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Wynn Todd, Anne Erne, Marjory Davies, Marjorie Albee, Irene Unicume, and Elsie A. Miller, members of the Velada Club, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
Four women seated and two women standing around a four-person table. The table is covered in a table cloth, and has three place settings, four water glasses, and salt and pepper shakers. Seated are Wynn Todd, Anne Erne, Marjory Davies, Marjorie Albee. Standing are Irene Unicume and Elsie A. Miller.
Date:
[circa January 31, 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Wynn Todd, Anne Erne, Marjory Davies, Marjorie Albee, Irene Unicume, and Elsie A. Miller, members of the Velada Club, Los Angeles, 1936

W.C. Mullendore and Walter Haas at the 49th annual banquet for the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce held at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, February 22, 1940

Description:
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.
Date:
February 22, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
W.C. Mullendore and Walter Haas at the 49th annual banquet for the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce held at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, February 22, 1940

Walter P. Chrysler, Perry H. Greer, and A. C. Robbins posing in front of a Chrysler Six, Los Angeles, 1924

Description:
Chrysler P. Walter, founder of the Chrysler Corporation, in the center with Perry H. Greer and A. C. Robbins, of the Greer-Robbins Company, standing in front of a Chrysler Six. The Greer-Robbins Company was the distributor of Chrysler automobiles in Southern California. Perry H. Greer was head of the company and A. C. Robbins was the secretary treasurer.
Date:
1924
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Walter P. Chrysler, Perry H. Greer, and A. C. Robbins posing in front of a Chrysler Six, Los Angeles, 1924

Supervisors John Anson Ford and Harry M. Baine shake hands and exchange a flower, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:
Supervisors John Anson Ford and Harry M. Baine shake hands and exchange a flower. John Anson Ford was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from 1934-1958. He was a member of the state Democratic Central Committee in the 1940's and 1950's. In 1976, the County of Los Angeles named a performing arts theatre the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in honor of the county supervisor. Harry M. Baine served as a Los Angeles County Supervisor and was a prominent businessman who built the Baine Building on Hollywood Blvd.
Date:
1930s
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Supervisors John Anson Ford and Harry M. Baine shake hands and exchange a flower, Los Angeles, 1930s

Six men at the opening for the educational display of the Colorado River Project, Los Angeles, 1931

Description:
A group of men standing in front of a sign that reads "Colorado River Water Metropolitan Aqueduct." Everyone is holding up a glass of water. This photograph was taken at the opening for the educational display for the Colorado River Aqueduct. From left to right, William P. Whitsett, William Mulholland, Frank E. Weymouth, H. A. Van Norman, John G. Bullock, and Franklin Thomas. Photo appears with the article, "John G. Bullock's Rise to City Leadership Saga of Triumph for American Creed: Merchant's Career Tale of Courageous Life," Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 1933: A2.
Date:
September 29, 1931
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Six men at the opening for the educational display of the Colorado River Project, Los Angeles, 1931

Robert L. McCourt, Daniel C. Roper, and Walter J. Braunschweiger at a banquet, Los Angeles, 1931

Description:
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.
Date:
1931
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Robert L. McCourt, Daniel C. Roper, and Walter J. Braunschweiger at a banquet, Los Angeles, 1931

Presentation of Naval Reserve flag to Capt. William R. Meyer by Capt. Alonzo H. Woodbine, Los Angeles Harbor, 1932

Description:
The Matson Line's new ocean liner Mariposa, part of the Navy's merchant marine component, was welcomed to the Los Angeles Harbor prior to her inaugural voyage to Sydney, Australia. Also present were Lieutenant-Commander James A. Crutchfield (regular Navy) and shipping executive Joseph B. Banning, Jr.
Date:
May, 1932
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Presentation of Naval Reserve flag to Capt. William R. Meyer by Capt. Alonzo H. Woodbine, Los Angeles Harbor, 1932

Ned R. Powley and other officials of the Southern California Telephone Company on the occasion of a historic transatlantic phone call, 1927

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
OpenUCLA Collections
Ned R. Powley and other officials of the Southern California Telephone Company on the occasion of a historic transatlantic phone call, 1927

Ned R. Powley and other officials of the Southern California Telephone Company on the occasion of a historic transatlantic phone call, 1927

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
OpenUCLA Collections
Ned R. Powley and other officials of the Southern California Telephone Company on the occasion of a historic transatlantic phone call, 1927

Ned R. Powley and other officials of the Southern California Telephone Company on the occasion of a historic transatlantic phone call, 1927

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
OpenUCLA Collections
Ned R. Powley and other officials of the Southern California Telephone Company on the occasion of a historic transatlantic phone call, 1927

Mortgage broker Jacob Goldstein, accused of murder, Los Angeles, 1927

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
OpenUCLA Collections
Mortgage broker Jacob Goldstein, accused of murder, Los Angeles, 1927