Names: Ambassador Hotel and Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: New Chamber of Commerce President J.L. Van Norman (left) shakes hands with economist Dr. Thomas Nixon Carver and retiring Chamber President James L. Beebe stands center at the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce’s 49th annual banquet in the Ambassador Hotel’s fiesta room. Over 1,000 business, civic and social leaders attended the banquet which is held every year on George Washington’s birthday. The event celebrates the achievements of the Chamber of Commerce over the past year and lays out programs for the coming year.
Date:: February 22, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Executive vice president of the Southern California Edison Co., W.C. Mullendore, and president of Levi Strauss & Co., Walter Haas, at the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce’s 49th annual banquet in the Ambassador Hotel’s fiesta room. Over 1,000 business, civic and social leaders attended the banquet which is held every year on George Washington’s birthday. The event celebrates the achievements of the Chamber of Commerce over the past year and lays out programs for the coming year.
Date:: February 22, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Related to article, "Prominent Navy Matrons Honored at Luncheon" [Los Angeles Times, October 27, 1935]
Date:: October 24, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of 5 notable attendees of the annual Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce banquet: Frederick Warde (Shakespearean actor), Arthur S. Bent (incoming chamber president), R. W. Pridham (outgoing chamber president), Joseph Scott (attorney, civic leader, Catholic lay leader), and Cyrus H. K. Curtis (publisher).
Date:: February 24, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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