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W.J. Braunschweiger, S.E. Gates, and Paul Hoffman at headtable, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Sideview of Bank of America executive Walter J. Braunschweiger, Los Angeles Rotary Club president S.E. Gates, and Studebaker Corporation executive Paul G. Hoffman--seated at headtable with anniversary cake in front. Hoffman stands at small podium with microphone. Behind them are a Rotary Club banner and another cake. In the overall background, numerous men can be seen socializing in a large, chandaliered room. Photograph was taken at the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce's 47th anniversary event in the Biltmore Hotel's Biltmore Bowl, the hotel's ballroom.
Date:
October 11, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
W.J. Braunschweiger, S.E. Gates, and Paul Hoffman at headtable, Los Angeles, 1935

George, Teresa, John, Dorothy, and Vincent Cheap at play, Los Angeles, 1933

Description:
Patriarch Albert Cheap is a coach yard foreman for the Santa Fe Railroad. The two oldest children are 24-year-old Virginia Ruth and 26-year-old Angela Cecilia, who don't live with their siblings. Mr. Cheap is used to getting bargains in fruits and vegetables to keep up with his children's voracious appetites. It's not only food that Mr. and Mrs. Cheap hunt for bargains for, but everything imaginable, from underwear to shoes to soap to dolls and dishes. They go into detail over other parts of day-to-day living their large family participates in, such as trips to the dentist's office, birthdays, and picnics.
Date:
February 19, 1933
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
George, Teresa, John, Dorothy, and Vincent Cheap at play, Los Angeles, 1933

Adams Pharmacy ledger documenting the purchase of poison by Elmer M. Archer, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:
Ledger documenting the purchase of sodium arsenate for 10 cents by Elmer M. Archer at the Adams Pharmacy in Santa Monica on January 24, 1926. Archer purchased the poison under the name Joe Jacks. Archer was in love with the newlywed Olive Orr Brugen-Schmidt and tried to convince her to poison her new husband, W. H. Bowers.
Date:
March 1926
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Adams Pharmacy ledger documenting the purchase of poison by Elmer M. Archer, Los Angeles, 1926

Georg Rickertsen comes to America to deal with exports of his home country, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:
German Georg Rickertsen has come to Los Angeles to work on deals of expansion of products such as walnuts and dried fruits in relation to his country. Germany buys 31% of its dried fruits from California. While Rickertsen or his associate Miss Elly Bartels do not condone all of Hitler's policies they do not deny the decrease in their country's unemployment and does not suspect that Germany wants to go to war.
Date:
April 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Georg Rickertsen comes to America to deal with exports of his home country, Los Angeles, 1934

Dorothy Frooks tries to get involved in politics, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
When Miss Frooks wrote to the First Lady and asked for her support for candidacy in running for Congress Frooks was met with the response that she 'take no part in local party politics', but not soon after Roosevelt supported Frooks' opponent Carolyn O'Day. She has established the free milk for babies in New York, attorney for the Salvation Army, and is soon releasing a book entitled "Over the Heads of Congress."
Date:
July 22, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Dorothy Frooks tries to get involved in politics, Los Angeles, 1935

Attorney A. L. Wirin with Rena Frye and her sons, Ronald and Marquette at Los Angeles courthouse, 1965

Description:
The incident that is credited to starting the 1965 Watts Riot involved Marquette and Ronald Frye who on August 11, 1965 were stopped by a police officer for erratic driving. While being questioned their mother, Rena arrived. At some point an altercation between the police and the three family members ensued which led to the arrest of all three. A crowd that had gathered and were angered by the treatment of the family began throwing bottles at the police.
Date:
September 3, 1965
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Attorney A. L. Wirin with Rena Frye and her sons, Ronald and Marquette at Los Angeles courthouse, 1965

Side view of the remaining center portion of the St. Francis Dam after its disastrous collapse, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Side view of the remaining center portion of the St. Francis Dam after its disastrous collapse, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Harold G. Ferguson outside courtroom, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
At the time this photograph was taken, Harold G. Ferguson had served in San Quentin State Prison for the grand theft of investment funds in the 1929 sale of the Malibu La Costa beachfront properties--faciliated by his former real estate company the Harold G. Ferguson Corporation. After his release, Ferguson testified at this 1935 trial, in which the Malibu investors were ultimately denied the recovery of $443,000 from the Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association and the Marblehead Land Company, the third-party companies Ferguson used to broker the Malibu deals.
Date:
October 14, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Harold G. Ferguson outside courtroom, Los Angeles, 1935

