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Large tent for the relief effort following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam and resulting flood, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Large tent for the relief effort following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam and resulting flood, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Dr. A. L. Skoog, assistant jailer Roy Bogle, and defense attorney Jerome Walsh, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:
Photograph of Dr. A. L. Skoog, defense psychiatrist from Kansas City, Missouri; assistant jailer Roy Bogle, and defense attorney Jerome Walsh (also of Kansas City), photographed during the trial of William Edward Hickman, who confessed to the kidnap and murder 12-year-old Marion Parker in December of 1927.
Date:
1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Dr. A. L. Skoog, assistant jailer Roy Bogle, and defense attorney Jerome Walsh, Los Angeles, 1928

British journalist Sir Charles Igglesden with physicist Dr. Robert A. Millikan at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 1928

Description:
British journalist Sir Charles Igglesden shakes the hand of physicist Dr. Robert A. Millikan at California Institute of Technology. Dr. Millikan provided a tour of the laboratories at the institute to Sir Charles Igglesden and thirteen other British journalists who traveled through the United States on a trip sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace. Related to the article "British Journalists Spend Busy Day Being Welcomed and Visiting City's Places of Interest: EDITORS LIKE OUR SUNSHINE," Los Angeles Times, 02 Nov. 1928: A1.
Date:
November 1, 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
British journalist Sir Charles Igglesden with physicist Dr. Robert A. Millikan at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 1928

Otis Art Institute students holding posters that they created for the California Botanic Garden, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:
Photograph of 8 Otis Art Institute students holding posters designed to promote attendance at the California Botanic Garden with award winner Benji Okubo on the left. Each poster has an illustration of trees or plants with the caption "Visit The California Botanic Garden." The students are standing on a lawn in front of a stand of palm and other trees at the Otis Art Institute, then located at 2401 Wilshire Blvd.
Date:
March 15, 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Otis Art Institute students holding posters that they created for the California Botanic Garden, Los Angeles, 1928

Millicent Sunday seated in a chair in a park or yard, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:
Portrait photograph of Millicent Sunday at the time that she was sued for alienation of affection by Olive Day. Ms. Sunday is seated on a chair in a garden or yard. She was the ex-wife of Billy Sunday, Jr., the son of evangelist Billy Sunday. Reported, with a different photograph taken the same day, in "DAMAGES ASKED OF MRS. SUNDAY: Alienation of George E. Day's Affections Charged Woman Seeks $50,000 in Suit Filed Yesterday Defendant Was Evangelist's Daughter-in-Law," Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 1928: B6.
Date:
January 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Millicent Sunday seated in a chair in a park or yard, Los Angeles, 1928

Disaster recovery workers seated on a pickup truck after the failure of the Saint Francis Dam and resulting flood, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Description:
Group portrait of about 24 disaster recovery workers seated on and standing next to a pickup truck after the failure of the Saint Francis Dam and resulting flood. The workers appear to be in a park with large trees shading wooden picnic tables with attached benches. A plank spanning a truck fender and picnic table and tools on the ground suggest that the men are engaged in construction or repair work. A painted sign in the door of the truck reads "...ople's...[Lum]ber Co. ...nta Paula." Santa Paula was one of the communities in the path of the flood. Beyond the park there is a metal rail fence, a street and a building across the street.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Disaster recovery workers seated on a pickup truck after the failure of the Saint Francis Dam and resulting flood, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Women cooking tortillas and other food at a relief camp after the flood resulting from the Saint Francis Dam failure, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Women cooking tortillas and other food at a relief camp after the flood resulting from the Saint Francis Dam failure, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Film actress Fritzi Ridgeway with prosecutors John M. Concannon and William V. Krowl, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:
Film actress Fritzi Ridgeway meets with Chief Deputy City Prosecutor John M. Concannon (left) and Assistant Prosecutor William V. Krowl to prepare disturbing-the-peace complaints. Seven individuals were charged with breaking into Fritzi Ridgeway's home to throw a party. A similar photograph appears with the article "COURT SIGNS CABIN-RAID CASE WRITS: Five Men and Two Women Charged With Breaking in House to Hold Gin Party," Los Angeles Times, 05 May 1928: A5.
Date:
May 4, 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Film actress Fritzi Ridgeway with prosecutors John M. Concannon and William V. Krowl, Los Angeles, 1928

