Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives / Subject: Lifestyle / Date: 1937 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Jean Wilson cooks in kitchen, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Jean Wilson cooks in kitchen wearing a gingham print dress.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Jean Wilson fills a pot with water at a kitchen sink, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Jean Wilson fills a pot with water at a kitchen sink while wearing a gingham print dress.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Jean Wilson uses a hand mixer in a kitchen, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Jean Wilson uses a hand mixer while wearing a gingham print dress.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Jean Wilson serves drinks in a kitchen, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Jean Wilson serves drinks in a kitchen while wearing a gingham print dress.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Spectators read the paper at the Santa Anita racetrack, February 22, 1937.

Description:: Spectators at a $50,000 Derby day at the Santa Anita racetrack on February 22, 1937. The crowd in attendance was estimated at 45,000 spectators. Twenty-three horses raced that day, beating out the Kentucky Derby's record of twenty-two starting horses at that time. The $50,000 purse was won by the horse Fairy Hill.
Date:: February 22, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Large used car lot, 1930s.

Date:: 1930-1940?
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Patrons at the Forbidden Palace restaurant in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Patrons fill the tables at the Forbidden Palace restaurant in Chinatown.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Line of people outside a Chinatown restaurant, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Line of people wait to enter a Chinatown restaurant.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Girls sit on the sidewalk in front of a store in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Girls sit on the sidewalk in front of a store in Chinatown.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Children play in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1930s

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

Female impersonator seated on piano in Los Angeles club, circa 1937

Description:: Female impersonator in a sparkly gown seated on piano in Los Angeles club with a pianist playing, a man in a short white jacket at a microphone and posters of movie stars on the walls
Date:: 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man with a full dinner tray at the Midnight Mission on Thanksgiving Day, Los Angeles, November 25, 1937

Description:: Man with a tray full of Thanksgiving dinner at the Midnight Mission on Thanksgiving day. The Mission served food to thousands of men during this annual celebration of the holiday
Date:: November 25, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Spectators check their betting sheet on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season, Arcadia, December 25, 1937

Description:: Spectators on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season. On this day, over 50,000 spectators wagered a total of $789,159 on the eight races held, toppling the previous records of 40,000 people and $599,009 wagered. Big winners of the day were horse He Did, who won the feature race by more than a length and Bing Crosby's horse High Strike, who won his sixth straight race.
Date:: December 25, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Four well-dressed men stand together in the Los Angeles slums while a fifth man looks on, Los Angeles, 1925-1945

Description:: Four well-dressed men stand together in the Los Angeles slums while a fifth man looks on. In the background are several meager homes and clotheslines full of laundry
Date:: [between 1925 and 1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Member of the Mystic Shrine attending to a sign for the Durbar festival, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: A member of the Mystic Shrine attending to a sign created for the Durbar festival. 20,000 spectators enjoyed street parades on South Olive Street and festivities at the Shrine Auditorium.
Date:: June 12, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Parade float for the Aahmes Shrine Band in the Durbar festival, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: An automobile representing the Aahmes Shrine Band for the Mystic Shrine's Durbar festival. 20,000 spectators enjoyed street parades on South Olive Street and festivities at the Shrine Auditorium.
Date:: June 12, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Spectators watch a race on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season, Arcadia, December 25, 1937

Description:: Spectators on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season. On this day, over 50,000 spectators wagered a total of $789,159 on the eight races held, toppling the previous records of 40,000 people and $599,009 wagered. Big winners of the day were horse He Did, who won the feature race by more than a length and Bing Crosby's horse High Strike, who won his sixth straight race.
Date:: December 25, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Spectators take a break on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season, Arcadia, December 25, 1937

Description:: Spectators on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season. On this day, over 50,000 spectators wagered a total of $789,159 on the eight races held, toppling the previous records of 40,000 people and $599,009 wagered. Big winners of the day were horse He Did, who won the feature race by more than a length and Bing Crosby's horse High Strike, who won his sixth straight race.
Date:: December 25, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Spectators take a break on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season, Arcadia, December 25, 1937

Description:: Spectators on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season. On this day, over 50,000 spectators wagered a total of $789,159 on the eight races held, toppling the previous records of 40,000 people and $599,009 wagered. Big winners of the day were horse He Did, who won the feature race by more than a length and Bing Crosby's horse High Strike, who won his sixth straight race.
Date:: December 25, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Spectators read the paper at the Santa Anita racetrack, February 22, 1937.

