Subject: Olvera Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: The day after the death of Los Angele Times columnist Harry Carr, members of the Mexican community gathered at Olvera Street to recite the rosary and litany, after which Consuela Castillo De Bonzo and Zacarias Hernandez placed a memorial wreath on the Philip de Neve cross on Olvera Street. Carr had been a champion of Olvera Street.
Date:: January 11, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of Olvera Street facing towards La Plaza Park with Los Angeles City Hall visible in the distance. In the foreground, three people stand in front of a photographer and camera on a tripod
Date:: December 20, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Two men walk down Olvera Street, with a pottery business on the left.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Text reads, in part: Adelbert Bartlett, 535 15th Street, Santa Monica, California. Los Angeles, fifth city in the latest census, which is celebrating its 150th anniversary, has cataloged its historical landmarks ... the Plaza, old community center dating from the Spanish occupation ... the Church of Our Lady Queen of the Angels ... original Pico House (now the National Hotel) ... Olvera Street, the old Calle Olvera ... the oldest remaining adobe house in Los Angeles, the Avila home ... (See accompanying pictures)
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Unique Lane Has Fiesta Sabado de Gloria," Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr 1936: A2.
Date:: April 14, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A girl sits on the lap of one of the Mascaras, feeling part of his mask.
Date:: April 14, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A group of tourists (identified as "Dream Trippers" in a handwritten notation on the negative) walk down historic Olvera Street near downtown Los Angeles.
Date:: 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: View of a temporary altar draped with a white cloth, arranged with mementos for the Olvera Street memorial service for Los Angles Times columnist, Harry Carr. The altar holds a photograph of Harry Carr, a Crucifix and rosary, two burning candles, a black wreath and three books written by Harr Carr: Old Mother Mexico (1931), The West is Still Wild (1932) and Los Angeles: City of Dreams (1935). The altar is flanked by two small tables holding potted flowers and a potted fern. In front of the altar are a potted poinsettia and a pine branch wreath. The painted prick wall behind the altar has a ledge, above which is an image of the Virgin Mary, flowers and more lit candles. A doorway with a curtain is on the left.
Date:: January 11, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, “Founding of Los Angeles Re-enacted at Colorful Pageant on Olvera Street With Biscailuz as de Neve: City’s Birthday Date Marked in Festivities,” Los Angeles Times, 05 Sep. 1935: A1.
Date:: September 5, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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