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Young girl sits amongst the harvest from a community garden, circa February 1934.

Description:
Young Los Angelino Yvonne Marion Wolff sits piled under produce grown in a local community garden.Beginning in 1933, small tracts of land throughout Los Angeles county were used by the government as locations for community gardens, where men left unemployed by the Great Depression could work and grow food to feed their families. In 1933, 890 acres of land in Los Angeles County were used toward this purpose; the program expanded to 2,500 acres of land in 1934. This land was approximately enough to grow the vegetables consumed by 20,000 county welfare families.
Date:
[circa February, 1934]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Young girl sits amongst the harvest from a community garden, circa February 1934.

W.J. Braunschweiger, S.E. Gates, and Paul Hoffman at headtable, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Sideview of Bank of America executive Walter J. Braunschweiger, Los Angeles Rotary Club president S.E. Gates, and Studebaker Corporation executive Paul G. Hoffman--seated at headtable with anniversary cake in front. Hoffman stands at small podium with microphone. Behind them are a Rotary Club banner and another cake. In the overall background, numerous men can be seen socializing in a large, chandaliered room. Photograph was taken at the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce's 47th anniversary event in the Biltmore Hotel's Biltmore Bowl, the hotel's ballroom.
Date:
October 11, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
W.J. Braunschweiger, S.E. Gates, and Paul Hoffman at headtable, Los Angeles, 1935

Wirewalker Hubert Castle prepares for his act at the Shrine Charity Circus, Los Angeles, June 1946

Description:
Hubert Castle (a.k.a. Hal Smith or Hal Silvers), wirewalker, prepares for his act at the Shrine Charity Circus. The circus is an annual 10-day event held at Shrine Auditorium, which features an indoor show by the Polack Bros. Circus. Orphaned and underprivileged children are allowed to visit the circus as their admission is paid by affluent members of the community. The circus also travels to the children's hospital to entertain the sick children who can't attend. Proceeds from the circus go to Shrine charitable activities.
Date:
between June 8 and June 18, 1946
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Wirewalker Hubert Castle prepares for his act at the Shrine Charity Circus, Los Angeles, June 1946

William T. Ince, son of producer Thomas H. Ince, on the day of his divorce from Ada Williams. April 13, 1934.

Description:
Young actress Ada Williams Ince, 21, divorces her husband of 5 years, William "W.T." Ince, on claims of abuse due to her husband's violent temper. Williams was granted the divorce in Superior Judge Edmond's court, and attributed it to the date of Friday the 13th, her "lucky number", contrary to popular convention.
Date:
April 13, 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
William T. Ince, son of producer Thomas H. Ince, on the day of his divorce from Ada Williams. April 13, 1934.

William P. Carr, Deputy Prosecutor, stands next to a still, Los Angeles, 1930-1933

Description:
William P. Carr, Deputy Prosecutor, stands next to a still composed of a metal can, a metal cylindrical container with a gauge on top and a funnel. According to the annotation to the negative sleeve, there is come connection between the still and the Angelus Temple. On the wall behind Carr is a calendar advertising an insurance provider called the Seyler-Day Co.
Date:
[between 1930-1933]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
William P. Carr, Deputy Prosecutor, stands next to a still, Los Angeles, 1930-1933

William J. Cook and Edward Levine at the liquor license bribe trial, Oct. 1939 - May 1940

Description:
William J. Cook (left), friend and campaign worker for William G. Bonelli, and Ed Levine, a lobbyist, at the liquor license bribe trial. Both are accused of involvement in a liquor license bribe scandal in which they conspired with at least five others to extort money from liquor retailers under threat of causing them to lose their liquor license
Date:
between October 24, 1939 and May 29, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
William J. Cook and Edward Levine at the liquor license bribe trial, Oct. 1939 - May 1940