Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Subject: Business - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Dressed in traditional Scandinavian clothing from her native Finland, 14-year-old Anita Roos sells Los Angeles Mayor Fletcher Bowron the first ticket to the Finnish Relief Fund bazaar, held in S.A.E. Auditorium. Looking on are secretary-treasurer of the bazaar committee, Victor Kallio, and acting bazaar chairman, Peter Williams.
Date:: February 6, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Steel worker at the Columbia Steel Company's plant in Torrance.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Women laborers in protective masks constructing mattresses for a SERA employment program at a factory in Kern fairgrounds.
Date:: [circa January 20, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Crowd shops at department store during Dollar Day sale. Sales totaled $15,000,000 and included over 100 downtown stores.
Date:: September 07, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Waitress serves a customer at a drive-in restaurant. The restaurant has fountain service and several types of sandwiches advertised outside
Date:: [between 1925 and 1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Man works on a tractor engine 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

Description:: Los Angeles Country Relief Administration workers strike due to salary cuts. The strike signs demand a 25% increase in budgets and support the unionization of workers.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: J.J Boyle, Rex Thomson, Lew Harwood, C.C. Talbot, and Culbert Olson stand in a field that was to be used as a cooperative for the unemployed of Los Angeles county. Possibly included in the picture is Bruce McDaniel, general manager of Mutual Orange Distributers. Thomson served as the Chief Assistant Superintendent of Charities. Olson was the 29th Governor of California from 1939 to 1943.
Date:: 1930/1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Row of businesses including a liquor store, a cafe, the LA I.D.A. (Industrial Development Authority?) and the Sea Pride Packing Company at night. Picture is lit by the storefront signs.
Date:: [1930s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant where workers participated in a sit-down strike. A bitter struggle ensued between union labor leaders whether or not to support the strike.
Date:: [circa February 25, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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