Color photograph of American wind multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and composer Vinny Golia playing a bass clarinet. Double bass player Michael Elizondo is in the background. A baritone saxophone is also partially visible.
Spectators watch the preparations for a track event at the Olympic Games. There are people on the field near the track. There are spectators scattered throughout the stands, including a man in a hat who is in the foreground of the photograph.
Photograph of the Albert Schmitz family cabin at Lake Arrowhead, with a stone wall in front, where the H. H. West family also stayed during a summer vacation.
Photograph of tablets inset into the garden wall of the Old North Memorial Garden in Boston. The brick, garden wall stretches across the image. At center, one tablet is set into the wall. Tablets to the left and right of it are obscured by shadows cast by surrounding trees. The shadows naturally frame the tablet at center.
Photograph, from left to right, of Harry Schmitz and Wilfrid Cline, Jr. standing in the distance at their campsite along a bank of Cow Creek, east of Redding. They stand in the distance at center near the creek's bank and face towards one another. Their gear sits on the ground to the right Wilfrid. A car is parked nearer to camera to the left of them. The car is viewed an an angle from the front and the side; it faces towards the right. The car sits parked in the middle of a dirt road. The road enters from the left, curving towards the right as it approaches the camera. A bridge stands in the background at left. Cow Creek flows behind and to the right of Harry and Wilfrid. Trees stand in the background.
H. H. West's wife, Mary, poses on a front lawn with her daughters, Elizabeth and Frances. Mrs. West crouches down and holds Frances's hand. Frances sits in the stroller and has a cloth tied around her waist. Elizabeth stands behind Frances with her hands on the back of the stroller. There are houses, trees, and utility poles in the background.
Photograph of about 5-6 men working on top of a frozen Jackson Lake to remove snow. The man on the left stands on the lake holding a broom. To his right, a man wearing ice skates pushes a plow-like apparatus. To his right, two men use brooms to remove the snow. To the right of them, a man drives a tractor across the lake. In the distance, another person stands on the ice. On the opposite side of the lake, a small structure with large chimney sits along the shore left-of-center of the photograph. A hillside covered in trees and snow slopes down towards the lake on the left and another hillside covered in trees and snow rises up in the background on the right. A white dwelling sits in the gap between these two hillsides in the background. In the foreground at right, a piping fixture rises out of the snow-covered ground.
People wait for the ferry to Oakland. The crowd is almost exclusively made up of men. There are people on the wharf, as well as on the ferry. Two American flags fly on the ferry. A sign on the front reads, "walk your horses" and a beam in the background has the word "Wellington" printed on it. There are wires overhead and tracks in the foreground.
An out-of-focus and slightly lopsided photograph of three unknown persons sitting on a long bench in a park. The trio sits in a row left-of-center and appear to be sloping downward to the left. Starting at left, a woman dressed in white sits and looks to camera; she holds a jacket in her lap. A man sits at center. He looks to the camera while holding a box in his lap. A woman sits to his right. She folds her hands in her lap as she turns her head to look at the man. A dirt pathway crosses in front of them. A brush covered hillside rises directly behind them.
Everett Shaw holds a baseball bat in Victory Park, in the Arroyo Seco area. A boy stands behind him holding a ball and there are other people at the right of the photograph. There are trees and picnic tables in the background.
From the web sit of the American Air Museum in Britain: William D. Hearn served with the 381st Bomb Group. He was shot down in Germany on March 2, 1944 and was a prisoner of war.
Photograph of an old building in Jacksonville, Oregon. A dirt road passes across the image in the foreground. The building stands in the near distance at center and is viewed at a slight angle from the front. The building is of brick construction with 2 doors at center. A window sits on the other side of each door. Above the shared lintel, an engraving reads, "J. A. BRUNNER & BRO. 1855." The roof is of wood construction and slants upward to the right where it meets another building (partial view). The building at right stands 2-stories tall and extends out of frame. A window pane appears to be missing from the leftmost window on the second floor and an arcade stretches across the ground floor.
Photograph of Horseshoe (or Canadian) Falls, as viewed from the west side of the falls. Vegetation grows in the foreground along the bottom edge at left. Just beyond it, water at the top of the near side of the falls flows. In the distance, the Niagara River flows over the east side of Horseshoe Falls. The falls span the width of the image, extending beyond the right frame. Mist rises up from the waterfall's basin in the near distance at center. The Niagara River extends back from the top of the falls and into the distance. Alongside it, land forms stand silhouetted at left.
