Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Subject: Business - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: A lettuce packing plant. A thousand lettuce workers assembled to strike in hopes of increased pay and were dispersed by police.
Date:: [circa January 9, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Unknown Public Works Administration (PWA) project with unknown workers. Part of the New Deal, most PWA spending came in 1933-1935 and then again in 1938 before being shut down in 1939.
Date:: [1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Inside the Commercial Exchange Building. Most likely related to 1935 construction that removed a 10-foot section in the middle of the building. Building was owned by the Kress House Moving Company and the work was done by architects and engineers Walker & Eisen. Building at 416 W. 8th St (corner Olive Streets), Downtown Los Angeles.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A slum. Part of the housing study carried out by the State Emergency Relief Administration. County officials were asked to make a study of housing conditions in their city.
Date:: [circa June 17, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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:: Row of businesses including a liquor store, a cafe, the LA I.D.A. (Industrial Development Authority?) and the Sea Pride Packing Company at night. Picture is lit by the storefront signs.
Date:: [1930s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Illuminated star-shaped sign that says "LONE STAR," photographed at night. The sign is on the front of the Sea Pride Packing Company.
Date:: [1930s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Police and strikers during the Conference of Studio Unions strike against all Hollywood studios. The CSU strike began in March 1945 and was around the six month mark when it turned violent on October 5, 1945, known as Hollywood Black Friday. National exposure of this violence forced negotiations between studios and the CSU. Negotiation ended the strike about a month later, but CSU didn't last much longer and was eventually disbanded and absorbed by rival union IATSE.
Date:: October 19, 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Ruins of a fire that occurred at Dura Steel Products Co. An electrical short circuit ignited 20 barrels of highly flammable paint thinner. The fire destroyed the plant and left approximately 100 employees without a job.
Date:: February 22, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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