Description:: Spectators at a $50,000 Derby day at the Santa Anita racetrack on February 22, 1937. The crowd in attendance was estimated at 45,000 spectators. Twenty-three horses raced that day, beating out the Kentucky Derby's record of twenty-two starting horses at that time. The $50,000 purse was won by the horse Fairy Hill.
Date:: February 22, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mrs. Jack Scheuer, board social chair for the Catholic Women's Club, Los Angeles, 1930s and 40s

Description:: Mrs. Jack Scheuer (possibly Kathryn Scheuer), board social chair for the Catholic Women's Club, 1930s and 40s. Frequent event hostess
Date:: [1930s and 1940s]
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

Group of men on a train [?]

Description:: Group of men on a train [?]. One wears a hat with "Canada" written on the side. Another man is handing out small slips of paper.
Date:: [between 1930-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Home of Buron Fitts, district attorney and 29th Lieutenant Governor, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Home of Buron Fitts, district attorney and 29th Lieutenant Governor of Los Angeles.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Heiress Nancy Pierson Brooks Macy Brill eating at a cafe, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Heiress Nancy Pierson Brooks Macy Brill eating at a cafe. Her estranged husband William Brill was pressing a suit for the annulment of their marriage. They had separated hours after their elopement and subsequent marriage.
Date:: [circa July 2, 1937]
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

People line up to borrow art from the public library, Los Angeles

Description:: People line up to borrow art from the public library. Sign on the wall says: These prints are part of a collection of nearly two hundred works of art by Federal Artists, now available for public use without cost to holders of library cards.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Woman baking pies at a cooperative in Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Woman baking pies at a cooperative located at 21st and Santee St. in Los Angeles. Many self-sustaining communities like this one emerged in California during the 1930s, specifically in the Los Angeles - Orange County area
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

LA Daily News city editor Charles Judson demonstrates improper golf swings for a tutorial series with golfer Fay Coleman. Circa 1940.

Description:: LA Daily News city editor Charles Judson participates in a series demonstrating "right" and "wrong" golf swings with local pro golfer and golf instructor Fay Coleman. Judson represents the "wrong" form for each swing.
Date:: [between 1935-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

LA Daily News city editor Charles Judson demonstrates improper golf swings for a tutorial series with golfer Fay Coleman. Circa 1940.

Description:: LA Daily News city editor Charles Judson participates in a series demonstrating "right" and "wrong" golf swings with local pro golfer and golf instructor Fay Coleman. Judson represents the "wrong" form for each swing.
Date:: [between 1935-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Passengers on the S.S. Mariposa on the deck looking out into the distance, Los Angeles

Description:: Passengers on the S.S. Mariposa on the deck looking out into the distance.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Porter helping passengers of the S.S. Mariposa with their luggage, Los Angeles

Description:: A porter helping passengers of the S.S. Mariposa with their luggage.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Passenger of the S.S. Mariposa with her luggage, Los Angeles

Description:: A passenger of the S.S. Mariposa with her luggage.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Marie Wright poses with dog Rex, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Marie Wright poses with her dog Rex while holding a book.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Jean Wilson poses with a block of Switzerland cheese, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Jean Wilson poses with a block of genuine Switzerland cheese
Date:: 1930s
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

Representatives from Oakland marching in the Admission Day parade, Santa Monica, September 9, 1937

Description:: Representatives from Oakland marching in the California Admission Day Parade held in Santa Monica. The parade, led by Governor Merriam, was a feature event of the three day Admission Day celebration, which commemorated the 87th anniversary of the day California became a state
Date:: September 9, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Female impersonator Johnnie David and five others seated at a table smoking and drinking, Hollywood, circa 1937

Description:: Female impersonator Johnnie David and five unidentified "Hollywood degenerates" seated around a table smoking and drinking. On the wall is a Marx brothers poster.
Date:: [1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Golfer Fay Coleman demonstrates a series of "right" and "wrong" golf swings.

