Names: Socha, Mabel V., 1883-1966 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Handwriting on back of photo: L to R Griffith, Roberto, Socha & True
Date:: circa 1925
Resource Type:: still image

Description:: Handwriting on back: Handwriting on back of photo: Park Comissioners Seated left to right, Warren Bovard, Mabel Socha and E.P. Ryland. Standing L to R Van M. Griffith & Walter Yeatman
Date:: circa 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Fabris, Alfred
Collection:: Griffith Family Papers, 1845-1973

Description:: Typed note on back of photograph: This photograph taken June 10, 1927 on the occasion of the delivery by J. Harvey McCarthy of deed from the Carthay Center Syndicate to the Los Angeles Park Board to the Parks in Carthay Center. Left to right - Mrs. Mabel V. Socha, Member Los Angeles Park Board. Henry Lion, sculptor of the "Pioneer". Van Griffith, President of Los Angeles Park Board. J. Harvey McCarthy.
Date:: 1927
Resource Type:: still image

Description:: (left to right) Park Superintendent Gilbert L. Skutt, Park Commission Chairman Mabel V. Socha, and Park Commission Engineer Roy T. Green examine a new earth crack in Elysian Park. The new crack follows a huge landslide in the park which dumped 1,500,000 tons of rock and dirt down the slope of Buena Vista Peak and onto Riverside Drive. Skutt, Socha, and Green are part of a group designated to devise a rehabilitation strategy for the park.
Date:: November 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mabel V. Socha, holding magnifying glass, and Homer Cross, both seated at table, holding plates for counterfeiting dollar coins, with calendar in background
Date:: March 6, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Possibly connected to Los Angeles Times article, August 17, 1933, Bel-Air Fete to Raise Fund to Beautify City. …The meeting was called by Mrs. John D. Fredericks, president of the Women’s Service Auxiliary of the [C]hamber [of Commerce] … sponsored by the vacant lots and parkways section of the chamber’s civic beautification committee, of which Mrs. Gerald B. Burtnett is chairman … Features of the fete will include … a buffet lunch at noon … Mayor Shaw and the City Park Commission, of which Mrs. Max Socha is president, have offered their assistance
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Possibly connected to Los Angeles Times article, October 12, 1933, Incendiary Sign in Blaze Cited, Park Fire Tragedy Inquest Witnesses Tell Story, Mysterious Stranger Seen Fleeing From Scene, Inquiry May Be Drawn Out Over Several Days. … testimony brought a barrage of questions from Deputy City Attorney Sisk, seated next to Mrs. Mabel Socha, president of the Park Commission … Conducting a general examination of the witnesses were Chief Deputy District Attorney Stewart …
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mabel Socha, Agnes Fredericks, Major Harry Bateson, and Mary Logan Orcutt at a luncheon sponsored by the Civic Beautification Committee. All four were speakers at the luncheon.
Date:: January 22, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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