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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
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.
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 certificate paper.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Early Days Recalled," Los Angeles Times, 06 Apr 1936: A3.
Text from negative sleeve: 4622 - Fred L. Alles Co/C Bond 4/2/36 [stamped:] Apr 9 1936
Handwritten on negative: Fred L. Alles
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13826
ark:/21198/zz002j799v
Language: No linguistic content
English
Subject: History--California--Los Angeles
Older people--California--Los Angeles
Portrait photographs
Alles, Frederick Lind, 1851-1945
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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