Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. This photograph appears under the headline, “’Times’ Plays Host to Crowds in New Home as Will Rogers Entertains,” Los Angeles Times, 2 Jul 1935: 26. Text from newspaper caption: New City Council Takes Up Duties; members of the new City Council which took office yesterday. Left to right, seated: Councilman Thrasher, Kindig, Buyer, Burns, MacAlister, Gay and Brainard. Standing, Baumgartner, Cunningham, Wilson, Tate, Christensen, Hyde, Lewis, and Bennett. Burns, who for six years has been the representative of the Fourth Councilmanic District and is a recognized expert on municipal finance, was elected president of the new Council by the close vote of eight to seven over Stephen W. Cunningham. Times photo. Handwritten on negative: New City Council 7-1-35 Text from negative sleeve: 1044—Council, New City Caption Attached 7-1-35
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uclamss_1429_7345 ark:/21198/zz002df14f
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City council members--California--Los Angeles Wilson, Jim, b. 1873 MacAlister, Robert S., 1897-1957 Tate, Darwin William Buyer, Franklin Pierce, 1878-1963 Brainard, Byron B. (Bernard), 1894-1940 Burns, Robert Louis, 1876-1955 Bennett, G. Vernon (Guy Vernon), 1880 Hyde, James MacDonald, 1873-1943 Thrasher, Edward Lee, 1892-1971 Cunningham, Stephen W., 1886-1956 Lewis, Evan Gay, Earl C., 1902-1972 Kindig, Will H., (William Harvey), 1869-1946 Baumgartner, John W., b. 1890 or 91 Christensen, Parley Parker, 1868-1954
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