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Edward Ground, who traveled with the Butler Train in 1853, photograph copied 1935-1942

Description:

Bust-length portrait photograph of Edward Ground wearing a suit. Edward Ground was the husband of Eliza Ann Butler Ground.

Date:

[copied between 1935-1942]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Collection:

West (H. H.) Collection

William Butler Ground, who traveled with the Butler Train in 1853, photograph copied 1935-1942

Description:

Portrait photograph of William Butler Ground, dressed in a suit and seated beside a draped table.

Date:

[copy, between 1935-1942]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Collection:

West (H. H.) Collection

Eliza Ann Butler Ground, who traveled with the Butler Train in 1853, photograph copied 1935-1942

Description:

Bust-length portrait photograph of Eliza Ann Butler Ground, wife of Edward Ground.

Date:

[copied between 1935-1942]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Collection:

West (H. H.) Collection

Robot advertising for Alpha the Robot while walking through the California Pacific International Exposition near the Cafe of the World, San Diego, [about 1935]

Description:

According to the negative sleeve, the photographs in this group were taken in 1931. Key features of these images were nonexistent in 1931. Penguins were not exhibited at the San Diego Zoo until 1933. Alpha the Robot did not appear in the states until late 1934 and was a special attraction in San Diego during the California Pacific International Exposition (1935-1936). Based on this, it is most likely that the images were taken about 1935 during the exposition.

Date:

[circa 1935]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Collection:

West (H. H.) Collection

Penguins stand at attention and await their feeding at the San Diego Zoo, San Diego, [about 1935]

Description:

According to the negative sleeve, the photographs in this group were taken in 1931. Key features of these images were nonexistent in 1931. Penguins were not exhibited at the San Diego Zoo until 1933. Alpha the Robot did not appear in the states until late 1934 and was a special attraction in San Diego during the California Pacific International Exposition (1935-1936). Based on this, it is most likely that the images were taken about 1935 during the exposition.

Date:

[circa 1935]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Collection:

West (H. H.) Collection

Penguins stand in their enclosure at the San Diego Zoo, San Diego, [about 1935]

Description:

According to the negative sleeve, the photographs in this group were taken in 1931. Key features of these images were nonexistent in 1931. Penguins were not exhibited at the San Diego Zoo until 1933. Alpha the Robot did not appear in the states until late 1934 and was a special attraction in San Diego during the California Pacific International Exposition (1935-1936). Based on this, it is most likely that the images were taken about 1935 during the exposition.

Date:

[circa 1935]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Collection:

West (H. H.) Collection

H. H. West Jr. salutes while wearing his R. O. T. C. uniform, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

H. H. West Jr. salutes while wearing his R. O. T. C. uniform. There are trees, cars, power lines, and houses in the background.

Date:

May 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Collection:

West (H. H.) Collection

H. H. West Jr. poses in his R. O. T. C. uniform, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

H. H. West Jr. poses in his R. O. T. C. uniform. He has his hands in his pockets and his foot up on the curb. He wears boots and a hat. There are houses, bushes, and other plants in the background.

Date:

May 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Collection:

West (H. H.) Collection

Eddie's Dining Room stands alongside a trail, Monrovia vicinity, about 1935

Description:

Photograph of the exterior of Eddie's Dining Room standing alongside a trail in Santa Anita Canyon. The trail stretches along the bottom edge of the image and narrows as it curves out of frame to the right. The dining room stands at left in partial view. It extends out of frame at left and back along the trail towards the right. A sign high over the door reads, "DINING ROOM." A couple of trees rise from the trail at center in front of the restaurant. A sign posted to one of the trees reads, "Eddie's DINING ROOM." Along the right side of the building, a posted sign reads, "HEADQUAR[TERS...] FOR PACK ANI[...] [????] ANIMAL [...] AND FROM [...] [????] [....] OR PHONE SER[VICE?] [...] MADRE [???]-[...]." Two horses stand tethered to a tree on the trail at right. Trees stand on the hillside in the distance at right.

