Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives / Subject: Disaster - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Unidentified hearing in courtroom with two men seated at table, one man standing, and possibly testifying as a witness. On the table are papers, small model cars and the small figure of a man.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Cars attempt to navigate flooding at W. 54th and 5th Avenue after disastrous storms in January of 1940. The heavy rainstorms halted traffic and caused highway and bridge damage. At least three died and many were treated for injuries
Date:: between January 8 and January 10, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Margaret Long holding a man's hand while laying in what looks like a hospital bed
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Damage after near-tornado level winds and rain strike Alhambra and neighboring communities of Long Beach and Torrance. Damage in Alhambra extended from City Park to Alhambra Road and Raymond avenue in the northeast, and to Poplar street and Freemont avenue in the southwest. February 13, 1936.
Date:: February 13, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Damage after near-tornado level winds and rain strike Alhambra and neighboring communities of Long Beach and Torrance. Damage in Alhambra extended from City Park to Alhambra Road and Raymond avenue in the northeast, and to Poplar street and Freemont avenue in the southwest. February 13, 1936.
Date:: February 13, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Public defender Ellery Cuff indicating a point on a map at his client Albert Dyer's murder trial. Dyer lured three Inglewood girls to the hills, where he strangled them to death with his hands as well as rope. Albert Dyer is seated wearing a white shirt.
Date:: [circa August 10, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the witness stand. A court stenographer is visible, recording Wright's statements. Wright, an airport executive, shot his wife and his best friend while they sat together on a piano bench. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Date:: [circa January 13, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The jury for the trial of accused murderer Paul A. Wright. The airline executive was charged with the shooting deaths of his wife Evelyn and best friend John Kimmel, whom he claimed to have caught in an "inappropriate" embrace in the Wright home.Wright's defense team, led by famed Los Angeles defense attorney Jerry Giesler, argued that Wright was not guilty by reason of insanity. The jury found Wright guilty of two counts of manslaughter, and subsequently ruled that he had been insane at his sanity trial.
Date:: [between January 17-February 18, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Fire fighters spray water on a hay barn fire at 1600 E. First St. in Santa Ana, California while children gather to watch.
Date:: 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Two fire fighters stand on top of a pile of hay, battling a fire in the hay barn at 1600 E. First St. Santa Ana, California.
Date:: 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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