Title supplied by cataloger. The Armory Building was designed in by State Architect J.W. Woollett for the California National Guard 160th Infantry and built in 1912. In 2003, the California Science Center's Board of Directors voted to rename the Armory Building as the Wallis Annenberg Building for Science Learning and Innovation due to contributions toward the redevelopment of the building by architect Thomas Mayne, which reopened in 2004. Photograph caption dated August 11, 1927 reads, "Buster Keaton being commissioned as a captain in the Oregon National Guard. The ceremony took place last night in the local Armory, with officers of the 160th Infantry, Regimental Staff, California national Guard, officiating, through special arrangement between the Governor of Oregon and the Oregon Guard and California officials and the California Guard. Left to right, Lieutenant Colonel Seth E. Howard, executive officer; Captain Marvin C. Bradley, operations officer; Buster Keaton, Colonel Harcourt Hervey, commanding; Captain Charles Kastler, regimental supply officer, and Captain Harold E. hopping, adjutant.
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Keaton, Buster,--1895-1966 Oregon.--National Guard 160th Regiment State Armory (Los Angeles, Calif.) Military uniforms Armories--California--Los Angeles Motion picture actors and actresses--United States Men--California--Los Angeles Exposition Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Group portraits Portrait photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs Woollett, J. W
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