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Tenement house in Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: Children pose on the porch of tenement house at 713 Casanova Street in Los Angeles.
Date:: 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Two veterans with prosthetic hands lighting up cigarettes during 1946 National Employ the Physically Handicapped Campaign Committee meeting

Date:: October 8, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Shoppers clamoring for clothes at May Co. Anniversary Sale in Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1954

Date:: 1954
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Nighttime shoppers walking past window displays near Hill and 7th Streets in Los Angeles, Calif., 1948

Date:: 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Veteran Jesse Swatton and family living in tent due to California housing shortage in 1946

Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Customers at meat counter of Los Angeles' Grand Central Market in 1946

Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowds of shoppers taking advantage of bargains on Dollar Day in downtown Los Angeles, September 11, 1937

Description:: Crowds taking advantage of bargains and sales on Dollar Day in downtown Los Angeles
Date:: September 11, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mansion, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: A mansion in a Los Angeles residential area.
Date:: [1936?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mansion, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: A mansion in a Los Angeles residential area.
Date:: [1936?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Couple in grocery store reading food stamps poster in Los Angeles, circa 1940

Date:: 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd of shoppers gathered around a table of rayon print dresses during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles, February 17, 1940

Description:: View from above of shoppers around a table of rayon print dresses during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles. Stores hired extra salespersons and the city arranged for extra streetcars and policemen to accommodate the more than 200,000 bargain-hunters who came out for the sale
Date:: February 17, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd on the street during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles, February 17, 1940

Description:: Men, women and children fill the streets during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles. Stores hired extra salespersons and the city arranged for extra streetcars and policemen to accommodate the more than 200,000 bargain-hunters who came out for the sale
Date:: February 17, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Louis M. Rich family watches as their possessions are loaded into a moving van, Los Angeles, November 22, 1945

Description:: The Louis M. Rich family watches as their possessions are loaded into a moving van. The family was evicted from their home on Thanksgiving Day. The young son stands with his arm around his little sister, watching, in the foreground.
Date:: November 22, 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd on the street during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles, February 17, 1940

Description:: Men, women and children fill the streets during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles. Stores hired extra salespersons and the city arranged for extra streetcars and policemen to accommodate the more than 200,000 bargain-hunters who came out for the sale
Date:: February 17, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Three women getting a deal on socks during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles, February 17, 1940

Description:: Three women looking through a 5 pairs for $1 deal on socks during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles. Stores hired extra salespersons and the city arranged for extra streetcars and policemen to accommodate the more than 200,000 bargain-hunters who came out for the sale
Date:: February 17, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Three women shopping for hats during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles, February 17, 1940

Description:: Three women shop for hats during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles. Stores hired extra salespersons and the city arranged for extra streetcars and policemen to accommodate the more than 200,000 bargain-hunters who came out for the sale
Date:: February 17, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Temporary Japanese post-war housing

Description:: View of a Burbank, California trailer park used for temporarily housing Japanese Americans recently released from wartime internment camps.
Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Patrons playing cards in a casino, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Patrons gathering in a casino to play card games. Hawthorne, Compton, Monterey Park, and Long Beach closed several gaming places after Attorney General Webb found games of chance unlawful.
Date:: [circa January 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Employees at The May Co. prepare merchandise for downtown Dollar Day, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Employees at The May Co. department store prepare merchandise for downtown Dollar Day. Tom May, executive vice-president of the company predicted this Dollar Day would bring in record-breaking numbers of customers
Date:: February 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Women and children on porch in slums of Los Angeles, circa 1937

Date:: 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Employees at The May Co. prepare for downtown Dollar Day, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Employees at The May Co. department store prepare for downtown Dollar Day. Tom May, executive vice-president of the company predicted this Dollar Day would bring in record-breaking numbers of customers
Date:: February 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

People shopping and selling at a junk sale, Los Angeles

Description:: People shopping and selling at a junk yard and sale
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Dressed in traditional Scandinavian clothing, 14-year-old Anita Roos sells Mayor Bowron the first ticket to the Finnish Relief bazaar, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Dressed in traditional Scandinavian clothing from her native Finland, 14-year-old Anita Roos sells Los Angeles Mayor Fletcher Bowron the first ticket to the Finnish Relief Fund bazaar, held in S.A.E. Auditorium. Looking on are secretary-treasurer of the bazaar committee, Victor Kallio, and acting bazaar chairman, Peter Williams.
Date:: February 6, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Patrons playing cards in a casino, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Patrons playing cards in a casino. Hawthorne, Compton, Monterey Park, and Long Beach closed several gaming places after Attorney General Webb found games of chance unlawful.
Date:: [circa January 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd shops at department store during Dollar Day sale, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Crowd shops at department store during Dollar Day sale. Sales totaled $15,000,000 and included over 100 downtown stores.
Date:: September 07, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Women looking through a pile of rayon print dresses during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles, February 17, 1940

