Subject: Postmasters--California--Los Angeles and People - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: From left to right: David Gill, first assistant postmaster general William W. Howes, acting postmaster of Los Angeles Mary D. Briggs, and supervisor John Anson Ford having breakfast at the Ambassador Hotel. Howes was visiting Los Angeles to make the principle address at the Jackson Day dinner, held at the Hotel on the evening of January 8, 1938
Date:: January 7, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mrs. Mary Briggs being sworn in as Los Angeles Postmistress to take the place of her late husband H.B.R. Briggs
Date:: September 29, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Los Angeles Postmaster Henry B. R. Briggs, center, with two other men at the "Savings Bonds Window" of a post office. The two men hold a stack of savings bonds. A sign above them reads: "For Safe Investment of Idle Funds, United States Savings Bonds, $18.75 . . . increases in ten years to . . . . $25.00.....$750.00 . . . increases in ten years to . . $1,000.00." Behind them is the sign for the "Philatelic Window."
Date:: [between February 1, 1934 to September 28, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Henry B. R. Briggs (R) taking the oath of office to become the Postmaster of Los Angeles. The oath is administered by United States District Judge Paul J. McCormick (L). A third person stands between them.
Date:: February 1, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: P. P. O'Brien (L) and Henry B. R. Briggs (R), past and present postmasters of Los Angeles, shaking hands on Briggs' first day in office
Date:: February 1, 1934 t
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Henry B. R. Briggs, Postmaster of Los Angeles, and Peggy Milligan standing next to a bin holding mail at a postal facility.
Date:: [between February 1, 1934 to September 28, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Henry B. R. Briggs, Postmaster of Los Angeles, kneeling in front of a fireplace. There is a carved eagle on the marble mantelpiece of the fireplace, suggesting that Briggs is in a U. S. government building.
Date:: [between February 1, 1934 to September 28, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Henry B. R. Briggs (L), Postmaster of Los Angeles, seated at a desk with papers, as Assistant Postmaster J. F. Bourne points to the papers
Date:: [between February 1, 1934 to September 28, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Henry B. R. Briggs, Postmaster of Los Angeles, on the day he was sworn into office
Date:: February 1, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of Joseph Mesmer, left, standing in suit and bowtie, left arm resting on stack of books, Henry B.R. Briggs, right, standing in suit and tie, holding a knife. Joseph Mesmer was a member of the historical society Pioneers of Los Angeles. Henry B. R. Briggs was the Postmaster of Los Angeles from February 1, 1934 to his death (from pneumonia) on September 28, 1936. Prior to that, he was the publisher and editor of the Los Angeles Record.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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