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Whalen Curio Store and other shops on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

Description:
At the center of the photograph is the Whalen Curio Store, which the store's awning advertises as selling Navajo Indian Blankets & Curios. To the right is the Michigan Misfit Clothing store. Above that store, windows on the 2nd floor advertise Doctor Alvarez, Physician.
Date:
[between 1930 and 1932]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Whalen Curio Store and other shops on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

View of the Los Angeles Public Library's Central Library under construction, Los Angeles, about 1925

Description:
West Fifth Street spans the width of the bottom edge and stretches back on an angle to the right. It is viewed from an elevated perspective. Automobiles and a street car travel along the street. On the far side of West 5th Street, cars park along the curb. Beyond, the incomplete Central Library of the Los Angeles Public Library rises. It is viewed at an angle from the side and faces towards West 5th. The grand building is surrounded by scaffolding. A tower rises from its near corner. On the ground surrounding it, chicken wire fencing lines the perimeter of the construction site. A small shack and piles of lumber sit in front and to the left of the building. Some construction workers are visible milling about the site.
Date:
[circa 1925]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
View of the Los Angeles Public Library's Central Library under construction, Los Angeles, about 1925

Victoria Hall Mission and other storefronts on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

Description:
Photograph of a number of storefronts on Spring Street between 1st and 2nd Streets in downtown Los Angeles. The most prominent sign visible is for the Victoria Hall Mission (also called simply Victoria Hall). Other signs indicate shops offering printing services, Manufacturing Opticians, California Olive & Honey, Navajo Indian Blankets [and Curios], and Whalen Curio [Store].
Date:
[between 1930 and 1932]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Victoria Hall Mission and other storefronts on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

Vendors wrap up flowers for customers at the flower market, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Two vendors stand in the foreground as they wrap flowers up for customers at the flower market. The vendor nearer to camera stands at left and looks down towards a stack of newspapers in front of him. Behind and to the right of him, another vendor wraps flowers in newsprint as he looks to the right. A large pile of cut flowers sits atop a table in the lower right corner. Beyond the vendors, a thick crowd of customers fills the rest of the market space.
Date:
[circa September, 1935]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Vendors wrap up flowers for customers at the flower market, Los Angeles, 1935

Throngs celebrate New Year's 1936 in the streets of downtown, Los Angeles, 1935 or 36

Description:
Hundreds of people stand in the streets of downtown Los Angeles as they celebrate the New Year. The crowd occupies the majority of the image and are viewed from a bird's'-eye perspective. A couple power lines pass over the crowd on an angle across the image. Streamers and confetti are visible throughout the crowd.
Date:
[between December 31, 1935 and January 1, 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Throngs celebrate New Year's 1936 in the streets of downtown, Los Angeles, 1935 or 36

Railway strikers and protesters obstruct street car traffic, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:
In November of 1934, members of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees confronted the Los Angeles Railway Corporation to contract with their union in support of wage increases ad to operate under union rules. A strike followed when the union was challenged and railway operations were halted or slowed down on a number of occasions. Members of the Los Angeles Railway Employees Association replaced strikers.
Date:
[November-December, 1934]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Railway strikers and protesters obstruct street car traffic, Los Angeles, 1934

Original Los Angeles County Courthouse with scaffolding, 1935

Description:
View from above of the original Los Angeles County Courthouse was built in 1891 on Poundcake Hill on the corner of Temple and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. The Victorian-style red sandstone building was declared unsafe after a 1933 earthquake, and demolished in 1936. Standing next to it was the Hall of Records.
Date:
1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Original Los Angeles County Courthouse with scaffolding, 1935

Officers S. F. Carter and J. V. Anderson pose with unclaimed items for sale at the semi-annual police auction, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:
From front to back, S. F. "Nick" Carter and J. V. Anderson, police officers, pose with unclaimed items up for auction at the semi-annual police auction. S. F. Carter sits in a wheelchair, off-center to the left. He plays a guitar and appears to sing. Directly behind him, J. V. Carter smiles to camera while holding onto a camera. Beside the officers, a large table enters frame at right and extends back towards center. It is cluttered with unclaimed property. Typewriters, vacuum cleaners, shoes, cameras, clocks and tennis rackets are some of the items that sit atop the table. Purses and a pair of ice skates hang above the table at right. Luggage sits in a stack beneath the table.
Date:
December 8, 1938
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Officers S. F. Carter and J. V. Anderson pose with unclaimed items for sale at the semi-annual police auction, Los Angeles, 1938