Description:: Women looking through a pile of rayon print dresses, priced at $1.69, during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles. Stores hired extra salespersons and the city arranged for extra streetcars and policemen to accommodate the more than 200,000 bargain-hunters who came out for the sale
Date:: February 17, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Wartime housing in Little Tokyo's Bronzeville, Los Angeles, 1943

Description:: Little Tokyo in Los Angeles was dubbed "Bronzeville" during World War Two, as African American families and workers moved into the empty homes and businesses of the relocated Japanese American community.
Date:: 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Los Angeles slums in the Great Depression

Description:: A mother holds her toddler son in the small kitchen of their apartment home, in an unidentified Los Angeles neigborhood slum.
Date:: circa 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Wartime housing in the Japanese Union Church in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, 1943

Description:: Little Tokyo in Los Angeles was dubbed "Bronzeville" during World War Two, as African American families and workers moved into the empty homes and businesses of the relocated Japanese American community.
Date:: 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mexican workers move into lodgings at Whittier Ranch, Los Angeles County (Calif.)

Description:: Mexican agricultural workers adjust their bedding as they move into lodgings at Whittier Ranch.
Date:: 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Japanese homes on Terminal Island (Calif.)

Description:: View of single story homes built by Japanese canneries to house employees on Terminal Island.
Date:: 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Sabina de la Cruz with her children in a Skid Row hotel in Los Angeles, Calif., 1983

Date:: 1983-08-01
August 1, 1983
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Galvez, Jose
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Louise Peden demonstrates coin operated vending machine at Automatic Merchandising show in Los Angeles, Calif., 1963

Date:: October 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Auction of Subscription Television, Inc., assets in Santa Monica, Calif., 1964

Date:: December 22, 1964
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Selling pinatas on Olvera Street, Los Angeles, 1968

Date:: December 22, 1968
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Four boys playing on slide in playground at San Fernando Gardens Housing Project, Calif., 1964

Date:: April 26, 1964
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Skid Row children on door step of apartment building in Los Angeles, Calif., 1979

Date:: October 28, 1979
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Yaro, Boris
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Man washing dishes in bathtub in Frostonya Apartment-Hotel slum in Los Angeles, Calif., 1984

Date:: September 18, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jaskol, Ellen
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Homeless sleeping in boxes along storefronts in Los Angeles, Calif., 1987

Date:: January 22, 1987
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Gladstone, Penni
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Illegal immigrant squatter on mattress under freeway in Los Angeles, Calif., 1986

Date:: August 7, 1986
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

The Santos Lopez family, migratory farm workers talk with reporter in their tent camp in Nevada, 1959

Date:: February 25, 1959
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Oliver, R. L.
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Man sleeping in chair in the waiting area of Los Angeles Union Station, 1939

Date:: May 5, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Opening of Ralph's Market: view inside the store of vegetable area with shoppers in Los Angeles, Calif , 1941

Date:: October 29, 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Long line of people waiting to obtain meat during first day of war rationing in Los Angeles, Calif., 1943

Date:: March 28, 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Homeless Valerie Borgens and son, Ryan living in a moving van in San Fernando Valley, Calif., 1982

Date:: December 26, 1982
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Lubas, Ken
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Boy playing in Hoyo Mara east side slum in Los Angeles, 1963

Date:: February 24, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Nurse Janice Estes attending to toddler with sores at "Dust Bowl Hilton," homeless camp in Los Angeles, Calif., 1987

Description:: Dubbed the "Dust Bowl Hilton", this campground was set up by the city of Los Angeles and the Salvation Army in an attempt to provide shelter and services for the homeless. Camp lasted for 103 days.
Date:: July 19, 1987
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Lubas, Ken
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Dr. Townsend advocates old age pension proposal to crowd at La Crescenta picnic, 1935

Description:: Similar to theimage of Dr. Townsend captioned: "Pension advocate addresses 20,000: Dr. Townsend, unperturbed by the plane crash which delayed his arrival at the La Crescenta picnic, addressed a crowd estimated at 20,000 on the old age pension plan which he originated." With the article "Dr. Townsend's Plane Crashes on Way to Picnic - Bowl Debater Heckled" Los Angeles Times 19 Aug. 1935.
Date:: August 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection