Genre: cellulose nitrate film and news photographs / Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Women employed by State Emergency Relief Administration (SERA) repair a wheelbarrow. In the 1930s, SERA started fifteen work projects in Los Angeles for unemployed men and women. SERA created approximately 1008 jobs for women, including office and sewing jobs.
Date:: [ca. 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Unidentified men and women gather at food exchange windows to recieve sacks of flour as part of a county charity program.
Date:: 1930s?
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Unidentified men and women stand in line to receive food at a county food exchange program.
Date:: 1930s?
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Unidentified men handle boxes of food at a county welfare food exchange program.
Date:: 1930s?
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Unidentified man stands next to parking charge sign at a state beach. On March 1, 1934, a fee of 25 cents was instituted for cars parking in state beaches in Los Angeles.
Date:: [1934?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Photograph of the jury in Los Angeles District Attorney Buron Fitts' 1936 perjury trial. Pictured are Mrs. Camilla Markey of Altadena, Miss Lottie B. Connelly of Los Angeles, Mrs Harriet Bliss of Santa Monica, Mr. Stanfel S. Forbes Sr. of Los Angeles, Mrs. Josephine Fox of Los Angeles, Mrs. Louise J. Boaz of Los Angeles, Mr. William Douglas of Los Angeles, Mr. Allen A. Bunnell of Pasadena, Mrs. Stella L. Duryea of Los Angeles, Mrs. Louise S. Harwood of Altadena, and Mrs. Edith Isakson of Los Angeles.
Date:: [circa January 16, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Photo depicting Charles I. Schottland (center), director of the California State Relief Association, meets with Roy W. Pilling (right), director of the Los Angeles County Relief Association, and Archibald Young, chairman of the Citizens' Relief Committee of Los Angeles. All three men held various high-level positions within California's State Emergency Relief Association and related groups over the course of their careers in public service. These groups included SERA's successor the California State Relief Association and its local branches, and the Citizens' Relief Committee.
Date:: [circa 1935-1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Los Angeles District Attorney Buron Fitts and Special Prosecutor Clyde Shoemaker, pictured at Fitts' perjury trial, circa January 1936. Dist. Atty Fitts was charged with perjuring himself during testimony to a 1931 grand jury, in regards to real estate transactions carried out by his family. His sister and secretary, Mrs. Berthal Gregory, was also a defendant in this case.
Date:: [circa January, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: John H. Ozmun is pictured in his "Highwheeler" Model 3 Holsman automobile, after completing a cross-country drive from Akron, Ohio to San Diego, California. The Holsman Model 3 was manufactured by the Holsman Automobile Company of Chicago, Illinois from 1902 to 1910. The car averaged twenty miles to the gallon during its trip to the West coast, a trip which took Ozmun twenty-six days. Ozmun later drove the Model 3 across the country again, to attend the 1939 World Fair in New York.
Date:: February 16, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mrs. Hazel Belford Glab appears in court to give testimony in her defense on March 16, 1936. Glab was accused of the 1928 murder of her husband, pharmacist John I. Glab. Mrs. Glab had been only recently convicted of forging the will of her late fiancee, wealthy manufacturer Albert Cheney, who died in Las Vegas before the two could be wed. John I. Glab was shot in the home he and Hazel Glab shared, on the evening of June 18, 1928. Mrs. Glab contested that her husband had been shot by her former lover, policeman W. R. McIntyre, and that she had been home listening to the radio with her niece the eve of the murder and had not heard the shot. Glab had been married to the pharmacist for only 16 months.Hazel Glab was convicted of second-degree murder on March 21, 1936.
Date:: March 16, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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