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Lancaster O'Grady with the Santa Monica Municipal Symphonic Band and ballet dancers at the Greek Theatre, Santa Monica, 1940

Description:
Photograph of conductor J. Lancaster O'Grady with the Santa Monica Municipal Symphonic Band in the seating area of the Open Air Memorial Theatre on the campus of Santa Monica High School. Eleven ballet dancers pose behind the band.
Date:
September 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Lancaster O'Grady with the Santa Monica Municipal Symphonic Band and ballet dancers at the Greek Theatre, Santa Monica, 1940

Lancaster O'Grady with the Santa Monica Municipal Symphonic Band and ballet dancers at the Greek Theatre, Santa Monica, 1940

Description:
Photograph of conductor J. Lancaster O'Grady with the Santa Monica Municipal Symphonic Band in the seating area of the Open Air Memorial Theatre on the campus of Santa Monica High School. Eleven ballet dancers pose behind the band.
Date:
September 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Lancaster O'Grady with the Santa Monica Municipal Symphonic Band and ballet dancers at the Greek Theatre, Santa Monica, 1940

Woman next to a palm tree along the walkway at Palisades Park, Santa Monica, 1937-1946

Description:
At some point after WWII the rustic branch fence at Palisades park was replaced with two types: a pre-cast concrete fence with a criss-cross design and a wood board fence. Bartlett photographs of Palisades Park dated 1946 show the rustic branch fence and the wood rail fence.
Date:
[between 1937-1946]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Woman next to a palm tree along the walkway at Palisades Park, Santa Monica, 1937-1946

Coastal view through palm trees at Palisades Park, Santa Monica, 1946-1950

Description:
At some point after WWI the rustic branch fence at Palisades park was replaced with two types: a pre-cast concrete fence with a criss-cross design and a wood board fence. Bartlett photographs of Palisades Park dated 1946 show the rustic branch fence and the wood rail fence.
Date:
[between 1946-1950]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Coastal view through palm trees at Palisades Park, Santa Monica, 1946-1950

Woman seated on the eucalyptus branch fence at Palisades Park, Santa Monica, 1937-1950

Description:
View of a young woman seated on the rustic eucalyptus branch fence along the cliff edge at Palisades Park with her arms raised upwards. On either side of the fence are a century/agave plant and a palm tree; the Santa Monica pier is visible in the distance.
Date:
[between 1937-1950]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Woman seated on the eucalyptus branch fence at Palisades Park, Santa Monica, 1937-1950

Evelyn Most on the beach with longboard, Santa Monica, 1944

Description:
Photograph of Evelyn Most wearing a two-piece bathing suit on a Santa Monica beach. Most holds a surfboard in on hand and waves with the other. Seen background left: Breakers Beach Club (partial view), the Edgewater Beach Club, and Hotel Casa Del Mar. at background right: the Santa Monica Pier.
Date:
August 1944
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Evelyn Most on the beach with longboard, Santa Monica, 1944

Performers in a children's program, Roosevelt Elementary School, Santa Monica, 1956

Description:
Photograph of children in a school performance. The girls on stage wear both classical and romantic length tutus. Standing at ground level are two young women and a young man - all participants in the performance. Photographed at Roosevelt Elementary School (801 Montana Avenue).
Date:
1956
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Performers in a children's program, Roosevelt Elementary School, Santa Monica, 1956

Santa Monica Civic Opera performers sing Christmas carols at Bullock's department store, Westwood, 1955

Description:
Photograph of Santa Monica Civic Opera singers, dressed in Dickens-style costumes, standing outside of Bullock's department store in Westwood. The performers sing from a book of carols titled, "Sing We now of Christmas," while one male singer holds a lantern up in the background. Singers include: Barbara Ludwig (front row, second from left), June Moss (center), Teresa Kirbe and Enrico Porta (in top hat, holding a small dog). A young man can be seen playing an accordion behind Kirbe and Porta.
Date:
December 1955
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Santa Monica Civic Opera performers sing Christmas carols at Bullock's department store, Westwood, 1955

