Subject: Environment and People / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Beverly Hills home of businessman and millionaire William F. Gettle, at 723 North Linden Drive. Gettle was kidnapped from the grounds of from his Arcadia ranch house during a party on the eve of May 9th. The kidnapping attracted a great deal of attention in the community, with Mrs. Gettle even addressing the kidnappers through the pages of the Los Angeles Times. The kidnappers demanded a $60,000 ransom for the return of Gettle, which Mrs. Gettle agreed to pay. However, before the ransom was paid, two detectives of the LAPD, Chester Burris and H.P. Gearhardt, broke the case after installing a dictaphone in the home of a bank robbery suspect. Information from the dictaphone led them to a La Crescenta home where Gettle was held. He was returned, unharmed, to his family on the eve of May 14th.
Date:: [circa May 10, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Young Los Angelino Yvonne Marion Wolff sits piled under produce grown in a local community garden.Beginning in 1933, small tracts of land throughout Los Angeles county were used by the government as locations for community gardens, where men left unemployed by the Great Depression could work and grow food to feed their families. In 1933, 890 acres of land in Los Angeles County were used toward this purpose; the program expanded to 2,500 acres of land in 1934. This land was approximately enough to grow the vegetables consumed by 20,000 county welfare families.
Date:: [circa February, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Captain David C. Morrison talking on his radio on the beach during the Army-Navy Maneuvers that took place off the coast of Southern California at the end of 1946. The goal of the war games was to practice two maneuvers: Operation Mountain Goat, an amphibious landing designed to dislodge "enemy" troops, and Operation Oilskin, a landing to cut off "enemy" communications. The Army, Navy, and Marine Corps aircrafts participated in the exercise.
Date:: November and December 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Artist Martella Lane, also known as Martella Cone Lane, posing in front of her painting of California Redwoods. Artist was a member of the Save the Redwoods League.
Date:: 1925?
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Artist Martella Lane, posing in front of her painting of California Redwoods. Artist was a member of the Save the Redwoods League.
Date:: 1925?
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Attorney George Stahlman is photographed holding a Ponderosa lemon, a variety which grows much larger than the common type. In his other hand, he holds a regular lemon for comparison.
Date:: 1934?
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Italian American immigrant Simon Rodia poses with his artistic creation, popularly known as the Watts Towers, in the background.
Date:: ca. 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Birdseye view from Palisades Park towards Marion Davies' beach house on the shore of Santa Monica Bay in Santa Monica, with the beach visible beyond. Across the highway from the beach estate are parked cars, street railroad tracks, utility poles and the brush-covered base of the palisades cliff.
Date:: [circa 1930-1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: William Mulholland (possibly), with a mustache and wearing a suit and hat, standing on a dirt driveway lined by large pepper (?) trees, with a Victorian house at the end of the drive
Date:: [between 1898 and 1943]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: View into a mountain ravine with utility poles and where a water pipe system appears to be under construction. Two men are in the ravine; one is mostly hidden by a utility pole and the other is possibly William Mulholland. The man is standing with his hands on his hips, is wearing dark pants, a dark open vest, a light shirt and neck tie and a wide-brimmed hat. A parked car is on the left.
Date:: [between 1905 and 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

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