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

Children play in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Children play in Chinatown.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mrs. A.J. Woodward plays the piano while Mrs. James A. Beck and Mrs. Yvonne Chrarton stand nearby, Los Angeles

Description:: Mrs. A.J. Woodward plays the piano while Mrs. James A. Beck and Mrs. Yvonne Chrarton stand nearby. There is a large basket of flowers on top of the piano
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Actress Phyllis Brooks wearing a fur-lined coat and fedora, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Actress Phyllis Brooks wearing a fur-lined coat and a fedora, with an airplane visible in the background. Brooks was originally known as the "Ipana Toothpaste Girl," and dated leading men such as Carey Grant and Howard Hughes before marrying a close friend of President John F. Kennedy, Congressman Torbert Macdonald.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd watching a baseball game at Wrigley Field in South Los Angeles

Description:: Crowd watching a baseball game at Wrigley Field in South Los Angeles. Los Angeles's Wrigley Field was built in 1925 and torn down in 1966. It was host to minor league baseball teams and home of the Los Angeles Angeles. The field is named after the same Wrigley as Wrigley Field in Chicago, but it actually received the name first and had more on-site parking than Chicago's field does now.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Spectators at a wrestling match, one man stands clapping and yelling, Los Angeles

Description:: Spectators at a wrestling match, probably at Olympic Auditorium. One man is standing, clapping, and yelling.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd of boys watch Charles Kramer, Paul Barbata, and George Stassi compete in a marble tournament, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Charles Kramer, Paul Barbata, and George Stassi compete in a marble tournament. A crowd of mainly young boys watches in the background.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Group of male students at Los Angeles Junior College wrestle in the mud, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: A group of men wrestle in the mud at an annual Los Angeles Junior College competition between classes.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mud covered students at Los Angeles Junior College, February 1936

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:: [circa February 19, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mud covered students race at Los Angeles Junior College, February 1936

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

Crowd of spectators gathered for post-war Labor Day festivities, Los Angeles, 1946

Description:: Spectators gathered for post-war Labor Day festivities. Crowds reached over 150,000 during the special three-day celebration, which included parades and other activities.
Date:: September 3, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd gathers around Charlie Chan, fortune teller, in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Crowd gathers around Charlie Chan, an advertised fortune teller, in Chinatown.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Swim suit models during a fashion show that featured local designers, Los Angeles, September 1946

Description:: Swim suit models during a fashion show that featured local designers. The show was part of a fashion event that lasted for a week and featured designs by Mary Ann De Weese, Margit Fellegi, and Lynn Lester
Date:: September 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Three costumed characters at a picnic celebration for Labor Day, Los Angeles, 1946

Description:: Three costumed characters at a picnic celebration presumably for Labor Day. Crowds reached over 150,000 during the special three-day celebration.
Date:: September 3, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd gathers around Charlie Chan, fortune teller, in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Crowd gathers around Charlie Chan, an advertised fortune teller, in Chinatown.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Charlie Chan, fortune teller, speaks to customers in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Charlie Chan, self-proclaimed fortune teller, speaks to a crowd in Chinatown.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Children play on a street in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Children play on a street in Chinatown.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Actress Frances Staub poses poolside in a white bathing suit, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:: Actress Frances Staub poses poolside in a white bathing suit.
Date:: [1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mrs. William E. Beatty, chairman of the bowling event during a Women's Field Day Challenge, May 1939

Description:: Mrs. W.E. Beatty, chairman of the bowling event held during the Los Feliz Woman's Club and Glendale Athletic Club's Field Day Challenge. This event, which was held in May of 1939, was the first time in the history of local woman's clubs that a field day featuring two clubs in competiton occurred
Date:: between May 24 and May 28, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd watches golfer compete at the 12th annual Los Angeles Open golf tournament, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Unidentified golfer competes in the 12th Los Angeles Open golf tournament. A crowd watches the players compete. The tournament was held at the Harding and Wilson golf courses in Griffith Park. 128 golfers competed in the four day tournament.
Date:: January 8, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Marching band led by baton twirlers participating in the post-war Labor Day parade, Los Angeles, 1946

