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Description:: Mr. Lyon leans over one side of the wishing well peering into a bucket attached to a rope. It is a large wooden structure that is several feet taller than him and displays a sign that says "TOSSING A COIN OVER LEFT SHOULDER INTO WELL WILL MAKE A WISH COME TRUE MABE".
Date:: January 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph, from left to right, of Will Shaw, Mertie West, Alice Prickett and Bertha Keethler stopping along the trail to Inspiration Point to pose in front of a trail sign. At left, Will and Mertie do not look to camera. Will faces right and Mertie gazes off to the left. Both Alice and Bertha look to the camera. The group stands off to the right side of a trail and poses in front of a sign that reads, "TO INSPIRATION POINT 1/4 M [right facing arrow]." The trail enters the frame at left and disappears behind the group. A brush-covered mountainside occupies the background as it slopes downward from left to right.
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of William L. Kinsell standing beside the message board outside of Hollywood United Methodist Church on Franklin Avenue. William Kinsell stands in the near distance at center. He faces left, but looks to the camera. Behind and to the left of him, the church's message board stands. It reads, "MINISTER GLENN RANDALL PHILLIPS, D.D. SUNDAY, MAY 18 9:30 A.M. CHURCH SCHOOL 10:45 A.M. 'LIVING ON PROMISES' DR. PHILLIPS, PREACHING 7:00 P.M. VESPER SERVICE YOUTH CHOIR CONCERT DR. NORMAN WRIGHT, ORGANIST." The church's exterior rises behind William and the message board, stretching across the background.
Date:: May 18, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: A water cooler in a casino. A sign is visible, detailing the liquor policies of the establishment. Hawthorne, Compton, Monterey Park, and Long Beach closed several gaming places after Attorney General Webb found games of chance unlawful.
Date:: [circa January 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Photograph looking towards the summit that rises beyond Sable Pass in Denali National Park and Preserve. Gravel-covered ground stretches across the foreground. A signpost stands beyond it in the near distance, left-of-center. It is viewed at an angle. Two signs are posted; they read, from the top down, "SABLE PASS," and "25 MILES SPEED LIMIT." Antlers decorate the post above and below the signs. Sable Pass stretches beyond the signs and into the distance. Snow-covered summits stand in the distance at right and in the far distance at left.
Date:: August 17, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Toms place is an unincorporated community in Mono County on Rock Creek, named after the resort "Tom's Place."
Date:: August 29 to September 7, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Sign warns people to vacate the area due to landslide danger near the Figueroa St. tunnel. The landslide occurred in Elysian Park in November 1937. It began as a small crack on Buena Vista Peak and continued to widen until the landslide dumped millions of tons of loose rock and dirt down the slope and on to Riverside Drive.
Date:: November 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Sign warns people to vacate the area due to landslide danger near the Figueroa St. tunnel. The landslide occurred in Elysian Park in November 1937. It began as a small crack on Buena Vista Peak and continued to widen until the landslide dumped millions of tons of loose rock and dirt down the slope and on to Riverside Drive.
Date:: November 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: An out-of-focus photograph of a sign posted to a dock in Seward, Alaska. The dock juts into the image from the right. A sign is tacked to the near ledge of the dock, right-of-center. It reads, "DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR · THE ALASKA RAILROAD · NO SHIPS OR BOATS OTHER THAN GOVERNMENT OWNED AND OPERATED WILL BE PERMITTED TO MOOR TO THIS WHARF EXCEPT WHEN INTERCHANGING TRAFFIC WITH THE ALASKA RAILROAD OR LADING OR UNLOADING UNITED STATES MAIL. THE ALASKA RAILROAD." An identical sign stands at the top of the dock, along the dock's left edge. The dock's supports stretch down towards the water. The boat, "MARATHON," sits in the water at far left and is tethered to the dock. A waterway passes through the mid-ground. The shoreline stretches across the background. It is lined by buildings and docks.
Date:: September 7, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of 2 signs posted alongside the road and taken while H. H. West and company travel through Nevada en route to Yellowstone. A road passes through the image across the bottom frame on a downward angle from left to right. A sign displaying mileage to various cities stands adjacent to the road at left. It faces towards the right and reads, "LOVELOCK 71 FERNLEY 130 RENO 166 SAN FRANCISCO 410." The desert brush sprawls beyond it. Further off the road, a larger sign stands at center. It too faces right, it reads, "TWO STIFFS SELLING GAS LOVELOCK, NEV. 72 MILES STANDARD OIL PRODUCTS AUTO COURT." Ground brush stretches into the distance. Mountains are visible in the background.
Date:: June 20, 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

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