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Description:: Veteran Deputy Sheriffs Angel A. Yorba and George Shehi retire and pose with Sheriff Eugene W. Biscailuz at their retirement ceremony. Left to right: Yorba, Biscailuz, Shehi.
Date:: December 12, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: W.P. Whitsett, one of the founders of the city of Van Nuys, recounts its founding at the city's twenty-third birthday party. February 22nd, 1934.
Date:: February 22, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mrs. Fleeta Gettle, her four children, and an unidentified woman smile for the camera through a window, after the safe return of kidnapping victim (as well as husband and father) William F. Gettle.William F. Gettle, Beverly Hills millionaire, was kidnapped from the grounds of his Arcadia ranch home during a housewarming party on the eve of May 9th. The kidnapping attracted a great deal of attention in the community, with Mrs. Gettle even addressing the kidnappers through the pages of the Los Angeles Times. The kidnappers demanded a $60,000 ransom for the return of Gettle, which Mrs. Gettle agreed to pay. However, before the ransom was paid, two detectives of the LAPD, Chester Burris and H.P. Gearhardt, broke the case after installing a dictaphone in the home of a bank robbery suspect. Information from the dictaphone led them to a La Crescenta home where Gettle was held. He was returned, unharmed, to his family on the eve of May 14th.
Date:: [circa May 15, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: W.P. Whitsett, one of the founders of the city of Van Nuys, recounts its founding at the city's twenty-third birthday party. February 22nd, 1934.
Date:: February 22, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: This image is described in Los Angeles Times article, June 15, 1934, Ten Thousand Gather fo U.S.C. Graduation, Class of 1593 Given Diplomas and Other Awards in Colorful Twilight Ceremony at Coliseum … There were dramatic moments, too, such as when Dr. Frank C. Touton, vice-president of the university, who awarded the diplomas, found his pretty young daughter, Herriette [Harriet] Louise Touton, in line and as soon as he had handed her a diploma he planted a resounding kiss on her cheek. …
Date:: June 14, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Dedication of Boquet Reservoir with William P. Whitsett, Chairman of the Metropolitan Water District; H. A. Van Norman, Chief Engineer and General Manager of the Bureau of Water Works; and Los Angeles Mayor Frank Shaw standing in front of the gates of the concrete inlet-outlet tower
Date:: March 28, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Senora Louisa Arenas de Stanchfield, surviving daughter of Luis Arenas, presiding over the dedication of Pioneers Monument in Ganesha Park. The monument is in the form of a relief plaque in an elevated concrete frame, with a semicircular retaining wall made of river stones against a wooded hill behind it. Luis Arenas, Ignacio Palomares and Ricardo Vejar were the Spanish grantees of ranch on which Pomona is built.
Date:: October 13, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mayor Frank Shaw, in suit and tie, walking in front of crowd of mostly children and women, most in summer clothing, some in military hats, policeman in back of crowd, outdoors with lawn in foreground, trees and hills in background
Date:: 19933-1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Raymond Fink posing as Frans Hals' painting The Laughing Cavalier, with upturned moustache, in embroidered jacket with ruff, photographed within dark frame, with woman partially visible at lower right
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Probably connected to Los Angeles Times article, June 9, 1934, Sproul Raps Communism, Rotarians Hear U.C. Head, Says Reds Will Never Be Tolerated in California or United States, Painting of Universities as Hot Beds of Radicalism Decried by Speaker. Communism was attacked yesterday by Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul, president of the University of California, in an address at a Los Angeles Rotary Club luncheon in the Biltmore … George E. Montgomery, president of the local Rotary Club, presided.
Date:: June 8, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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