Collection: OpenUCLA Collections / Date: 1939 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Young people on beach, Long Beach, [1930s]

Description:: Young man in bathing suit and hat, standing on sand at edge of walkway, handing something, possibly an ice cream cone, up to a young woman in bathing suit and hat, seated with 4 other young women in bathing suits on concrete wall, with crowd of people, mostly street clothes and hats, seated on sand at base of wall and standing on walkway leaning on wall, with open boat hanging from wooden supports at left, uniformed lifeguard standing at right, buildings in background, smokestack in distance
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Young Dorothy "Dottie" Quinn in front of Venice HS

Description:: Young Sylvia Dorothy "Dottie" Pierce posing in front of a building at Venice High School.
Date:: undated
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Quinn, Alfred Thomas Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Workman sits on a support beam of the old "opera house" during its demolition, South Pasadena, 1939

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, “DRAMA CENTER OF EARLY SOUTH PASADENA LIFE RAZED,” Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 1939: A11
Date:: [circa January 19, 1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Workers unloading crated palm trees in front of City Hall, Los Angeles, 1928-1939

Description:: Two workers move a crated palm tree off of a flat bed truck as four people watch from the steps of City Hall. They are on the Spring Street side of the building.
Date:: [1928-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Workers unloading crated palm trees in front of City Hall, Los Angeles, 1928-1939

Description:: Four workers unload crated palm trees from a flat bed truck in front of City Hall. They are on the Spring Street side of the building.
Date:: [1928-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Workers planting palm trees in front of city hall, Los Angeles, 1928-1939

Description:: Three workers stand beside a crated palm tree and mounds of soil, as two men watch from a walkway in front of City Hall. They are on the Spring Street side of the building.
Date:: [1928-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Workers inspect Prospect Hole No. 9 in San Gabriel Canyon, Azusa, 1925-1939

Description:: The San Gabriel Dam is a rock-fill dam on the San Gabriel River in Los Angeles County, California, within the Angeles National Forest. It was under construction from 1932 to completion in 1939.
Date:: [1925-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Wooden bust of a woman by Beulah Woodard, 1935-1955

Description:: Beulah Ecton Woodard was an African-American sculptor and painter in California who specialized in African subjects. The first African American artist to show her work at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, she founded the Los Angeles Negro Art Association (1937).
Date:: [circa 1935-1955]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Wooden bust of a woman by Beulah Woodard, 1935-1955

Description:: Beulah Ecton Woodard was an African-American sculptor and painter in California who specialized in African subjects. The first African American artist to show her work at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, she founded the Los Angeles Negro Art Association (1937).
Date:: [circa 1935-1955]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Wooden building in an alley in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1920-1939

Description:: In an alley with brick commercial buildings on either side is an open wooden building. Articles of clothing hang on the left and a man is seated, working, on the right.
Date:: [1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Women on beach, Long Beach, [1930s]

Description:: Two women, in dresses, hats, shoes, and stockings, seated in folding chairs with attached striped awnings, with children playing at left, man in bathing suit seated on sand at right, umbrella, boardwalk, people on benches, and shops in background
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Woman seated beside a fountain at Mission San Juan Capistrano, 1930s

Description:: Woman wearing a Spanish style dress seated beside a fountain and in front of the bellcote at Mission San Juan Capistrano.
Date:: [1920 -1939s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Woman lancer beside her horse, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Woman Lancer lancer in uniform standing beside her horse. She is probably near the Breakfast Club on Riverside Drive.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

W. M. E. Garner, Los Angeles, 1920-1939

Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Wilshire Police Station, Los Angeles, 1920-1939

Description:: Exterior view of the Wilshire Police Station with Tom's Restaurant on the right.
Date:: [1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Wilma Williams, actress, 1930s

Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

William May Garland waving his hat, Los Angeles, [between 1920-1939]

Description:: William May Garland was a real estate tycoon who later in his life in 1932 brought the Summer Olympics to Los Angeles in 1932.
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

William Grant Still, 1930-1950

Description:: Studio portrait of William Grant Still as a young man.
Date:: [1930-1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

