Location: Pasadena (Calif.) / Date: 1935 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: The theme of the 1935 forty-sixth annual Rose Parade was "Golden Legends."
Date:: January 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Electrical clocks are maintained by power generators at the plant that create greater accuracy.
Date:: September 4, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The "Enchanted Lands" float features a large floral replica of the California Building (a Spanish Colonial building designed for the by architect Bertram Goodhue for the 1915-1917 Panama–California Exposition held in San Diego to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal) with a bell tower and dome reproduced with yellow, white and bronze chrysanthemums. A sign on the side of the float reads "San Diego, World Exposition City, 1935." On the visible corners of the float are float riders in costume with decorations featuring (L to R) a Spanish-American mission, a Chinese bridge, and a South Seas palm. The Goodhue Flagpole at the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd. is visible behind the float.
Date:: January 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Socialites Elsie Kellogg, Jean Kennedy, and Elinor Jordan, sit atop a low-level diving board of a swimming pool at The Huntington Hotel (now The Langham Huntington Hotel). Kellogg wears a dress while Kennedy and Jordan don skirts and blouses. In the background, the rest of the pool, pool chairs, and shrubbery can be seen. The wealthy Kellogg family was visiting from Chicago and stayed in Pasadena, where they passed the time with the locals. Kellogg's profile image in the related article comes from this photograph. Kellogg was incorrectly captioned as "Kennedy" on the negative sleeve. The article also incorrectly names Elinor Jordan as "Eleanor."
Date:: October 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: When Mrs. Wedemeyer's German bullfinch laid her first batch of eggs they survived even though the mother abandoned the nest. But when she laid more eggs and stopped sitting on them Mrs. Wedemeyer brought in a female canary to do the job for the bullfinch.
Date:: September 13, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Duchess of Northumberland’s name is Helen Percy, and her maiden name was Helen Magdalan Gordon-Lennox. Her daughter Lady Elizabeth Percy became Elizabeth Douglas-Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon after marriage, and her daughter Lady Diana Percy became Diana Evelyn Egerton, Duchess of Sutherland after marriage.
Date:: January 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Music's New Marvels Revealed in Pasadena," Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr 1935: 12.
Date:: April 16, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Possibly related to the article, "War Linked to Weather: Gen. Allison, at Pasadena, Says Victories May Rest With Forecasts," Los Angeles Times, 1 May 1935: 8.
Date:: [circa April 20, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Noted meteorologist Carl-Gustaf Rossby poses for a close-up portrait.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with the article White, Stella R., "Amazing Experiments Made on Sea Creatures," Los Angeles Times, 30 Jul. 1935: A5
Date:: July 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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