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Major C. F. Evans commanding marines, Santa Barbara, 1920-1939

Description:
Albert Andrew Exendine poses with his hands on his hips. He appears to be out on the football field. The photograph might have been taken when Exendine was the football coach at Occidental College (1926–1927). Exendine was born in Indian Territory. He earned a law degree at Dickinson School of Law while coaching at Georgetown University. He later practiced law in Oklahoma and served with the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Date:
[between 1920-1929]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Major C. F. Evans commanding marines, Santa Barbara, 1920-1939

Portrait of Olympic diver Dorothy Poynton, Los Angeles, circa 1928

Description:
Swimmer Dorothy Poynton smiles at the camera while sitting on a desk with her hands on her lap. Dorothy Poynton-Hill was an American diver who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics, in the 1932 Summer Olympics, and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1928 she won the silver medal in the 3 meter springboard competition. Four years later she won the gold medal in the 10 metre platform event. In 1936 she won the gold medal in the 10 meter platform competition as well as the bronze medal in the 3 meter springboard event.
Date:
[circa June 1928]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Portrait of Olympic diver Dorothy Poynton, Los Angeles, circa 1928

Vice President and treasurer of Ralphs Grocery Company, Elmer Ralph on a golf course, Los Angeles, 1920-1930

Description:
Elmer Ralph, the vice president and treasurer of Ralphs Grocery Company plays golf on a course, possibly the Wilshire Country Club, in which he was a member. Although not his profession, golf was his hobby, and he won many trophies throughout tournaments in Southern California.
Date:
[between 1920-1930]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Vice President and treasurer of Ralphs Grocery Company, Elmer Ralph on a golf course, Los Angeles, 1920-1930

Workers creating upholstered furniture in the Roberti Brothers' furniture factory, Los Angeles, circa 1920-1930

Description:
Workers creating upholstered furniture in the Roberti Brothers' furniture factory, located at the corner of 14th St. and McGary St. in Los Angeles. In the foreground, a worker holding a hammer tacks down fabric on an upholstered chair supported by a saw horse with the springs visible. On the right, a craftsman works on a wooden chair frame.
Date:
[between 1920-1930]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Workers creating upholstered furniture in the Roberti Brothers' furniture factory, Los Angeles, circa 1920-1930

View of the inside of a construction tunnel at the San Gabriel Dam, Los Angeles County, 1920s

Description:
View of the inside of a construction tunnel for the San Gabriel Dam. Inside of the tunnel is a man pushing a wheelbarrow. The dam was completed in 1939. Related article, "Geologists and Engineers Burrowing in Canyon Walls in Interest of Safety for San Gabriel Dam," Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 1929: A1.
Date:
1920-1930
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
View of the inside of a construction tunnel at the San Gabriel Dam, Los Angeles County, 1920s

Courtroom spectators being searched during the Hickman kidnap and murder trial, Los Angeles, 1927-1928

Description:
Photograph of a woman being searched by a law enforcement officer during the William Edward Hickman kidnap and murder arraignment of trial. The perspective spectator opens her coat in preparation for searching, while the officer (wearing a suit and badge on his left lapel) examines her purse. A second officer stands behind the woman being searched. A man in uniform stands next to him. Several women and one man are viewed seated and standing on the left. Additional persons can be seen standing outside of the class doors awaiting their turn.
Date:
[1927 or 1928]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Courtroom spectators being searched during the Hickman kidnap and murder trial, Los Angeles, 1927-1928

Devil's Lake and the Devil's Gate Dam, La Cañada Flintridge

Description:
The Devil's Gate Dam was the first flood control dam constructed in Los Angeles County. Designed by the flood engineers from the Los Angeles County Flood Control District and completed in 1920 Bent Brothers company, it formed the Hahamongna flood basin. The dam is located in La Cañada Flintridge at Devil's Gorge, the narrowest point on the Arroyo Seco. The Arroyo Seco is a seasonal river and watershed that begins at Red Box Saddle near Mount Wilson in the San Gabriel Mountains and ends at the confluence with the Los Angeles River near Elysian Park, north of Downtown Los Angeles.
Date:
[between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Devil's Lake and the Devil's Gate Dam, La Cañada Flintridge

