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Description:: Watch and chain with the gears visible through its glass case at the Brock & Company jewelry and gift store. The hours of the day are inscribed on a metal border bezel.
Date Created:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Description:: Portrait photograph of Lee Jennings wearing a suit and seated on a bench with one foot pulled up on the bench with his hands crossed over his knee. He holds a cigarette in his left hand.
Date Created:: 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Description:: Half-length portrait photograph of William Conselman wearing a striped button-down shirt and patterned necktie and seated on a wooden chair with one arm draped over the back. Probably in Will Connell's studio.
Date Created:: 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Description:: Stanley Reckless was born Stanley Zbytniewski. In 1913 he enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), studied under Daniel Garber. In 1915, 1916 he was awarded 2 Cresson Traveling Scholarships, and traveled to Paris, enrolling briefly at the Academie Julian. In 1920 he moved to Lumberville, Pennsylvania and started exhibiting at PAFA, the National Academy of Design, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. In 1924 he settled in New Hope, Pennsylvania, where he painted the landscape and shared a studio with Charles Hargens. In 1930 he moved to California where he painted portraits of members of the film industry. He co-founded the Art Center School in Los Angeles.
Date Created:: 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Description:: Bertha Mann was a stage actress who appeared in at least one silent film. She married silent movie comedian Raymond Griffith in 1928.
Date Created:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Description:: Jacob Asanger immigrated to the United States from Bavaria in the late 1800's and settled in Los Angeles. He studied at the Los Angeles School of Art and Design and became a landscape painter, poster artist, etcher, craftsman and art teacher
Date Created:: 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Description:: Nine diamond band rings of differing designs at the Brock & Company jewelry and gift store.
Date Created:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Description:: William Marien Conselman was an American screenwriter who also wrote newspaper comic strips.
Date Created:: 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Description:: Photograph of Stanley Reckless standing in front of a painting on an easel in his studio, looking towards his wife (?) seated in a chair with a cat
Date Created:: 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Description:: View of five women in an assembly line filling 5-gallon bottles of drinking water at the Arrowhead-Puritas plant. The women are dressed in light-colored uniforms and hats.
Date Created:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

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