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Title
Advertising executive and author Bruce Barton lands in Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued
February 29, 1936
1936-02-29
Publication Information
Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information
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.
Bruce Barton stands on a small staircase leading to the plane that he arrived in from New York.
New York advertising executive and author Bruce Barton tells how national advertising has been on the upraise due to the increased activity in businesses relating to the automotive industry, heating appliances and flooring. He will be staying at the Miramar, Santa Monica with plans to return to New York in one to two days along with his wife and their daughter Betty, who remains in ill health due to a car accident two years before.
Photograph appears with the article, "Advertising Gains Cited," Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 1936: A3.
Handwritten on negative: Bruce Barton
Text from newspaper caption: Bruce Barton, who tells increase in advertising.
Text from negative sleeve: 3888 - Bruce Barton Arrival in L.A. (ad. exec. + author) Union Air Terminal
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12921
ark:/21198/zz002hn17x
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Arrivals & departures--American--California--Los Angeles
Airplanes--American--California--Los Angeles
Advertising--California--Los Angeles
Barton, Bruce, 1886-1967
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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