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Description:: This photograph appears with the article, “WILL THE aged RULE AMERICA?,” Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 1936: H3.
Date:: April 19, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of Ronald Mansbridge, representative of the Cambridge University Press, with the Rare Book Exhibition at the downtown Central Library of the Los Angeles Public Library. In the display case there are some photos of old portraits, some rare books, and two informational signs in English. The small paper on the top reads, “Four centuries of printing, An exhibition of books printed at the University Press, Cambridge, England,” and the large panel underneath reads, “Cambridge University Press, In Past Centuries, Books by Erasmus, Newton, Harvey, Donne, Gray, Milton, King Hames I. In recent times, Kelvin, Jebb, ‘Q’, Jeans, Eddington, Rutherford, Whitehead. 1521-1931”.
Date:: July 9, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of Judge Nye, who relieved Judge Arthur Crum as presiding judge of the Municipal Court. He is holding a fountain pen in one hand, presumably to take notes in the book in front of him.
Date:: March 6, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of Virginia Hudson wearing a suit and standing with stacks of books. She holds some books in her arms and has one open. Behind her are shelves with more books, and a book cart similar to those commonly found in libraries.
Date:: November 18, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: After saving a baby girl from a black widow spider bite and in the process subjecting himself to the spider's venom Lewis Wayland was dismissed from his position as medical assistant because hospital authorities disapproved of the attention and publicity that his actions had brought to the institution.
Date:: February 4, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Frances M. Willys, common-law wife of Dr. Walter Hammond, has been convicted in his murder. Ms. Willys' claims that she drunkenly acted in self defense by beating him with the hammer. Her attorney Welch took the witness stand to testify on her behalf.
Date:: December 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Group photo of instructor Arthur B. Crane and his students at Riverside County Jail. Some students pose holding books, and some are smoking cigarettes.
Date:: September 6, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Chief Marriage License Deputy, Rosamond Rice, with the book "Libro de Matrimonio," a record of marriage licenses issued within 1850-1854 in Los Angeles County. The book was found in the Los Angeles Courthouse.
Date:: October 28, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: James Warnack, religious writer for the Los Angeles Times, sits posed with a book.
Date:: [circa January 3, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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