Description:: Popular Culver City professional golfer Fay Coleman demonstrates the "right" and "wrong" form of various swings. Coleman, born into a family of golfers, was associated with the Los Angeles Country Club, and had a successful amateur career. In later years, he taught at the country club.
Date:: [between 1935-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Little girl looking out to the harbor on the S.S. Mariposa, Los Angeles

Description:: A little girl looking out to the harbor on the deck of the S.S. Mariposa.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Photograph of John Kenneth Rummel Jr., Los Angeles

Description:: Photograph of John Kenneth Rummel Jr.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mayor Frank L. Shaw decides between a bowler hat and a straw hat in his office, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Mayor Frank L. Shaw, who was in office from 1933-1938, tries to decide between a bowler hat and a straw hat in his office.
Date:: between 1933 and 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Photographers taking pictures of a woman on the S.S. Mariposa, Los Angeles

Description:: Photographers taking pictures of a woman on the S.S. Mariposa.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Passenger on the S.S. Mariposa peering into the distance with binoculars, Los Angeles

Description:: A passenger on the S.S. Mariposa peering into the distance with binoculars.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Passengers on the deck of the S.S. Mariposa looking out into the distance, Los Angeles

Description:: Passengers on the deck of the S.S. Mariposa looking out into the distance.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Spectators read the paper at the Santa Anita racetrack, February 22, 1937.

Description:: Spectators at a $50,000 Derby day at the Santa Anita racetrack on February 22, 1937. The crowd in attendance was estimated at 45,000 spectators. Twenty-three horses raced that day, beating out the Kentucky Derby's record of twenty-two starting horses at that time. The $50,000 purse was won by the horse Fairy Hill.
Date:: February 22, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Boy takes part in a free summer camp organized by Los Angeles Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz. Circa July 1937.

Description:: Boys from financially disadvantaged backgrounds participate in a free summer camp in Griffith Park. The camp, which was organized by Sheriff Biscailuz, lasted hosted groups of 100 boys for 10 days at a time. While at camp, the boys participated in activities such as swimming, fencing, baseball, various hobbies, and a nonsectarian religious program. The camp's 1937 season lasted from July 6th to September 4th.
Date:: [circa July 6, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Photograph of Ray Harvey and June Rogers Harvey dressed like a cowboy and cowgirl, Los Angeles

Description:: Photograph of Ray Harvey and June Rogers Harvey dressed like a cowboy and cowgirl.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
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

Patrons at the Forbidden Palace restaurant in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Patrons fill the tables at the Forbidden Palace restaurant in Chinatown.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Children play near a bench and restaurant in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1930s

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

Crowd on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season, Arcadia, December 25, 1937

Description:: Spectators on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season. On this day, over 50,000 spectators wagered a total of $789,159 on the eight races held, toppling the previous records of 40,000 people and $599,009 wagered. Big winners of the day were horse He Did, who won the feature race by more than a length and Bing Crosby's horse High Strike, who won his sixth straight race.
Date:: December 25, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Spectators on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season, Arcadia, December 25, 1937

Description:: Spectators on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season. On this day, over 50,000 spectators wagered a total of $789,159 on the eight races held, toppling the previous records of 40,000 people and $599,009 wagered. Big winners of the day were horse He Did, who won the feature race by more than a length and Bing Crosby's horse High Strike, who won his sixth straight race.
Date:: December 25, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Two young women watch the races on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season, Arcadia, December 25, 1937

Description:: Spectators on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season. On this day, over 50,000 spectators wagered a total of $789,159 on the eight races held, toppling the previous records of 40,000 people and $599,009 wagered. Big winners of the day were horse He Did, who won the feature race by more than a length and Bing Crosby's horse High Strike, who won his sixth straight race.
Date:: December 25, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Woman stands with four children in the slums, Los Angeles, 1925-1945

Description:: A woman stands with four children between two meager homes in the Los Angeles slums.
Date:: [between 1925 and 1945?]
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

Crowd outside Forbidden Palace restaurant in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Crowd stands outside of Forbidden Palace, a restaurant serving Chinese dishes and cocktails, 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

Children sit on a bench in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1930s

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

Young boy sits on a bench in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Young boy sits on a bench in Chinatown.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Unidentified man speaks on stage during a meeting of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Los Angeles

Description:: Unidentified man speaks on stage during a meeting of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Paddock at the Santa Anita racetrack on Derby Day, February 22, 1937.

