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Photograph of Charles P. Schottland, Roy W. Pilling, and Archibald Young, administrators of Los Angeles' and California's state relief organizations during the Great Depression.

Description:
Photo depicting Charles I. Schottland (center), director of the California State Relief Association, meets with Roy W. Pilling (right), director of the Los Angeles County Relief Association, and Archibald Young, chairman of the Citizens' Relief Committee of Los Angeles. All three men held various high-level positions within California's State Emergency Relief Association and related groups over the course of their careers in public service. These groups included SERA's successor the California State Relief Association and its local branches, and the Citizens' Relief Committee.
Date:
[circa 1935-1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Photograph of Charles P. Schottland, Roy W. Pilling, and Archibald Young, administrators of Los Angeles' and California's state relief organizations during the Great Depression.

Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Mae Stoneman and Mary La Dame at banquet of the California Federation of Democratic Women's Study Clubs, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:
Unidentified woman, Mae Stoneman, Mary La Dame and Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (left to right) at a banquet of the California Federation of Democratic Women's Study Clubs, following the opening of the first airplane apprentice school at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Perkins, addressed the same evening banquet. Perkins visited Los Angeles for two days to welcome the new class of 37 junior employees who were to begin the program.
Date:
February 15, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Mae Stoneman and Mary La Dame at banquet of the California Federation of Democratic Women's Study Clubs, Los Angeles, 1940

Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins with Antoinette Jones, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (left) with Antoinette Jones, wife of lawyer Mattison Boyd Jones, during the opening of the first airplane apprentice school at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Perkins visited Los Angeles for two days to welcome the new class of 37 junior employees who were to begin the program.
Date:
February 15, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins with Antoinette Jones, Los Angeles, 1940

Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins with Antoinette Jones, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (left) with Antoinette Jones, wife of lawyer Mattison Boyd Jones, during the opening of the first airplane apprentice school at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Perkins visited Los Angeles for two days to welcome the new class of 37 junior employees who were to begin the program.
Date:
February 15, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins with Antoinette Jones, Los Angeles, 1940

Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins with Antoinette Jones, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (left) with Antoinette Jones, wife of lawyer Mattison Boyd Jones, during the opening of the first airplane apprentice school at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Perkins visited Los Angeles for two days to welcome the new class of 37 junior employees who were to begin the program.
Date:
February 15, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins with Antoinette Jones, Los Angeles, 1940

Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins speaks to crowd at Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins speaks to crowd standing next to airplane during the opening of the first airplane apprentice school at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Perkins visited Los Angeles for two days to welcome the new class of 37 junior employees who were to begin the program.
Date:
February 15, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins speaks to crowd at Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Los Angeles, 1940

Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins speaks to crowd at Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins speaks to crowd standing next to airplane during the opening of the first airplane apprentice school at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Perkins visited Los Angeles for two days to welcome the new class of 37 junior employees who were to begin the program.
Date:
February 15, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins speaks to crowd at Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Los Angeles, 1940

Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins and Mae Stoneman at banquet of the California Federation of Democratic Women's Study Clubs, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:
Unidentified woman, Mae Stoneman and Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (left to right) at a banquet of the California Federation of Democratic Women's Study Clubs, following the opening of the first airplane apprentice school at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Perkins, addressed the same evening banquet. Perkins visited Los Angeles for two days to welcome the new class of 37 junior employees who were to begin the program.
Date:
February 15, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins and Mae Stoneman at banquet of the California Federation of Democratic Women's Study Clubs, Los Angeles, 1940

Antoinette Jones welcomes Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins upon her arrival by train, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:
Antoinette Jones (left), wife of lawyer Mattison Boyd Jones, welcomes Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins upon her arrival in Los Angeles for the opening of the first airplane apprentice school at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Perkins visited Los Angeles for two days to welcome the new class of 37 junior employees who were to begin the program.
Date:
February 15, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Antoinette Jones welcomes Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins upon her arrival by train, Los Angeles, 1940

Antoinette Jones welcomes Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins upon her arrival by train, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:
Antoinette Jones (left), wife of lawyer Mattison Boyd Jones, welcomes Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins upon her arrival in Los Angeles for the opening of the first airplane apprentice school at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Perkins visited Los Angeles for two days to welcome the new class of 37 junior employees who were to begin the program.
Date:
February 15, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Antoinette Jones welcomes Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins upon her arrival by train, Los Angeles, 1940

Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins with Antoinette Jones, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (left) with Antoinette Jones, wife of lawyer Mattison Boyd Jones, during the opening of the first airplane apprentice school at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Perkins visited Los Angeles for two days to welcome the new class of 37 junior employees who were to begin the program.
Date:
February 15, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins with Antoinette Jones, Los Angeles, 1940

David Gill, first assistant postmaster William W. Howes, acting postmaster of Los Angeles Mary D. Briggs, and supervisor John Anson Ford having breakfast at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, January 7, 1938

Description:
From left to right: David Gill, first assistant postmaster general William W. Howes, acting postmaster of Los Angeles Mary D. Briggs, and supervisor John Anson Ford having breakfast at the Ambassador Hotel. Howes was visiting Los Angeles to make the principle address at the Jackson Day dinner, held at the Hotel on the evening of January 8, 1938
Date:
January 7, 1938
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
David Gill, first assistant postmaster William W. Howes, acting postmaster of Los Angeles Mary D. Briggs, and supervisor John Anson Ford having breakfast at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, January 7, 1938

Maj. Donald H. Connolly, C.W.A. director of Los Angeles County, meets with Peirson M. Hall and Capt. Edward Macauley, circa February 1934.

