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
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. This photograph appears (cropped to the center 3 men) in the article, "Voices Span Pacific in Start of New Service: Hawaii Phone Link Opens," Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 1931: A1. J. A. H. Kerr on a phone call to Hawaii. Surrounded by other members of the Chamber of Commerce and business men. The event was held at 740 South Olive St. Handwritten on negative: James R. [W...] J.A.H. Kerr, F.N. Rush, R.E. Wooley [sic], [Y...] [Y...] Text from newspaper caption: Spoken Word Goes 2000 Miles During Split Second. Left-to-Right: J. A. H. Kerr, president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce; F. N. Rush, vice-president and general manager of the Southern Pacific Telephone Company; and R. E. Wooley [Woolley], president of Honolulu Chamber of Commerce, listening to spoken greetings from Hawaii. Text on negative sleeve: Kerr, J. A. H. Banker, LA Community Chest, LA Chamber of Commerce Etc. (d. 1952)
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_5312 ark:/21198/zz002cv9s3
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Chambers of commerce--California--Los Angeles Rush, F. N Kerr, John A. H., 1877-1952 Woolley, R. E
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