Date:: February 22, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man reads a book while sitting with a dog on the steps of the Santa Monica Unemployed Citizens' League library, 1930s

Description:: Man reads a book while sitting with a dog on the library steps at the Unemployed Citizens' League of Santa Monica (a localized group of self-sustaining and self-respecting people). Many cooperatives like this one emerged in California during the 1930s, specifically in the Los Angeles - Orange County area
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man takes a book from a bookshelf at the Unemployed Citizens' League of Santa Monica, 1930s

Description:: Man takes a copy of "Tom Brown at Oxford" by Thomas Hughes from a bookshelf at the Unemployed Citizens' League of Santa Monica, a localized group of self-sustaining and self-respecting people. Many cooperatives like this one emerged in California during the 1930s, specifically in the Los Angeles - Orange County area
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Gladys Jackson sits on a desk wearing a dress and hat, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Gladys Jackson sits on a desk wearing a dress and hat.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Gamblers sit and play tango, a bingo-like game, Venice, 1930s

Description:: Gamblers sit and play tango, a bingo-like game. Gambling was allowed in the amusement zones of Venice beach. Gambling parlors could be found in hotels and speakeasys.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Alhambra Legion auxiliary team captain Marion de Varanne sitting with Dorothea Carlson, Los Angeles

Description:: Alhambra Legion auxiliary team captain Marion de Varanne (left) sitting with Dorothea Carlson
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mary Baker and Raymond Brookes sitting next to each other, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Mary Baker and Raymond Brookes sitting next to each other at the end of a row of chairs.Possibly related: In September 1931 a Jack Brookes (21) and a Mary Baker (17) announced their intention to marry. Raymond Brookes may be the father of Jack Brookes?
Date:: [1930s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Two unidentifed men share a box of Cracker Jack during the annual Iowa Picnic, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Two unidentified men share a box of Cracker Jack on a bench 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

LAJC students gather around unidentified woman after a mud fight, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Men covered in mud after a mud fight at the Los Angeles Junior College gather around an unidentified woman.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Four men stand aside as a horse-drawn wagon drives through an alley in the slums, Los Angeles, 1925-1945

Description:: Four men stand aside as a horse-drawn wagon drives through an alley in the Los Angeles slums
Date:: [between 1925 and 1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Drive-in restaurant sign, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: A drive-in restaurant's sign in Los Angeles.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Hannah Link and Betty Condor balancing on a block of wood, Los Angeles

Description:: Hannah Link and Betty Condor wearing matching black outfits and sitting together on a rectangular piece of wood. They are balanced on the edge, one girl has her arms around the other's waist.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mrs. Hiram Raney and Mrs. Edna Horton baking biscuits, Los Angeles

Description:: Mrs. Hiram Raney and Mrs. Edna Holton baking biscuits in an oven.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Film actor Clark Gable eating a sandwich and reading a newspaper in an office, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Film actor Clark Gable eating a sandwich and looking at a newspaper in a cluttered office with two unidentified men. Gable had been visiting the Federal Court in order to serve as a witness against Mrs. Violet Wells Norton and Jack L. Smith, who were charged with attempting to extort money from the actor.
Date:: [circa April 21, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd watches a football match bewteen the Loyola Marymount Lions and the the Santa Clara Broncos, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Crowd watches the Loyola Marymount Lions play a football game against the Santa Clara Broncos. Head Coach Buck Shaw led his Broncos to an undefeated 1937 season and a win at the 1938 Sugar Bowl against LSU.
Date:: October 24, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Boys taking part in a free summer camp organized by Los Angeles Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz. Circa July 1937.

Description:: Boys from financially disadvantaged backgrounds participate in a free summer camp in Griffith Park. The camp, which was organized by Sheriff Biscailuz, lasted hosted groups of 100 boys for 10 days at a time. While at camp, the boys participated in activities such as swimming, fencing, baseball, various hobbies, and a nonsectarian religious program. The camp's 1937 season lasted from July 6th to September 4th.
Date:: [circa July 6, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mrs. Paxton Lytle and Mrs. J.M. Hughes cut a cake during a women's club meeting, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Mrs. Paxton Lytle and Mrs. J.M. Hughes cut a cake during a women's club meeting. Mrs. Paxton Lytle served as the president of the L.A. County Federation of Women's Clubs.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Helyn Atha in Los Angeles

Description:: Helyn Atha smiling and sitting in a chair
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Entrance to the Los Angeles Public (Central) Library, downtown Los Angeles. Circa 1936.

