Genre: cellulose nitrate film and news photographs / Location: Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Gamblers sit and play tango, a bingo-like game. Gambling was allowed in the amusement zones of Venice beach. Gambling parlors could be found in hotels and speakeasys.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Five boys play in the water as a German Shepherd looks on. A pier is visible in the background.
Date:: [1934?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Homes and palm trees underwater in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles. After heavy rains lasting more than 36 hours, between 1200 and 1800 homes in the Venice area were underwater on January 1, 1934.
Date:: [circa Jan. 1, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: PROBLEM: Photo is not of flood in Venice as written on sleeve.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Boys kneeling in sand with dog in front of umbrella on Venice Beach.
Date:: [1934?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Possibly related to the article "BEWILDERING MACHINERY OF MIRTH MIXES NEW AND JOLLY COMPLEXITIES," Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 1936: D3.
Date:: February 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: This photograph is similar to images appearing with the articles, "DETECTIVES INQUIRE INTO EVANGELIST'S DROWNING: Burns Operatives Enter Case While Searchers Vainly Seek Body of Aimee Semple McPherson," Los Angeles Times, 20 May 1926: 1, and “FAITHFUL CLING TO WANING HOPE: Men and Women Followers of Mrs. McPherson Grouped on Sands at Venice Pray That Leader Will Return to Them,” Los Angeles Times, 20 May 1926: 2
Date:: [circa May 19, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Portrait photograph of Harry Fielding Winebrenner, head of the art department at Venice High School. He wears a three piece suit, striped button down shirt, and a jeweled tie tack in his tie.
Date:: [circa January 31, 1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Possibly related to the article "BEWILDERING MACHINERY OF MIRTH MIXES NEW AND JOLLY COMPLEXITIES," Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 1936: D3.
Date:: February, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: The body of 45-year-old Marion Brown was found in her home at 688 Flower Street in Venice. Warren H. Russell was the chief witness and murder suspect, as he had been a frequent visitor to her home. He was released after further investigation.
Date:: July 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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