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"Whitney, Anita (Charlotte Anita), 1867-1955. Native Californian who was a supporter of the Industrial Workers of the World and a member of the Socialist Party and the American Communist Party. She was convicted under California's Criminal Syndicalism Act in 1920 of belonging to a party advocating unlawful violence to accomplish political change, but was pardoned by Governor Clement Calhoun Young.... John F. Neylan, Charlotte Anita Whitney." (California Faces: Selections from The Bancroft Library Portrait Collection, Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley) (vco53025)
"Young, Clement Calhoun, 1869-1947. 26th governor of California (1927-1931) who was lieutenant governor for eight years before he was elected governor; he was known for his efficient organization and planning.... Reading from left to right Hon. A.E. Goddard, Mayor of Sacramento City, Cal., Hon. C.C. Young, Governor of the State of Cal., Col. C.A. Lindbergh, Pioneer of Air Transportation, John E. Lonergan, Pioneer of Rail Transportation in Cal." (California Faces: Selections from The Bancroft Library Portrait Collection, Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley) (vco53026)
Amadeo Peter Giannini (1870-1949). "San Jose native who, from his beginnings as a clerk in a family firm and a director of a savings and loan society, opened his own bank, the Bank of Italy, in San Francisco in 1904. He acquired more branches and was a pioneer of statewide branch banking, and soon founded the Transamerica Corp. in 1928 and merged his branches under the name Bank of America, which became a vastly powerful and successful business." (California Faces: Selections from the Bancroft Library Portrait Collection, Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley) (vco0033)
"Left to right: Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Hearst, Charlie Chaplin, Milicent Hearst (?) ... Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951. The only child of George and Phoebe Apperson Hearst, he took over the San Francisco Examiner from his father in 1887 and his newspaper career extended throughout the nation with the numerous daily papers and syndicated features he developed. He owned motion picture companies and radio stations, much real estate, and continued to manage his father's mines. Known for his luxurious lifestyle, he inspired Orson Welles' film
Citizen Kane
(1941)." (California Faces: Selections from The Bancroft Library Portrait Collection, Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley) (vco53032)
"We select a camp site." (1926) (Death Valley Automobile Trip, The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley) (cc309c)
"Harold Goodwin gets hot under the collar as greenhorn Buster [Keaton] steals his thunder; from
The Cameraman
(M-G-M, 1928)." (Silents Majority Collection, silentsmajority.com) (vco61202)
"This is a photo of Aimee Semple McPherson, a Pentacostal evangelist who led a preaching and healing ministry at Angelus Temple, in Los Angeles, Ca., on Aug. 21, 1930. Semple had her own radio station, Bible school and magazine." (AP photo) (vco6701)
Led by Aimee Semple McPherson, delegates to the 19th annual Four Square Gospel Church Convention yesterday wept, sang, prayed and fainted in the ecstacy of prayer during the Holy Ghost Rally pictured here. Los Angeles Examiner photo. (The Bancroft Library Portrait Collection, The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley) (cc313c)
"A wealthy San Francisco philanthropist, known only as Mr. X, has erected a building where unemployed men can eat twice a day. In addition to the meals, free medical care can be secured. Photo is dated Jan. 9, 1931." (AP Photo) (vco6702)
"Winners of the 200-meter track and field event stand on the victory stand at the X Olympic Summer Games in Los Angeles, Ca. on Aug. 3, 1932. Eddie Tolan, center, won first; George Simpson, left, won second; and Ralph Metcalfe, right, won third. They are all from the United States team." (AP Photo) (vco6703)
"Relief programs that tied welfare to work were in force when President Roosevelt prepared for his inauguration. These men had to show tickets that proved they had been working in order to qualify for food. January 1933. (Los Angeles Times,
Images of Our Times: Sixty Years of Photography from the Los Angeles Times
[New York: Harry H. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1987], 27.) (lat01)
