Names: Biscailuz, Eugene W., 1883-1969 / Subject: Picnics--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph of Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz posing next to a wire fence in Sycamore Grove Park during the Southern Pacific Railroad employee picnic. Sheriff Biscailuz is viewed close-up and stands left-of-center. He looks to the camera as he rests one elbow back on the fence. The fence stretches across the image behind him. Trees stand behind the fence at left. People gathered in the park are visible at right, behind the fence. A mountain rises in the far distance.
Date:: June 17, 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz standing on a stage and speaking at the Southern Pacific Railroad employee picnic at Sycamore Grove Park. He is viewed from the side and with a worm's-eye perspective. The front of the stage is covered in patriotic decor and stretches across the bottom edge on an angle. Eugene Biscailuz stands at center near the front edge of the stage and faces towards the left. He stands at the microphone and looks down towards the camera. The rest of the stage stretches behind him to the right. Chairs and benches line the back of the stage. A few men sit on stage and look towards Sheriff Biscailuz. Above the stage, an awning extends over the front of the stage and a sign stretches above it. The sign reads, "SOUTHERN PAC[...]." Trees stand in the background at left.
Date:: June 17, 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Undersheriff Eugene Biscailuz (right) is participating in a skit alongside Monte Montague, an actor in the role of a Keystone cop, who seems to be playfully grabbing his neck. Picnic spectators sitting in benches alongside eucalyptus trees watch from behind. This was during the eighth annual Sheriff's Relief Association picnic. Monte Montague was an actor known for his roles in The Radio Detective (1926), A Western Demon (1922) and Clancy of the Mounted (1933). Photo appears with the article, "Undersheriff Gets "Taken" by Fly Cop: Picnic held by Sheriffs of County Barbecue Dinner with Speeches and Dancing Draws Officers, Friends," Los Angeles Times, 22 Jun. 1931: A1.
Date:: June 21, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph may be associated with the article, “Biscailuz’s Guests Appreciate Feast: SIXTY THOUSAND PERSONS ATTEND SHERIFF’S PICNIC,” Los Angeles Times, 15 Jul. 1935: A1.
Date:: July 15, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, “Biscailuz’s Guests Appreciate Feast: SIXTY THOUSAND PERSONS ATTEND SHERIFF’S PICNIC,” Los Angeles Times, 15 Jul. 1935: A1.
Date:: July 15, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph may be associated with the article, “Biscailuz’s Guests Appreciate Feast: SIXTY THOUSAND PERSONS ATTEND SHERIFF’S PICNIC,” Los Angeles Times, 15 Jul. 1935: A1.
Date:: July 15, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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