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Three officials from California Institute of Technology posing with a steam shovel at 1930 groundbreaking ceremonies for dormitories

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Title: Three officials from California Institute of Technology posing with a steam shovel at 1930 groundbreaking ceremonies for dormitories
Date Created and/or Issued: June 3, 1930
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: 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) 825-4287
Description: Typed note attached to negative states "ground-breaking ceremonies at the California Institute of Technology yesterday for the $1,000,000 group of dormitories were featured by the use of a steam shovel, instead of the usual small spade, while an added appropriate touch was given by the punch, a synthetic concoction. Charles Dickerman is seen at controls of shovel. Sidney Zipser poises the bottle of punch (just before he dropped it) and Roscoe Downs poses in left foreground."
Type: Image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclalat_1429_b3696_G716
ark:/21198/zz0002nw7v
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Education
Dormitories--Design and construction
Ground breaking ceremonies--California--Pasadena
Steam shovels
California Institute of Technology
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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