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One of the founders of the 1903 "Mechanics' Institute" Fred L. Alles, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: One of the founders of the 1903 "Mechanics' Institute" Fred L. Alles, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: April 6, 1936
1936-04-06
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.
Photograph appears with the article, "Early Days Recalled," Los Angeles Times, 06 Apr 1936: A3.
Veteran editor, printer and publisher of 53 years Fred L. Alles reminisces about the founding of the "Mechanics' Institute" in 1903 as wreckers demolish the Southwest Building, home of the Chamber of Commerce.
Fred L. Alles holds in front of him a bond of $1000 from the Mechanic Institute of Los Angeles.
Text from newspaper caption: Fred L. Alles, pioneer Los Angeles printer and publisher, displays one of the Mechanic Institute bonds with which the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce was financed thirty-three years ago.
Handwritten on negative: Fred L. Alles 4/2/36
Text from negative sleeve: 4622 - Fred L. Alles Co/C Bond 4/2/36 [stamped:] Apr 9 1936
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13825
ark:/21198/zz002j798b
Language: English
Subject: Portrait photographs
History--California--Los Angeles
Older people--California--Los Angeles
Alles, Frederick Lind, 1851-1945
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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