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Description:: Photograph of a 1909 Oldsmobile Limited being driven on a street. The driver is a man wearing a shirt, jacket, pants and flat cap. He is seated behind a steering wheel that is situated on the right side of the vehicle. The luxury auto has a large wheel base and rides on massive spoke wheels. The tall chassis requires two running boards to climb into the car. A spare tire rests atop the lower running board and is attached to the driver side door with metal bars and straps. All trim, lantern side lights and headlights are probably brass (standard for this vehicle). License plate frame reads: “C. Stanlee Martin Long Beach.” License plate reads: “California World’s Fair 39 3Y954.” In the background, an electricity tower sits at the edge of a vacant lot, giving way to what looks like a residential neighborhood in the distance. Location unidentified, but possibly Long Beach (where the car’s owner worked and lived).
Date:: February 2, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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 This more recent column references the image's subject as part of the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of historical documents.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

Description:: The 20-ton, 200-inch lens for what would be the Hale Telescope after its arrival in Pasadena, CA, following a cross-country rail trip from Corning, NY. The giant waffle-patterned lens was made from Pyrex, then a new material, by the Corning Glass Works company. Astronomer George Ellery Hale, one of the founders of the California Institute of Technology, secured a $6 million grant from the Rockefeller Institute to build both an observatory and a telescope with a 200-inch primary mirror, to be administered through Cal Tech. Hale built his observatory on Mt. Palomar in San Diego County, 90 miles southeast from the Mt. Wilson observatory in Pasadena, which Hale had also founded in 1904. Construction of the Hale telescope was delayed by World War II, and the telescope did not see its first light until January 26, 1949. George Hale died in 1938, and thus did not see the telescope that bears his name completed.
Date:: [circa April 10, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The theme of the 1936 forty-seventh annual Rose Parade was "History in Flowers."
Date:: January 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, Bill
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the "100% American," designed by Antelope valley high school students around the theme of the melting pot. Seated in a bed of flowers are girls of 4 countries: Holland, Russia, Japan and the United States. Perched on the throne is Georgia Graves as the Goddess of Liberty.
Date:: January 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Different photographs taken on the same occasion appear with the article, “Last-Minute Trojan Pass Wins 7 to 3,” Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan 1939: 1.
Date:: January 2, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Spectators stand on the bleachers and look down at the students walking in a circle around the amphitheater, wearing their black caps and gowns.
Date:: June 13, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 3 borax wagons, with palm tree in foreground and man at right. Signs on 2 wagons read: "20-Mule Team Borax" and "The original 20 Mule Team wagons, used for hauling BORAX out of Death Valley for the Pacific Coast Borax Co."
Date:: [1920-1939?]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: 3 borax wagons, with palm tree in foreground and passenger train visible behind. Signs on 2 wagons read: "20-Mule Team Borax" and "The original 20 Mule Team wagons, used for hauling BORAX out of Death Valley for the Pacific Coast Borax Co."
Date:: [1920-1939?]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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