Names: Goodwill Industries of America - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Crowd outside the Goodwill Industries premises in the Baker Block building, where a fire occurred on January 14, 1938. Remarkably, 400 crippled and elderly men and women, as well as 20 children in the nursery, escaped the event unharmed. Firefighters were able to keep the blaze from spreading throught the entire building, which had been in use since 1868. A short circuit in the electrical department on the ground floor was suspected to be the cause of the fire. Photograph looks to have been taken pre-fire
Date:: between 1925 and January 14, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Fire fighters respond to a fire at the Goodwill Industries premises in the Baker Block building. Remarkably, 400 crippled and elderly men and women, as well as 20 children in the nursery, escaped unharmed. Firefighters were able to keep the blaze from spreading throught the entire building, which had been in use since 1868. A short circuit in the electrical department on the ground floor was suspected to be the cause of the fire.
Date:: January 14, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The man kneels in a crowded workshop, paining a wooden chair decorated with horses.
Date:: [circa December 8, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Goodwill workers repair 5000 dolls a year, secondhand toys that are donated to the organization and then given to the less fortunate.
Date:: December 10, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Goodwill workers repair 5000 dolls a year, secondhand toys that are donated to the organization and then given to the less fortunate.
Date:: [circa December 8, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Clyde holds a teapot standing in front of shelves of Goodwill merchandise.
Date:: January 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Reverend E. J. Helms serves as executive secretary of the Goodwill organization of the United States. More than 2 million homes have bags for Goodwill to donate clothing, broken furniture, utensils, and other items for Goodwill's employees to turn into usable merchandise. Dr. Helms emphasizes the importance the rehabilitation serves for the handicapped workers.
Date:: February 7, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Similar photograph appears with the article, "Cast-Off Toys Made Over," Los Angeles Times, 09 Dec 1938: A1.
Date:: [circa December 9, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Goodwill Plan Aids Many," Los Angeles Times, 04 Feb 1935: A5.
Date:: February 7, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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