A Deputy Marshall Jerry Wenger and Hortense Harms pose regally holding pieces of stage props. Wenger wears a helmet and carries various props such as a sword and shield. Harms carries a crown and costume. Other large objects, probably stage sets and props, are behind them against a brick wall. Harms was the former educational director of the Shakespeare Guild of America, of which she was also a financier. The theater company went defunct and this image depicts Harms with items the company put up for auction when it went under. Wenger led the auctioning off of the items. The event took place at 1701 South Hill Street.
ANSWER: This replica of the great Lincoln Memorial statue, the figure gazing pensively at the flood-channel Los Angeles River, sits strikingly among other castoff properties behind Republic studios out on Ventura Blvd. The photo was made from the new Colfax Ave. bridge.