Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Related to "Edsel Ford Optimistic," Los Angeles Times, 04 Sep 1935: A1. Ira B. Groves, manager of the Long Beach Ford plant, sits in a chair wearing a light-colored three piece suit. An occupied chair is to his left. A candlestick phone is in the background on a shelf. Edsel Ford, president of the Ford Motor Company, attended a luncheon in Los Angeles at the Athletic Club, along with Ira B. Groves and W. R. Beatty, manager and assistant manager of the Long Beach Ford plant. Ford visited the Long Beach plant the same day. Handwritten on negative sleeve: 2015. I. B. Groves Mgr. L.B. Ford Plant 9/3/35 [stamped:] Sep 13 1935 Handwritten on negative: I. B. Groves. L.B. Mgr. Ford Plant 9/3/35
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_8363 ark:/21198/zz002dg77b
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Telephones--1930-1940 Business people--American Automobile industry workers--California--Long Beach Groves, Ira B. (Ira Burnell), 1890-1969 Ford Motor Company
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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