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Description:: New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia, right, presides over the Pacific coast regional meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors. Boston Mayor Frederick Mansfield, left, served as Mr. La Guardia's secretary. Approximately 60 Pacific coast mayors attended the conference. Unemployment relief was a focal topic at the conference, which was held at Los Angeles' City Council chamber. May 15, 1937.
Date:: May 15, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Funerals for famous composer and pianist George Gershwin are held simultaneously in Los Angeles and New York City. Gershwin died following surgery for a brain tumor on July 11, 1937. The musician was 38 years old.
Date:: July 15, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Funerals for famous composer and pianist George Gershwin are held simultaneously in Los Angeles and New York City. Gershwin died following surgery for a brain tumor on July 11, 1937. The musician was 38 years old.
Date:: July 15, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The theme of the 49th Tourament of Roses Parade in 1938 was "Playland Fantasies"
Date:: January 1, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The theme of the 49th Tourament of Roses Parade in 1938 was "Playland Fantasies"
Date:: January 1, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Women lay on the beach under an umbrella which is also sheltering a baby in a crib. Many more beachgoers can be seen in the background, the beach is crowded for Labor Day.
Date:: September 3, 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Newspaper vendor sells issue with the frontpage headline "Roosevelt Landslide!" on election night.
Date:: November 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Annual "Jackson Day" fund raising dinner for the Democratic party, held by the Young Democrats Club in the Ambassador Hotel's Fiesta Room on January 8, 1936. The gathering listened to a radio broadcast by President Franklin Delano Roosvelt, in which he stated his intention to run for re-election, and then listened to a speech by Governor of Florida David Sholtz. Gov. Sholtz is pictured to the left of the podium in this photo, smiling at the camera. Beside him is Florida's First Lady Alice May Agee Sholtz.
Date:: January 8, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Lieut. Gen. John L. DeWitt, Lieut. Col. Rupert Hughes, and Capt. Claude B. Mayo speaking at the Army-Navy-Marine banquet in honor of National Defense and Americanism Week. The banquet took place at the National Guard Armory. From left to right, Lieut. Gen. John L. DeWitt, Lieut. Col. Rupert Hughes, and Capt. Claude B. Mayo.
Date:: [circa February 13, 1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Lieut. Gen. John L. DeWitt speaking at the Army-Navy-Marine banquet in honor of National Defense and Americanism Week. The banquet took place at the National Guard Armory.
Date:: [circa February 13, 1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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