Photograph, from left to right, of Harry Schmitz and Wilfrid Cline, Jr. eating casaba for breakfast near a car. Harry Schmitz stands in front of the back end of a car. He faces towards the camera as he eats a slice of casaba. Wilfrid Cline, Jr. sits at center, to the right of Harry, and looks to the camera while eating a large slice of casaba. He sits in the backseat of a car. The car is in partial view and is viewed at an angle from the side. The front of the car extends out-of-frame at right. A dirt road stretches behind the car at left. Trees and fencing stand in the background at left.
Glen Velzy kneels on the ground and fixes the front left tire on H. H. West's Buick. He faces right as both hands work on the tire. The car (partial view) sits to the right with the front of the car facing slightly towards the left. A tent stands behind and to the left of Glen. It is made out of green balloon silk. A thin rope extends between the top of the tent down to the car. The trunk of a large tree stands in the background right-of-center. An obscured mountain rises in the distance at left.
H. H. West's family poses in front of an orange tree by Wayne West's home. Myrtle West holds an orange and a bouquet of flowers. Evert West holds oranges. A house is visible at the right of the photograph.
Wright Prickett plays with Richard Shaw in Victory Park, in the Arroyo Seco area. Both of them are in motion and slightly blurred. Other people are visible at the left of the photograph. There are trees, cars, and picnic tables in the background.
Man feeding a goat. The man wears a hat and bowtie and has a mustache. He wears a ring on his pinkie finger. There is a rocky hill in the background. H. H. West's sister, Nella, took this photograph.
Mertie West was H. H. West's second wife. Forrest Whitaker was her brother and Agnes was Forrest's wife. William Shaw was Mertie and Forrest's brother-in-law.
Photograph of 2 butane tanks sitting atop a flatbed dolly on the sidewalk outside the H. H. West Company's offices on Omar Avenue. The tanks sit on a dolly, right-of-center, and are viewed at an angle. The dolly and tanks are on a sidewalk that stretches through the image on a vertical angle to the left. Behind the tanks, the office building for the H. H. West Company stretches along the right side of the sidewalk. A set of doors stands wide open, at right. A chain hanging from the dolly lies on the sidewalk and extends towards the doorway. Behind the tanks, a sign in a window reads, "AMERICAN WHOLESALE HARDWARE CO. LONG BEACH."
House belonging to the Brown family.The house has a front porch and features large front windows as well as a dormer window at the top. The address appears to be 1255 Magnolia Avenue. The address has changed to 1502 Magnolia Avenue.
H. H. West's mother, Wilhelmina, in front of his brother, Wilson's home at 4262 Walton Avenue. The house number is above the porch. Wilhelmina wears a hat that appears to have a feather sticking out of it. Another woman is in the doorway of the house. The neighboring his is visible at the right.
John D. Kennedy, 62, appears with Municipal Judge George S. Richardson in relation to charges he attacked Arthur C. Burch. Burch was tried twice and acquitted for the shooting death of John D. Kennedy's son.
Los Angeles District Attorney Buron Fitts, second from right, sits with his defense lawyer Jerry Geisler, second from left, along with his chief deputy Robert P. Stewart, far left, and deputy District Attorney, William Simpson.
An unknown man applying false eyelashes to Elsie the Borden Cow, the unofficial mascott for Borden dairy products. After appearing at the New York World's Fair, Elsie was chosen by R.K.O. producer Gene Towne to star in the 1940 film "Little Men," based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott. Elsie arrived in Los Angeles on July 12, 1940
Men work on completing an automobile at the Los Angeles Studebaker assembly plant in Vernon, CA. The plant opened in December of 1935, and the first completed automobile rolled off the line on January 2, 1936. The plant operated until June 8, 1954.
Albert Dyer and his lawyers William Neeley and Ellery Cuff at Dyer's murder trial. Dyer lured three Inglewood girls to the hills, where he strangled them to death with his hands as well as rope. From left to right is Albert Dyer and public defenders Neeley and Cuff.
A line of radiator grilles, affixed with Studebaker's distinctive "lark in circle" hood ornament, at Studebaker's Los Angeles assembly plant in Vernon, Ca. Studebaker's Los Angeles plant was established in December of 1935, and its first completed car rolled off the assembly line on January 2, 1936. The plant closed on June 8, 1956.
