John W. O'Leary, Paul Shoup, Dr. Claudius T. Murchison, and Roger D. Lapham at joint Western Division of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Pacific Foreign Trade Council meeting, Los Angeles, 1934
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. Related to the article, "COMMUNISM PERIL CITED: Chamber Group Warned Government Control First Step Toward Red Plan, Speakers Declare," Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 1934: A1. From left to right, former U.S. Chamber of Commerce president John W. O'Leary, vice-president of the Western Advisory Council of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Paul Shoup, and director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce Dr. Claudius D. Murchison seated at a banquet table. Standing at a podium is president of the American Hawaiian Steamship Company Roger D. Lapham. This photograph was probably taken on December 3, 1934 at the Biltmore ballroom, where the Western Division of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Pacific Foreign Trade Council met to discuss and analyze commercial and economic problems. Lapham spoke on "Foreign Trade and the Merchant Marine." Text from negative sleeve: O'Leary, John W. & Mrs., Chicago banker, 1929. Handwritten on negative: L&R John W. O'Leary, Paul Shoup, Dr. Claudius T. Murchison, Roger D. Lapham.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_6907 ark:/21198/zz002cx6sj
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Congresses and conventions--California--Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America Congresses Pacific Foreign Trade Council Congresses Shoup, Paul, 1874-1946 O'Leary, John W. (John William), 1875-1946 Lapham, Roger D. (Roger Dearborn), 1883-1966 Murchison, Claudius Temple, 1889-1968
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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