Mexican Consul, Ricardo G. Hill, in suit and tie, holding a trophy with Los Angeles police officer, Harry Signor, in uniform, with microphone in foreground, and spectators in background.
W.J. Bassett of Los Angeles County Labor Federation. Dan Kimball, president of Aeroject General. Carmen Warschaw, chairman of the Fair Employment Practices Commission. Fresco Thompson of Dodgers Baseball Team.
Robert S. James' real name was Major Raymond Lisenba. He was known as Robert S. James during his marriage to Mary Emma Busch James and at the time of her death in 1935, and, after her murder by rattlesnake bite and drowning, as "Rattlesnake James."
View of Jan Kiepura outside in hat, tie, and jacket. Jan Kiepura was a well known Polish singer and actor who lived in Los Angeles for a few years after signing a deal with Paramount Pictures.
Designer Bob Mackie with Bette Midler, Elton John, Cher and Flip Wilson during the taping of The Cher Show special at the CBS Television City Studio 3A.
Sculptor Roger Burnham Noble and an unidentified man holding a relief panel with 3 classicizing nude dancing figures. Behind them is another relief panel with a man with shackles on his wrists facing a man holding a lightning bolt and an oil lamp and with the planet saturn and smoke stacks behind them.
L to R: John J. Beck, candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress in the Fifteenth District., with his supporters Edward S. Shattuck and A. Ronald Button. They study paper titled "Official Primary Election Ballot."
Golfer Macdonald Smith, in hat, sweater, and knickers, watching another golfer, possibly Harry Cooper, in sweater and knickers, swinging club, with 2 caddies in suits and ties at left, spectators in midground, hill, houses, and mountains in background
Mary B. Skeele, wife of Walter Skeele, the Professor of Organ and Dean of the College of Music at the University of Southern California was kidnapped in 1933. The ransom was paid and Mrs. Skeele was returned unharmed.
Byron Summers, competitor in the January marathon Catalina Channel swim, had to stop his swim when overcome by a leg cramp. He won the marathon swim the following April.
Judges W. Cloyd Snyder, Frank M. Smith, Victor R. McLucas, John W. Shenk, John F. Tyler, Nathaniel P. Conrey, and Charles R. Barnard, all with right hands raised, standing in front of bookcase and flag, being sworn in by Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, William H. Waste, at right
Mayor Frank Shaw, in dark suit and tie, Kenneth Milton, in light suit and tie, holding harmonica in box, and Manuel Martinez and Herman Bower, both in dirty pants and shirts, Bower barefoot, standing in mayor's office
Prince and Princess Kaya undertook a seven-month world tour in 1934, visiting the United States, Great Britain, France, and Germany. The tour received extensive press coverage at the time.
Related to Los Angeles Times article, February 7, 1936, Fox Chain Fight Opens, Plea Hinges on Jurisdiction, Contentions on Actions of Federal Officials Marks Bankruptcy Airing. ... hearing on a motion to set aside adjudication in bankruptcy of the Fox West Coast Theaters Corporation commenced here yesterday ... In the petition ... filed by T. L. Tally ... William Neblett and his associate, R. Dean Warner, counsel for the petitioners, will have an opportunity to answer Lawler and Tuller ...
Mary B. Skeele, in cardigan sweater, necklace, and glasses, standing near corner of house, with porch swing at right and a man and child dimly visible at left
Related to the article “Monument to Memory of Veterans, Memorial Park to be Dedicated to Members of the Sunshine Division.” Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 1928: A10
Little Mary Jane Fong holding a gong stick and standing next to a Chinese lion. The lion was being prepared for the February 5 New Year celebration in Chinatown. (Although it is identified as a dragon in the newspaper article, another photograph taken on the same occasion identifies it as a lion and shows the shorter lion's body, ark no. 21198/zz002d9cvb).
Another photograph taken on the same occasion appears in a Los Angeles Times Article titled: "Three Local Boys Compete in Mexican Track Championships," 8/30/1933. [
Portrait of Frank A. Bouelle, Superintendent of Schools, seated at his desk. Bouelle was the superintendent of the Los Angeles City School District from February 1, 1929 until his retirement in January, 1937.
Muriel Wallace left her husband and took their 4 children from their San Francisco home to Los Angeles to seek a divorce and they resided at the Hand Rescue Mission, later identified as a cult. When her husband, William Wallace, found them, he asked the police for assistance. The Mission was disbanded and the children returned to San Francisco with their father.
This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, January 27, 1934, Student Officers Praised, State University Head Commends Youths’ Patriotism in Conferring Reserve Commissions.
Possibly connected to Los Angeles Times article, June 11, 1928, Track Athletes Bear Down in Final Week of Practice Before Olympic Tryouts … Ralph Smith’s vault of 13 ft. 5 in. stamps that young man as a chap to keep track of in competition …