Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Names: Shaw, Frank L., 1877-1958 / Subject: Arts - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Trees are planted to honor Los Angeles's patron of music, and as part of a ceremony marking the end of a series of concerts by the Los Angeles Philharmonic as led by conductor Otto Klemperer. The trees planted were nine eugenia trees, planted in a semi-circle around the statue of Beethoven in Pershing Square, as a represtentation of his Ninth Symphony.Pictured from left to right are Klemperer, Mayor Shaw, and John Smallman, founder of the Smallman Oratorio Society.
Date:: April 20, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Trees are planted to honor Los Angeles's patron of music, and as part of a ceremony marking the end of a series of concerts by the Los Angeles Philharmonic as led by conductor Otto Klemperer. The trees planted were nine eugenia trees, planted in a semi-circle around the statue of Beethoven in Pershing Square, as a represtentation of his Ninth Symphony.Pictured from left to right are Klemperer, Mayor Shaw, and John Smallman, founder of the Smallman Oratorio Society.
Date:: April 20, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mayor Frank Shaw, in dark suit and tie, Kenneth Milton, in light suit and tie, holding harmonica in box, and Manuel Martinez and Herman Bower, both in dirty pants and shirts, Bower barefoot, standing in mayor's office
Date:: June 27, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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