Vintage advertisements posted online for Mission Dry Sparkling beverages showing these bottle labels date to 1930 and identify the California Crushed Fruit Corporation as the manufacturer.
View of a man in a lab coat facing away holding up a pencil. Next to him are a chair and promotional literature about Adohr milk, titled "Don't make this mistake about milk! Adohr...More first awards for quality and purity than all other brands combined." The promotional material includes a drawing of 2 women standing in front of 2 giant bottles of milk with a trophy in the background.
View of a Spanish style room at the Pierce Brothers Mortuary, located at 720 W. Washington, with a painted wooden beam ceiling, 2 hanging iron chandeliers, weathered walls, velvet upholstered sofa and chair, cabinets, and a painting on the wall.
Office at the Pierce Brothers Mortuary, located at 720 W. Washington, furnished with a desk, upholstered chairs and small tables. The walls have wood paneling.
Exterior view of the Pierce Brothers Mortuary located at 720 W. Washington. On the left are 2 planting beds framed by clipped hedges and a palm tree is at the street curb.
Brock & Company Jewelers was the most important jewelry and giftware store in Los Angeles. Founded by George A. Brock in 1903, it was sold in 1964 and the business ended s few years later. It was located at 515 West Seventh St. and had a 2nd location at the Beverly-Wilshire Hotel.
Brock & Company Jewelers was the most important jewelry and giftware store in Los Angeles. Founded by George A. Brock in 1903, it was sold in 1964 and the business ended s few years later. It was located at 515 West Seventh St. and had a 2nd location at the Beverly-Wilshire Hotel
Brock & Company Jewelers was the most important jewelry and giftware store in Los Angeles. Founded by George A. Brock in 1903, it was sold in 1964 and the business ended s few years later. It was located at 515 West Seventh St. and had a 2nd location at the Beverly-Wilshire Hotel.
Brock & Company Jewelers was the most important jewelry and giftware store in Los Angeles. Founded by George A. Brock in 1903, it was sold in 1964 and the business ended s few years later. It was located at 515 West Seventh St. and had a 2nd location at the Beverly-Wilshire Hotel
Brock & Company Jewelers was the most important jewelry and giftware store in Los Angeles. Founded by George A. Brock in 1903, it was sold in 1964 and the business ended s few years later. It was located at 515 West Seventh St. and had a 2nd location at the Beverly-Wilshire Hotel.
Interior view of "Irene LTD," a dress shop of designer Irene Lentz Gibbons, with art deco style furnishings including an upholstered chair, an x-back chair with a upholstered seat, a wood paneled cabinet, the walls decorated with two framed fashion illustrations and two sconces. There is an elaborate paneled wooden door and the floor is covered in carpet with a design formed by thin rectangles.
Interior view of "Irene LTD," a dress shop of designer Irene Lentz Gibbons, with art deco interior decoration including dark paneled walls with light, narrow horizontal bands, a sconce, and a narrow wall mirror behind a low mirror-topped table with small wooden sculpture of a woman. The floor is covered with a curvilinear design, perhaps formed by inlaid wood.
Interior view of "Irene LTD," a dress shop of designer Irene Lentz Gibbons, with art deco style furnishings including two x-back chairs with upholstered seats framing a curtained doorway, a round wall mirror. The floor is covered in carpet with a design formed by thin rectangles. A room with a wall covered in striped panels is visible beyond.
Interior view of "Irene LTD," a dress shop of designer Irene Lentz Gibbons, with art deco style furnishings including an upholstered chair, a wood paneled cabinet, the walls decorated with a sconce, a bas-relief sculpture of a woman's head and two framed fashion illustrations.
Interior view of "Irene LTD," a fitting room in a dress shop of designer Irene Lentz Gibbons, with art deco style furnishings including an x-back chair with an upholstered seat and foot stool and a large wall mirror illuminated by a sconce.
Photograph of a bedroom with 2 dormer windows, and furnished with twin beds, 2 upholstered chairs arranged in front of a fireplace and 2 bookcases built into the wall. Possibly designed by Jacob (Jock) Detlof Peters or J. R. Davidson.
Interior view of "Irene LTD," a dress shop of designer Irene Lentz Gibbons, with art deco style furnishings including an upholstered bench, the walls decorated with three framed fashion illustrations and and an overhead light fixture.
Stanley Reckless was born Stanley Zbytniewski. In 1913 he enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), studied under Daniel Garber. In 1915, 1916 he was awarded 2 Cresson Traveling Scholarships, and traveled to Paris, enrolling briefly at the Academie Julian. In 1920 he moved to Lumberville, Pennsylvania and started exhibiting at PAFA, the National Academy of Design, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. In 1924 he settled in New Hope, Pennsylvania, where he painted the landscape and shared a studio with Charles Hargens. In 1930 he moved to California where he painted portraits of members of the film industry. He co-founded the Art Center School in Los Angeles.
