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Woman sitting on a grape mound, San Gabriel, 1928

Description:
A woman sitting on a chair on a grape mound display. She is sitting in front of a fountain decorated with grapes as well as grapes on the floor. This is the celebration of the Spanish festival of Vendimia that is a celebration of wine and winemaking. Photo appears with the article, "Vendimia Lends Touch of Spain: Thousands Visit San Gabriel for Grape Festival Queen of Senoritas Chosen Following Pageant Tower of Fruit Distributed at End of Celebration," Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 1928: A1.
Date:
September 23, 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Woman sitting on a grape mound, San Gabriel, 1928

Betty Carroll seated in a chair, Los Angeles, 1927

Description:
Betty Carroll seated in a chair with her legs crossed. One hand is in her lap and the other is near her shoulder. Betty was She was Harry Thomas' partner, who was a criminal that was shot to death by police in 1927. Photo appears with the article, "Six Accused in Green Murder: "Mile Away" Thomas Named in One of Complaints Police Seek Others Also as Result of Killing Possible Blood Stains Found on Rifle Analyzed," Los Angeles Times, 06 Feb. 1927: 5.
Date:
February 5, 1927
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Betty Carroll seated in a chair, Los Angeles, 1927

Betty Carroll with tissue in hand, Los Angeles, 1927

Description:
Betty Carroll wearing a fur coat looking down and holding a handkerchief to her nose. She was Harry Thomas' partner, who was a criminal that was shot to death by police in 1927. Photo appears with the article, "Girl Reveals Thomas Plan: "Mile-Away" on Liquor Hunt at Time of Death Dispels Rumors Hijacker "Framed" by Police Three Other Men Hunted as Gangster's Partners," Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 1927: A2.
Date:
April 22, 1927
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Betty Carroll with tissue in hand, Los Angeles, 1927

Bank employee and open vault at Belvedere State Bank, Belvedere Heights (Los Angeles), 1931

Description:
Employee standing in front of a deak with an open bank vault behind her in the Belvedere State Bank in East Los Angeles. At the top of the bank vault a sing reads "Belvedere State Bank." This photograph may be related to the article, "Police Trail Bank Bandits: Belvedere Robbers Sighted Near Pasadena; Gang Gets $20,000; Member Shot by Bystander," Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 1923: II1.
Date:
1923
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Bank employee and open vault at Belvedere State Bank, Belvedere Heights (Los Angeles), 1931

San Bernardino's grape fountain exhibit at the Orange County Fair, Orange County, 1926

Description:
San Bernardino's grape fountain exhibit at the Orange County Fair. At the bottom of the fountain is a sign that reads, "San Bernardino County Produces one-fourth the Citrus Crop of the State." Photo appears with the article, "Some of the High Lights at the Orange County Fair," Los Angeles Times, 19. Sep. 1926: J9.
Date:
[between September 6, 1926 to September 11, 1926]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
San Bernardino's grape fountain exhibit at the Orange County Fair, Orange County, 1926

A young girl holding two large avocados, Orange County, 1928

Description:
A young girl holds two prize winning avocados on her lap. She is seated on a high platform with plates of avocados next to her. In the background are plants and a sign at the bottom that reads, "Tropical Fruits Grown in Orange County." Photo appears with the article, "Santa Ana's Twelfth Annual Orange County Fair is Colorful Exposition," Los Angeles Times, 05 Sep. 1928: A8.
Date:
September 04, 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
A young girl holding two large avocados, Orange County, 1928

City of Fresno exhibit at a fruit exposition, Alhambra, 1926

Description:
City of Fresno's fruit display at Alhambra's first annual fruit exposition. The display contains a circular display with different levels that hold small fruit baskets. There are four pillars around the display that are decorated with tassels at the top. In the middle of a display is a sign that reads "Memorie Fruits L.H. Fruits, Fresno." Photo appears with the article, "Alhambra's First Annual Fruit Exposition Proves Huge Success," Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 1926: A12.
Date:
[circa January 26, 1926]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
City of Fresno exhibit at a fruit exposition, Alhambra, 1926

Shell Oil Company Building under construction at the California Pacific International Exposition, San Diego, circa 1935

Description:
Photograph of the Shell Oil Company Building, cast in concrete in the shape of a seashell, at the California Pacific International Exposition during the end stages of construction. A ladder is suspended from the top of the shell and a man is suspended on a scaffold near the top on the right. Scaffolding is on the ground in front of the building. Technical writing appears on each shell spandrel about midway up the façade (where there appears to be a join between 2 large cast shell sections), at the bases of the shell spandrels, and around the doorway. A flatbed truck and 2 cars are parked in front and 2 boys are passing on a bicycle.
Date:
[circa 1935]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Owens, Charles H.
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Shell Oil Company Building under construction at the California Pacific International Exposition, San Diego, circa 1935

Crowd at a railway station probably awaiting William Edward Hickman, kidnapper and murderer, Dunsmuir, 1927

Description:
The train on the right may be carrying William Edward Hickman, confessed kidnapper and murderer of 12-year-old Marion Parker. Hickman (along with a cadre of law enforcement officers and newspaper reporters) traveled by train to Los Angeles from Pendleton, Oregon, where he was previously held for extradition. The train departed Pendleton on December 25th and arrived in Los Angeles on the 27th. Hickman was tried for his crimes in early 1928. He was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Date:
[circa December 26, 1927]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Crowd at a railway station probably awaiting William Edward Hickman, kidnapper and murderer, Dunsmuir, 1927

House destroyed by the flood following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
House destroyed by the flood following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

