Resource Type: still image / Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives / Subject: Governors--American--California - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: 28th Governor of California Frank Finley Merriam (back right) and actress/musician/politician Adele Arbo (back left) with five young women, presumably participants in a beauty contest. Contestants include (left to right); Sibyl D. Slinkard, Betty Meguire, Laura Kerr, Marjorie Owens, and Helen Gilbert. Photo may possibly have been taken at the San Bernadino Orange Show. Dates given for the photo are based on the dates of Merriam's tenure as Governor.
Date:: between June 2, 1934 and January 2, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Group portrait of former mayors George E. Cryer, John C. Porter, W.D. Stephens, Meredith P. Snyder, and F.T. Woodman, gathered to support Republican gubernatorial candidate Frank F. Merriam. George Edward Cryer served as mayor from 1921-1929. John Clinton Porter served as mayor from 1929-1933. William Dennison Stephens served as mayor from 1909 and Governor of California from 1917-1923. Meredith Pinxton Snyder served as mayor in 1897-1898, 1900-1904, and 1919-1921. Frederick Thomas Woodman served as mayor from 1916-1919.
Date:: October 19, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mayor Shaw and Governor Merriam pose together in front of a crowd. Frank Finley Merriam served as the 28th Governor of California from June 2, 1934 until January 2, 1939. Frank L Shaw was Mayor of Los Angeles from 1933 to September 16, 1938.
Date:: between 1933-1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Governor Frank Finley Merriam poses next to a copy of the United States Constitution. Frank Finley Merriam served as the 28th Governor of California from June 2, 1934 until January 2, 1939.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas, visiting Los Angeles during his campaign for President during the 1936 election. Landon was the Republican candidate against Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was running for re-election. Landon was defeated by a landslide.
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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