Jacob Asanger immigrated to the United States from Bavaria in the late 1800's and settled in Los Angeles. He studied at the Los Angeles School of Art and Design and became a landscape painter, poster artist, etcher, craftsman and art teacher
Although the negative sleeve attributes this work in this image to Jock Peters, other images in this negative group represent the Bachelors haberdashery by J. R. Davidson.
Jacob Asanger immigrated to the United States from Bavaria in the late 1800's and settled in Los Angeles. He studied at the Los Angeles School of Art and Design and became a landscape painter, poster artist, etcher, craftsman and art teacher.
Lunette-shaped mural study with a nude half-figure female personification of a river, with water flowing from an amphora that she holds on her shoulder, with a road and buildings in the background.
Portrait photograph of Lee Jennings wearing a suit and seated on a bench with one foot pulled up on the bench with his hands crossed over his knee. He holds a cigarette in his left hand.
Portrait photograph of Mariska and Ferenc Geritz, daughters of artist Franz Geritz and Josephine Geritz. Mariska holds a catalog titled "Ren Tang's Books, Christmas 1930."
View of a girl's bedroom, probably Deirdre Conselman's room, in the house of William Conselman, with wood paneled walls and furnished with a canopied bed. A wall cabinet holds a collection of dolls.
Deirdre and William J. Conselman were the children of Mina and William Marien Conselman, an American screenwriter who also wrote newspaper comic strips.
George Joseph Herriman was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Krazy Kat (1913–1944). An influential comic strip, Krazy Kat had an appreciative audience among people in the arts.
Photograph of an Asian-looking man seated on a bench and holding a paper in one hand, wearing a cap and a dark Chinese style jacket and trousers against a white backdrop
During an oral history interview in 1964, Kenneth Adams stated that he retained a house in Ranchos de Taos, near Taos (Smithsonian Archives of American Art).
Kenneth Miller Adams studied with G.M. Stone in Topeka, at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York, and then travelled to Italy and France for further instruction. He summered in Woodstock, NY with Andrew Dasburg, painting the landscape and developing his skills as a modernist. In 1924 Adams moved to Taos and became the last and youngest member of the Taos Society of Artists. He was also one of the most emotionally taught at the University of New Mexico, Taos. In 1938 He moved to Albuquerque during the winters, where he worked on nudes, portraits and still life, returning to Taos in the summer to focus on Indian subjects, with whom he had a close connection. He taught at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, as well, eventually earning a tenured professorship and a membership to the National Academy of Design.
During an oral history interview in 1964, Kenneth Adams stated that he retained a house in Ranchos de Taos, near Taos (Smithsonian Archives of American Art).
Kenneth Miller Adams studied with G.M. Stone in Topeka, at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York, and then travelled to Italy and France for further instruction. He summered in Woodstock, NY with Andrew Dasburg, painting the landscape and developing his skills as a modernist. In 1924 Adams moved to Taos and became the last and youngest member of the Taos Society of Artists. He was also one of the most emotionally taught at the University of New Mexico, Taos. In 1938 He moved to Albuquerque during the winters, where he worked on nudes, portraits and still life, returning to Taos in the summer to focus on Indian subjects, with whom he had a close connection. He taught at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, as well, eventually earning a tenured professorship and a membership to the National Academy of Design.
Will Connell (probably) on a Harley Davidson motorcycle wearing a hat, jacket, vest, tie, trousers and high boots, parked next to a dilapidated brick building
Interior view of a room in the Pueblo Revival Style house of William Penhallow Henderson and Alice Corbin Henderson, with a ceiling of wooden beams supported by corbels, furnished with an upholstered bench, table and chairs in a southwest style, and decorated with a painting on the wall, 2 groupings of books, ceramic pots. The house is located at 555 Camino del Monte Sol.
Alice Corbin Henderson was an American poet, author and poetry editor. William Penhallow Henderson was an American painter, architect and furniture designer.
Exterior view of the house of William Penhallow Henderson and Alice Corbin with a covered porch and projecting wooden roof beams (vigas). A bell in a bell stand is in the foreground. The house is located at 555 Camino del Monte Sol.
View of a room in the studio home of Santa Fe artist Sheldon Parsons located at 3 & 5 Cerro Gordo Road. The ceiling has of massive wooden beams and the room is furnished with a wooden table and chairs, a rustic candelabrum, terracotta pots and an Indian throw rug, and there is a fire place in the far corner.
View of a room in the Sheldon Parsons Residence and art studio, located at 3 & 5 Cerro Gordo Road in Santa Fe, with a rustic bent branch rocking chair, an Indian throw rug, 2 paintings on the walls and potted plants on the window sill.
View of the narrow porch beneath projecting wooden roof beams (vigas) along the west facade of the Santa Fe house and studio of painter Sheldon Parsons. The house is located at 3 & 5 Cerro Gordo Road.
This photograph appears on page 24 of a catalog of the Chicago Musical Instrument Co. which is dated to 1933 or later (because it contains a reference to Radio City Music Hall which opened in December 1932).
Advertisement photograph of an F. E. Olds Military trumpet with a hammered finished bell. This line was introduced in about 1933. Engraving visible near the end includes the wing of an American bald eagle above "Olds" and "Military."