Subject: Philanthropists--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph of prominent socialite and philanthropist, Florence M. Irish, more popularly known as Mrs. Leiland Atherton Irish. Mrs. Irish has a long list of achievements, which include being named Times Woman of the Year in 1957 and receiving a National Brotherhood Award in 1963. She served on the executive board of the Women's Committee for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and was the executive director of the Southern California Symphony Association. She was also President of the Women's division, Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and member of the executive committee. In the picture, she is posing as sitting behind a desk, pencil in hand, looking over a seating chart of a theatre [possibly the L.A. Philharmonic Auditorium].
Date:: [1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, "The Fulfillment of the Prophecies of Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis As Seen By Her Own Granddaughter," 4 Dec 1931: C16.
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of Austrian conductor Otto Klemperer as he leaves to board a train. Shaking his hand is William Andrews Clark, Jr., founder of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, which Mr. Klemperer conducted during the season. In the background are George Leslie Smith, the orchestra manager and his wife, Mrs. Caroline E. Smith.
Date:: Apr 23, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of prominent society members of Los Angeles who gathered together to plan out an extensive ticket campaign to ensure successes of two fetes to honor the birthday of President Roosevelt. Those in the photograph include socialites and activists Mrs. Samuel Cary Dunlap (Anna May), Mrs. Leafie Sloan Orcutt, Mrs. Hancock Banning (Anne Ophelia) and Mrs. Leiland A. Irish (Florence M.), Grace Stoermer; Showman Sid Grauman; and Los Angeles Health Department Head Dr. George Parrish.
Date:: Jan 18, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Standalone photograph with the title: "They're Four Energetic Champions of Charity Drive," related to the article, "Mrs. Herbert Hoover Lauds Activity of Community Chest at Club Luncheon -- Girl Scout Work Told at Meeting -- California Held More Charitable Than Other States," Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 1934: A6.
Date:: Sep 24, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Effie Woodward Fifield was a novelist and wife of Joseph Clark Fifield, a Minnesotan publisher. After her death, she willed her home to the International Sunshine Society, an institution for the elderly and needy.
Date:: August 3, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Mmes. Harlan Striff, Lester Wasserburger, Misses Virginia Nowlin, Maryellen Kirk and Mrs. Pingree of Alpha Omicron Pi lean smiling over a balcony.
Date:: February 27, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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