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.
Setting the scene on a stage set for a Ghirardelli chocolate advertisement, a giggling little girl stands in a metal wash tub wearing a raincoat and rain hat as a man stands on a stool pours water on her from a watering can.
Bust-length portrait photograph of Mabel "Toots" Herriman (1903-1962) or Barbara "Bobbie" Herriman (1908-1939), wearing a jacket and a striped knit neck scarf
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.
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.
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.
Photograph of nine disc-shaped gas regulator parts in varying sizes created by the Wilgus Manufacturing Company. The parts are metal-cast with embedded inscriptions identifying the company and, on some, the part number, for example: “Wilgus Mfg. Co. L. A. Cal. U.S.A. 787-987,” “Wilgus Mfg. Co. Gas Regulator.” The photograph may have been taken at the Wilgus Manufacturing plant located at 1722 East Sixteenth Street from 1921 to at least 1944.
View inside of the Spanish style chapel at the Pierce Brothers Mortuary, located at 720 W. Washington, with an elaborate iron chandelier and sconces, a pastoral-themed mural in the lunette and 4 potted palms.
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.