President Herbert Hoover and Kiwanis President Charles E. Arnn attend a luncheon fundraiser for the Community Chest organization. The Community Chest were fund-raising organizations that collected money and distributed it to the local community for projects.
Former President Hoover and his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, stand outside by a railroad track. He wears a hat and long dark coat. She wears a coat with elaborate collar and sleeves, a hat, and is carrying an umbrella. Several unidentified people stand around them.
From left to right, A. J. Wallace, Friend W. Richardson, C. C. Young, William D. Stephens and Buron Fitts pose during a party rally for Herbert Hoover's Presidential campaign. The men stand in a row and look forward. Governor Young and Lieutenant Governor Fitts both wear "DELEGATE" ribbons on their lapels. The group appears to stand in a hallway. Behind them, a wall stretches across the background and a door stands, off-center to the left.
Photograph of Herbert Hoover with a Navy admiral in full special dress (center) on a dock in San Pedro (probably), with officials, and spectators on the roof above.
Republican presidential nominee Herbert Hoover undertook a day-long trip throughout southern California on August 17, 1928. He visited Santa Barbara, Glendale, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Pasadena, and San Bernardino. This photo was him leaving Long Beach with men following behind him in hats. Onlookers watch him leave from the shore.
Herbert Hoover, former President and Iowa's most distinguished native son, banned politics as chief speaker at annual dinner of the Iowa Association of Southern California in the Elks' Temple.
Herbert Hoover, former President and Iowa's most distinguished native son, banned politics as chief speaker at annual dinner of the Iowa Association of Southern California in the Elks' Temple.
Herbert Hoover with a Navy admiral in full special dress walking down a gang plank beside a dock in San Pedro. Other Navel officers and a sailor are in the photograph as well as boats in the water on the right.
Herbert Hoover at a long table with hat in front of him. To his right are three men seen at the table and to his left are two. Everyone has notepads and writing utensils in the photograph.
View of Herbert Hoover, hat in hand, walking at the head of a crowd with his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, holding flowers and greeting Girl Scouts behind him.
President Herbert Hoover giving a talk from the platform of a train with his wife, first lady Lou Henry Hoover, standing beside him and 5 other men also on the platform.
A similar photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the headline, "Thousands Greet Herbert Hoover During One-Day's Visit to Southland,” Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug 1928: 8.
Photograph of a huge crowd assembled to hear President Herbert Hoover with photographers elevated on platforms and a set of loud speakers mounted on a pole (right).
During a visit by Herbert Hoover, two sailors in a small boat push a trunk to a sailor on a wharf as other sailors attend with three Naval officers also present at the Banning Company Lumber Wharf in San Pedro.
Herbert Hoover standing on a boat at a Navel yard in San Pedro, facing a man in a suit, a Naval Admiral in full special dress, an officer and two other civilian men, with 4 sailors standing at attention and another admiral on the boat behind him.
Herbert Hoover looks down at a crowd of admirers from the end of a train. The sign fixed onto the rail reads, "Southern Lark Pacific." Los Angeles mayor George E. Cryer, in the white suit, has his back to the camera.
A crowd of people sit underneath the shade. A tree bears the California and Iowa state flags and a photographer is seen in the center front of the crowd. This photograph is part of a panoramic picture printed in the Los Angeles Times.
Republican presidential nominee Herbert Hoover undertook a day-long trip throughout southern California on August 17, 1928. He visited Santa Barbara, Glendale, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Pasadena, and San Bernardino.
The Hoover family stands on the front steps of a Spanish-style residence. Standing in the back are Herbert Hoover, Jr. and Allan Hoover. In front of them, from left to right, are Margaret Eva Watson Hoover, Lou Henry Hoover, and Herbert Hoover.
Refer to article, "Huge Dam Dedicated -- Hoover Lauds Enterprise -- Pasadena Structure Viewed as America's Unconquerable Spirit -- Ex-President Commends All Who Toiled on Project in San Gabriel Canyon," Los Angeles Times, 27 May, 1934: 10.
Herbert Hoover (center) on the steps of Los Angeles City Hall, before delivering a speech to thousands. Mayor George E. Cryer, left, delivered a short introduction.
Different photographs taken on the same occasion appear with the headline, "Thousands Greet Herbert Hoover During One-Day's Visit to Southland,” Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug 1928: 8.
James Arthur Cahill was a San Francisco artist who specialized in portraiture, illustration, and caricature. His used the name J. A. Cahill for his illustration work.
A crowd is gathered to hear former president Herbert Hoover deliver a speech at the Morris Dam dedication. Hoover can be seen on the platform in the left side of the photograph.
Photograph of President Herbert Hoover and his wife Lou Henry Hoover a the platform on the back of a train car in El Monte. Mrs. Hoover holds a lion cub that someone offered to her as a pet. She gave it back before departing.
Herbert Hoover (center-left) walking beside a Naval admiral in full special dress uniform, with officers, another admiral and civilian men behind them, probably at the Naval station in San Pedro.
Former president Herbert Hoover unveils the plaque dedicating Morris Dam. Noted Los Angeles attorney Joe Scott stands on the left, in a grey suit, with his hand in his pocket.
Herbert Hoover, left, waves his hat to the crowd as Lou Henry Hoover, standing beside him, waves a gloved hand. They are aboard a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad train.
Text reads: [Stamped] Photo by Adelbert Bartlett, 535 15th Street, Santa Monica, Calif. [Handwritten] Hold this copy. [Typewritten] Copies of photographs from the private family album of Mrs. Mary Van Ness Leavitt, 1337 15th Street, Santa Monica, California, sister of Herbert Hoover and Theodore J. Hoover. These pictures are duplicated through the courtesy of Mrs. Leavitt who has supplied the information covering them on the enclosed caption sheet.1- Mary Minthorn, grandmother of the Hoover children on their mother’s side.2- Jesse Clark Hoover and Hulda Minthorn Hoover, parents of the Hoover children, photographed at West Branch, Iowa, between 1880 and 1889.3- Childhood home of the Hoover children at West Branch, Iowa, where the parents died. Herbert Hoover’s mother (then age about 35) stands in the front yard of the house. This house WAS NOT the birthplace of the Hoover children, according to Mrs. Leavitt.4- Standing, left, Theodore J. (“Tad”) Hoover, at age 20, and Herbert (“Bert”) C. Hoover, at 16; seated Mary (“MAY”) Hoover, age 14, now Mrs. Mary Van Ness Leavitt, Santa Monica, Calif. This group of the Hoover children was made at Salem, Oregon, in 1888. Theodore Hoover is now head of the engineering department at Stanford University; Herbert Hoover is [struck out] Secretary of Commerce [handwritten below] President of the United States.5- When Herbert Hoover was a junior at Stanford University -- left to right, Professor Newsome, then instructor in geology; J.K. Means, mining engineer; Herbert C. Hoover.6- Herbert Hoover and a classmate when both were juniors at Stanford University.7- Herbert Hoover as a freshman at Stanford University, age 17.8- Herbert Hoover at the age of 25, photographed at Perth, West Australia, in 1898, when he was serving as mining engineer for the Bewick Moreing Co. (verify name of mining company) of London.9- Herbert Hoover at the age of 34, after he had left Australia and was stationed at London.10--11--12--13 new studies of Mrs. Mary Van Ness Leavitt, only sister of Herbert Hoover, made at her home in Santa Monica, California