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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:: From left to right, Clarence M. Fuller and Raymond W. McKee stand at center and look to the camera. Both men are dressed in suits and handcuffed together as they report to jail. Clarence Fuller stands facing right as he looks to the camera. He holds a hat in his bandaged right hand. Raymond McKee faces directly to camera. A wrapped package is tucked under his left arm. Another prisoner, standing in partial view along the right edge, is handcuffed to Raymond McKee's left wrist. Behind the men at center, a jail door stands open towards camera. Several men fill the doorway and look to the camera.
Date:: [circa March 24, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Portrait of oil magnate Edward L. Doheny, also known as E.L. or Ned Doheny. Most likely in his home which is currently on the Doheny campus of Mount Saint Mary’s University.
Date:: [1920s?]
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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Description:: After struggling for a year with illness the vice president and production manager of the Emsco Derrick and Equipment Company passed away at 53 years of age. He is credited as inventing one of the first electrical vacuum cleaners in 1911.
Date:: January 29, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, "'Miracle' Cast Preview Shown," Los Angeles Times, 09 Jan 1927: 3.
Date:: January 8, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: William Averell Harriman succeeded his father, E.H. Harriman, in the rail industry, and would eventually become the governor of New York.
Date:: January 24, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Raymond McKee in front of what appears to be a prison door and prison bars. He is wearing a suit. This photograph was possibly taken after McKee was convicted of grand theft in connection with the Richfield Oil Company, where he was formerly the vice-president.
Date:: [1932]
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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