Description:
Maj. Donald H. Connolly, United States Army engineering officer, succeeded Harrold English as C.W.A. director of Los Angeles County. In this image, Maj. Connolly (cent.) meets with Capt. Edward H. Macaulay (left), the state director of the C.W.A. for California, and Peirson M. Hall (right), federal prosecutor for LA County.Donald H. Connollly was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers from West Point in 1910, and was the officerin charge of the W.P.A of southern California for 1935-1939. He would go on to reach the rank of Major General, serving in the Persian Gulf command from 1942-1944. Ma. Gen. Donald H. Connolly retired from service in 1948 and died in 1969.Peirson M. Hall was a Federal prosecutor for southern California. He took office on May 1, 1933. Peirson Hall later became a local federal judge for Los Angeles, serving for over 35 years.Capt. Edward Macauley was a retired Naval captain, who served as the administrator of the Civil Works Administration for California for 1933-1934. He went on to serve as a member of the U.S. Maritime Commission and as a deputy administrator of the War Shipping Administration. He previously had served as a naval architect and marine engineer, as well as the director of emergency relief for San Mateo county.
Date:
[circa February 1, 1934]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Maj. Donald H. Connolly, C.W.A. director of Los Angeles County, meets with Peirson M. Hall and Capt. Edward Macauley, circa February 1934.

Maj. Donald H. Connolly, C.W.A. director of Los Angeles County, meets with Peirson M. Hall and Capt. Edward Macauley, circa February 1934.

Description:
Maj. Donald H. Connolly, United States Army engineering officer, succeeded Harrold English as C.W.A. director of Los Angeles County. In this image, Maj. Connolly (cent.) meets with Capt. Edward H. Macaulay (left), the state director of the C.W.A. for California, and Peirson M. Hall (right), federal prosecutor for LA County.Donald H. Connollly was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers from West Point in 1910, and was the officerin charge of the W.P.A of southern California for 1935-1939. He would go on to reach the rank of Major General, serving in the Persian Gulf command from 1942-1944. Ma. Gen. Donald H. Connolly retired from service in 1948 and died in 1969.Peirson M. Hall was a Federal prosecutor for southern California. He took office on May 1, 1933. Peirson Hall later became a local federal judge for Los Angeles, serving for over 35 years.Capt. Edward Macauley was a retired Naval captain, who served as the administrator of the Civil Works Administration for California for 1933-1934. He went on to serve as a member of the U.S. Maritime Commission and as a deputy administrator of the War Shipping Administration. He previously had served as a naval architect and marine engineer, as well as the director of emergency relief for San Mateo county.
Date:
[circa February 1, 1934]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Maj. Donald H. Connolly, C.W.A. director of Los Angeles County, meets with Peirson M. Hall and Capt. Edward Macauley, circa February 1934.

Harry Hopkins meets with local relief leaders, Los Angeles, October 1, 1935

Description:
Photo taken when Hopkins, then national administrator of the WPA, met with local relief leaders in Los Angeles during a trip with President Roosevelt. Connolly was LA county Public Works Administrator. Young was chairman of the Citizens’ Relief Committee. Hinckley was director of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Pilling was director of LA County Relief Administration. McLaughlin was state director of the WPA.
Date:
October 1, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Harry Hopkins meets with local relief leaders, Los Angeles, October 1, 1935

Harold E. Pomeroy, director of Los Angeles County Relief Administration, Los Angeles County, 1935

Description:
Portrait photograph of Harold E. Pomeroy, who was assistant director and director of public relations of the Los Angeles County Relief Administration, the local branch of the State Emergency Relief Administration (S.E.R.A.). S.E.R.A. provided relief funds during the Great Depression.
Date:
[July 29, 1935?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Harold E. Pomeroy, director of Los Angeles County Relief Administration, Los Angeles County, 1935

A. H. Conner, Thomas M. Bell, and Dr. Amos W. Butler on a federal tour of prisons, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:
Superintendent of federal prisons A. H. Conner (left), consultant Dr. Amos W. Butler (middle), and congressman Thomas M. Bell on a federal tour of prisons for the Congressional Committee on Prisons. Photo appears with the article, "Federal Men On Tour Of Prisons: Georgia Representative and Aides Inspect Jail Data Sought for Framing of Report to Congress Conditions Found Better in Nation Than Expected," Los Angeles Times, 04 Oct. 1928: A11.
Date:
October 3, 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
A. H. Conner, Thomas M. Bell, and Dr. Amos W. Butler on a federal tour of prisons, Los Angeles, 1928

