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Description:: Group portrait of eleven pages serving at a convention of the Daughters of the American Revolution at the Biltmore Hotel.
Date:: March 11-13, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: W. H. Bowers and Olive Orr Brugen-Schmidt Bowers, married three just months, seated together at a court proceeding. Olive Bowers was accused of plotting with Elmer M. Archer to poison her husband. The plot was discovered when their conversations were overheard on a 2-party telephone line.
Date:: March, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Edward E. Sweeney (left) , former land and tax agent for the Southern California Gas Company, most likely when he was on trial for embezzlement, forgery, and grand theft. He is walking with two unidentified men. Reported in "BRIBERY MADE THEFT DEFENSE: E. E. Sweeney Says Money Went to Officials Missing $190,000 Purchased Favors, Court Told Gas Company Head Denied ex-Employee's Charges," Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 1928: A1.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Louise Peete was convicted on Feb. 5, 1921 of first-degree murder in the death of Jacob Denton. She served 18 years in San Quentin before being released. In 1945 she was convicted of a second murder, this time of Margaret Logan, a wealthy woman who had supported Peete while she was in prison. For the second murder she was given the death penalty, and in 1947 became the second woman to be executed in California.
Date:: [between 1920-1921]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Judge Edward Brand with a collie on his desk, perhaps for a movie contract approval
Date:: [between 1930-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Maurice Frank poses for a photograph with his coat in his arm.
Date:: [circa January, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Col. Robert A. Bringham was the manager of the National Military Home in West Los Angeles in 1935.
Date:: May 4, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Reported in “More than 300 D.A.R. members in convention to attack Russia recognition,” Los Angeles, 8 Mar. 1936: D12.
Date:: March 11-13, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: View of what appears to be a fallen bridge with wooden railings over the Los Angeles River during or after a violent rain storm. A group of men wearing high boots is next to the bridge.
Date:: February 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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