Date: 1928 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Press release text: East west non stop record set. Establishing an east-to-west transcontinental nonstop flight record of 24 hours and 52 minutes, the monoplane Yankee Doodle landed at Mines Field, Los Angeles, today. The previous record of 26 hours and 50 minutes set by Lts. John A. MacReady and Oakley Kelly in 1923 was lowered by nearly two hours in the flight. The fliers, Harry Tucker, millionaire sportsman and Capt. C. B. D. Collyer of 'round-the-world' fame, landed a little more that an hour after the time estimated for the journey. The monoplane used in this flight was also used by Art Goebel in his attempted non-stop flight during the National Aeronautical Show held in Los Angeles recently...
Date:: October 25, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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
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Description:: Date on negative sleeve says 1941, but photograph appears younger than Hotchkiss's 1939 portrait photographs. In the 1920s, Hotchkiss was a reporter and city editor for the Los Angeles Times.
Date:: [1920s (?)]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: The Bryson-Bonebrake Building on South Spring Street and 2nd Street was constructed 1886-1888. Two stories were added in 1904. It was demolished in 1934. The architect was Joseph Cather Newsom and the brick contractor was A. McNally.
Date:: [1920-1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: John Henry Kuck was an American athlete who won a gold medal in the shot put at the 1928 Summer Olympics setting a new world record at 15.87 m. Before the Olympics, as a student at Kansas State Teachers College (Emporia State University) he was the 1926 national collegiate champion and world record holder in both the shot put and javelin.
Date:: [circa 1928-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Possibly house of Mrs. Mabel Walker... two numbers appear on house: 6131 and 449
Date:: [between 1920 and 1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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