Large tent for the relief effort following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam and resulting flood, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Large tent for the relief effort following the failure of the Saint Francis Dam and resulting flood, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Dr. A. L. Skoog, assistant jailer Roy Bogle, and defense attorney Jerome Walsh, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:
Photograph of Dr. A. L. Skoog, defense psychiatrist from Kansas City, Missouri; assistant jailer Roy Bogle, and defense attorney Jerome Walsh (also of Kansas City), photographed during the trial of William Edward Hickman, who confessed to the kidnap and murder 12-year-old Marion Parker in December of 1927.
Date:
1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Dr. A. L. Skoog, assistant jailer Roy Bogle, and defense attorney Jerome Walsh, Los Angeles, 1928

British journalist Sir Charles Igglesden with physicist Dr. Robert A. Millikan at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 1928

Description:
British journalist Sir Charles Igglesden shakes the hand of physicist Dr. Robert A. Millikan at California Institute of Technology. Dr. Millikan provided a tour of the laboratories at the institute to Sir Charles Igglesden and thirteen other British journalists who traveled through the United States on a trip sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace. Related to the article "British Journalists Spend Busy Day Being Welcomed and Visiting City's Places of Interest: EDITORS LIKE OUR SUNSHINE," Los Angeles Times, 02 Nov. 1928: A1.
Date:
November 1, 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
British journalist Sir Charles Igglesden with physicist Dr. Robert A. Millikan at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 1928

Otis Art Institute students holding posters that they created for the California Botanic Garden, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:
Photograph of 8 Otis Art Institute students holding posters designed to promote attendance at the California Botanic Garden with award winner Benji Okubo on the left. Each poster has an illustration of trees or plants with the caption "Visit The California Botanic Garden." The students are standing on a lawn in front of a stand of palm and other trees at the Otis Art Institute, then located at 2401 Wilshire Blvd.
Date:
March 15, 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Otis Art Institute students holding posters that they created for the California Botanic Garden, Los Angeles, 1928

Millicent Sunday seated in a chair in a park or yard, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:
Portrait photograph of Millicent Sunday at the time that she was sued for alienation of affection by Olive Day. Ms. Sunday is seated on a chair in a garden or yard. She was the ex-wife of Billy Sunday, Jr., the son of evangelist Billy Sunday. Reported, with a different photograph taken the same day, in "DAMAGES ASKED OF MRS. SUNDAY: Alienation of George E. Day's Affections Charged Woman Seeks $50,000 in Suit Filed Yesterday Defendant Was Evangelist's Daughter-in-Law," Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 1928: B6.
Date:
January 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Millicent Sunday seated in a chair in a park or yard, Los Angeles, 1928

Disaster recovery workers seated on a pickup truck after the failure of the Saint Francis Dam and resulting flood, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Description:
Group portrait of about 24 disaster recovery workers seated on and standing next to a pickup truck after the failure of the Saint Francis Dam and resulting flood. The workers appear to be in a park with large trees shading wooden picnic tables with attached benches. A plank spanning a truck fender and picnic table and tools on the ground suggest that the men are engaged in construction or repair work. A painted sign in the door of the truck reads "...ople's...[Lum]ber Co. ...nta Paula." Santa Paula was one of the communities in the path of the flood. Beyond the park there is a metal rail fence, a street and a building across the street.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Disaster recovery workers seated on a pickup truck after the failure of the Saint Francis Dam and resulting flood, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Women cooking tortillas and other food at a relief camp after the flood resulting from the Saint Francis Dam failure, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Women cooking tortillas and other food at a relief camp after the flood resulting from the Saint Francis Dam failure, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Film actress Fritzi Ridgeway with prosecutors John M. Concannon and William V. Krowl, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:
Film actress Fritzi Ridgeway meets with Chief Deputy City Prosecutor John M. Concannon (left) and Assistant Prosecutor William V. Krowl to prepare disturbing-the-peace complaints. Seven individuals were charged with breaking into Fritzi Ridgeway's home to throw a party. A similar photograph appears with the article "COURT SIGNS CABIN-RAID CASE WRITS: Five Men and Two Women Charged With Breaking in House to Hold Gin Party," Los Angeles Times, 05 May 1928: A5.
Date:
May 4, 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Film actress Fritzi Ridgeway with prosecutors John M. Concannon and William V. Krowl, Los Angeles, 1928