Date:

[circa 1935]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Collection:

West (H. H.) Collection

Santa Anita Dam, viewed from the trail above it, Monrovia, about 1935

Description:

Photograph of the north side of the Santa Anita Dam wall as viewed from above in Santa Anita Canyon. Trees and brush line the canyon wall along the right side of the image. Santa Anita Creek flows below from the left and into the mid-ground where the dam wall stands. The dam is viewed on a tilted angle. It stretches on an arc from left to right across the canyon. Beyond the dam, canyon walls rise in the distance.

Date:

[circa 1935]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Collection:

West (H. H.) Collection

Santa Anita Creek flowing past trees and rocks, Monrovia vicinity, about 1935

Description:

Photograph of Santa Anita Creek flowing through the canyon and towards the camera. The creek flows towards the camera at center. It narrows as it stretches into the distance. The creek flows over rocks and between trees. Low rock walls line both sides of the creek. A trail runs up and alongside the creek at left. A tree branch spans the creek in the near distance. It stretches between the 2 rock walls on either side of the creek.

Date:

[circa 1935]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Collection:

West (H. H.) Collection

A man fishes a pool that lies between the boulders, Monrovia vicinity, about 1935

Description:

Photograph of a man sitting on top of boulders and fishing in a pool beneath him. The pool is viewed from above the boulders that surround it. Boulders span the lower half of the image. The pool sits at center in the top half of the image. Boulders line it on the left and right. A man sits atop a boulder at right. He faces left as he fishes in the pool below him. The pool flows out of frame at the top of the image.

Date:

[circa 1935]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Collection:

West (H. H.) Collection

Isaac Butler, who traveled with the Butler Train in 1853, photograph copied 1935-1942

Description:

Half-length portrait photograph of Isaac Butler, in the hand-in-waistcoat pose.

Date:

[copied between 1935-1942]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Collection:

West (H. H.) Collection

H. H. West Jr. poses in his R. O. T. C. uniform, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

H. H. West Jr. poses in his R. O. T. C. uniform. He has his hands in his back pockets. He wears boots and a hat. There are houses, bushes, and other plants in the background.

Date:

May 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Collection:

West (H. H.) Collection

H. H. West Jr. poses in his R. O. T. C. uniform, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

H. H. West Jr. poses in his R. O. T. C. uniform. He has his hands in his pockets. He wears boots and a hat. There are houses, bushes, and other plants in the background.

Date:

May 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Collection:

West (H. H.) Collection

Elizabeth (Lissie) Hannah Butler Hutchinson Miser, who traveled with the Butler Train in 1853, photograph copied 1935-1942

Description:

Half-length portrait photograph of Elizabeth (Lissie) Hannah Butler Hutchinson Miser, who gave birth to a child (Robert Cascade Hutchinson) on her way to the Oregon territory while crossing the Cascade Mountains.

Date:

[copied between 1935-1942]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Collection:

West (H. H.) Collection

Ira F. M. Butler, who traveled with the Butler Train in 1853, photograph copied 1935-1942

Description:

Portrait photograph of Ira F. M. Butler, wearing a suit and seated beside a draped table with a book on it.

Date:

[copied between 1935-1942]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Collection:

West (H. H.) Collection

Newton and Paradine Butler, brother sister, who traveled with the Butler Train in 1853, photograph copied 1935-1942

Description:

George Miller West travelled with the Butler (wagon) Train, (organized by the Butler family, members of the Disciples of Christ Church) from Monmouth, Illinois to Polk County, Oregon in 1853. West made the journey to mine in Oregon and California. He wrote a memoir relating incidents of crossing the plains to Oregon and his experiences in the goldfields of southern Oregon and northern California. The memoir was prepared in the form of a 49-page typescript by his son, H. H. West, who distributed the memoir to several libraries and archives, along with copied photographs of members of the Butler Train and one or two mining associates. The photographs were collected by H. H. West from about 1935 to 1942.

