Language: Spanish / Resource Type: still image / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: An open page from book "Libro de Matrimonio," a record of marriage licenses issued between 1850-1854 in Los Angeles County. The book was discovered in the Los Angeles Courthouse
Date:: October 28, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of participants in the Olvera Street memorial service for Los Angeles Times columnist Harry Carr, beneath a striped canvas awning with mourners beneath umbrellas further back. The Chito Montoya stringed orchestra plays in the foreground and singers face a microphone (for radio KMTR), in the center. It is draped with a black wreath and black-rimmed photograph of Mr. Carr bearing the farewell "Vaya Va Con Dios." Ernesto A. Romero, Vice-Culsul for Mexico in Los Angeles, wears a trench coat and glasses (right). In front of him in a black lace veil and holding a sheet of music is Consuela de Bonzo, a Mexican community leader (owner of the restaurant Casa La Golondrina at 17 Olvera St.).
Date:: January 11, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Mexican First Baptist Church building in Belvedere Gardens, East Los Angeles. It is at a corner of an intersection. An unidentified man is walking on the sidewalk on the right of the picture. Residential houses are on either side of the church.
Date:: [circa January 22, 1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: This photograph is likely related to the article, "Coast Need in Defense Plans Cited," Los Angeles, Times, 3 Jan 1936: 15.
Date:: January 2, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Chief Marriage License Deputy, Rosamond Rice, with the book "Libro de Matrimonio," a record of marriage licenses issued within 1850-1854 in Los Angeles County. The book was found in the Los Angeles Courthouse.
Date:: October 28, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Referenced in more recent article, "Dusting Off the Pages From California's Past," [Los Angeles Times, September 28, 1983]. There is no related article from photograph's time period. This more recent column references the image's subject as part of the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of historical documents. The printed document in the photograph is an original decree establishing Los Angeles as the new capital of the Mexican territory of Alta California. It is signed by then Secretary of the State, Jose Maria Gutierrez de Estrada, on behalf of the interim president of Mexico, Miguel Barragan. The names of other persons, printed in the decree, include: Basilio Arillaga, Deputy President; Antonio Pacheco Leal, President of the Senate; Demetrio del Castillo, Deputy Secretary; and Manuel Miranda, Secretary of the Senate. It is dated May 23, 1935.
Date:: October 7, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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