Description:: A marching band led by baton twirlers participating in the post-war Labor Day parade. Crowds reached over 150,000 during the special three-day celebration.
Date:: September 3, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Female impersonator singing to the patrons of a nightclub, Hollywood, circa 1937

Description:: Female impersonator singing to the patrons of a Hollywood nightclub.
Date:: 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Aerial view of the Labor Day Parade, Los Angeles, September 6, 1937

Description:: Float featuring a music stand and guitar passes by the crowds gathered to watch the Labor Day Parade.
Date:: September 6, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Circus girls laugh over a game of checkers, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Circus performers (left to right) Flo Hudson, Hazel Moss, and Doris Cleveland laugh over a game of checkers. Most likely to do with the Al G. Barnes circus performances throughout March and April of 1935.
Date:: [circa March 30, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd watches USC versus UCLA rugby game at the Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Crowd watches the USC versus UCLA rugby game in the rain at the Coliseum.
Date:: March 9, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Contestants preparing for a swing dance competition at Paramount Theater, Los Angeles, December 1937

Description:: Dancers getting ready for a swing dance competition at Paramount Theater. The contest preceded the premiere of the new film "Live, Love and Learn"
Date:: December 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

People gather outside Shrine Auditorium for a performance of Tristan and Isolde on opening night of the opera, Los Angeles, November 15, 1937

Description:: People gather outside Shrine Auditorium for a San Francisco Opera Association performance of Tristan and Isolde (Tristan und Isolde) on opening night of the opera. Star of the show was Kirsten Flagstad, the Norwegian soprano, along with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra
Date:: November 15, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Model wears a sparkly "cover-up" swim suit design by Margit Fellegi during a fashion show, Los Angeles, September 1946

Description:: Woman models a sparkly "cover-up" swim suit design by Margit Fellegi during a fashion show. The fashion event lasted for a week and featured designs by Mary Ann De Weese, Margit Fellegi, and Lynn Lester
Date:: September 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mrs. Irwin Kellog modeling women's fashion, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Mrs. Irwin Kellog sitting at a vanity modeling women's fashion
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Los Angeles Junior College students in yearly mud battle, February 1936

Description:: From yearly mud battle between first and second year students and the first time female students took part. Brawl took place in parking lot next to school. LAJC is now known as Los Angeles City College located near Vermont and Santa Monica Blvd.
Date:: [circa February 19, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Top view of a chess board and both of the players' hands, one of the players is moving the white knight, Los Angeles

Description:: Top view of a chess board and both of the players' hands. One of the players is moving the white knight, this is the fifth move of the game
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

USC Kappa Alpha members spank another member with a wooden paddle inside their fraternity house, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: USC Kappa Alpha members spank another member with a wooden paddle inside their fraternity house.
Date:: 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Aerialist Bertha Matlock poses by her circus outfits, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Aerialist Bertha Matlock poses by her myriad of circus outfits. Most likely taken in anticipation of the Al G. Barnes circus performances in Los Angeles throughout March and April 1935.
Date:: [circa March 30, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Spectators enjoying the sights at the National Air Races, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Spectators enjoying the sights at the annual National Air Races, held at the Los Angeles Municipal Airport. Nearly 100 of the most talented pilots from across the world participated and thousands attended.
Date:: September 4, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Close-up of a chess board and a player's hand checking the black king, Los Angeles

Description:: Close-up of a chess board and one of the player's hands. The player is taking out a black knight with the white queen and at the same time checking the black king.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Close-up of a chess board and a player's hand moving the white queen, Los Angeles

Description:: Close-up of a chess board and one of the player's hands. The player is moving the white queen.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Spectators standing on the side of the street and enjoying the post-war Labor Day parade, Los Angeles, 1946

