Names: Merriam, Frank Finley, 1865-1955 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: 28th Governor of California Frank Finley Merriam (back right) and actress/musician/politician Adele Arbo (back left) with five young women, presumably participants in a beauty contest. Contestants include (left to right); Sibyl D. Slinkard, Betty Meguire, Laura Kerr, Marjorie Owens, and Helen Gilbert. Photo may possibly have been taken at the San Bernadino Orange Show. Dates given for the photo are based on the dates of Merriam's tenure as Governor.
Date:: between June 2, 1934 and January 2, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Group portrait of former mayors George E. Cryer, John C. Porter, W.D. Stephens, Meredith P. Snyder, and F.T. Woodman, gathered to support Republican gubernatorial candidate Frank F. Merriam. George Edward Cryer served as mayor from 1921-1929. John Clinton Porter served as mayor from 1929-1933. William Dennison Stephens served as mayor from 1909 and Governor of California from 1917-1923. Meredith Pinxton Snyder served as mayor in 1897-1898, 1900-1904, and 1919-1921. Frederick Thomas Woodman served as mayor from 1916-1919.
Date:: October 19, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mayor Shaw and Governor Merriam pose together in front of a crowd. Frank Finley Merriam served as the 28th Governor of California from June 2, 1934 until January 2, 1939. Frank L Shaw was Mayor of Los Angeles from 1933 to September 16, 1938.
Date:: between 1933-1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Governor Frank Finley Merriam poses next to a copy of the United States Constitution. Frank Finley Merriam served as the 28th Governor of California from June 2, 1934 until January 2, 1939.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Exterior view of the Security Trust and Savings Bank, a Greek revival style building that served as the Democratic headquarters during rank Finley Merriam's campaign for Governor of California. Signs on the building read: "Governor Merriam for Governor," and "Merriam Democrats Registere Here!"
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Similar photograph appears with the article, "Hoover Lauds Strong Training of Early Iowa," Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec 1935: 1.
Date:: December 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Gymnasium Dedicated," Los Angeles Times, 05 Nov 1934: A1.
Date:: November 4, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A different photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Hoover Lauds Strong Training of Early Iowa," Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec 1935: 1.
Date:: December 25, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Charles Hamilton Owens (1881-1958) was an illustrator and landscape painter, and Los Angeles Times staff artist [identified as the photographer in image ark no. 21198/zz002d9x88].
Date:: May 29, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Owens, Charles H.
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Marion smiles at Governor Merriam as she offers him his membership card. Major Wishard stands on the other side of Marion and poses for the camera.
Date:: September 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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