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Ebell Club clubwomen pose while assembling boxes of candy, Los Angeles vicinity, 1936

Description:
At center, six Ebell Club clubwomen pose while gathered at the far end of a table. Trays of sliced candies and gift baskets sit on the table in front of them. The leftmost woman sits while holding a gift basket. She looks to the camera as she reaches for a candy from one of the trays. Behind and to the right of her, 4 more women stand at center. Three of them look towards camera. The rightmost standing woman holds a small gift box and looks down as she samples one of the candies. Another woman is seated at right. She looks down as she slices up the candy.
Date:
[circa February 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Ebell Club clubwomen pose while assembling boxes of candy, Los Angeles vicinity, 1936

Ebell Club clubwomen pack boxes of candy, Los Angeles vicinity, 1936

Description:
At center, five Ebell Club clubwomen stand in a row at the far end of a table. Trays of sliced candies and gift baskets sit on the table in front of them. The leftmost woman holds a basket filled with smaller gifts; she faces towards the right. The rest of the women stand facing towards her. Some hold baskets and some hold the small gift boxes.
Date:
[circa February 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Ebell Club clubwomen pack boxes of candy, Los Angeles vicinity, 1936

Ten-foot segment removed from Commercial Exchange Building, Los Angeles, between 1935-1936

Description:
n the mid-1930’s, the Commercial Exchange Building on Eighth and Olive Streets was re-sized to accommodate a street-widening project. A ten-foot segment was cut along the thirteen-story building, removed, and the two halves of the building pushed together. The job was supervised by Walker & Eisen and conducted by Kress House Moving Company.
Date:
[between 1935-1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Ten-foot segment removed from Commercial Exchange Building, Los Angeles, between 1935-1936

Mrs. Ellsworth (Grace) McGowan, vice president of the Wilshire Women's Club and member of the Breakfast Bridge Club, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
Mrs. Grace McGowan, wife of Ellsworth McGowan, sits on a tiled window bay ledge, legs crossed, holding a booklet. Also on the ledge are a variety of plants, mostly cacti and succulents, and a statue of two seated children.
Date:
[circa March 12, 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Mrs. Ellsworth (Grace) McGowan, vice president of the Wilshire Women's Club and member of the Breakfast Bridge Club, Los Angeles, 1936

Court Flight cable cars halted during repairs, as civic workers walk up the hill, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
Text from newspaper caption: Scores of Civic Center workers were forced to climb the 140 steps from Broadway to the Court-street area between First and Temple streets yesterday when the Court Flight cable cars were temporarily suspended to permit necessary repairs. The flight of 140 steps, 200 feet high, found Civic Center workers who had parked their cars on the hill laboriously making the ascent. The cable cars have been in service for thirty years. [“Workers forced to climb 200-foot hill,” Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 1936: 12]
Date:
September 19, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Court Flight cable cars halted during repairs, as civic workers walk up the hill, Los Angeles, 1936

Ray Pinker and Robert Seares examine a bullet hole in a coat, Los Angeles, 1929-1939

Description:
For nearly 40 years Ray Pinker worked for the Los Angeles Police Scientific Investigation Division, the first police forensic lab in the country. The Dragnet character "Raymond Pinker" was named after him. He worked on numerous famous cases, including the Black Dahlia case. Robert Seares would later become Pasadena's chief of police.
Date:
[between 1929-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Ray Pinker and Robert Seares examine a bullet hole in a coat, Los Angeles, 1929-1939

William E. Simpson, Buron Fitts, and Jerry Giesler at perjury trial, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
In January 1936, District Attorney Buron Fitts was charged with perjury regarding a 1931 testimony over the sale of a Claremont orange grove. Mrs. Berthall Gregory, Fitts’ sister, sold the grove to Lucien C. Wheeler. Fitts reportedly falsified the amount of money he received through the sale. He was prosecuted by Clyde C. Shoemaker and defended by Jerry Giesler, Joseph Scott, and William E. Scott with Winthrop O. Gordon as the attorney aid.
Date:
February 7, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
William E. Simpson, Buron Fitts, and Jerry Giesler at perjury trial, Los Angeles, 1936

Virginia Bruce Gilbert contemplates the attempted kidnapping of her child, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
Parts of the note she is holding can be read. It states, “…if Miss Bruce were in town. She asked…address and telephone number and also stated she was in….and miss Bruce is in great danger. Miss Hall asked…in regard to a child and she stated ‘Yes, in regard to…’…(referring to SUSIE ANN GILBERT, daughter of Miss Bruce)…Mr. Moore states that Miss Hall was given to believe that this warning of a kidnap attempt of Miss Bruce’s child, SUSIE ANN GILBERT”.
Date:
February 26, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Virginia Bruce Gilbert contemplates the attempted kidnapping of her child, Los Angeles, 1936

Recently recovered medal of Mildred Howell Lewis from her crowning as queen of the third Los Angeles Fiesta de las Flores in 1896, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
Mildred Howell Lewis was crowned queen of the third Los Angeles Fiesta de las Flores in 1896, but lost the medal that went along with the honor, until it was discovered recently by two blacksmiths shifting through ash heaps recently in Santa Ana.
Date:
April 1, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Recently recovered medal of Mildred Howell Lewis from her crowning as queen of the third Los Angeles Fiesta de las Flores in 1896, Los Angeles, 1936

Martha D. McKee, Anne Phillips, Mertie Aldrich Perkins, and Rena M. Haney, members of the West Ebell Club, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
Four women in floor length dresses stand in a line, facing left, in front of a fireplace: Martha D. McKee, Anne Phillips, Mertie Aldrich Perkins, and Rena M. Haney. Encased bookcases are on either side of the fireplace, under curtained windows. A mirror hangs above the fireplace.
Date:
[circa April 12, 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Martha D. McKee, Anne Phillips, Mertie Aldrich Perkins, and Rena M. Haney, members of the West Ebell Club, Los Angeles, 1936

Girl points to the Battle of La Mesa marker at the Los Angeles Union Stockyards, Los Angeles, [1926-1939]

Description:
The monument was erected 1926 by Native Sons of the Golden West, Historical Society of Southern California, Union Pacific Railroad and Los Angeles Union Stock Yards. (Marker Number 167.). The markers were later moved .to the intersection of Santa Fe Avenue and E. Vernon Avenue, on the right when traveling south on S. Santa Fe Avenue.
Date:
[1926-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Girl points to the Battle of La Mesa marker at the Los Angeles Union Stockyards, Los Angeles, [1926-1939]