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Description:: Governor C. C. Young (far right) and John C. Austin (center) joined officials during the groundbreaking ceremony for the new State Building on First and Spring streets. A sign in the background estimates the cost of the construction to be $1,250,000.
Date:: August 21, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of crowd at dedication ceremony and tree planting at Olympic Park (Exposition Park). From left to right: Count Henri de Baillet-Latour, president of the International Olympic Committee; William M. Bowen; William May Garland; Rufus B. von KleinSmid; Governor James Rolph, with a shovel in hand. The University of Southern California campus can be seen in the background.
Date:: August 3, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Rolph, dressed in some sort of Spanish costume, stands before a microphone to deliver a speech, likely at the City Hall steps, where the parade began and ended. The celebration marks the anniversary of Spanish settlers' "founding" of Los Angeles.
Date:: September 5, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: This photograph is likely related to the article, "Old West's Spirit Revived in Parade Heralding Stock Shows Launching," Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov 1935: 3.
Date:: November 16, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Gov. Frank Merriam (left) and Earl Anderson (right). Gov. Merriam defeated Upton Sinclair for governor of California.
Date:: September 4, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Text from newspaper caption: Just a portion of throng at picnic. One section of the enormous crowd, which made up yesterday’s annual Iowa State picnic at Lincoln Park, and, below, Lieut.-Gov. Merriam, former president of the Iowa Association of Southern California, and Robert Brennan, present executive of the Iowans in California.
Date:: February 25, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Jose Maria Tapia (7th from left), C.C. Young (4th from right), and eleven other men, all standing, in suits and ties, indoors on tile floor with ornate chairs, grandfather clock, and large painting in background
Date:: 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Governor Merriam speaking on the radio at the KHJ radio station owned by CBS. There are notes set in front of him on a stand. Two men stand to his right with papers in their hands. A microphone in front of him says "CBS KHJ".
Date:: [1934-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: From left to right, Burt Edwards, Walter B. Allen and Governor James Rolph stand in a row along a wharf in Los Angeles Harbor at left. The wharf enters frame along the left half of the bottom edge and stretches back to the left. At right, a boat is moored to the wharf. On the boat, Fred Warner stands on the deck and leans against the boat's cabin. Behind him, the American flag and other nautical flags wave. The harbor's waters extend across the background.
Date:: [circa March 7, 1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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