"A crowd looks on as Thomas Thurmond hangs from a tree limb after he was beaten by the mob in San Jose, Ca., on Nov. 26, 1933. Thurmond, along with Jack Holmes, confessed the kidnap-slaying of 22-year-old Brooke L. Hart of San Francisco." (AP Photo) (vco6704)
"San Francisco Tower" (Golden Gate Bridge Construction Photographs, 1933-1934 (Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley) (vco42504)
(Golden Gate Bridge Construction Photographs, 1933-1934 (Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley) (vco42505)
"Personnel" (Golden Gate Bridge Construction Photographs, 1933-1934 (Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley) (vco42506)
"Cable Spinning" (Golden Gate Bridge Construction Photographs, 1933-1934 (Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley) (vco42507)
Picketers in 1934 San Francisco Strike (1934 International Longshoremen's Association and General Strikes of San Francisco, The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley) (cc304c)
"Actress and playwright Mae West poses in 1935 at an unknown location. West, who was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1892, was a vaudeville performer by 1907 and made her Broadway debut as a singer and dancer in 1911. In 1926 she began to write, produce and star in her own plays on Broadway. In 1932, she moved to Hollywood and appeared in movies, including a screen adaptation of her play "Diamond Lil." She died in Los Angeles, Ca. in 1980." (AP Photo) (vco6706)
"Shirley Temple is photographed in 1935 as she appeared in 'The Little Colonel,' a movie co-starring Lionel Barrymore." (AP Photo/Fox Picture) (vco6706)
"This is a 1935 photo of children on a cot, under a tent, in California during the Great Depression." (AP Photo) (vco6707)
"Howard Hughes, industrialist, film producer and pilot, poses in the cockpit of his new racing plane after a test flight in Los Angeles August 17, 1935. The plane, nearly two years in construction at a cost believed to be more than $100,000, was to be piloted by Hughes in the Bendix race from Los Angeles to Cleveland." (AP Photo) (vco6708)
"Dr. Francis E. Townsend poses in Long Beach, Calif., on Feb. 1, 1936. Dr. Townsend is the originator of the old age pension plan." (AP Photo) (vco6709)
"Florence Thompson and her two sons are photographed in a camp of destitute pea pickers in central California during the Great Depression in 1936." (AP Photo/Dorothea Lange) (vco6710)
"Hollywood actress Jean Harlow and co-star James Stewart are shown together in a scene from the movie 'Wife Versus Secretary' in 1936." (AP Photo) (vco6713)
July, 1936, Kern County, Kern Lake District. Banducci Ranch. A laborer cabin, showing the women folks at home. (Migrant Labor Camp Photographs from the Harry Everett Drobish Papers, 1935-1936, The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley) (cc308c)
"Southern California desert. Migrant from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, stalled on the desert in southern California with no money. He and his ten children are facing future in California." Dorothea Lange, photographer, March 1937. (Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division) (vco61006)
"This is a general view of a makeshift tent dwelling built on wooden platforms in a camp for Dust Bowl migrants near Marysville, Ca., on May 18, 1937." (AP Photo) (vco6714)
"An experienced nurse cares for the children of migratory farm workers in Arvin, Calif., on Jan. 18, 1937 during the Great Depression." (AP Photo) (vco6715)
"A movie star's welcome was accorded Aimee Semple McPherson, the evangelist, upon her return from a missionary trip to Panama and Honduras" ... February 1939. (Los Angeles Times,
Images of Our Times: Sixty Years of Photography from the (Los Angeles Times
[New York: Harry H. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1987], 36-37.) (lat02)
"Orson Welles directs a scene from 'Citizen Kane' on location in Hollywood in July, 1940, with cinematographer Gregg Toland handling the camera. Welles also starred in the film." (AP Photo) (vco0050)
Huntington Beach, February 1941 (Ted Hurley). (Los Angeles Times,
Images of Our Times: Sixty Years of Photography from the (Los Angeles Times,
[New York: Harry H. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1987], 42.) (lat03)
Oil field at Signal Hill (upper left), February 1941 (Spence Air Photos). (Los Angeles Times,
Images of Our Times: Sixty Years of Photography from the Los Angeles Times
[New York: Harry H. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1987], 43.) (lat04)
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