William E. Simpson, attorney, with Alfred Lushing during Lushing's trial, Los Angeles, 1939

Description:: Alfred Lushing (right), city water and power commissioner, involved with cleaners and dyers bureau, during his trial for terrorizing cleaners and dyers. He is with attorney William E. Simpson. The photograph was taken two days before he was found guilty.
Date:: January 9, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

William Dibble's rented farmland at Pico and Alvarado, Los Angeles, 1896 (copy neg. 1930s)

Description:: Workers harvest hay on a farm located at Pico and Alvarado. Five children and one woman are seated on the ground on the left and a carriage with two horses is on the right. .
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

William Alexander Leidesdorff, prominent San Franciscan, (copy photo made 1930-1989)

Description:: Born on the island of St. Croix in the Danish West Indies in 1810, William Leidesdorff was the son of Danish sugar planter Alexander Leidesdorff and Anna Marie Sparks, a light-skinned woman of mixed race ancestry. In 1841 Leidesdorff settled in the Mexican village of Yerba Buena on San Francisco Bay. Over the next three years he became a successful merchant by making frequent trips between California, Mexico and Hawaii. In 1844 governor Micheltorena confirmed his land grant of 35,000 acres on the American River. Ranch Rio de Los Americanos was located near the spot where James Marshall discovered gold in January 1848. When Leidesdorff died unexpectedly in May 1848 he was buried inside Mission Dolores Church. Leidesdorff was a social, economic and political force in pre-gold rush San Francisco. When he was named the U.S. Vice Consul to Mexico in 1845, he became the nation’s first African American diplomat. He was elected to San Francisco’s first city council and its first school board in 1847. He built the first hotel, the first shipping warehouse, he operated the first steamboat on San Francisco Bay, and he laid out the first horse race track in California
Date:: [1930-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Willard H. Wright, literary editor of the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Willard H. Wright, who wrote detective novels as S. S. Van Dine, was the literary editor of the Los Angeles Times from 1910 until his death.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

W. I. Gilbert, attorney, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Portrait photograph of W. I. Gilbert.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Wide San Gabriel River, San Gabriel, 1920-1939

Description:: Close-up view across a wide and surging river in San Gabriel.
Date:: [1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

West Coast Golfers Prime for National Championships, Los Angeles, 1939

Description:: Roscoe Jones was a famous African American golfer during the Jim Crow era in American History. He competed in several events held at West Coast golf clubs during the 1930s and 1940s.
Date:: [1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

W. C. Handy in his youth, circa 1892; Verna Arvey, circa 1950

Description:: Far left photo: Studio portrait of W. C. Handy at age 19 in a uniform holding a trumpet. Bottom right photo: Verna Arvey (right) seated on a porch swing with an unidentified man and woman. Top right photo: Man standing in front of a glass wall, possibly William Grant Still.
Date:: [1882-1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

W. C. Handy, 1939

Description:: W. C. (William Christopher) Handy was a composer and musician, known as the Father of the Blues. An African American, Handy was one of the most influential songwriters in the United States.
Date:: 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Wayne Long, ceramicist, Los Angeles County, [1930s?]

Description:: Portrait photograph of artist Wayne Long, seated and leaning against a desk or table. He is wearing a suit and holding a coat in his arm.
Date:: [between 1930-1939?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Water release from the Santa Anita Dam, Sierra Madre, 1930s

Description:: Santa Anita Dam is a concrete thin arch dam on Santa Anita Creek in the San Gabriel Mountains, north of Sierra Madre, Arcadia and Monrovia, which serves for flood control, water conservation and debris control. The dam was built between 1923 and 1927.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Water release from the Santa Anita Dam, Sierra Madre, 1930s

Description:: Downward view of water release from the Santa Anita Dam. Three men watch from a narrow walkway.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Watercolor of the town of Julian (California), by C. B. Phillips circa 1899 (copy photo 1930-1989)

Description:: Circa 1899 watercolor view of Julian, a mountain town in San Diego County. Julian experienced a gold rush that began with the discovery of gold by A. E. "Fred" Coleman, a former slave.
Date:: [1930-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Watercolor of the San Diego Mission by Edward Vischer created circa 1865 (copy photo made 1930-1989)