Date:

[copy, between 1935-1942]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Collection:

West (H. H.) Collection

Edward Ground, who traveled with the Butler Train in 1853, photograph copied 1935-1942

Description:

Oval-format, bust-length portrait photograph of Edward Ground.

Date:

[copied between 1935-1942]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Collection:

West (H. H.) Collection

Intersection of Second Street and Hill Street, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

The negative sleeve states that this is the intersection of Second Street and Broadway, but it appears to be the intersection of Second Street and Hill Street.

Date:

1935

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Collection:

West (H. H.) Collection

Wife of Ira Smith, who traveled with the Butler Train in 1853, photograph copied 1935-1942

Description:

Oval portrait photograph of the wife of Ira S. Smith.

Date:

[copied between 1935-1942]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Collection:

West (H. H.) Collection

Zeb Fawcett, mining partner of George Miller West, father of H. H. West

Description:

Half-length portrait photograph of Zeb Fawcett in a suit and brocade vest. Fawcett was a mining partner of George Miller West, H. H. West's father.

Date:

[copied between 1935-1942]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Collection:

West (H. H.) Collection

La Jolla children's pool and breakwater, viewed at a distance, San Diego, [1930s]

Description:

According to the negative sleeve, this photograph was taken about 1930. The breakwater was not open until 1931, it is likely that this photograph was taken later than 1930.

Date:

[1930s]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Collection:

West (H. H.) Collection

Peter Butler and his wife Rachel Cook(e) Murphy Butler, who traveled with the Butler Train in 1853, photograph copied 1935-1942

Description:

Double-portrait photograph of Peter Butler and his wife Rachel Cook(e) Murphy Butler.

Date:

[copied between 1935-1942]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Collection:

West (H. H.) Collection

James Butler Hutchinson, who traveled with the Butler Train as a baby in 1853, photograph copied 1935-1942

Description:

Oval format portrait of James Butler Hutchinson wearing a suit.

Date:

[copied between 1935-1942]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Collection:

West (H. H.) Collection

Four sons of Edward Ground, who traveled with the Butler Train in 1853, photograph copied 1935-1942

Description:

Four sons of Edward Ground pose in a studio for a group portrait, with John Ground third from left.

Date:

[copied between 1935-1942]

Resource Type:

still image

Photographer:

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Collection:

West (H. H.) Collection

Los Angeles slums in the Great Depression

Description:

Street scene of the dilapidated buildings at 311 North Mission Road near downtown Los Angeles.

Date:

ca. 1938

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Chang Yuin-Tsung and Anna May Wong

Description:

Chang Yuin-Tsung and Los Angeles born Chinese American actress Anna May Wong (right).

Date:

ca. 1939

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mural panel with a conquistador by artist Leo Katz at the Frank Wiggins Trade School, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Katz was an American painter, printer, and teacher. Katz studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Vienna. He arrived in America in 1921 and later became an American citizen.

Date:

1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Wrestling match between Ernie "Dirty" Dusek and Vincent López, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Wrestling match between Ernie "Dirty" Dusek and Vincent Lopez (born Daniel Vincent Lopez de Vinaspre). The match was part of Jack Daro's international championship wrestling tournament, Olympic Auditorium.

Date:

1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Loretta Ennis and Margaret Howden pose at a Miss America event, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Loretta Ennis (right) and Margaret Howden (left) pose at an event involving the Miss America pageant.

Date:

[1935?]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Katheryn Padrick posing, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:

Katheryn Padrick sits on a desk wearing gloves and a hat with a typewriter in the background.

Date:

1930s

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Socialites attend benefit performance of La Boheme at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Socialites mingle at a performance of La Boheme at the Shrine Auditorium, put on by the Metropolitan Civic Opera House. This particular performance benefitted the P.-T.A. milk fund.

Date:

[circa May 12, 1935]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Thomas Starr King Junior High boys eating watermelons, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:

Boys from Thomas Starr King Junior High consuming watermelons. Possibly related to Public Schools Week.

