Photographer: Owens, Charles H. / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph of the Shell Oil Company Building, cast in concrete in the shape of a seashell, at the California Pacific International Exposition during the end stages of construction. A ladder is suspended from the top of the shell and a man is suspended on a scaffold near the top on the right. Scaffolding is on the ground in front of the building. Technical writing appears on each shell spandrel about midway up the façade (where there appears to be a join between 2 large cast shell sections), at the bases of the shell spandrels, and around the doorway. A flatbed truck and 2 cars are parked in front and 2 boys are passing on a bicycle.
Date:: [circa 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Owens, Charles H.
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Parking lot at the California Pacific International Exposition in Balboa Park with a sign reading "Reserved for Press-Publicity" on a small Spanish style building
Date:: [1935-1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Owens, Charles H.
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Street car stop at the California Pacific International Exposition in Balboa Park, with tracks in the foreground and an arcade in the background.
Date:: [1935-1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Owens, Charles H.
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of visitors looking at exhibitions in the Ford Building at the California Pacific International Exposition
Date:: [1935-1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Owens, Charles H.
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Line of 9 dancers in front of a building with monumental scroll-work ornament at the California Pacific International Exposition
Date:: May 27, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Owens, Charles H.
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of visitors streaming into the California Pacific International Exposition with the entrance gate in the background
Date:: [1935-1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Owens, Charles H.
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Negatives uclamss_1429_0584 to uclamss_1429_612 are accompanied by a note reading: "E. H., These are San Diego Fair negs. brought in by Charlie Owens, JSW". Charles Hamilton Owens was a staff artist at the Los Angeles Times.
Date:: [1935-1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Owens, Charles H.
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of Navy sailors providing a fanfare of bugles in front of the Federal Building at the California Pacific International Exposition.
Date:: [1935-1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Owens, Charles H.
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Juan Larrinaga (Juan Baptista Manuel Larrinaga) was born on San Antonia, Baja, Mexico. He graduated from St. Vincents College in Los Angeles in 1900, worked as an artist-designer in the movie industry, and was an art director for several expositions around the country.
Date:: May 29, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Owens, Charles H.
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:: [1935-1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Owens, Charles H.
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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