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Description:: Photograph of United States Vice-President Charles Curtis and Assistant Secretary of the United States Navy from 1929-1933 Ernest Lee Jahncke being received by the Reception Committee at Los Angeles for the 10th Olympic Games. The committee consisted of [not limited to] Col. William May Garland, Los Angeles Mayor John C. Porter and Motion Picture producer Louis B. Mayer. They all wear badges on their lapels that read, "Reception."
Date:: July 29, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photograph of Los Angeles Mayor Frank L. Shaw and World War veteran members of the American Legion City Hall Post No. 387, Clifford K. Steele, A. D. Endsley and city hall engineering department accountant Harry Whittington in front of City Hall before the members of the American Legion Post went to Fresno for a convention. The Summer of 1935 faced a heat wave in the San Joaquin Valley, due to which the veterans took their own water wagon. A mountain pump was rigged which was to be used as a shower bath. Photograph shows the wagon hitched to a car. Ross Olney stands next to the water pump. The wagon has a banner reading, "Showed Baths Given Here, And How," and the barrel of water has a sign reading, "A Los Angeles Rain Storm, The Climate of Los Angeles is Cool, Have Some,". The Wagon itself has a sign painted to the side reading, "Keep Cool with Los Angeles City Hall Post, A Los Angeles Rain Storm, our weather is unique, warm up with Fresno." C. K. Steele is standing in the back row, holding a small box reading, "Los Angeles City Hall Post No. 387, California." The veterans and the Mayor protect themselved from the water shower with umbrellas.
Date:: Aug 9, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Similar photograph published under caption, "Veterans Take Water Wagon to Fresno." Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 1935: 6.
Date:: Aug 9, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Image that accompanies caption in print is b1134_291594-17a. Image has not been scanned as of November 12, 2008.
Date:: February 14, 1980
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Chamberlin, Bob
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Image that accompanies caption in print is b1134_291594-17a. Image has not been scanned as of November 12, 2008.
Date:: February 14, 1980
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Chamberlin, Bob
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Image that accompanies caption in print is b1134_291594-17a. Image has not been scanned as of November 12, 2008.
Date:: February 14, 1980
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Chamberlin, Bob
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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