Description:: Black and white photograph of a watercolor.
Date:: [1930-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Washington Blvd. closed, Los Angeles, [1920-1939]

Description:: Three men with a shovel on the closed street of Washington Blvd. A car is seen coming and another one leaves. The signs say "street closed City of L.A. ENGR. BR.--D.P.W. [Department of Public Works]
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Washington Blvd. closed, Los Angeles, 1920-1939

Description:: Three men with a shovel on the closed street of Washington Blvd. The signs say "street closed City of L.A. ENGR.BR.--D.P.W. (Department of Public Works)
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Warren Atherton, Commander of the American Legion, standing at a podium, California, 1930s

Description:: Warren Atherton, Commander of the American Legion, standing at a podium and holding an oversized gavel.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Walter P. Storey Building on Broadway, Los Angeles, 1920-1939

Description:: View of the Storey Building at 610 S. Broadway, at 6th Street.
Date:: [1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Vivian Osborne Marsh, 1930s

Description:: Portrait of Vivian Osborne Marsh.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Virginia McGowan, Nancy Hill, Marilyn McCurry, and Patsy Flynn, students of Immaculate Heart College, Los Angeles, 1939

Description:: Left to right: Virginia McGowan, Nancy Hill, Marilyn McCurry, Peggy Flynn, all students of Immaculate Heart College. They wear four identical dark dresses with V-necks, belted waists, and light-colored collars and sleeve trims. They are all smiling and looking at something off photo.
Date:: January 13, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Wallace, Gordon Charles, 1909-1992
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Virginia Chase, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Virginia Chase, wearing a dress, fur stole and hat.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Virginia Chase, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Virginia Chase wearing a long floral patterned dress with white elbow-length gloves.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

View towards houses on Kendall Avenue from Elephant Hill, Los Angeles, 1920-1939

Description:: Kendall Avenue is in the Elephant Hill area, east of Arroyo Secco Park.
Date:: [1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Views of Los Angeles in the 1860s, photographed 1920-1939

Description:: Caption: 1) Map of Wilmington Harbor and Government Breakwater. 2) Main street from Temple Block. 3) Cathedral. 4) Cosmopolitan School. 5) High School. 6) Grand Central Hotel. 7) Governor Downey's Residence. 8) Mission San Gabriel. 9) University of Southern California. 10) Temple Block and County Bank. 11) Bake Block. 12) Fort Street. 13) Pico House. 14) Downey Block.
Date:: [1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

View down Olvera Street, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Two men walk down Olvera Street, with a pottery business on the left.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Victor McLaglen, actor, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen was a British-American film actor. He was known as a character actor, particularly in Westerns, and made seven films with John Ford and John Wayne. McLaglen won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1935 for his role in The Informer.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Veterinarian Alexander Moxley and another man performing a medical procedure on a dog, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Negative was misfiled with photographs 1429_6747 and 1429_6748, which are photos of the pilot C. C. Moseby.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Veteran fighter pilot Eddie Rickenbacker reading a telegram, 1930s

Description:: The telegram, which mentions Glendale and Kansas City, may be related to Rickenbacker's transcontinental TWA flight carrying air mail, the last one for commercial airlines before the army took over transportation of air mail.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Verna Arvey, 1930s

Description:: Studio portrait of Verna Arvey.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Verna Arvey, 1930s

Description:: Studio portrait of Verna Arvey.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

U. S. Marshal Robert E. Clark stands between a man and a teenager, Los Angeles, 1933-1939

Description:: “Robert E. Clark, retired frontier marshal, dies: fightin’ Bob, noted U.S. lawman for many years, passes at Ojai Ranch home,” Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 1956: 25.
Date:: [1933-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

U. S. Marshal Robert E. Clark and others at an apparent warehouse raid, Los Angeles, 1933-1939

Description:: U. S. Marshal Robert E. Clark (right) holds a hammer. He is with six other men behind a warehouse. They appear to be emptying containers of alcohol.
Date:: [1933-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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