Description:: Spectators standing on the side of the street and enjoying the post-war Labor Day parade. Crowds reached over 150,000 during the special three-day celebration.
Date:: September 3, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Costumed characters marching in the post-war Labor Day parade, Los Angeles, 1946

Description:: Costumed characters marching in the post-war Labor Day parade. Crowds reached over 150,000 during the special three-day celebration.
Date:: September 3, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Studio employees drinking coffee during the Conference of Studio Unions strike against all Hollywood studios, Los Angeles, 1945

Description:: Studio employees drinking coffee 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:: 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Group of young women read books and write together at their USC sorority house, Los Angeles, 1940

Date:: 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mud covered students in wheelbarrow race at Los Angeles Junior College, February 1936

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:: [circa February 19, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Two unidentifed women play on a swing set during the annual Iowa Picnic, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Two unidentified women play on a swing set during the annual Iowa Picnic. The Iowa Picnic was an annual gathering of Iowans living in Los Angeles and Long Beach. The gathering brought together over 100,000 people in 1935 and was often held at Bixby Park and Lincoln Park.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Drum majorette Betty Atkinson poses with officers during annual LAPD parade, July 9, 1937.

Description:: Drum majorette Betty Atkinson photographed with a group of police officers during an annual parade and entertainment show put on by the Los Angeles Police Department. The event drew 40,000 spectators. July 9, 1937.
Date:: July 9, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd waiting to enter Shrine Auditorium for a performance of Tristan and Isolde on opening night of the opera, Los Angeles, November 15, 1937

Description:: Crowd waiting to enter Shrine Auditorium for a San Francisco Opera Association performance of Tristan and Isolde (Tristan und Isolde) on opening night of the Opera. Star of the show was Kirsten Flagstad, the Norwegian soprano, accompanied by the San Francisco Opera Orchestra
Date:: November 15, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Close-up of a chess board and player's hand moving one of the white bishops, Los Angeles

Description:: Close-up of the corner of a chess board and the hand of a person playing. The player is holding a white bishop and moving it toward a group of black pieces.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Top view of a chess board and player's hand moving the white queen, Los Angeles

Description:: Top view of a chess board and the hand of a person playing. The player is holding the white queen and moving it towards the black king.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Child actors Billy, Bobby, Delmar and Garry Watson setting off fireworks on the Fourth of July, Los Angeles

Description:: Child actors Billy, Bobby, Delmar and Garry Watson gathered around an ignited firework on the Fourth of July. The Watson family was known as "the first family of Hollywood" and included at least nine children that acted in motion pictures.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Casino on Tony Cornero's newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill or Lux, Los Angeles, 1946

Description:: Casino on Tony Cornero’s newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill (also known as the Lux), which was meant to operate offshore of Los Angeles. After the Bunker Hill’s opening night, however, Cornero and five of his aides were arrested on felony charges of criminal conspiracy to conduct gambling games and serve alcohol without a license. After his arrest, Cornero announced that he was ready to go to the United States Supreme court to keep the Bunker Hill running. Cornero was also “admiral” of the Rex, another gambling vessel which was forced to suspend operations in 1938.
Date:: August 9, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Young men in homecoming "brawl," University of Southern California, Los Angeles, [1928?]

Description:: A similar photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, October 18, 1928, Trojan Sophs Win Right to Rule, Freshmen Lose Liberties—and Shirts—in Annual Brawl
Date:: [1928?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Golfer Macdonald Smith and actor Harold Lloyd on golf course, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Macdonald Smith, in sweater and knickers with golf club, and Harold Lloyd, in suit and tie, on golf course with spectators and trees in background
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Young men in homecoming "brawl," University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Probably related to Los Angeles Times article, October 18, 1928, Trojan Sophs Win Right to Rule, Freshmen Lose Liberties—and Shirts—in Annual Brawl
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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