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Youths participating in the National Youth Administration Work Program, Riverside, 1938

Description:: African American children and youths working on various projects at tables in a room as participants in a work program of the National Youth Administration.
Date:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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

Young boy plays with model train set at Toyland, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: A young boy plays with a toy train set by The Lionel Corporation in Toyland during the Christmas season.
Date:: [circa December 3, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Worth Crouch, stuntman, with his palomino, Thunder, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Reported, with a different photo, in "GREAT WESTERN COMIC STARTS' IN 'TIMES' SUNDAY," Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 1938: 3.
Date:: December 12, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Worth Crouch, stuntman, with his palomino, Thunder, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Worth Crouch with his palomino horse, Thunder, during a promotion for "Red Rider," a new western comic in the Los Angeles Times.
Date:: December 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Worth Crouch, stuntman, riding his palomino, Thunder, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Reported, with a different photo, in "GREAT WESTERN COMIC STARTS' IN 'TIMES' SUNDAY," Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 1938: 3.
Date:: December 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Worth Crouch, stuntman, riding his palomino, Thunder, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Reported, with a different photo, in "GREAT WESTERN COMIC STARTS' IN 'TIMES' SUNDAY," Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 1938: 3.
Date:: December 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Worth Crouch, stuntman, riding his palomino, Thunder, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Worth Crouch with his palomino horse, Thunder, during a promotion for "Red Rider," a new western comic in the Los Angeles Times.
Date:: December 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Worth Crouch, stuntman, riding his palomino, Thunder, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Worth Crouch with his palomino horse, Thunder, during a promotion for "Red Rider," a new western comic in the Los Angeles Times.
Date:: December 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Worth Crouch, stuntman, riding his palomino, Thunder, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Worth Crouch with his palomino horse, Thunder, during a promotion for "Red Rider," a new western comic in the Los Angeles Times.
Date:: December 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Worth Crouch, stuntman, riding his palomino, Thunder, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Worth Crouch with his palomino horse, Thunder, during a promotion for "Red Rider," a new western comic in the Los Angeles Times.
Date:: December 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Worth Crouch, stuntman, on his palomino, Thunder, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Worth Crouch with his palomino horse, Thunder, during a promotion for "Red Rider," a new western comic in the Los Angeles Times.
Date:: December 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Worth Crouch, stuntman, mounting his palomino, Thunder, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Reported, with a different photo, in "GREAT WESTERN COMIC STARTS' IN 'TIMES' SUNDAY," Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 1938: 3.
Date:: December 1938
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:: 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

Wisconsin Badgers play UCLA Bruins at Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, ca. 1938

Description:: This photograph is possibly related to the article, “Alert Badgers Beat Bruin Team, 14 to 7,” Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov 1938: A13.
Date:: [November 12, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Wisconsin Badgers play UCLA Bruins at Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, ca. 1938

Description:: This photograph is possibly related to the article, “Alert Badgers Beat Bruin Team, 14 to 7,” Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov 1938: A13.
Date:: [November 12, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Wisconsin Badgers play UCLA Bruins at Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, ca. 1938

Description:: Bruin runs with football as a member of the Badgers attempts to tackle him. Spectators are visible in the stands in the background.
Date:: [ca. November 12, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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 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

Willard C. Perdue, Duke University football player during practice, Pasadena, 1938

Description:: Text from newspaper caption: Here’s a whiz at blocking punts---Willard Perdue, Duke’s flashy left end. Perdue blocked the punt in the Pitt game that gave Duke a touchdown and, incidentally a bid to the Rose Bowl.
Date:: December 24, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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

Wheelmen, Bill Jenkins, Tracy Q. Hall and Sheriff Biscailuz pose with a high-wheeler during a meeting, Los Angeles vicinity, 1938

Description:: This photograph appears in a photo spread titled, “Italy Pours 20,000 Emigrants From 15 Liners Into African Colony, Libya,” Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 1938: 22
Date:: November 14, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Arnott, Andrew Hugh, 1905-1985
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Western Union messengers, Maury Warner and Leslie Winton sing carols to Dorothy Lamour, Los Angeles vicinity, 1938

Description:: At center, actress Dorothy Lamour sits on a set. She is dressed in white and faces slightly left. Behind and to either side of her, 2 Western Union messengers stand and serenade her. Maury Warner stands at left. While he sings, he holds a telegram in front of Dorothy Lamour. The arm of a stage light stretches above him and its canister hangs to the right of him. Leslie Winton stands along the right edge and sings as well.
Date:: [circa December, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jakobsen, Robert Anders, 1915-1970
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Western Union messengers Maury Warner and Leslie Winton serenade actress Dorothy Lamour on set, Los Angeles vicinity, 1938

Description:: At center, and from left to right, Leslie Winton and Maury Warner, Western Union messengers, stand beside one another as they serenade actress Dorothy Lamour. Leslie Winton stands facing left as he sings. Maury Warner holds a telegram in front of Dorothy Lamour while he sings. She is dressed in white and sits on a set, along the right edge. She smiles as she looks towards the messengers. The arm of a stage light stretches behind the messengers. Its light canister hangs over Dorothy Lamour's head.
Date:: [circa December, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jakobsen, Robert Anders, 1915-1970
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Western Union messenger John Gross tends to baby Barbara Louise Lawrence, Los Angeles vicinity, 1938

Description:: This photograph appears in the photo spread, “’Call a Messenger!,’” Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 1938: F8
Date:: [circa December, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jakobsen, Robert Anders, 1915-1970
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Western Union messenger, Harold Tolley, wears a look of surprise, Los Angeles vicinity, 1938

Description:: This photograph appears in the photospread, “’Call a Messenger!,’” Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 1938: F8
Date:: [circa December, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jakobsen, Robert Anders, 1915-1970
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Western Union messenger, Gerry Cooke, feeds pigeons in Pershing Square, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: A similar photograph of the same messenger in Pershing Square appears in the photospread, “’Call a Messenger!,’” Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 1938: F8
Date:: [circa December, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jakobsen, Robert Anders, 1915-1970
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic 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. Cecil Leys arriving on a ship, San Pedro (Los Angeles), 1938

Description:: W. Cecil Leys of Aukland, New Zealand, managing director of two weeklies, arrives by ship with an unidentified woman.
Date:: [July 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic 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

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