Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
California Governor James Rolph (sitting at wheel of tractor, with tie on) and other officials visiting a road construction site in Santa Monica, California. The tractor has sign that reads "Janss Investment Co. Improvement Dept." Automobiles and a motorcycle are in the background.
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Manuscripts
Black and white photograph of Harry Chandler (second from left), Will Rogers (light suit) and California Governor James "Sunny Jim" Rolph (second from right) pose at an outdoor gathering. Others in photo not identified. May Goodan Collection.
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Visual Materials
Includes: Packaging and typesetting "Los Angeles Herald" newspapers (1922); downtown Los Angeles street scenes; people in automobiles; parade downtown; sculling in Long Beach (1932); Graf Zeppelin dirigible on ground (1929); propeller airplane; unidentified female aviator portrait; train locomotive 2700; Peggy Caffee in court during murder trial of Clara Phillips in Los Angeles (1922); Adolphe Menjou; California Governor James Rolph Jr., with his son James Rolph III; President Woodrow Wilson in automobile in parade, downtown Los Angeles; L.A. County Sheriff William I. Traeger and officers with rifles; Rudecinda Florencia Sepulveda de Dodson with Roman de Sepulveda (1929) and with husband James H. Dodson (192-?).
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Visual Materials
Image of Madie D. Brown, a California State Park Commissioner, sitting next to a boulder covered with a sheet unveiling a tablet beginning "California State Beach, Dedicated the 8th day of July 1931, by the honorable James Rolph, Jr., Governor." The photograph was taken before the dedication ceremonies opening the beach-side park in Santa Monica, California, on July 8, 1931.
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Visual Materials
Image of two young women in robes crouching next to a boulder covered with a sheet to unveil a tablet beginning "California State Beach, Dedicated the 8th day of July 1931, by the honorable James Rolph, Jr., Governor." The photograph was taken before the dedication ceremonies opening the beach-side park in Santa Monica, California, on July 8, 1931.
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Visual Materials
Image of two young women in a robe and swimsuit crouching next to a boulder covered with a sheet to unveil a tablet beginning "California State Beach, Dedicated the 8th day of July 1931, by the honorable James Rolph, Jr., Governor." The photograph was taken before the dedication ceremonies opening the beach-side park in Santa Monica, California, on July 8, 1931.
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