About the subjects:Harry Carr was a reporter, editor and columnist with the Times for almost all of his career. He was given an honorable mention by a Pulitzer Prize committee on awards. After he died of a heart attack at age fifty-eight, his funeral was attended by more than a thousand people. Lanier Bartlett wrote for the Times and also wrote film scripts. Mabel Brigham was a Times society editor. Edward F. Dishman joined the Times as the night city editor after his 1897 arrival in Los Angeles, and later became the Los Angeles Chief of Police. John A. Gray joined with the Times in 1899, went on to the Hearst newspaper and in 1931 became the executive secretary of the Municipal Light and Power Defense League. W. R. Greenwood was a rancher and a reporter for the Times from 1893 to 1911. Frank Greaves joined the Times editorial staff some time after his arrival in Los Angeles in 1890 and started a printing business in 1910. John von Blon was an editor at the Times for 17 years. Julian Johnson joined the Times in the early 1900's and was the drama critic by 1911. After other journalism positions in New York, he returned to Los Angeles to write for film. William S. Livengood was with the Times from 1895 to 1907 as police, courthouse and City Hall reporter, telegraph editor, and contest manager.A. M. Row was an editor at the Los Angeles Times from 1897 to 1912. His work as editor of the church department earned him the nickname "The Deacon." He also wrote Los Angeles Times articles on topics of religion, and hiking and camping. In addition to her articles for the Times, Constance Lindsay Skinner wrote for papers in Canada, Chicago and New York. She also published children's books.
Phtoograph of Mabelle E. Wyman, home economics authority and Times culinary education department conductor, at a table with a chicken. She took over the mantle after the death of her husband, popular as "Chef Wyman," until her death in 1931. Mrs. Wyman also published a book of recipes in her husband's memory. In this picture, she is inserting stuffing in a turkey.
Richard T. Nimmons [known as Dick Nimmons], Times correspondent and a senior student at Pomona College after being named director of news service for Pomona College. He worked as a public relations agent for the institution. [He later returned as Vice President, retiring in 1976.]
Photograph of Harry Bowling, Times Editorial writer for 30 years [1912-1942] until his retirement. Originally from England, Mr. Bowling got American citizenship in 1901 and wrote poems, stories and editorial articles for the Los Angeles Times.
Photograph of Times Editor (in the 1940s) Stella Brockway. Married to Sidney Omohundro, Ms. Brockway wrote under her maiden name for the LA Times after moving to California post-marriage.
Photograph of S. Fred Hogue, feature editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times. An expert in art, international affairs, history and modern problems, Mr. Hogue was with the Times from 1914 to his death in 1941. He was also one of 12 reporters chosen to be a part of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Photograph of Times employee Earl E. Craven. Mr. Craven was an employee of the Los Angeles Times from 1923 to 1956 (his death), rising through the ranks from assistant telegraph editor to being the assistant managing editor. In the years that he covered the night shift as the news editor and assistant managing editor, Mr. Craven was largely responsible for the make up of the Times' home edition. He also conducted a weekly broadcast on Times programs.