Two boys playing with a "Tidy Tim" wind-up toy at the Children's Home Society, Los Angeles, 1935-1960

Description:
The tin toy, by Marx, is "Tidy Tim," identified by the inscription on trash bin, which also includes the inscriptions "D.S.C" and "Keep your City Spick & Span Says Tidy Tim the Clean-up Man" (seen online). Online examples of this toy are dated from 1933 into the 1950's.
Date:
[between 1935-1960]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Two boys playing with a "Tidy Tim" wind-up toy at the Children's Home Society, Los Angeles, 1935-1960

Close-up view of girls working on a jigsaw puzzle at the Children's Home Society, Los Angeles, 1935-1960

Description:
The Children's Home Society of California is a non-profit child welfare agency founded in 1891. It became the first licensed child placement agency in California in 1911. It was located at 919 E. 25th St. from the 1920's up to 1942, when the organization moved to the Ozro W. Childs mansion at 3100 W. Adams Blvd. where it remained until 1977.
Date:
[between 1935-1960]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Close-up view of girls working on a jigsaw puzzle at the Children's Home Society, Los Angeles, 1935-1960

Children roller skating at the Children's Home Society, Los Angeles, 1935-1960

Description:
The Children's Home Society of California is a non-profit child welfare agency founded in 1891. It became the first licensed child placement agency in California in 1911. It was located at 919 E. 25th St. from the 1920's up to 1942, when the organization moved to the Ozro W. Childs mansion at 3100 W. Adams Blvd. where it remained until 1977.
Date:
[between 1935-1960]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Children roller skating at the Children's Home Society, Los Angeles, 1935-1960

Boys holding U. S. flags as another boy salutes at the Children's Home Society, Los Angeles, 1935-1960

Description:
The Children's Home Society of California is a non-profit child welfare agency founded in 1891. It became the first licensed child placement agency in California in 1911. It was located at 919 E. 25th St. from the 1920's up to 1942, when the organization moved to the Ozro W. Childs mansion at 3100 W. Adams Blvd. where it remained until 1977.
Date:
[between 1935-1960]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Boys holding U. S. flags as another boy salutes at the Children's Home Society, Los Angeles, 1935-1960

"Traviata" production with Kay Marshall and Ray Gagan, John Adams Auditorium, Santa Monica, 1949-1951

Description:
View of Kay Marshall and Ray Gagan toasting in a scene in "La Traviata" in front of a banquet table beneath a chandelier. Twelve cast members are behind the table. Florence Timmerhoff is to the left of Gagan and Giovanni Zavatti is in the background, just behind the chair on the right.
Date:
[between 1949-1951]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
"Traviata" production with Kay Marshall and Ray Gagan, John Adams Auditorium, Santa Monica, 1949-1951

"Traviata" production with Barbara Gholson at John Adams Auditorium, Santa Monica, 1949-1952

Description:
View of 9 cast members onstage during a performance of "La Traviata." They are gathered at 2 banquet tables beneath a chandelier with Barbara Ghloson in front in the role of Violetta. Roger Hansen is singing, standing behind the main table on the left. And Florence Timmerhoff is in the background, 4th from left. A member of the orchestra, in the orchestra pit, is visible on the lower right corner.
Date:
[between 1949-1952]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
"Traviata" production with Barbara Gholson at John Adams Auditorium, Santa Monica, 1949-1952

"Traviata" production with Kay Marshall and Ray Gagan, John Adams Auditorium, Santa Monica, 1949-1951

Description:
Kay Marshall and Ray Gagan, performing in "La Traviata." Marshall is seated to the left of a banquet table, set with 2 candelabras and with a chandelier suspended above, as Gagan stands singing beside her. An illuminated music score and the shadow of the conductor are visible in the orchestra pit in the foreground.
Date:
[between 1949-1951]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
"Traviata" production with Kay Marshall and Ray Gagan, John Adams Auditorium, Santa Monica, 1949-1951

