Thanks to my friends Mark Sonntag and Gunnar Andreassen who both alerted me to this photo, which is currently for sale on eBay.
Judging by Walt Disney's office, I'd say this photo was taken no earlier than July 1929, and is no later than the Spring of 1931. As Walt and Roy made a little money, they would expand and add rooms to the original 1926 building at 2719 Hyperion Avenue, in Los Feliz, California.
The office in this image does not look like the first one occupied by Walt, which was located to the left as you entered the main door of the 1926 building. This office appears to me to be the one that was moved when they added the two western additions to the original building in July 1929. At this time Roy moved into Walt's first office, and Walt moved into the new western addition.
When the big "L" shaped Animator's Building No. 1 was built in the Spring of 1931, Walt's office was spacious, and had dark colored wood paneling, so the office depicted in this photo is not the office in that new building.
(UPDATE July 19 - when I posted this image I didn't have access to the eBay listing. The auction description notes the photo is stamped on verso with the date February 21, 1933. After some consideration, I still believe the image is earlier than that. The date referenced on the image could have been when the photo was distributed by Acme, or used by a particular newspaper. By February 1933 Walt would have moved into his new office in Animator's Building No. 1, and this is defintiely not that particular office depicted in the photo. Do any of my readers have any thoughts?)
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