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Description:: Chang Yuin-Tsung and Los Angeles born Chinese American actress Anna May Wong (right).
Date:: ca. 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Katheryn Padrick sits on a desk wearing gloves and a hat with a typewriter in the background.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Portrait image of Dr. Francis Everett Townsend, originator of the Townsend Plan, an old-age pension plan which influenced the creation of Social Security.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Louis B. Mayer, film producer and studio executive at MGM, pitches a baseball in front of a crowd of spectators. Mayer served as studio boss at MGM and produced films with stars like Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, and Katharine Hepburn.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Portrait of William Moseley Jones. Jones (1905 - 1988) was a Democratic attorney from Montebello, California who served several terms in the California State Assembly, including one term as Speaker.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Frank E. Walton sits next to Templeton Peck while Peck takes down notes from a book.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: From left to right: film producer Louis B. Mayer, Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin, and Bishop Bertrand Stevens in the luncheon room at the Biltmore Hotel where 400 leading Californians had gathered to discuss the campaign to raise funds for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Mr. Mayer spoke at the meeting saying, "this battle is not for greed or power, but for human good without distinction of race or creed" and acknowledged the presence of Rabbi Magnin and Bishop Stevens (among others) as a sign that we live in a "land where men of different faiths combine to aid humanity"
Date:: December 12, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: William A. Dessert, juror at the Paul A. Wright "white flame" double murder trial. Wright is accused of shooting his wife, Evelyn, and best friend, John B. Kimmel, after allegedly finding the two in an embrace on a piano bench in his home. Wright was ultimately found not guilty by reason of temporary insanity.
Date:: between January 13 and February 17, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the witness stand. A court stenographer is visible, recording Wright's statements. Wright, an airport executive, shot his wife and his best friend while they sat together on a piano bench. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Date:: [circa January 13, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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