La Luz de Watts and other stores on 103rd St. after the Long Beach earthquake, Watts (Los Angeles), 1933

Description:
The Long Beach earthquake of 1933 took place on March 10, with a magnitude of 6.4, causing widespread damage to buildings throughout Southern California. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach on the Newport-Inglewood Fault. An estimated fifty million dollars' worth of property damage resulted, and 120 lives were lost
Date:
March 1933
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
La Luz de Watts and other stores on 103rd St. after the Long Beach earthquake, Watts (Los Angeles), 1933

Building damaged by the Long Beach earthquake undergoing demolition, Southern California, 1933

Description:
The Long Beach earthquake of 1933 took place on March 10, with a magnitude of 6.4, causing widespread damage to buildings throughout Southern California. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach on the Newport-Inglewood Fault. An estimated fifty million dollars' worth of property damage resulted, and 120 lives were lost.
Date:
March 1933
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Building damaged by the Long Beach earthquake undergoing demolition, Southern California, 1933

Buildings damaged and destroyed by the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933

Description:
The Long Beach earthquake of 1933 took place on March 10, with a magnitude of 6.4, causing widespread damage to buildings throughout Southern California. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach on the Newport-Inglewood Fault. An estimated fifty million dollars' worth of property damage resulted, and 120 lives were lost.
Date:
March 1933
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Buildings damaged and destroyed by the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933

Women's Breakfast Club members, Dorothy Paonessa, Jeannette Brix and Mrs. Herbert Vincent, Los Angeles vicinity, circa 1936

Description:
From left to right, Women's Breakfast Club members Dorothy Paonessa, Jeannette Brix and Mrs. Herbert Vincent walk in a row towards the camera. All three women smile as they approach the camera. Dorothy Paonessa wears a ribbon on her chest which reads, "HOSTESS." Behind them, what is possibly the Women's Breakfast Club's clubhouse stands at right. It is partially obscured by vegetation.
Date:
[circa January 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Women's Breakfast Club members, Dorothy Paonessa, Jeannette Brix and Mrs. Herbert Vincent, Los Angeles vicinity, circa 1936

Whalen Curio Store and other shops on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

Description:
At the center of the photograph is the Whalen Curio Store, which the store's awning advertises as selling Navajo Indian Blankets & Curios. To the right is the Michigan Misfit Clothing store. Above that store, windows on the 2nd floor advertise Doctor Alvarez, Physician.
Date:
[between 1930 and 1932]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Whalen Curio Store and other shops on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles, early 1930s

Rendering of South Los Angeles Junior High School by Myron Hunt and H. C. Chambers, Architects, 1936

Description:
Architects Myron H. Hunt (1868-1952) and Harold C. Chambers (1885-1971) worked in Los Angeles and its vicinity; Myron Hunt worked on his own from 1909-1920; Chambers started working with Hunt as a draftsman in 1907, and gradually worked his way up to partner in 1920. They were partners from 1920 to 1947.
Date:
1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Rendering of South Los Angeles Junior High School by Myron Hunt and H. C. Chambers, Architects, 1936

Bonita Granville and Gareth Joplin stand outside Parker Wood's office, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
From left to right, Bonita Granville and Gareth Joplin pose outside Parker Wood's office door. The child actors stand side-by-side at center. Both carry document files under their arms and both smile as they look towards the left. Bonita Granville rests her hand on the doorknob at left. Text on the door behind them reads, "PARKER WOOD J [...] RESID [...] DEFA [...] PA [...] CA [...] CA [...] Tuesda [...] ursda [...] LEAVE [...]."
Date:
December 10, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Bonita Granville and Gareth Joplin stand outside Parker Wood's office, Los Angeles, 1935

U.S.S. Tennessee lists towards starboard and works to right itself during an naval test, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
In the near distance at center, the U.S.S. Tennessee lists away camera while anchored in San Pedro Bay during a naval drill. It is viewed from its bow and port side. A few lifeboats towards aft are moored to masts that extend from the near side of the battleship. Near the bow, water pumps out from portholes along the side of the ship. An anchor chain hangs down the side of the ship at the bow. An American flag stands at half-mast at the front of the ship. San Pedro Bay's waters occupy the foreground.
Date:
[circa August 27, 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
U.S.S. Tennessee lists towards starboard and works to right itself during an naval test, Los Angeles, 1936

Valhalla Memorial Park during construction, Burbank, 1924

Description:
Valhalla Memorial Park cemetery was founded in 1923 by two Los Angeles financiers, John R. Osborne and C. C. Fitzpatrick, constructed primarily in 1924, and dedicated in 1925. Osborne and Fitzpatrick were convicted of fraud in 1925, because they had sold the same burial plots to multiple people. Each was fined $12,000 and sentenced to 10 years in prison, but served less than 3 years. Photo appears to have been taken during the construction period as workers installed more than thirty miles of irrigation piping, most likely in 1924. A sign identifying the site as Valhalla Memorial Park is visible in the photograph.
Date:
[1924?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Valhalla Memorial Park during construction, Burbank, 1924

Colonel H. M. Waite and others, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:
Colonel H. M. Waite, Deputy Public Works Administrator, going over documents near desk with Justus Wardell; Frank E. Trask, State engineer of the Federal Public Works Administration; E. F. Scattergood; and Hamilton H. Cotton, chairman of the California Advisory Board. The word "PUBLIC is on the wall". H. M. Waite was Deputy Public Works Administrator.
Date:
1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Colonel H. M. Waite and others, Los Angeles, 1934