California State Guardsmen at ease with rifles, Santa Monica, 1941

Description:
Photograph of California State Guardsmen (California State Military Reserve) in uniform. Those along the back two rows stand at ease, some holding rifles at their sides. All but one of the men kneeling on the front row has a rifle at his side. The men range in age from about 18 to approximately 50 years old. They are photographed outside of an unidentified building (possibly Santa Monica City Hall).
Date:
June 25, 1941
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
California State Guardsmen at ease with rifles, Santa Monica, 1941

California State Guardsmen standing at ease with rifles, Santa Monica, 1941

Description:
Photograph of California State Guardsmen (California State Military Reserve) in uniform, standing at ease with rifles at their sides, rifle butt on ground. The men range in age from about 18 to approximately 50 years old. They are photographed outside of an unidentified building (possibly Santa Monica City Hall).
Date:
June 25, 1941
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
California State Guardsmen standing at ease with rifles, Santa Monica, 1941

Guests enjoy the patio at La Quinta Hotel , Indio, circa 1940

Description:
Guests enjoy a patio at La Quinta Hotel, a Spanish style resort with mountains in the distance. Model Mona Ohrtland leans on a lounger in the center and model Donie Dorey may be on the right, with a seated man reading in between them. Another man stands next to a mural in the background.
Date:
[circa 1940]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Guests enjoy the patio at La Quinta Hotel , Indio, circa 1940

Officials open the newly improved Roosevelt Highway, Santa Monica, 1935

Description:
Officials preside over the re-opening of the Roosevelt Highway (Pacific Coast Highway) after it had been significantly widened in Santa Monica. One kneels holding a large key to open a large lock attached to 2 garland streamers spanning the highway. Three women wearing decorative swim suits are on the right and on the left are a boy scout holding an American flag, a women in horseback riding attire and another woman. A crowd of spectators are behind them with the California incline visible in the distance.
Date:
July 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Officials open the newly improved Roosevelt Highway, Santa Monica, 1935

Construction on Roosevelt Highway during a project to widen it, Santa Monica, 1935

Description:
View of a section of the Roosevelt Highway (Pacific Coast Highway) during a project to significantly widen it in Santa Monica. A wide swath of the road is unpaved with a bull dozer and truck in view. A man in a suit observes a framed area where concrete will be poured. The address of the first house in the background is 609.
Date:
1935
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Construction on Roosevelt Highway during a project to widen it, Santa Monica, 1935

Portrait painting of a horse by E. Nunn Miller, Palm Springs, 1942

Description:
Evylena Nunn (E. Nunn) Miller moved from Kansas to Santa Ana in 1903 and earned her BA from Pomona College. In southwest she painted landscapes, coastal views and Native Americans, traveling widely to Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado. She painted 40 canvases of scenes of life in the pueblos of the Navajo, Apache, Toas, Hopi, Jemez, Acoma, Laguna, and Zuni. One of her goals was to paint all of the pueblos of the Southwest. Her 1933 book "Travel Tree" was about her journey to achieve this goal.
Date:
March 6, 1942
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Portrait painting of a horse by E. Nunn Miller, Palm Springs, 1942

Betty Shafer stands next to a wagon conversing with a cowboy, Palm Springs vicinity, 1942

Description:
Betty Shafer with a horse and dressed in cowgirl attire stands next to a wagon conversing with a cowboy in a desert landscape with mountains in the distance. Another cowboy holds the reins in the driver's seat of the wagon. The wagon was probably is use for a desert breakfast for tourists.
Date:
March 6, 1942
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Betty Shafer stands next to a wagon conversing with a cowboy, Palm Springs vicinity, 1942

Betty Shafer with horseback riders in a desert landscape, Palm Springs vicinity, 1942

Description:
Betty Shafer standing in the foreground in cowgirl attire with a line of horseback riders approaching her. There is post with a sign on the right. There are mountains in the distance. They are probably going to or from a desert breakfast organized for tourists.
Date:
March 6, 1942
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Betty Shafer with horseback riders in a desert landscape, Palm Springs vicinity, 1942

