Subject: Automobiles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Line of automobiles on Gordon Stewart Northcott's chicken coop ranch in Riverside, California, where an investigation was in place in search of evidence and/or bodily remains of his murder victims. Northcott was accused of kidnapping, molesting, torturing, and brutally murdering three young boys and aiding in the murder of another in 1928, which his mother admitted to, and she received a life sentence in jail. Northcott was found guilty on all accounts and was executed by hanging on October 2, 1930 at the age of 23.
Date:: [between 1928-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: For related images of the same accident scene, see Old Div IDs uclamss_1429_15056 through uclamss_1429_15062.
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: A shot of the exterior of the California Bank Building, taken from the corner across the street.
Date:: [circa January, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A prominent Los Angeles shanty town, or “Hooverville,” was located on a five-acre vacant lot on Alameda and Firestone during the early 1930s, the height of the Great Depression, populated by homeless people and families. This particular Hooverville was located on 8445 S. Alameda Street.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, "Greatest Armada in Nation's History Passes in Review; Navy Parades Strength in Sea and Air Tableau; Hundreds of Ships and Aircraft Pass in Stately Review Before Crowds Masses on Shore." Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 1932: A1.
Date:: April 19, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: On the property of the original Mexican land grant of Rancho Santa Paula y Saticoy. The ranch was purchaseed by Edmund C. Converse, Jr. in 1908.
Date:: February, 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Elwood Haynes designed the first successful automobile in the United States as well as stainless steel tableware.
Date:: July 8, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: An unidentified young man or boy stands by an automobile parked outside the entrance to the Sutro Tunnel in Virginia City, Nevada. The door is propped open by a small barrel, but the entrance is blocked by metal bars. The young man is wearing a newsboy cap and overalls and has his left arm bent and left hand resting on his hip.
Date:: [circa December 10, 1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: A worker stands by the trunk of a car while others work in the stands. On the left are piles of rubble and dirt.
Date:: [circa November, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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