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Description:: A marching band led by baton twirlers participating in the post-war Labor Day parade. Crowds reached over 150,000 during the special three-day celebration.
Date:: September 3, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Crowd rejoices at the Democratic headquarters after Franklin D. Roosevelt wins the presidential election. Roosevelt won by a landslide against the Republican Alf Landon.
Date:: November 3, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The theme for the forty-seventh Rose Parade was "History in Flowers"
Date:: January 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: William F. Gettle, (center, wearing spectacles) is returned to his home in Beverly Hills after being kidnapped and held for ransom.Gettle, businessman and millionaire, was kidnapped from the grounds of his Arcadia ranch home during a party on the eve of May 9th. The kidnapping attracted a great deal of attention in the community, with Mrs. Gettle even addressing the kidnappers through the pages of the Los Angeles Times. The kidnappers demanded a $60,000 ransom for the return of Gettle, which Mrs. Gettle agreed to pay. However, before the ransom was paid, two detectives of the LAPD, Chester Burris and H.P. Gearhardt, broke the case after installing a dictaphone in the home of a bank robbery suspect. Information from the dictaphone led them to a La Crescenta home where Gettle was held. He was returned, unharmed, to his family on the eve of May 14th.
Date:: May 14, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Five of the twenty-six Belgian draft horses being auctioned off by Los Angeles County at Los Angeles's Union Stock Yards. L.A. County's Board of Supervisors had assessed that the draft horses, though they had won many prizes and obtained national recognition, were too expensive to continue to care for. The twenty-six horses netted $11,367.50 at auction.
Date:: April 18, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Police on foot at the beginning of the L.A.P.D. parade route, which led to the Coliseum where a four-hour entertainment program was presented. Forty-thousand persons were in attendance.
Date:: July 9, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Loretta Ennis (right) and Margaret Howden (left) pose at an event involving the Miss America pageant.
Date:: [1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Funeral procession for longshoreman Norman Gregg, who was known as "Big Bill." Gregg was shot by Patrolman W.H. Redding, and his death created an uproar amongst longshoremen. Traffic was blocked by demonstrations, and a shrine was constructed around the scene of the shooting.
Date:: [circa May 29, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Van Sky, Julia; Repp, Mary; Davis, Howard; Woef, Emma; Lathrop, Pearl
Date:: May 26, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: "Greetings" float from Oakland and Alameda County in the California Admission Day parade, held in Santa Monica. The parade, led by Governor Merriam, was a feature event of the three day Admission Day celebration, which commemorated the 87th anniversary of the day California became a state
Date:: September 9, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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