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

Description:: Ruth Jackson with unknown. This is most likely the same Ruth Jackson who was on the board of directors for the Kern Ridge Oil Company
Date:: [1941]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mrs. A. Julliard Hall, Mrs. Oscar C. Wilcox, Mrs. Priestly A. Horton, and Mrs. Glynn C. Ellsworth standing around a small table in an otherwise empty room. Mrs. Hall is recording secretary for the Wilshire Woman's Club. Mrs. Horton and Mrs. Ellsworth are members of the Ebell Club. Mrs. Hall and Mrs. Horton are shaking hands across the table.
Date:: [1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Elsie the Borden Cow, the unofficial mascott for Borden dairy products, with Donna Larson(?). After appearing at the New York World's Fair, Elsie was chosen by R.K.O. producer Gene Towne to star in the 1940 film "Little Men," based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott. Elsie arrived in Los Angeles on July 12, 1940
Date:: 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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:: 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:: Mona J. Pickett and an unidentified man with his back to the camera. Picture is possibly in connection to her spring 1940 divorce from Carl J. Pickett
Date:: between January 12 and March 16, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Thomas Mann, German author and father to author Erika Mann, seated in a chair
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mrs. Nita Randall, acting as a witness in a murder trial. Mrs. Randall identifed a broken-off blade found in the body of 17-year-old Alice (Jerry) Burns as having been kept in the kitchen of her boarding house. One of her boarders, 25-year-old John Frank Reavis, is accused of the murder.
Date:: May 1, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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