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

Description:: Referenced in more recent article, "Dusting Off the Pages From California's Past," [Los Angeles Times, September 28, 1983]. There is no related article from photograph's time period. This more recent column references the image's subject as part of the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of historical documents. The printed document in the photograph is an original decree establishing Los Angeles as the new capital of the Mexican territory of Alta California. It is signed by then Secretary of the State, Jose Maria Gutierrez de Estrada, on behalf of the interim president of Mexico, Miguel Barragan. The names of other persons, printed in the decree, include: Basilio Arillaga, Deputy President; Antonio Pacheco Leal, President of the Senate; Demetrio del Castillo, Deputy Secretary; and Manuel Miranda, Secretary of the Senate. It is dated May 23, 1935.
Date:: October 7, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, March 18, 1932, Actor Goes to Aid of Actress, Mary Astor’s Property Release Gained. Fredric March, motion-picture actor, and attractive Mrs. Carol Gallagher yesterday went to the aid of Mary Astor, screen actress, by putting up sufficient bond before Superior Judge Smith to release property of Miss Astor held under attachment pending determination of a civil suit in which she is defendant.
Date:: March 17, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Payton had just been arraigned for three counts of check fraud.
Date:: December 1, 1955
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Telegram text reads: FRED ALLEN WILL COME WHEN NEEDED PLEASE LET ME NO HOW MUCH TIME I HAVE WHEN TRIAL COMES UP IF TRIAL CAN BE POSTPONED FOR A WHILE WIRE ANSWER AT ONCE SO I WILL KNOW WHAT ARRANGEMENTS TO MAKE AND HOW MUCH TIME I HAVE FAY SUDOW
Date:: September 28, 1920
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Pfc. David Gonzales, who fought and died in the Philippines during World War Two, was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Date:: February 6, 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Santa Barbara County Courthouse is located at 1100 Anacapa Street, in Santa Barbara. The Spanish Colonial Revival style building was designed by William Mooser, Jr. and completed in 1929.
Date:: August 14, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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