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George H. Coffin presents Arthur S. Bent with a Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce service watch, Los Angeles, 1927

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Arthur S. Bent receives a Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Realty Board service watch from George H. Coffin at a banquet held at the Biltmore Hotel. Reported in "Realty Men Reward Bent: Former Chamber Head Honored at Board Banquet; Culver Installed President," Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 1927: 1. Bent was a Los Angeles contractor and civic worker who build dams in Southern California and Oregon in the first phase of his career, then went into public service as the Director of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, the president of the Associated General Contractors of America, and was the president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce in 1926.
Date:
January 29, 1927
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
George H. Coffin presents Arthur S. Bent with a Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce service watch, Los Angeles, 1927

Arthur S. Bent shakes hands with Charles C. Teague at a train station, Los Angeles, 1920-1939

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Arthur S. Bent shakes hands with Charles C. Teague at a train station platform. Teague wears a straw hat with a ribbon band, as do the two men behind him. Teague was involved in the development of agriculture in Southern California. Bent was a Los Angeles contractor and civic worker who built dams in Southern California and Oregon, and went into public service as the Director of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, the president of the Associated General Contractors of America, and president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce in 1926.
Date:
[between 1920-1939
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Arthur S. Bent shakes hands with Charles C. Teague at a train station, Los Angeles, 1920-1939

Notable guests at the annual Chamber of Commerce banquet at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, 1926

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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
Notable guests at the annual Chamber of Commerce banquet at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, 1926