Date:: [circa 1936-1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Miss Leo C. Moore sitting on a bench holding her young child, Los Angeles

Description:: Miss Leo C. Moore sitting on a bench holding her young child
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
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

Fred W. Householder, Lucky Lens winner, pointing out a picture of himself in the Evening News, Los Angeles, August 1937

Description:: Fred W. Householder, the Lucky Lens contest winner, pointing out a circled picture of himself in the sports section of the Evening News. The paper is dated August 14, 1937
Date:: August 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowds of shoppers taking advantage of bargains on Dollar Day in downtown Los Angeles, September 11, 1937

Description:: Crowds taking advantage of bargains and sales on Dollar Day in downtown Los Angeles
Date:: September 11, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Spectators on Derby Day at Santa Anita, February 22, 1937.

Description:: Spectators at a $50,000 Derby day at the Santa Anita racetrack on February 22, 1937. The crowd in attendance was estimated at 45,000 spectators. Twenty-three horses raced that day, beating out the Kentucky Derby's record of twenty-two starting horses at that time. The $50,000 purse was won by the horse Fairy Hill.
Date:: February 22, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Female impersonator Johnnie David and two unidentified women drinking at a table, Hollywood, circa 1937

Description:: Female impersonator Johnnie David and two unidentified women drinking at a table. On the wall is a large fake plant and an MGM poster of Greta Garbo.
Date:: [1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

California citizens carrying a huge state flag in the Admission Day parade, Santa Monica, September 9, 1937

Description:: California citizens carrying a huge state flag in the California Admission Day parade, held in Santa Monica. The parade, led by Governor Merriam, was a feature event of the three day Admission Day celebration, which commemorated the 87th anniversary of the day California became a state
Date:: September 9, 1937
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

LaVerne Andre, Gladys Jackson, and Virginia Duffy sit on a table, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: LaVerne Andre, Gladys Jackson, and Virginia Duffy sit on a table.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mrs. Ethel While with her daughter Dixie While, Los Angeles

Description:: Mrs. Ethel While sitting in a row of chairs with her daughter Dixie While
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Two women with children cross the street in front of LAPD officers Jack Hoyt and Douglas Gourley, Los Angeles

Description:: Two women with children cross the street in front of LAPD officers Jack Hoyt and Douglas Gourley, who are seated in a police car with large amplifiers attached. The car is used by the Los Angeles traffic police
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Women quilting at the Unemployed Citizens' League of Santa Monica, 1930s

Description:: Women quilting at the Unemployed Citizens' League of Santa Monica, a localized group of self-sustaining and self-respecting people. Many cooperatives like this one emerged in California during the 1930s, specifically in the Los Angeles - Orange County area
Date:: [1930s]
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

Crowd outside the Goodwill Industries premises in the Baker Block building, picture taken before a fire occurred at the site on January 14, 1938

Description:: Crowd outside the Goodwill Industries premises in the Baker Block building, where a fire occurred on January 14, 1938. Remarkably, 400 crippled and elderly men and women, as well as 20 children in the nursery, escaped the event unharmed. Firefighters were able to keep the blaze from spreading throught the entire building, which had been in use since 1868. A short circuit in the electrical department on the ground floor was suspected to be the cause of the fire. Photograph looks to have been taken pre-fire
Date:: between 1925 and January 14, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Spectators watch a race on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season, Arcadia, December 25, 1937

Description:: Spectators on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season. On this day, over 50,000 spectators wagered a total of $789,159 on the eight races held, toppling the previous records of 40,000 people and $599,009 wagered. Big winners of the day were horse He Did, who won the feature race by more than a length and Bing Crosby's horse High Strike, who won his sixth straight race.
Date:: December 25, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Spectators take a break on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season, Arcadia, December 25, 1937

Description:: Spectators on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season. On this day, over 50,000 spectators wagered a total of $789,159 on the eight races held, toppling the previous records of 40,000 people and $599,009 wagered. Big winners of the day were horse He Did, who won the feature race by more than a length and Bing Crosby's horse High Strike, who won his sixth straight race.
Date:: December 25, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowds gathered for the Mystic Shrine's Durbar festival, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Crowds gathered to participate in the celebration of the Mystic Shrine's Durbar festival. 20,000 spectators enjoyed street parades on South Olive Street and festivities at the Shrine Auditorium.
Date:: June 12, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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