Date:

[between 1934-1935]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Two opera singers pose for La Boheme at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Two opera singers pose for a performance of La Boheme at the Shrine Auditorium, put on by the Metropolitan Civic Opera House. This particular performance benefitted the P.-T.A. milk fund.

Date:

[circa May 12, 1935]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Civil War veterans parade on Memorial Day, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Civil War veterans take part in a parade on Memorial Day, 1935. The day's festivities included parades, decorations, and live music.

Date:

[circa May 26, 1935]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Detective Lieutenant Ray Giese and District Attorney Buron Fitts with Thomas Edward Dugger who was on trial for assaulting three women, Los Angeles, 1935-1936

Description:

Detective Lieutenant Ray Giese and Los Angeles County District Attorney Buron Fitts examine soiled clothing possibly owned by Thomas Edward Dugger. Dugger, known as "Ape Man", was convicted of eleven felonies related to the robbery, kidnapings, and assault of three women. Dugger was indicted on April 4, 1935 and sentenced to death by the Supreme Court on February 18, 1936.

Date:

Between 1935-1936

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Col. Henry L. Roosevelt speaks at a luncheon at the Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Col. Henry L. Roosevelt speaks at a luncheon held in his honor. The luncheon was hosted by the directors of the Chamber of Commerce after Roosevelt visited the Los Angeles Harbor and proclaimed it an ideal naval hub. Roosevelt is center, surrounded by two unidentified men. The Chamber of Commerce was located at 12th St. and Broadway.

Date:

May 13, 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Pete Schneider on trial for manslaughter, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Pete Schneider on trial for manslaughter on May 16, 1935. Schneider was accused of causing the death of G.A. Schnabel in a beer parlor fight on February 17, 1935. Peter Joseph Schneider, known as Pete Schneider (August 20, 1895 - June 1, 1957) was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Cincinnati Reds (1914-1918) and New York Yankees (1919). He was born in Los Angeles, California.

Date:

May 16, 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Detective Joe Filkas questions Ernest LaValle about the murder of his friend Mrs. Celia L. Holmes, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:

Detective Joe Filkas questions winter sports coach at USC Ernest LaValle over the murder of his friend Mrs. Celia L. Holmes.

Date:

[circa January 29, 1935]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Sol Zemansky at the grand jury trial on gambling conditions, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Sol Zemansky at the grandy jury trial on gambling conditions in Los Angeles. Zemansky refused to testify voluntarily at the trial and was later subpoenaed to testify. Zemansky was businessman who owned pawn shops and loan companies, including Provident Loan Association.

Date:

January 29, 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Olympic Auditorium, set up for a six-day bike race, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

The Olympic Auditorium, set up for the six-day bike race beginning March 8, 1935. Nine international teams participated, as well as cycling stars such as Piet Van Kempen and Cocky O'Brien.

Date:

March 10, 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Olympic Auditorium, set up for a six-day bike race, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

The Olympic Auditorium, set up for the six-day bike race beginning March 8, 1935. Nine international teams participated as well as cycling stars such as Piet Van Kempen and Cocky O'Brien.

Date:

March 10, 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Jean Wilson cooks in kitchen, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:

Jean Wilson cooks in kitchen wearing a gingham print dress.

Date:

1930s

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Children ride wooden raft across flood waters in Long Beach, 1930s

Description:

Children transport suitcases on a wooden raft across flood waters in Long Beach, California.

Date:

1930s

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Chief Davis holds the burning mortgage to the Bide-a-Wee home founded by Minnie Barton, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Chief James Edgar Davis holds a box with the burning mortgage to the Bide-A-Wee home for women. The mortgage was set on fire by Gloria Swanson, silent film actress. Swanson helped Minnie Barton, home founder, pay the mortgage by sending $100 a month for several years. The group gathered to burn the mortgage in celebration of completing payment on the home set up by Barton to help working mothers. Also pictured are Mary Brill, president of the Big Sister League, Superior Judge Georgia Bullock, and Mrs. Robert Ladd Gifford. Minnie Barton was the second woman to join the Los Angeles Police Department and also founded the Barton Home for girls in 1917. Gloria Swanson was an actress best known for her role as Norma Desmond in the film Sunset Boulevard. James E. Davis James Edgar Davis was Los Angeles Chief of Police from 1926–1931 and from 1933-1939.

