Genre: news photographs and glass plate negatives / Location: California - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Gordon Stewart Northcott and his mother Louisa were accused of kidnapping, abusing & murdering 4 boys on their chicken ranch in Riverside County. Louisa confessed to killing one boy; Walter Collins and was sentenced to life in prison. Gordon was tried and convicted on 3 counts for murdering Louis & Nelson Winslow & an unidentified Latino boy. He was executed by hanging on October 2, 1930.
Date:: 1928-1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Childhood photo of Clara Phillips posing with two unknown people. Clara Phillips was convicted of murdering her Alberta Meadows.
Date:: [between 1915-1922 (?)]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Portrait of John R. Quinn looking off-camera. A similar photograph apears in "JOHN R. QUINN IN MAYOR RACE: Former National Commander of Legion Tells Proposes 'I Am Not Backed by Special Interests,' He Says Candidacy Dedicated to End 'Graft and Inefficiency'," Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 1929: A1.
Date:: [circa 1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Byron Summers was a competitive open water swimmer. His period of greatest competitive activity was 1927. He competed in the Wrigley Ocean Marathon Swim from Isthmus Cove on Catalina Island to San Pedro on the Southern California mainland on 15 January 1927, but did not finish. He completed a 32.3 km crossing of the Catalina Channel (CM) on 24 April 1927 in 13 hours 35 minutes. He completed a 45.9 km circumnavigation around Manhattan Island on 18 September 1927 in 8 hours 56 minutes at the age of 25. And he attempted a 90-mile swim down the Sacramento River in northern California in August 1935. He was born in Minnesota, and raised in Alameda, California.
Date:: 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: California Governor wipes his brow while mowing a lawn, presumably at his home.
Date:: [between 1922-1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: John R. Quinn poses on a chair with his arms crossed over the back. Photo appears with the article "QUINN TAKES UP WORK AS NEW LEGION HEAD: Native Californian Chosen for High Post on Eleventh Ballot; Convention Ends JOHN R. QUINN HEADS LEGION," Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 1923: I1.
Date:: [circa 1923]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Portrait of John R. Quinn looking at the camera. A similar photograph apears in "JOHN R. QUINN IN MAYOR RACE: Former National Commander of Legion Tells Proposes 'I Am Not Backed by Special Interests,' He Says Candidacy Dedicated to End 'Graft and Inefficiency'," Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 1929: A1.
Date:: [circa 1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Portrait of John R. Quinn, National Commander of the American Legion; he smirks while looking at the camera. A similar photograph apears in "LEGION LEADER ALL WESTERNER: Bread of Vision as He is Typical of Plains; "Old Man Quinn's Sen John" Will Stick to Him; Leader in School, College-and Among Cowboys," Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 1923: II8.
Date:: [circa 1923]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A Stinson "S" Junior airplane landing on a runway possibly with aviators "Pete" (Roland Battreal) Reinhart and Loren W. Mendell landing after their 247 hour flight.
Date:: [between 1926-1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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