Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Resource Type: still image / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Group portrait of eleven pages serving at a convention of the Daughters of the American Revolution at the Biltmore Hotel.
Date:: March 11-13, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Portrait photograph of Otto Kahn (L) at a Los Angeles train station next an unidentified man just before leaving Los Angeles.
Date:: March 30, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A man surveys the newspapers available for reading at an open-air public library in Pershing Square, downtown Los Angeles. The Pershing Square outdoor library was opened in December of 1936, and was staffed by W.P.A. workers. Visitors to the library could choose to borrow a book by simply leaving their name. The library was quite popular, circulating 24,000 books in its first six months of operation, and spawning other outdoor libraries in Los Angeles.
Date:: [circa 1937]
1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Related to the article, "Olvera Street Service Honors Departed Friend," Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 1936: A2.
Date:: January 11, 1936
1936-01-11
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of 2 workers moving wooden beams inside the clock tower of the old Los Angeles Times Building as it was being prepared for the May1938 demolition. Beams and blocks of stone or concrete litter the floor and commercial buildings of Los Angeles are visible through triple arch opening in the tower wall.
Date:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: An unidentified lawyer approaching Robert S. James as he sits in the witness stand. A map of his home is visible behind him. He was most likely testifying in his own defense for the murder trial of his wife Mary Emma James. He purportedly had an affair with his niece, which spurred him to tie down his wife and have a rattlesnake bite her, and then later drown her in their fish pond. He was supposedly helped by his friend, ex-sailor Charles H. Hope, who was also charged with murder.
Date:: [circa May 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The mural, funded by the WPA (Works Project Administration), was controversial especially because of the depictions of nudity and references to war in the central panel. The central panel was removed from the Frank Wiggins Trade School lobby (now LA Trade Tech) and returned to the Public Works Administration in 1935 and the other two panels were returned in 1939.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Most likely related to the yearly mud battle between first and second year students and the first time female students took part. Students unknown. LAJC is now known as Los Angeles City College located near Vermont and Santa Monica Blvd.
Date:: 1936-02-19
[circa February 19, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia presides over the Pacific coast regional meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors. Boston Mayor Frederick Mansfield served as Mr. La Guardia's secretary. Approximately 60 Pacific coast mayors attended the conference. Unemployment relief was a focal topic at the conference, which was held at Los Angeles' City Council chamber. May 15, 1937.
Date:: May 15, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Maurice Frank poses for a photograph with his coat in his arm.
Date:: [circa January, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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