Date:

January 25, 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Milton "Farmer" Page at the grand jury trial on gambling, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Milton "Farmer" Page pictured by a telephone during the grand jury trial on gambling operations in Los Angeles County. Page was summoned as a witness and refused to testify.

Date:

1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Moe Morton at the grand jury trial on gambling operations, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Moe Morton pictured by a telephone during the grand jury trial on gambling operations in Los Angeles County. Morton was summoned as a witness due to his association with the Clover Club.

Date:

1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Jean Wilson fills a pot with water at a kitchen sink, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:

Jean Wilson fills a pot with water at a kitchen sink while wearing a gingham print dress.

Date:

1930s

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Jean Wilson uses a hand mixer in a kitchen, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:

Jean Wilson uses a hand mixer while wearing a gingham print dress.

Date:

1930s

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Aimee Semple McPherson, Roberta Semple Smythe, and Rheba Crawford celebrate the 25th anniversary of McPherson's work in ministry, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Roberta Smythe, Aimee Semple McPherson, and Rheba Crawford Splivalo celebrate the 25th anniversary of McPherson's work in ministry. The celebration included a parade that ended at the City Hall steps where McPherson greeted approximately 5000 people and the Mayor. Aimee Semple McPherson was a Los Angeles evangelist in the 1920s and 1930s who founded the Foursquare Church and Angelus Temple. Rheba Crawford Splivalo was associate pastor at Angelus Temple. Roberta Semple Smythe was the daughter of Aimee Semple McPherson.

Date:

January 7, 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Coach Thomas and Mildred Cowan on football field with Alabama Crimson Tide players Bill Lee and Dixie Howell, Tuscaloosa, 1934-1935

Description:

Coach Frank Thomas and Mildred Cowan stand on football field with Bill Lee and Millard "Dixie" Howell, members of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team. Howell played college football at Alabama from 1932 to 1934.

Date:

between 1934-1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Coach Thomas and Mildred Cowan on football field with Alabama Crimson Tide players Bill Lee and Dixie Howell, Tuscaloosa, 1934-1935

Description:

Coach Frank Thomas and Mildred Cowan stand on football field with Bill Lee and Millard "Dixie" Howell, members of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team. Howell played college football at Alabama from 1932 to 1934

Date:

between 1934-1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Law enforcement officials George Fisher, Elizabeth Fiske, and J.W. Buckley surrounded by bags of food, Los Angeles, circa 1930

Description:

Law enforcement officials George Fisher (Lieutenant), Elizabeth Fiske (City Mother Policewomen), and J.W. Buckley (Patrolman) surrounded by bags filled with food goods, including Bagdad Coffee. Elizabeth Fiske was with LAPD from 1929-1964 and served on the City Mothers Bureau, a crime prevention division of LAPD staffed entirely by policewomen.

Date:

1930s?

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Chief Davis hands actress Gloria Swason the paid mortgage to the Bide-a-Wee home founded by Minnie Barton, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Chief James Edgar Davis hands Gloria Swanson, silent film actress, the mortgage to the Bide-A-Wee home for women. Swanson helped Minnie Barton, home founder, pay the mortgage by sending $100 a month for several years. The group gathered to burn the mortgage in celebration of completing payment on the home set up by Barton to help working mothers. Also pictured are Mary Brill, president of the Big Sister League, Superior Judge Georgia Bullock, and Mrs. Robert Ladd Gifford. Minnie Barton was the second woman to join the Los Angeles Police Department and also founded the Barton Home for girls in 1917. Gloria Swanson was an actress best known for her role as Norma Desmond in the film Sunset Boulevard.James E. Davis James Edgar Davis was Los Angeles Chief of Police from 1926–1931 and from 1933-1939.