Glen Velzy stands in profile on the far right and faces left. He grasps an unknown object in his left hand. With his right hand, he holds a string or line that extends in front of him towards the left. At center, trout dangle from the line held by Glen Velzy. The line is propped up with a stick that has been split. Several fish hang from a string on the right side of the stick and five hang on the left side of the stick. Behind the fish and to the left, Velzy's Buick is parked and the rear end is visible. A trunk sits up on the back of the car and a few spare tires sit on the ground leaning against the back end of the car. Behind Glen on the right, Elizabeth West, Frances West and Ted McClellan's son stand with their backs to the camera. They stand to the side of and face another parked car. A large tree stands on the left behind the Buick. In the near distance, trees stand in the background at right, and in the far distance mountains rise in the background.
Three men, dressed in suits, stand at the top of the steps and under the pergola of the Pebble Beach Lodge. The lodge and the pergola are constructed out of logs. A car (partial view) is parked on the right in front of the steps. The men are automotive parts jobbers in Pebble Beach for a meeting of the Automotive Parts Jobbers of the Pacific Coast.
Charlie Stavnow (left) and Glen Velzy breaking up camp at the end of a fishing trip in the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains, with bags for the pack animals on the ground and another camper behind a tree.
Mertie West, William Shaw, Agnes Whitaker, H. H. West Jr., and Forrest Whitaker at Pine Creek. Agnes stands on a rock behind H. H. West Jr. Forrest sits on a rock.
Photograph taken from Frances Wells' apartment that looks across Anchorage towards Cook Inlet. The scene is viewed from a bird's-eye perspective. Trees stand along the right edge and branches jut into the foreground from the lower left corner. Houses and streets stand in the near distance below at center. Farther out, Cook Inlet spans the image and disappears behind the trees that stand in the foreground at right. The opposite shore is visible in the far distance.
Photograph of Mary A. West (center) and Sena Mead (right) posing next to a yucca while Paul Mead (left) walks in the grass nearby during a trip to San Gabriel Canyon. The yucca stands in the near distance at center. Mary A. West stands to the left of the plant and looks to the camera. Sena Mead stands to the right of the yucca and is turned slightly to the left. Paul Mead stands just to the left of Mary. A grove of trees stands behind them in the background. Among the trees, a silhouetted horse and wagon stand behind Paul.
Fifty trout lie on a slab of rock. They are lined up in three rows oriented vertically (head to tail). Between the primary rows, some fish are placed horizontally, head to tail, between these rows. Further back on the rock, a basket sits with a fishing rod balanced atop it. A couple more boulders are in the background among the surrounding brush.
An out-of-focus photograph, from left to right, of H. H. West and Dr. Bim Smith sitting at the West's dining table during a birthday dinner for Bim Smith and H. H. West. H. H. West and Dr. Bim Smith sit on the far side of the table in the near distance at center. They are viewed level with the top of the table. H. H. West sits at left and looks to the camera while resting an arm over the back of his chair. He wears a top hat. Bim sits to the right of him and looks towards the camera. A birthday cake sits in front of him on the table. At far the right, someone (looks to be Agnes Whitaker) dons a top hat and is captured in motion. Glasses and flatware sit atop the table. A tablecloth drapes over the front edge of the table in the foreground. One person sits on the near side of the table at right. They are in partial view with only their knees jutting into the image from the lower right corner. The seat of an empty chair juts into frame from the lower left corner. In the background, a large fireplace sits to the left of H. H. West, a bookshelf stands behind and to the left of Bim Smith and a wide doorway leads into another room at right.
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.
District Attorney Buron Fitts and his sister Mrs. Berthal Gregory appear in a crowded courtroom with Mrs. Marion Fitts and their attorneys Joseph Scott and Jerry Giesler. Seated left to right is Buron Fitts, Mrs. Marion Fitts, and Berthal Gregory. Standing in the back, left to right, is Joseph Scott and Jerry Giesler.
Most likely related to the yearly mud battle between first and second year students and the first time female students took part. Students unknown. LAJC is now known as Los Angeles City College located near Vermont and Santa Monica Blvd.
Laundry hanging in a slum. Part of the housing study carried out by the State Emergency Relief Administration. County officials were asked to make a study of housing conditions in their city.
Soldiers in old military uniforms stand next to others wearing the new "streamlined" style during a military show for National Defense Week. The show was held at the Los Angeles Airport and more than 60 officers and men participated.
Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the United States and Archbishop of Laodicea in Phyrigia, seated on the throne during the elevation ceremony of Bishop John Joseph Cantwell to Archbishop of the newly created Roman Catholic Province of Los Angeles. He offers his hand to Bishop Cantwell who is half-kneeling oppposite him. Using the powers vested in him by Pope Pius XI Cicognani presided over the ceremony, which took place at the Cathedral of Saint Vibiana in Los Angeles.
Unidentified man in court for the murder trial of crossing guard Albert Dyer. Dyer had lured three Inglewood girls into the hills, where he strangled them with rope and his hands. He was eventually found guilty and executed.
Judge Benjamin J. Scheinman marries Bobby Burns Berman and Betty Jane Hardesty. Berman operated a night club and Hardesty was a Washington D.C. socialite.
Homes and palm trees underwater in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles. After heavy rains lasting more than 36 hours, between 1200 and 1800 homes in the Venice area were underwater on January 1, 1934.
George W. McDill, member of the 1935 Los Angeles Board of Education, sits looking solemn. McDill was a part of the law and rules committee of the Board.
Hal Takaoka testifying on the witness stand about the murder of his sister, dancer Midi Takaoka. Judge Irvin Taplin was presiding. The dancer's throat was cut by her jilted lover, waiter Raymond Johnson. Johnson later was sentenced to life in prison.
The mural, funded by the WPA (Works Project Administration), was controversial especially because of the depictions of nudity and references to war in the central panel. The central panel was removed from the Frank Wiggins Trade School lobby (now LA Trade Tech) and returned to the Public Works Administration in 1935 and the other two panels were returned in 1939.
New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia presides over the Pacific coast regional meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors. Boston Mayor Frederick Mansfield served as Mr. La Guardia's secretary. Approximately 60 Pacific coast mayors attended the conference. Unemployment relief was a focal topic at the conference, which was held at Los Angeles' City Council chamber. May 15, 1937.
An unidentified lawyer approaching Robert S. James as he sits in the witness stand. A map of his home is visible behind him. He was most likely testifying in his own defense for the murder trial of his wife Mary Emma James. He purportedly had an affair with his niece, which spurred him to tie down his wife and have a rattlesnake bite her, and then later drown her in their fish pond. He was supposedly helped by his friend, ex-sailor Charles H. Hope, who was also charged with murder.
This photograph appears with the article, "Cathedral of St. Sophia to Open Doors Sept. 28, New Church, Erected at Cost of $2,000,000, Will Be Center ofGreek Orthodoxy in U.S." Los Angeles Times, 15 Sept. 1952: A1.
Maritime workers gathered around a posted Western Union telegram, probably announcing the end of the 98-day coast maritime strike which included longshoremen, cooks and stewards, firemen and sailors
A $50,000 Derby day at the Santa Anita racetrack on February 22, 1937. The crowd in attendance was estimated at 45,000 spectators. Twenty-three horses raced that day, beating out the Kentucky Derby's record of twenty-two starting horses at that time. The $50,000 purse was won by the horse Fairy Hill.
The children of William F. Gettle, millionaire and kidnapping victim, posing on tricycles for a photograph after their father's safe return. Circa May 15, 1934.William F. Gettle, Beverly Hills millionaire, was kidnapped from the grounds of his Arcadia ranch home during a housewarming party on the eve of May 9th. The kidnapping attracted a great deal of attention in the community, with Mrs. Gettle even addressing the kidnappers through the pages of the Los Angeles Times. The kidnappers demanded a $60,000 ransom for the return of Gettle, which Mrs. Gettle agreed to pay. However, before the ransom was paid, two detectives of the LAPD, Chester Burris and H.P. Gearhardt, broke the case after installing a dictaphone in the home of a bank robbery suspect. Information from the dictaphone led them to a La Crescenta home where Gettle was held. He was returned, unharmed, to his family on the eve of May 14th.
Young actress Ada Williams Ince, 21, divorces her husband of 5 years, William "W.T." Ince, on claims of abuse due to her husband's violent temper. Williams was granted the divorce in Superior Judge Edmond's court, and attributed it to the date of Friday the 13th, her "lucky number", contrary to popular convention.
LA Daily News city editor Charles Judson participates in a series demonstrating "right" and "wrong" golf swings with local pro golfer and golf instructor Fay Coleman. Judson represents the "wrong" form for each swing.
Man at work on 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.
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