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.