Date:

January 25, 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

All-American football players Donald Huston and Millard Howell from Alabama pose with coach Frank Thomas, Christy Walsh, and USC coach Howard Jones, Tuscaloosa, 1934-1935

Description:

Donald Hutson and Millard Howell of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team pose with their All-American Team blankets. Also pictured with the athletes are coach Frank Thomas, Christy Walsh, and USC coach Howard Jones.

Date:

between 1934-1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Chinese civic leaders promise peace to Captain of Detectives, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Chinese civic leaders Peter Soohoo and Dr. S.J. Lin reassure Captain of Detectives Bert Wallis that gang warfare will not escalate in the Los Angeles Chinese community. From left to right, Dr. Lin, Bert Wallis, and Peter Soohoo.

Date:

March 6, 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Detectives Miles Ledbetter and Thad Brown question Edward E. Holmes over the murder of his wife, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Detectives Miles Ledbetter and Thad Brown question Edward E. Holmes over the unexpected murder of his wife Mrs. Celia L. Holmes. From left to right, Miles Ledbetter, Edward E. Holmes, and Thad Brown.

Date:

January 21, 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Celia L. Holmes poses with a large group of unidentified children, Los Angeles, 1930's

Description:

Celia L. Holmes, later a victim of murder, poses with a large group of unidentified children.

Date:

[between 1930-1935?]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Jean Wilson serves drinks in a kitchen, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:

Jean Wilson serves drinks in a kitchen while wearing a gingham print dress.

Date:

1930s

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Jean Wilson poses wearing a gingham dress, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:

Jean Wilson poses for picture wearing a gingham print dress.

Date:

1930s

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Unidentified men and women carry belongings and pets across flood waters, Long Beach, circa 1930s

Description:

Unidentified men and women carry belongings and pets across flood waters in Long Beach.

Date:

1930s

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Painting from the contemporary Italian painting exhibit at the Los Angeles Museum, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

A painting from the contemporary Italian painting exhibit at the Los Angeles Museum in Exposition Park, open February and March of 1935.

Date:

[circa February 20, 1935]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Unidentified men weigh goods at a cooperative, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:

Unidentified men weigh goods from bins on a scale. One bin is labeled sugar and another is labeled salt.

Date:

1930s?

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Actress Marsha Hunt receives a document from Judge Marshall McComb.

Description:

Actress Marsha Hunt smiles as she receives a document from Judge Marshall McComb.

Date:

[between 1932-1937?]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Members of Southern California Townsend club start trip to national convention, October 21, 1935

Description:

Start of journey of Southern California Townsend club members to Chicago for national convention. Clubs named after Dr. Francis Townsend to advocate for his old age pension plans, a precursor to Social Security. West was western divisional director of Townsend club; Litchenfels, state area officer; Highley, President of Los Angeles club; Biddlecom, member of national advisory board. Wives of Bliss and Highley also present.

Date:

[October 21, 1935]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

PWA Project, Los Angeles, circa 1935

Description:

Unknown Public Works Administration (PWA) project with unknown workers. Part of the New Deal, most PWA spending came in 1933-1935 and then again in 1938 before being shut down in 1939.

Date:

[1935?]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

PWA Project, Los Angeles, circa 1935

Description:

Unknown Public Works Administration (PWA) project with unknown workers. Part of the New Deal, most PWA spending came in 1933-1935 and then again in 1938 before being shut down in 1939.

Date:

[1935?]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Eleanor Roosevelt speaks at the Hollywood Bowl, October 1, 1935

Description:

Eleanor Roosevelt spoke to a mostly female audience about the need to engage in charitable work during a trip to Los Angeles with President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Date:

October 1, 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

College football referee Bruce Kirkpatrick demonstrating hand signals, Los Angeles, circa 1935

Description:

Kirkpatrick, a college football linesman referee from Occidental College, demonstrating the football official hand signal for possibly illegal motion.

Date:

[1935?]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

College football referee Bruce Kirkpatrick demonstrating hand signals, Los Angeles, circa 1935

Description:

Kirkpatrick, a college football linesman referee from Occidental College, demonstrating the football official hand signal for illegal pass.

