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

Description:: Three unidentified people in 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:: Los Angeles Board of Supervisors members (left to right) John Anson Ford, John R. Quinn, Roger Jessup, and McDonough Gordon fraternize with a local food kitchen chef. Most likely to do with the decision of the Board of Supervisors to increase relief for the unemployed.
Date:: [circa December, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A slum area, with unidentified citizens visible. 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:: Financier F.W. Leistikow, who, along with his wife Esther E. Leistikow and 17 others, will benefit from a settlement with the County Counsel’s Department after claiming that the county illegally collected taxes on luxury homes in 1939, 1940, and 1941. The claims totaled $32,171.35 and, although the Counsel did not admit wrongdoing, they realized it would be more difficult to protest and decided to pay 62.5% of that amount, equal to $20,117.72
Date:: October 6, 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Laundry hanging in 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:: 1934-06-17
[circa June 17, 1934]
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:: Start of journey of Southern California Townsend club members to Chicago for national convention. Clubs named after Dr. Francis Townsend to advocate for his old age pension plans, a precursor to Social Security. West was western divisional director of Townsend club; Litchenfels, state area officer; Highley, President of Los Angeles club; Biddlecom, member of national advisory board. Wives of Bliss and Highley also present.
Date:: [October 21, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Tony Cornero surrounded by staff and Radio News Reel broadcasting equipment on his 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

Description:: Veterans filling out paperwork with the War Assets Administration at Port Hueneme to purchase Quonset Huts and other surplus army and navy supplies such as tentage, steel bunks, electrical saws, bridge-building equipment, pumps and an air-raid warning siren. More than 1000 veterans with priority certificates showed up for the sale, some camped out to ensure they would get their choice of hut. The huts cost between $230 and $288 depending on the number of windows.
Date:: July 15, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Photographer and others gathered in the Office of Price Administration with six dummies wearing signs that say: "This congressman committed political suicide. He voted against the O.P.A. by A.V.C." The American Veterans Committee hung the dummies from lamp posts and high wires at prominant intersections throughout the city in support of prolonging government regulation of prices.
Date:: May 4, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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