 1938 when ashes from an old cooking range scattered into nearby grass in Calabasas. Flames jumped the Pacific Coast Highway and burned several homes along the beach north of Santa Monica.
Date:: November 24, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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