Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Reported in the article "Van Nuys Has City Hall Fete," Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 1932: 13. John C. Porter, mayor of Los Angeles, Nell Jeffrey, active in club work and local politics, and Cecil Wilcox, city editor of the North Hollywood Press, at the corner stone laying ceremony of the City Hall. Nell Jeffries holds a trowel and there appears to be a time capsule box in the niche beneath the inscribed plaque (which reads "Erec[ted] A. D. 19[...]"). In attendance on the left are children and a man in uniform (perhaps a boy scout). Handwritten on negative: John C. Porter, Mrs. Alex Jeffrey, Cecil Wilcox Text from negative sleeve: Porter, John C.
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image
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b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_10664 ark:/21198/zz002hbp72
Subject
Newspaper editors--American--California--Los Angeles Cornerstone laying--California--Van Nuys Clubwomen--California--Los Angeles Mayors--California--Los Angeles Porter, John C. (John Clinton), 1871-1959 Wilcox, Cecil, 1876-1933 Jeffrey, Nell E.. 1887-1977
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