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20 Mule Team borax wagons, Pasadena, [1920-1939?]

Description:
3 borax wagons, with man and palm trees in foreground, mountains in background, and sign reading "Throop Co. materials and feed" partially visible behind wagons. 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
20 Mule Team borax wagons, Pasadena, [1920-1939?]

1835 Mexican decree establishing Los Angeles as capital of Alta California, Los Angeles, 1935

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 This more recent column references the image's subject as part of the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of historical documents.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
1835 Mexican decree establishing Los Angeles as capital of Alta California, Los Angeles, 1935

Actor in costume as a centurion standing outside the tomb of Christ in a Sunday Players program, circa 1935

Description:
Actor in a Roman centurion costume standing outside the tomb of Christ in a biblical scene from a Sunday Players program. The image is a photographic collage. The Sunday Players originated in Colorado Springs before their program garnered national attention and received a three-year contract from Merten's and Price, Inc., of Los Angeles.
Date:
[circa 1935]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Actor in costume as a centurion standing outside the tomb of Christ in a Sunday Players program, circa 1935