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

Description:: Colonel Arthur N. Jorgensen from the 160th Infantry watches for air raids during a military show for National Defense Week. The show was held at the Los Angeles Airport and more than 60 officers and men participated.
Date:: February 11, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (left) with Antoinette Jones, wife of lawyer Mattison Boyd Jones, during the opening of the first airplane apprentice school at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Perkins visited Los Angeles for two days to welcome the new class of 37 junior employees who were to begin the program.
Date:: February 15, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Leah Wilson sits weeping in the County Jail after pleading guilty to charges of bigamy. Wilson married three men using different names.
Date:: February 01, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: George "Spanky" McFarland saluting in costume on top of a desk. "Spanky" won fame in the productions of "The Little Rascals."
Date:: [1936?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Gail Patrick, a prominent actress. She starred in films such as "My Man Godfrey" and "Dangerous to Know."
Date:: [circa May 9, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Swiss chauffeur Fred Stettler, accused of the arson murders of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Barbour, showing Capt. Bert Wallis of the police homicide (right) squad $34 in silver hidden in a potato sack at Stettler's home. Stettler confessed to stealing the money from the Barbours after murdering them with a heavy object and setting a timing device which would set the bodies on fireNote: text on the nitrate sleeves and handwritten on the negative likely transcribed "Bert Wallis" incorrectly as "Bert Wallace"
Date:: February 21, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mrs. Jack Scheuer (possibly Kathryn Scheuer), board social chair for the Catholic Woman's Club, 1930s and 40s. Frequent event hostess
Date:: [1930s and 1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mrs. Argyle H. Gudie, member of the Los Feliz Woman's Club, bowling at the Woman's Field Day Challenge event, held in May of 1939
Date:: between May 24 and May 28, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom. James had lost his pregnant wife Mary Emma James after she drowned in their fish pool. A jury was unable to discern whether her drowning was accidental or intentional.
Date:: [circa August 16, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Widower Robert S. James sitting in a courtroom. James had lost his pregnant wife Mary Emma James after she drowned in their fish pool. A jury was unable to discern whether her drowning was accidental or intentional.
Date:: [circa August 16, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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