C. B. D. Collyer, Allan Lockheed and Harry Tucker at Mines Field after a transcontinental flight, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:
Captain C. B. D. Collyer and Harry Tucker (right), who flew the Yankee Doodle monoplane on the second transcontinental flight, holding telegrams of congratulations. With them is Alan Lockheed (2nd from right) who designed the Lockheed Vega monoplane that was flown, and other unidentified people. They are at Mines Field on the day that Collyer and Tucker completed the flight.
Date:
October 25, 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
C. B. D. Collyer, Allan Lockheed and Harry Tucker at Mines Field after a transcontinental flight, Los Angeles, 1928

Portrait of Ina Branson and Helen Seelye, witnesses at Hickman kidnapping case, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:
This is a portrait of Ina Branson and Helen Seelye, both of whom testified at the William E. Hickman kidnapping trial in 1928. Both Western Union employees, Helen Seelye identified one of the two telegrams sent to Marion Parker's father; and Ina Branson identified Hickman as the man who sent the kidnap telegrams.
Date:
1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Portrait of Ina Branson and Helen Seelye, witnesses at Hickman kidnapping case, Los Angeles, 1928

Los Angeles Times feature editorial writer, S. Fred Hogue, Los Angeles, [1920-1939]

Description:
Photograph of S. Fred Hogue, feature editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times. An expert in art, international affairs, history and modern problems, Mr. Hogue was with the Times from 1914 to his death in 1941. He was also one of 12 reporters chosen to be a part of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Date:
[bBetween 1920-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Los Angeles Times feature editorial writer, S. Fred Hogue, Los Angeles, [1920-1939]

Children in a flood relief clinic following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Description:
View of 2 nurses and a Red Cross volunteer aiding 3 young children and a baby in a clinic that was set up to care for people who survived the flood following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam. The nurses and volunteers are in a large room, seated on beds tending the children and infant. The room is divided into section s by curtains and there are 2 cribs in the background.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Children in a flood relief clinic following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Bells at Rancho Camulos, near Piru

Description:
The ranch was included in the 48,612-acre Rancho San Francisco granted to Antonio del Valle, administrator of Mission San Fernando, by Governor Juan B. Alvarado on January 22, 1839, after the secularization of the missions. The rancho remained in the del Valle family until it was sold in 1924.
Date:
[between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Bells at Rancho Camulos, near Piru

Crowds near the Courthouse during the Hickman kidnapping and murder trial, Los Angeles, 1927 or 28

Description:
Crowds of men and women line pathways adjacent to the Los Angeles County Courthouse (stairs and walkway seen in foreground) during the arraignment or trial of William Edward Hickman, kidnapper and murderer of Marion Parker, age 12. Also present in the photo are lines of parked and moving vehicles. The vehicle at foreground left has a driver at the wheel. The acronym "L.A.F.D" is printed on the driver's side door.
Date:
[1927-1928]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Crowds near the Courthouse during the Hickman kidnapping and murder trial, Los Angeles, 1927 or 28

Aerial view of the coastline where flood waters from St. Francis Dam break reached the Pacific Ocean, Montalvo (Ventura vicinity), 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Aerial view of the coastline where flood waters from St. Francis Dam break reached the Pacific Ocean, Montalvo (Ventura vicinity), 1928

Outdoor funeral service at a burial site after the collapse of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Outdoor funeral service at a burial site after the collapse of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Tent village set up after the flooding caused by the collapse of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Tent village set up after the flooding caused by the collapse of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Portrait of Olympic diver Dorothy Poynton, Los Angeles, circa 1928

Description:
Swimmer Dorothy Poynton smiles at the camera while sitting on a desk with her hands on her lap. Dorothy Poynton-Hill was an American diver who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics, in the 1932 Summer Olympics, and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1928 she won the silver medal in the 3 meter springboard competition. Four years later she won the gold medal in the 10 meter platform event. In 1936 she won the gold medal in the 10 metre platform competition as well as the bronze medal in the 3 meter springboard event.
Date:
[circa June 1928]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Portrait of Olympic diver Dorothy Poynton, Los Angeles, circa 1928