Date:

[1935?]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Construction inside Commercial Exchange Building, Downtown Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Inside the Commercial Exchange Building. Most likely related to 1935 construction that removed a 10-foot section in the middle of the building. Building was owned by the Kress House Moving Company and the work was done by architects and engineers Walker & Eisen. Building at 416 W. 8th St (corner Olive Streets), Downtown Los Angeles.

Date:

1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Construction inside Commercial Exchange Building, Downtown Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Inside the Commercial Exchange Building. Most likely related to 1935 construction that removed a 10-foot section in the middle of the building. Building was owned by the Kress House Moving Company and the work was done by architects and engineers Walker & Eisen. Building at 416 W. 8th St (corner Olive Streets), Downtown Los Angeles.

Date:

1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Workers line up for food during forest fire, Altadena, California, October 1935

Date:

October 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Jesse Owens competes in a race against USC track members at the Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Jesse Owens from the Ohio State University track team competes in a race against unidentified members of the University of California track team.

Date:

June 15, 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Volunteers decorate Rosedale Cemetery for Memorial Day, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Volunteers decorate the Rosedale Cemetery in honor of Memorial Day, 1935. The day's festivities included parades, decorations, and live music.

Date:

[circa May 26, 1935]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Jesse Owens competes in a long jump event at the Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Jesse Owens for the Ohio State University track team competes in the long jump event.

Date:

June 15, 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Frank E. Walker, father of murder victim Frances Walker, sits in a crowded room, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Frank E. Walker, father of murder victim Frances Walker, sits in a crowded room. The young woman to his left is probably Melba Walker, Frances's sister. Her murder was connected to an affair with former deputy Sheriff Archie Carter.

Date:

[circa August 1, 1935]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

USC and OSU track members race at Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Track team members from Ohio State University and the University of Southern California compete in a race at the Coliseum.

Date:

June 15, 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Veterans of the Indian War assemble on Memorial Day, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Veterans of the Indian War assemble on Memorial Day, 1935. The ceremonies were held at the Memorial Coliseum, where veterans of the Civil War and Spanish American War attended, and several bands entertained the crowd.

Date:

[circa May 26, 1935]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Bonus Army convenes for a march, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Bonus marchers sign up to march northward to San Francisco, and then continue on to Washington D.C. The Bonus Army consisted of World War I veterans and their families who pursued immediate payment of their service certificates.

Date:

[circa May 26, 1935]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Unidentified men and women receive sacks of flour at a county food exchange program, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:

Unidentified men and women gather at food exchange windows to recieve sacks of flour as part of a county charity program.

Date:

1930s?

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Unidentified men and women stand in line to receive food at a county food exchange program, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:

Unidentified men and women stand in line to receive food at a county food exchange program.

Date:

1930s?

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Unidentified men move boxes of food at a county food exchange program, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:

Unidentified men handle boxes of food at a county welfare food exchange program.

Date:

1930s?

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Photograph of Charles P. Schottland, Roy W. Pilling, and Archibald Young, administrators of Los Angeles' and California's state relief organizations during the Great Depression.

Description:

Photo depicting Charles I. Schottland (center), director of the California State Relief Association, meets with Roy W. Pilling (right), director of the Los Angeles County Relief Association, and Archibald Young, chairman of the Citizens' Relief Committee of Los Angeles. All three men held various high-level positions within California's State Emergency Relief Association and related groups over the course of their careers in public service. These groups included SERA's successor the California State Relief Association and its local branches, and the Citizens' Relief Committee.

Date:

[circa 1935-1936]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Portrait of Dr. Francis Everett Townsend

Description:

Portrait image of Dr. Francis Everett Townsend, originator of the Townsend Plan, an old-age pension plan which influenced the creation of Social Security.

Date:

[1930s]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Large used car lot, 1930s.

Date:

1930-1940?