Woman stands upon the Ontario and Upland display at the National Orange Show, San Bernardino, 1926

Description:
A woman stands upon the Ontario and Upland display at the National Orange Show. The display consists of a tiered base covered with oranges and topped with a metal pole at the top of which is a basket of oranges. A sign on the display reads, "Ontario and Upland Chambers of Commerce." There are potted plants scattered around. In the background, other displays are visible and there is a crowd of people visible as well.
Date:
[circa February 1926]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Woman stands upon the Ontario and Upland display at the National Orange Show, San Bernardino, 1926

Outdoor relief area for victims of the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 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
Outdoor relief area for victims of the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933

Three members of the California Music Club Juniors - Shirley Smith, Elizabeth Hunt and Virginia Solomon - in a rehearsal for a holiday play, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
In the Juniors branch of the California Music Club Shirley Smith, president Elizabeth Hunt and Queen of Fairies Virginia Solomon pose for a picture during a rehearsal of their holiday play “Crossings” written by Walter De La Mare and directed by Rudolph Abel at the Little Theater of Verdugo.
Date:
December 11, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Three members of the California Music Club Juniors - Shirley Smith, Elizabeth Hunt and Virginia Solomon - in a rehearsal for a holiday play, Los Angeles, 1935

Lee R. Carr is accused of a litany of crimes by the mother of his child, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
16-year-old Rosa Kiralla told the court that Lee R. Carr, father of her baby born last December, assaulted her in her home on multiple times, and after the baby was born with the help of Kiralla's mother and Carr's wife Mrs. Sarah Carr, Mr. Carr took the baby on the assertion that the baby was dead and the body needed to be disposed of.
Date:
August 8, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Lee R. Carr is accused of a litany of crimes by the mother of his child, Los Angeles, 1935

Officers and sailors man the range finder station aboard the USS West Virginia, 1924-1939

Description:
Possibly related to Los Angeles Times articles, “When the Navy’s Fleet of Wasps Takes to the Air, Fleet’s Planes Prove Worth In Test, Flaming Streaks of Death Dart From Sizes to Drop Destruction on War Craft of ‘Enemy’ in Tactical Maneuvers,” 15 Nov. 1926: A1, and “Dreadnaughts Hurl Hail of Steel in War Tests, Conditions Similar to Jellicoe’s Famous Engagement Met by Navy in Spectacular Practice,” 3 Jun. 1926: A1. Both articles are by the same reporter with the dateline “At Sea, Aboard U.S.S. West Virginia” possibly he was aboard for a lengthy trip.
Date:
between 1924-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Officers and sailors man the range finder station aboard the USS West Virginia, 1924-1939

Know Your City No.49. "Man and the Machine" sculpture and façade of the east door at Los Angeles County Museum

Description:
Sculpture depicts a barefoot, muscular young man in working clothes in a squatting position. He is holding up a large wheel that rests on the ground in front of him. The interior of the wheel is cast in relief, with wheels, gears, and other symbols of the industrial age.
Date:
January 5, 1956
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Know Your City No.49. "Man and the Machine" sculpture and façade of the east door at Los Angeles County Museum

Know Your City No.56; Exterior view of the Pico House and surrounding buildings, Los Angeles, 1956

Description:
ANSWER: Si, Senor, it is the old Pico House, the oldest hotel in Los Angeles and little pueblo's first three-story structure. Built in 1869, it was the sensation of its day -- had floors and bathtubs. It was named, of course, after Pio Pico, last Mexican Governor of California. Its location is now designated as the southeast corner of Plaza and N Main Sts. That big square shape at the extreme right in the photograph is, of course, the Federal Building, and , beyond it, the tower of the City Hall.
Date:
January 12, 1956
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Know Your City No.56; Exterior view of the Pico House and surrounding buildings, Los Angeles, 1956