Illustrated page from the story "Ogwalla Springs," by Adelbert Bartlett and Mrs. Williams, 1942

Description:
Photograph of an illustrated page from the story, "Ogwalla Springs," written by Adelbert Bartlett, possibly drawn by Mrs. Williams (no full name or initials on illustration). The drawing depicts an oasis of sorts, with two figures relaxing and swimming in what appears to be a body of water set within a desert (rendered in short hand with a lone palm tree and an animal's skull seen at foreground). A dwelling sits at right, near farm animals (possibly mules) and a buggy. Short-hand birds fly above, while the sun shines over the hills rendered in the background. Text at top reads: "(double page)...Ogwallah."
Date:
September 1, 1942
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Illustrated page from the story "Ogwalla Springs," by Adelbert Bartlett and Mrs. Williams, 1942

Illustrated pages from a story, "Recipe for Charm," by Adelbert Bartlett, illustrated by W. Williams, 1942

Description:
Two pen and ink illustrations photographed side-by-side. Drawing on the left features a Native American seated cross-legged. He eats the contents of a bowl held in his lap. At right sits a second bowl with Southwestern designs, and pipe. A mesa stands in the background. The illustration at right features a man seated on a rock, smoking a pipe, chin resting on a clenched fist. He sits across from a squirrel. Text in speech bubble above him reads: "a nut to crack... Yes - that's the problem." Beyond the scene, a path leads toward a dwelling with smoke escaping from its chimney while the sun sets in the distance. Caption on rock at foreground: "Illustrations by W. Williams."
Date:
September 1, 1942
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Illustrated pages from a story, "Recipe for Charm," by Adelbert Bartlett, illustrated by W. Williams, 1942

Procession of two-wheeled carts on Palm Drive in the Desert Circus Parade, Palm Springs, 1946

Description:
Procession of 13 two-wheeled carts ridden by women and girls and one man dressed as a native American in a war bonnet, in the Desert Circus Parade on Palm Drive just past the Lykken general store (180 N. Palm Dr.). Each cart has a pennant-type flag advertising a business, including "Gordons" and "Stevens Jewelers." Spectators watch from the sidewalk. The parade took place on Saturday April 6.
Date:
April 6, 1946
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Procession of two-wheeled carts on Palm Drive in the Desert Circus Parade, Palm Springs, 1946

Family and cowboy musicians riding the "Rancho Mirage" horse-drawn wagon in the Desert Circus Parade, Palm Springs, 1946

Description:
View a horse-drawn wagon in the Desert Circus Parade, held on Saturday April 6. A couple with their young daughter rides in the front seat and cowboy musicians are in the back playing a fiddle, guitar and accordion. A sign above the musicians reads "Rancho Mirage" and the wagon is labeled "16-A." Spectators are gathered on the sidewalk.
Date:
April 6, 1946
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Family and cowboy musicians riding the "Rancho Mirage" horse-drawn wagon in the Desert Circus Parade, Palm Springs, 1946

Horseback riders on the track of the Palm Springs Field Club during the Desert Circus Rodeo, Palm Springs, 1946

Description:
Scene from the grandstand at the Desert Circus Rodeo. Spectators watch cowboy equestrians on the track, some lined up and others riding down the track, 2 carrying American Legion flags. A soft drink vendor in a white cap is in the grandstand.
Date:
April 7, 1946
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Horseback riders on the track of the Palm Springs Field Club during the Desert Circus Rodeo, Palm Springs, 1946

Mary Westover holding a book in her collection, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:
Mary Westover, 2 days before her 88th birthday, seated on the porch of her daughter Grace's Santa Monica Canyon home at 541 west rustic road. She is holding a book from her collection of books on geology and geology specimens. There also is an Indian basket next to her on the left from her collection of Indian handcraft and basketry.
Date:
November 10, 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Mary Westover holding a book in her collection, Los Angeles, 1937