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Herman E. Hubler and his wife Anna L. Hubler, who are accused of involvement in a theater bank night fraud scandal, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Herman E. Hubler and his wife Anna L. Hubler, who are accused of involvement in a theater bank night fraud scandal. The couple convinced numerous community theaters to use their 14-year-old daughter Blanche, known as Goldilocks, to pull the winning ticket in the bank night lottery. Goldilocks would palm a fake ticket and the winner would be one of the Hubler's accomplices, Alexander Szymanski or Roy Keown. The defendants admitted to winning thousands of dollars through the scandal.

Date:

between December 24 and 27, 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Herman E. Hubler and his wife Anna L. Hubler, who are accused of involvement in a theater bank night fraud scandal, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Herman E. Hubler and his wife Anna L. Hubler, who are accused of involvement in a theater bank night fraud scandal. The couple convinced numerous community theaters to use their 14-year-old daughter Blanche, known as Goldilocks, to pull the winning ticket in the bank night lottery. Goldilocks would palm a fake ticket and the winner would be one of the Hubler's accomplices, Alexander Szymanski or Roy Keown. The defendants admitted to winning thousands of dollars through the scandal.

Date:

between December 24 and 27, 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Choreographer Busby Berkeley attending court to face murder charges, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Famed director and choreographer Busby Berkeley attending court to face three murder charges after he caused a car accident that resulted in fatalities after leaving a cocktail party. Witnesses reported smelling alcohol on Berkeley's breath at the time.

Date:

[circa December 9, 1935]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Murder suspect Gladys Carter in a courtroom, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Gladys Carter, murder suspect, bowing her head and looking morose in a courtroom. Carter was charged with fatally shooting her houseguest of two years, Frances Walker. She suspected Walker of having a romantic relationship with her husband, Deputy Sheriff Archie Carter.

Date:

[circa June 11, 1935]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Murder suspect Gladys Carter in a courtroom, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Gladys Carter, murder suspect, clutching a handkerchief in a courtroom. Carter was charged with fatally shooting her houseguest of two years, Frances Walker. She suspected Walker of having a romantic relationship with her husband, Deputy Sheriff Archie Carter.

Date:

[circa June 11, 1935]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Murder suspect Gladys Carter in a courtroom, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Gladys Carter, murder suspect, clutching a handkerchief in a courtroom. Carter was charged with fatally shooting her houseguest of two years, Frances Walker. She suspected Walker of having a romantic relationship with her husband, Deputy Sheriff Archie Carter.

Date:

[circa June 11, 1935]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Murder suspect Gladys Carter in a courtroom, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Gladys Carter, murder suspect, clutching a handkerchief in a courtroom. Carter was charged with fatally shooting her houseguest of two years, Frances Walker. She suspected Walker of having a romantic relationship with her husband, Deputy Sheriff Archie Carter.

Date:

[circa June 11, 1935]

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Patrons at the Forbidden Palace restaurant in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:

Patrons fill the tables at the Forbidden Palace restaurant in Chinatown.

Date:

1930s

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Line of people outside a Chinatown restaurant, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:

Line of people wait to enter a Chinatown restaurant.

Date:

1930s

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Girls sit on the sidewalk in front of a store in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:

Girls sit on the sidewalk in front of a store in Chinatown.

Date:

1930s

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Children play in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:

Children play in Chinatown.

Date:

1930s

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Choreographer and film director Busby Berkeley being carried into his manslaughter trial on a stretcher, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:

Choreographer and film director Busby Berkeley being carried into his manslaughter trial on a stretcher. Busby was on trial for manslaughter after he was involved in a car crash where two women, Ada von Briesen and Peggy Daley, died.

Date:

September 29, 1935

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Officer Frank E. Walker provides his signature on a document with Deputy District Attorney Howard R. Hinshaw present, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:

Officer Frank E. Walker provides his signature on a document with Deputy District Attorney Howard R. Hinshaw present. This may be related to a shooting where Mr. Walker's wife was shot and killed by Gladys Carter, wife of Deputy Sheriff Archie Carter. Mrs. Walker lived with the deputy and his wife.

Date:

1930s

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives