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Ground-level view of Navy Day commemoration at City Hall steps, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Ground-level view of Navy Day commemoration at City Hall steps outside 200 North Spring Street entrance. A stage and podium, built for speakers (such as Mayor Frank L. Shaw) and honored naval officials, can be seen. Patriotic decor frame the podium and surrounding exterior. Also in view, the column and arches which make up the facade to the Spring Street entrance of City Hall. Thousands of spectators surround the steps. The event celebrated the importance of American naval forces on Navy Day, October 27th, a day which commemorated the establishment of the American Navy in 1775. (Navy Day is no longer celebrated as it was absorbed into Armed Forces Day.)The 2000 spectators listened not only to notable speeches extolling the navy at City Hall, but also witnessed a band concert and the aerial feats of naval airplanes flying overhead. Commemorations also occured in Los Angeles Harbor, Long Beach Naval Reserve Airport, and elsewhere in the Southland.
Date:
October 28, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Ground-level view of Navy Day commemoration at City Hall steps, Los Angeles, 1935

Detectives Thad Brown and George Hill and another man investigate Fred La Mar's accidental fall at the Hotel Rosslyn, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Photograph of Detective Lieutenants Thad Brown and George Hill looking out of a window and down a light well at the Rosslyn Hotel annex. Another man (L) reaches a leg out of a facing window, reenacting the actions of Fred La Mar, who fell while executing a similar move.
Date:
August 12, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Detectives Thad Brown and George Hill and another man investigate Fred La Mar's accidental fall at the Hotel Rosslyn, Los Angeles, 1935

Lorado Taft at the groundbreaking for a museum of sculpture in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:
Sculptor Lorado Taft has chosen one of the hilltops of Griffith Park to plant a museum of sculpture and architecture that will be completed at an estimated cost of $1,000,000. The only two who accompanied him were author Hamlin Garland and directing head of the Los Angeles Museum of Art Clarence B. Mitchell.
Date:
February 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Lorado Taft at the groundbreaking for a museum of sculpture in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1934

Dr. John L. C. Griffin gives babies a health test for movie auditions, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Dr. John L.C. Griffin gives babies a health screening, a preliminary step for movie auditions. From left to right: Mildred Feldman and Iris Joanne Feldman; Mrs. Steve Hopkins and Howard Hopkins; Eleanor Boadt and Stephen R. Boadt; Mrs. Louis Shalitt and Philip Myron Shalitt; Marie M. Grivel and Leon Robert Grivel; Mrs. Dora Milstein and Irving Louis Hayman, her grandson; Dr. Griffin. The babies are seated and standing on a table covered in blankets and all adults stand behind them.
Date:
December 19, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Dr. John L. C. Griffin gives babies a health test for movie auditions, Los Angeles, 1935

Street car accident aftermath, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:
A similar photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, February 9, 1937, Eight Persons Injured When Street Car Runs Wild on First Street Grade. … brakes on the street car failed to work as it descended steep First-street slope west of Hill street. … Eight persons were injured as the heavy vehicle smashed through the barrier at bottom of hill, careened across busy thoroughfare, crushed a small brick restaurant on the corner, mangled two automobiles and half tipped over against another light pole before stopping. …
Date:
February 8, 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Street car accident aftermath, Los Angeles, 1937

Mabel V. Socha, Agnes Fredericks, and Artie W. Burtnett standing at luncheon table, Los Angeles, 1933

Description:
Possibly connected to Los Angeles Times article, August 17, 1933, Bel-Air Fete to Raise Fund to Beautify City. …The meeting was called by Mrs. John D. Fredericks, president of the Women’s Service Auxiliary of the [C]hamber [of Commerce] … sponsored by the vacant lots and parkways section of the chamber’s civic beautification committee, of which Mrs. Gerald B. Burtnett is chairman … Features of the fete will include … a buffet lunch at noon … Mayor Shaw and the City Park Commission, of which Mrs. Max Socha is president, have offered their assistance
Date:
1933
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Mabel V. Socha, Agnes Fredericks, and Artie W. Burtnett standing at luncheon table, Los Angeles, 1933

Buildings awaiting demolition near the Doheny Library, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
A similar photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, April 30, 1935, Helping Neighbor Bid Campus Good-by, Trojans Act as Movers, Grid Players and Co-eds Help Woman to Vacate Condemned Property. Trojan football players and campus co-eds gathered around to lend assistance as Mrs. Nancy Robbins moved her residence and soda fountain from a corner of the Doheny Memorial Library grounds at the University of Southern California.
Date:
1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Buildings awaiting demolition near the Doheny Library, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1935

Dr. Frank W. Emerson and veterans during Memorial Day cemermonies, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:
Dr. Frank W. Emerson and two Veterans stand in front of the Private Herman W. Hils memorial in Pershing Square for Memorial Day ceremonies, May 30, 1940. Two garlands honor the fallen soldier who was of the 7th California Volunteer Infantry from Theodore Roosevelt Camp No.9. Memorial reads, "Private Herman W Hils Co. D. Died Dec. 4, 1898." A crowd is visible in the background.
Date:
May 30, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Dr. Frank W. Emerson and veterans during Memorial Day cemermonies, Los Angeles, 1940