Bishop Charles Reifsnider, 1928

Description:
Charles Reifsnider was a the Episcopal Suffragan Bishop of North Tokyo from 1924 to 1935, and the Bishop in charge of new diocesan work of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Japan from 1942 to 1946. He was also president of St. Paul University in Tokyo from 1912 to 1941; director of St. Luke's Hospital, Tokyo, from 1935 to 1941 and president of St. Margaret's College of Tokyo from 1935 to 1941.
Date:
1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Bishop Charles Reifsnider, 1928

Sheriffs searching spectators at the courthouse during the Hickman kidnap and murder trial, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:
Photograph of men being searched by sheriffs during the trial of William Edward Hickman, who kidnapped and murdered 12-year-old Marion Parker in December of 1927. The men were photographed in a room or partitioned area at the Los Angeles courthouse. The man kneeling at right is Deputy Sheriff M. G. Weybright.
Date:
1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Sheriffs searching spectators at the courthouse during the Hickman kidnap and murder trial, Los Angeles, 1928

Flooded residential area after heavy rains, Culver City, 1920s

Description:
View of two houses and a wooden commercial building in a flooded area after heavy rain. A sign on the commercial building reads "The Mesmer City Corporation, LTD." Two other signs read "Oil Information Here" and, seen in reverse, "Full Oil Rights." Mesmer City was a promotional idea for a city in the area between Culver City, Inglewood and Marina del Rey. It was never developed.
Date:
[1920-1929]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Flooded residential area after heavy rains, Culver City, 1920s

Throngs seeking to identify victims in a temporary morgue after the failure of the Saint Francis Dam and resulting flood, Newhall (Calif.), 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
March 14, 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Throngs seeking to identify victims in a temporary morgue after the failure of the Saint Francis Dam and resulting flood, Newhall (Calif.), 1928

Three geologists and/or civil engineers examine an engineering drawing shortly after the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, [San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.) ?], 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Three geologists and/or civil engineers examine an engineering drawing shortly after the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, [San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.) ?], 1928

Remaining dike wing and the canyon area behind the failed Saint Francis Dam, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Remaining dike wing and the canyon area behind the failed Saint Francis Dam, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Press release describing image of Major General Fechet at the National Aeronautical Exposition, 1928

Description:
Press release: Ch[eck Your] Credit*, "P & A Photos" 5011 (Los Angeles Bureau). Air Commander See Finish of Trans-Continental Race. Major General James E. Fechet, Chief of the Army Air Service arrived in Los Angles in time to see the finish of the Trans-Continental non stop flight, as the feature event of the National Aeronautical Exposition. Gen. Fechet said that an investigation would be made into the accident at Mines Field, in which Lt. J. J. Williams of the Army's "Three Musketeers" was fatally injured while stunting. Photo shows Major General James E. Fechet. (LA-FM 3) 9/13/28. [describes image ark no. 21198/zz002dd7g2]
Date:
September 13, 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Press release describing image of Major General Fechet at the National Aeronautical Exposition, 1928

Press release announcing the completion of the second transcontinental flight, 1928

Description:
Press release text: East west non stop record set. Establishing an east-to-west transcontinental nonstop flight record of 24 hours and 52 minutes, the monoplane Yankee Doodle landed at Mines Field, Los Angeles, today. The previous record of 26 hours and 50 minutes set by Lts. John A. MacReady and Oakley Kelly in 1923 was lowered by nearly two hours in the flight. The fliers, Harry Tucker, millionaire sportsman and Capt. C. B. D. Collyer of 'round-the-world' fame, landed a little more that an hour after the time estimated for the journey. The monoplane used in this flight was also used by Art Goebel in his attempted non-stop flight during the National Aeronautical Show held in Los Angeles recently...
Date:
October 25, 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Press release announcing the completion of the second transcontinental flight, 1928

Bridge under reconstruction after the flood following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Bridge under reconstruction after the flood following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

John Kuck competing in shot put at the Coliseum, Los Angeles, circa 1928-1930

Description:
John Henry Kuck was an American athlete who won a gold medal in the shot put at the 1928 Summer Olympics setting a new world record at 15.87 m. Before the Olympics, as a student at Kansas State Teachers College (Emporia State University) he was the 1926 national collegiate champion and world record holder in both the shot put and javelin.
Date:
[circa 1928-1930]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
John Kuck competing in shot put at the Coliseum, Los Angeles, circa 1928-1930