Leon H. Cubberley and Gordon McDonough discuss plans for County Courthouse, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Photograph of Leon H. Cubberley, who is secretary to Secretary of the Interior Ickes (not pictured), and Gordon McDonough. They met recently to discuss the plans for the projected County Courthouse project. In their hands they hold a map of downtown Los Angeles, which reads in English “Civic Center for the City & County of Los Angeles”.
Date:
October 5, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Leon H. Cubberley and Gordon McDonough discuss plans for County Courthouse, Los Angeles, 1935

A. J. Wallace, Friend W. Richardson, C. C. Young, William D. Stephens and Buron Fitts pose during a party rally for Herbert Hoover, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:
From left to right, A. J. Wallace, Friend W. Richardson, C. C. Young, William D. Stephens and Buron Fitts pose during a party rally for Herbert Hoover's Presidential campaign. The men stand in a row and look forward. Governor Young and Lieutenant Governor Fitts both wear "DELEGATE" ribbons on their lapels. The group appears to stand in a hallway. Behind them, a wall stretches across the background and a door stands, off-center to the left.
Date:
[circa April 4, 1928]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
A. J. Wallace, Friend W. Richardson, C. C. Young, William D. Stephens and Buron Fitts pose during a party rally for Herbert Hoover, Los Angeles, 1928

Patrick J. Hurley, former War Secretary, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
This photograph appears with the article, “BAR UPHOLDS SANCTITY OF HIGH COURT: N.R.A. Decision Stressed Convention Urges Deporting of Alien Criminals and Raps Bureaucracy BAR APPLAUDS SANCTITY OF NATION’S HIGH COURT Independence of Judiciary Called Safeguard of Constitution; Uniform Laws Urged,” Los Angeles Times, 17 Jul. 1935: 1.
Date:
July 17, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Patrick J. Hurley, former War Secretary, Los Angeles, 1935

Aleck Curlett and Dwight W. Stephenson, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
At center, Public Works Administration officials, Aleck Curlett and Dwight W. Stephenson pose behind a desk. Aleck Curlett (leftmost) sits at the desk, behind a stack of papers. Dwight W. Stephenson stands behind and to the right of him. He leans slightly forward. Both men glance to the left of the camera. The office's door stands behind them.
Date:
March 23, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Aleck Curlett and Dwight W. Stephenson, Los Angeles, 1936

George C. Butte with his wife and daughters at a train station, Los Angeles, 1931

Description:
George C. Butte standing between his wife, Mary, on the right, and two daughters, Catherine and Pauline. Photo appears with the article, "They'll go to Make Home in the Philippines: Butte Here Enroute to Island Post Philippines Vice-Governor With Wife and Daughters Southland Guest for Day," Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 1931: A1.
Date:
January 11, 1931
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
George C. Butte with his wife and daughters at a train station, Los Angeles, 1931

U. S. Atty. Sam McNabb, U. S. Asst. Atty.-Gen. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, and U. S. Marshal Albert Sittel appeal to the Board of Supervisors, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:
Asst. Atty.-Gen. Willebrandt, Atty. McNabb, and Marshal Sittel conferred with the Board of Supervisors in an attempt to adjust the cost of keeping Federal prisoners in the new County Jail. The government has been paying 50 cents a day but the county is asking for $1.00.
Date:
February 1926
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
U. S. Atty. Sam McNabb, U. S. Asst. Atty.-Gen. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, and U. S. Marshal Albert Sittel appeal to the Board of Supervisors, Los Angeles, 1926

City Treasurer of Venice E. H. Racek meets with Los Angeles City Treasurer Ned T. Powell, Los Angeles, 1925

Description:
City Treasurer of Venice Edward H. Racek meets with Los Angeles City Treasurer Ned T. Powell prior to Venice's consolidation into the city of Los Angeles. Most likely related to the article "LOS ANGELES TAKES OVER VENICE CASH: Custodian of Beach City's Funds Transfers Monies Remaining in Treasury," Los Angeles Times, 01 Dec. 1925: A1.
Date:
[circa November 30, 1925]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
City Treasurer of Venice E. H. Racek meets with Los Angeles City Treasurer Ned T. Powell, Los Angeles, 1925

Dwight F. Davis, United States Secretary of War, speaking at a Chamber luncheon, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:
Dwight F. Davis, United States Secretary of War, speaking into a microphone at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon at the Biltmore. Seated from left to right, architect John C. Austin, Secretary Davis, Shannon Crandall, Lieutenant Lester J. Maitland, and explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins. Photo appears with the article, "War Secretary Discusses Nation's Growing Wings," Los Angeles Times, 02 Aug. 1928: A1.
Date:
August 01, 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Dwight F. Davis, United States Secretary of War, speaking at a Chamber luncheon, Los Angeles, 1928

Heads of National and State Federal Transient Service gather for conference, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:
Photograph of Heads of National and State Transient Services as they gather for a conference to discuss the ways to reduce vagrancy. F. H. Holcomb, assistant director of Maryland, Marshall B. Thompson, director of Texas, William J. Plunkert, national director and Harold A. R. Carleton, director of California. California, in that year, had the most transients registered with the Federal Transient Service than any state in the Union.
Date:
July 10, 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Heads of National and State Federal Transient Service gather for conference, Los Angeles, 1934