US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Arthur S. Bent receives a Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Realty Board service watch from George H. Coffin at a banquet held at the Biltmore Hotel. Reported in "Realty Men Reward Bent: Former Chamber Head Honored at Board Banquet; Culver Installed President," Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 1927: 1. Bent was a Los Angeles contractor and civic worker who build dams in Southern California and Oregon in the first phase of his career, then went into public service as the Director of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, the president of the Associated General Contractors of America, and was the president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce in 1926. Handwritten on negative: Arthur S. Bent, Geo N. Coffin Text from negative sleeve: Bent, Arthur S.
Type
image
Format
b&w glass negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_b3693_G391 ark:/21198/z1tn340p
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Contractors--California--Los Angeles Banquets--California--Los Angeles Awards Civic leaders--California--Los Angeles Coffin, George Holman Jr., 1887-1966 Bent, Arthur S., 1863-1939
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