This photograph appears with the article, "'Make Gateways to Los Angeles Beautiful!': Civic Beauty Drive Urged: More Than 100 Leaders Go to Van Nuys Conference and Hear Plans Outlined," Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 1936: 6.
A man climbs on top of a horse drawn wagon filled with boxes with another man standing next to the wagon. On the right, a man is on a ladder installing the top of a lamp post while another man hands him a globe. Van Nuys was founded in 1911 and annexed to Los Angeles in 1915.
Alice Pedersen Orcutt (Mrs. John Logan Orcutt) at a luncheon sponsored by the Civic Beautification Committee. Mrs. Orcutt was a speaker at the event. She stands in front a window and wears a fur stole, a hat, and gloves.
Cars and people on a street in front of a commercial manufacturing building. There are many cars, rows of planted trees, and a train track running down the middle of the street. Five American flags are suspended above the street.
Colleen Fitzgerald rides an ox, while Marian Waddell stands next to her. Both girls wear bows in their hair. The ox was a part of Ken Maynard's circus.
Father, Harley S. Harris, was killed, while mother was among injured after a Standard Airlines C-46 crashed in the Santa Susanna Mountains near Simi Valley and Chatsworth.