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Santa Claus greets children as they line up for the Christmas party hosted by Bozzani Motor Company, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Children line up in front of the Bozzani Motor Company while attending the dealership's annual Christmas party. A wide sidewalk passes across the foreground. A couple children stand near camera at right. Farther back, at center, a Santa Claus stands facing camera. Behind him, children form a line. The line enters the dealership, off-center to the left, and stretches across the image towards the right. A few police officers stand on the near side of the line. The dealership's facade extends across the background.
Date:
[circa December 24, 1935]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Santa Claus greets children as they line up for the Christmas party hosted by Bozzani Motor Company, Los Angeles, 1935

Friday Morning Club members and children gather around a table of toys, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
At center, toys cover a table that sits in a large gallery space. From left to right, Friday Morning Club clubwomen, Cynthia Glatte, Gwen Carlson and Lila Mae Sampson stand around the left, back and right edges of the table, respectively. Both Cynthia Glatte and Lila Mae Sampson hold some of the toys. In front of them, Diane Glatte sits on the front left corner of the table and Paul Frederick sits on a tricycle in front of Lila Mae Sampson. Chairs are lined up against the back wall at right. From the same wall, 4 paintings hang. Light flows into the space from a window along the back wall at left.
Date:
December 23, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Friday Morning Club members and children gather around a table of toys, Los Angeles, 1935

Friday Morning Club members pose while cooking for a Christmas luncheon, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Friday Morning Club members: Mrs. Paul Harper, Mrs. Eugene Brown, Mrs. James E. Wilson, Willa A. Prindle and Ann Chase pose behind a prep table while cooking for a Christmas luncheon. The butcher block preparation table stretches across the foreground on an angle back to the right. The women stand in a row on the far side of the table, posing behind mixing bowls. Pots and pans hang from a large rack above them. The kitchen's back wall stretches across the background.
Date:
December 23, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Friday Morning Club members pose while cooking for a Christmas luncheon, Los Angeles, 1935

Santa Claus (Edward Shaffer) givess out Christmas presents to children at the Wilshire Council P.T.A.'s Christmas party, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
The camera hovers over a large crowd of children and their parents at the Wilshire Council P.T.A.'s Christmas party held at the Farmers' Public Market. The crowd occupies the lower two-thirds of the image and generally faces towards the right. To the right of the crowd, Edward Shaffer, dressed as Santa Claus, stands elevated from the crowd and hands out gifts to children in the crowd. He faces towards camera as he picks up a gift. The large pile of gifts sit the right of him. Behind and to the right of him, children form a line. Beyond Santa Claus and the crowd, cars park in a row. Farther back, the Farmers' Public Market stall stretches across the background.
Date:
December 21, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Santa Claus (Edward Shaffer) givess out Christmas presents to children at the Wilshire Council P.T.A.'s Christmas party, Los Angeles, 1935

Boy meets Santa Claus, Los Angeles vicinity, 1938

Description:
From left to right, a Santa Claus sits in his display and a boy stands in front of him. The boy sports a suit as he stands facing Santa Claus. Santa Claus looks towards the boy as he holds one of his hands. He sits in a small Christmas display. The back of Santa Claus' chair is shaped like a Christmas tree. It is recessed in a little alcove. A candy-cane striped column stands behind and between Santa Claus and the boy.
Date:
[circa December, 1938]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Boy meets Santa Claus, Los Angeles vicinity, 1938

Santa Claus (Edward Shaffer) hands out Christmas presents to children at the Wilshire Council P.T.A.'s Christmas party, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Related to the article, "CHRISTMAS PLANS LAID: City Ready for Observance Thousands of Children as Well as Grown-ups Will Be Remembered CITY AWAITS CHRISTMAS Plans Laid for Observance Thousands of Children and Grown-ups to Be Cheered by Charitable Groups," Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 1935: A1
Date:
December 21, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Santa Claus (Edward Shaffer) hands out Christmas presents to children at the Wilshire Council P.T.A.'s Christmas party, Los Angeles, 1935

Children receive gifts at the Shriners' Christmas party, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Children pose beside Santa Claus and his sleigh during the Shriners' Christmas party. About a dozen children stand in a cluster at left. They all don fezzes that read, "FS," and hold up the gifts they received. At center, a Shriner member stands to the right of the group and points towards the children. Behind him, from left to right, Santa Claus and Mickey Mouse stand in a sleigh. The Mickey Mouse character holds onto the sleigh's reins. Hoofed animals stand in partial view ahead of the sleigh at right. Painted scenery stretches across the background.
Date:
December 23, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Children receive gifts at the Shriners' Christmas party, Los Angeles, 1935

Three girls visit a Santa Claus, Los Angeles vicinity, 1938

Description:
At left, a Santa Claus sits, facing right, in his small Christmas display as he greets visiting children. Three young girls line up to the right of him. The two leftmost girls don the same outfit. One of them stands slightly behind Santa Claus and smiles to camera. Her sister (presumably) stands in front of Santa and looks towards him. A girl in braided pigtails stands to the right of them. She pouts as she looks towards Santa Claus. The back of Santa Claus' chair is shaped like a Christmas tree. It is recessed in a little alcove that is flanked by candy-cane striped columns.
Date:
[circa December, 1938]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Three girls visit a Santa Claus, Los Angeles vicinity, 1938

Lieutenant Virginia White poses with several children at a Salvation Army Christmas party, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Off-center to the right, Lieutenant Virginia White sits among several children during the Salvation Army's Christmas party at Polytechnic High School. Lieutenant White is dressed in all black and looks to the right of the camera. A young girl sits on her lap. Behind and to either side of her, 2 boys stand. The boy at left holds a toy airplane. Two more boys stand to either side of Virginia White's lap. Another girl stands at far left and holds a doll. Two boys sit on the ground in front of everyone. The children all hold small gift boxes. Folding chairs rest or hang from the wall at left.
Date:
December 27, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Lieutenant Virginia White poses with several children at a Salvation Army Christmas party, Los Angeles, 1935

Police Officers William Patterson and Steven Henzel thank nurses Louis Greiner, William Pearce, and Lila Strange as they leave the hospital to eat Christmas dinner at home, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
This photograph may be associated with the article, “POLICE PAIR GIVEN CHEER: Injured Officers in Hospital Weeks to Eat Christmas Dinners at Homes,” Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 1935: A12.
Date:
December 25, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Police Officers William Patterson and Steven Henzel thank nurses Louis Greiner, William Pearce, and Lila Strange as they leave the hospital to eat Christmas dinner at home, Los Angeles, 1935