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Description:: Close-up of photograph appears with the article, "Guardian Oil Plans To Expand," Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 1936: 14.
Date:: March 16, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A different photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article "NEW MEXICO OIL BOOM REPORTED: Los Angeles Operator Tells Stir in Lea County New Town Rising at Location of Company Holdings Concern Already Has Well on Production in Area," Los Angeles Times, 07 Oct 1929: 15.
Date:: October 6, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A different photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article "Merchant Pioneer of City Gone: Willard Arnott, Oil Man and Club Worker, Passes; Funeral Tomorrow," Los Angeles Times, 1 May 1931: A9.
Date:: May 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to story, “Pacific Coast Holds Phone Conversation With London,” Los Angeles Times, Feb. 27, 1927: 3.
Date:: [February 26, 1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Southern California Telephone Company vice-president and general manager N. R. Powley sits at the head of a table with an old-fashioned "candlestick" telephone. He is accompanied by nine other seated men, some of whom are wearing headphones. Photograph was taken on the occasion of a 10-minute phone call between Powley and H. E. Shreve, assistant to the vice-president of the American Telegraph Company, in his office in London. At that time, the call set a world record for long distance transmission of a human voice.
Date:: [February 26, 1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Southern California Telephone Company vice-president and general manager N. R. Powley sits at the head of a table with an old-fashioned "candlestick" telephone. He is accompanied by fourteen other seated men, some of whom are wearing headphones. Photograph was taken on the occasion of a 10-minute phone call between Powley and H. E. Shreve, assistant to the vice-president of the American Telegraph Company, in his office in London. At that time, the call set a world record for long distance transmission of a human voice.
Date:: [February 26, 1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Southern California Telephone Company vice-president and general manager N. R. Powley sits at the head of a table with an old-fashioned "candlestick" telephone. He is accompanied by ten other seated men, some of whom are wearing headphones. Photograph was taken on the occasion of a 10-minute phone call between Powley and H. E. Shreve, assistant to the vice-president of the American Telegraph Company, in his office in London. At that time, the call set a world record for long distance transmission of a human voice.
Date:: [February 26, 1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Similar photograph appears with the article, "Uptrend Noticed in West By Visiting Railway Man," Los Angeles Times, 15 July 1935: 6.
Date:: July 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: In August of 1927, the wealthy President of the Rothschild Mortgage and Finance Company, Jacob Goldstein, was charged with murdering his business associate Frederick A. Stern. Goldstein initially claimed to have killed Stern in self defense, but eventually pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter, and was sent to San Quentin prison. He was paroled in 1933, and left California for New York.
Date:: [August 19, 1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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