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Description:: Related to the article, "Echo Heard of Lusitania. Medal Carried by U-Boat Operator Found Giving Expected Sinking Date," Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 1935: 8. The story related in this article, stating that the medal was struck for the submarine crew in advance of the sinking of the Lusitania, is fiction.
Date:: November 23, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to the article, "Echo Heard of Lusitania. Medal Carried by U-Boat Operator Found Giving Expected Sinking Date," Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 1935: 8. The story related in this article, stating that the medal was struck for the submarine crew in advance of the sinking of the Lusitania, is fiction.
Date:: November 23, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Order of the White Lion medal, an award for merit by Czechoslovakia for foreign citizens. This medal is the civil version, as noted by the two crossed palms above the badge, instead of two crossed swords, which would indicate military. This award was given to William May Garland in Los Angeles.
Date:: May 9, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: French Consul Henri Didot, right, pins a medal on Mayor John C. Porter's lapel. They both wear tuxedos.
Date:: [circa March, 1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Copy of the original 1915 Lusitania medal struck by Karl Goetz showing the Lusitania going down. This copy has much less detail than the British copies shown online. Inscribed: GESCHAFT UBER ALLES [business above all] CUNA LINIE / CUNARD / FAHRKARTEN/AUSGABE [ticket office] [newspaper headline reads:] U/BOO[T]/GEFAH[R] [U-boat danger].
Date:: November 23, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mildred Howell Lewis was crowned queen of the third Los Angeles Fiesta de las Flores in 1896, but lost the medal that went along with the honor, until it was discovered recently by two blacksmiths shifting through ash heaps recently in Santa Ana.
Date:: April 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Henry M. Robinson (left), president of first National bank, receives the Legion of Honor medal from French Consul Louis Sentous (right).
Date:: September 3, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photo appears with the article by William Hamilton Cline, "This Most Decorated Man. Fourteen governments have placed medals of honor upon his breast. He is a simple private citizen. He's lived in Los Angeles for fifty years," Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 1934: H6.
Date:: [January 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Austin Clapp was an American swimmer and water polo player who competed in the 1928 and 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1928 he won a gold medal in the 4x200 m freestyle relay event and in 1932 he was a member of American water polo team, which won a bronze medal.
Date:: August 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Mrs. Lewis sits upright in an armchair in an otherwise empty sitting room.
Date:: April 4, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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