Executive vice president of the Southern California Edison Co., W.C. Mullendore, and president of Levi Strauss & Co., Walter Haas, at the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce’s 49th annual banquet in the Ambassador Hotel’s fiesta room. Over 1,000 business, civic and social leaders attended the banquet which is held every year on George Washington’s birthday. The event celebrates the achievements of the Chamber of Commerce over the past year and lays out programs for the coming year.
Vice-President Charles Curtis seated on the far side of a banquet table between two women on the deck of a military ship. They are shaded by a canvas awning. Above the table is a gun turret holding three guns.
Vice-President Charles Curtis was in Los Angeles to represent President Herbert Hoover at the opening ceremony for the Olympic Games at the end of July 1932. Other photographs of Curtis in this negative sleeve were taken at that time.
Three men and three women participating in a University High School at University High School. They stand behind tables with coffee cups and decorated with flowers and a doll in a graduation gown.
Men and women seated and standing behind a banquet table at University High School event. The table is decorated with flowers and a doll in a graduation gown.
Men and women seated and standing behind a banquet table at University High School event. The table is decorated with flowers and a doll in a graduation gown
Photograph appears with this article: “Judge Thompson feted: banquet at Masonic Clubhouse attended by many distinguished legal lights and others,” Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 1933: A1.
L to R: Rufus Bernhard von Kleinsmid, President of the University of Southern California; Dr. George F. Zook, President of the American Council on Education; and Senator Elbert D. Thomas, of Utah, seated at a black tie banquet, perhaps at the University of Southern California.
Robert L. McCourt, newly elected president of W. Ross Campbell Company, (income-property mortgage banking company) seated next to Daniel C. Roper (previous Commissioner of Internal Revenue) and Walter J. Braunschweigher (executive at Bank of America) seated on Daniel's other side.
The photograph depicts Harry L. Harper (right) surrendering his gavel to new president of the Chamber of Commerce, Walter J. Braunschweiger, at a banquet at the Ambassador Hotel.
Prominent figures in the motion picture industry: Frank Lloyd, Joseph M. Schenck, George Jessel, Adolph Zukor, Darryl Zanuck, Louis B. Mayer and Jesse Lasky seated together at a banquet table
Postmaster-General James A. Farley gives a speech at the Los Angeles Breakfast Club meeting in which he was initiated into the club. This meeting was held at the Ambassador Hotel on July 19, 1934.
Related to article, "Postmaster-General to Speak. Farley Thrice on Dial Today. Breakfast Club, Luncheon and Dinner Talks Listed. Second Address Comes From Warner Brothers' Studio. Third Message to Be Given at Biltmore Banquet." Los Angeles Times, 19 July 1934:16.
Photograph of 5 notable attendees of the annual Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce banquet: Frederick Warde (Shakespearean actor), Arthur S. Bent (incoming chamber president), R. W. Pridham (outgoing chamber president), Joseph Scott (attorney, civic leader, Catholic lay leader), and Cyrus H. K. Curtis (publisher).
Newspapermen, possibly Harlan G. Palmer, Citizen-News publisher, and Harry Chandler, Times publisher, during "Newspaper Day," an Advertising Club program held in the Biltmore Hotel ballroom. 550 men and women gathered for the event to pay tribute to the newspaper.
This is a picture of Miss Alice Watanabe, elected Miss "Lil' Tokio" at the Second Annual Nisei Festival talking to K. Baba, one of the oldest pioneers honored at the festival. Miss Watanabe has a badge that reads,"Committee".
At the Tenth Olympiad banquet at the Biltmore, John C. Porter (Mayor of Los Angeles), Frank Merriam (Lieutenant Governor 1932-1934), Harry Chandler, James Rolph (Governor of California 1931-1934), 1 unidentified man, Adolph Schleicher (President of the Chamber of Commerce), Charles Curtis (Vice President 1929-1933) and others seated on one side of a banquet table in the Biltmore Hotel ballroom.
John C. Morse, president of the Ad Club, and John Bayard Taylor (Jack) Campbell, managing editor of the Herald-Express, during "Newspaper Day," an Advertising Club program held in the Biltmore Hotel ballroom. 550 men and women gathered for the event to pay tribute to the newspaper.
Los Angeles County Supervisor John Anson Ford, MLB umpire Tom Connolly and attorney Peirson Mitchell Hall standing together dressed in tuxedos at a banquet table.
Los Angeles County Supervisor John Anson Ford, MLB umpire Tom Connolly and attorney Peirson Mitchell Hall sitting together dressed in tuxedos at a banquet table.
New Chamber of Commerce President J.L. Van Norman (left) shakes hands with economist Dr. Thomas Nixon Carver and retiring Chamber President James L. Beebe stands center at the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce’s 49th annual banquet in the Ambassador Hotel’s fiesta room. Over 1,000 business, civic and social leaders attended the banquet which is held every year on George Washington’s birthday. The event celebrates the achievements of the Chamber of Commerce over the past year and lays out programs for the coming year.
Mrs. Jewell Adams with her husband John at a banquet honoring Los Angeles Police Department switchboard operators who had served since 1928. Mrs. Adams was included among the 15 honorees, who each received a service pin in the shape of a miniature telephone from the All City Employees Association.
Herbert Hoover, former President and Iowa's most distinguished native son, banned politics as chief speaker at annual dinner of the Iowa Association of Southern California in the Elks' Temple.
Herbert Hoover, former President and Iowa's most distinguished native son, banned politics as chief speaker at annual dinner of the Iowa Association of Southern California in the Elks' Temple.