Subject: Play (Recreation)--California--Beverly Hills - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Sally Pact, Eleanor Green, and Stanley Feldman playing on the grass. The children’s parents are members of the Beverly Hills Chapter of Hadassah. These three, along with several other member's children, put on a play about the difference between good and bad food during the club’s Child Welfare Day held at the Beverly Hills Athletic Club. During the event, members paid an extra 9 cents for their lunches which went toward providing soup, salad, fruit, and milk for Palestine children.
Date:: March 2, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: This photograph is possibly related to the article, “GETTLE LAWYER'S DATA MAY IDENTIFY CLIENT'S KIDNAPERS: He Returns From Mystery Trip and Declares ‘Important Information’ Received; Victim's Wife Authorizes Meeting Any Ransom Demand,” Los Angeles Times, 11 May 1934: 1, and subsequent articles appearing in the Los Angeles Times.
Date:: [circa May 9-15, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: The Gettle children's activities during their father's kidnapping appear in a similar photograph captioned, “Gettle Children’s Playground Guarded Above is a picture of the playground at the home of William F. Gettle, kidnaped Beverly Hills millionaire, built for the use of the four Gettle children. A corps of guards is now on duty protecting them as they play. Below are the baby footprints of the four Gettle children made in the fresh cement of the Linden Drive home two years ago. Each set of prints is identified with its owner’s name,” Los Angeles Times, 13 May 1934: 2
Date:: [circa May 9-15, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph is possibly related to the articles, “TENSE EXPECTANCY REIGNS AT HOME OF MILLIONAIRE,” Los Angeles Times, 12 May 1934: 2, and, “PATHOS REIGNS IN GETTLE HOME: Stricken Wife Awaiting Tensely for Tidings Children, Unaware of Crime, Guarded During Play Strangers in House, Actually Officers, Seem Guests,” Los Angeles Times, 13 May 1934: 2
Date:: [circa May 9-15, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: The Gettle children (from left to right, Billy, Betty, Bobby and Jimmy) sit in a line, off-center to the left, on a neatly manicured lawn. Billy sits on a plush elephant toy and Betty holds Rags, their dog, in her lap. A tricycle stands in the yard behind and to the right of Jimmy. The beginnings of a small garden appear to grow in the distance at left. Two women mill about in the background at center.
Date:: [circa May 9-15, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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