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. A group of men in dark suits gather around a box, extracting from it books, papers, and photographs. About 21 years to the date, relics of Los Angeles were found in a copper box by Chamber of Commerce officials who extracted photographs of the chamber officials, a city directory and copies of the publications then issued here. Photograph appears with the article, "Corner-Stone Is Opened," Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar 1924: A1. Text from negative sleeve: LACY, WILLIAM C. OF C. Text from newspaper caption: Relics of 1903 Revealed Upper Chamber of Commerce officials open copper box in cornerstone of old building. Left to right, William Lacy, Sylvester Weaver, Frank Wiggins and R. W. Pridham. Lower, Frank Wiggins holding copy of The Times, the date of issue being March 28, 1903.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_5415 ark:/21198/zz002cvfb9
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Chambers of commerce--California--Los Angeles Antiques--California--Los Angeles Wiggins, Frank Pridham, R. W. (Richard W.), 1856-1938 Lacy, William Weaver, Sylvester L., 1878-1958
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