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Description:: Members of the Women's Breakfast Bridge Club at the home of Exa Browning Link. They surround a cart that is topped with settings for tea, including a samovar, tea cups, and saucers. Exa Browning Link holds a tiered plate and Virginia Reid (Lynne Carver) and Edna Marie Lavin Cobb each hold a cracker (or whatever type of food is on the plates.)
Date:: [circa September 27, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of workers using tractors to clear flood debris, including dead trees and a ruined building, after the flood resulting from the failure of the Saint Francis Dam. The regularly spaced trees in the background appear to be a ruined orchard.
Date:: March 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Crowds who turned out to see the Orange Show lead by toastmaster Arthur J. Brown were entertained by performances and decorations.
Date:: February 28, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Long Beach earthquake of 1933 took place on March 10, with a magnitude of 6.4, causing widespread damage to buildings throughout Southern California. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach on the Newport-Inglewood Fault. An estimated fifty million dollars' worth of property damage resulted, and 120 lives were lost.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: When baby Richard Burt was left alone in the car to play he found one of his father's .22 caliber cartridges in the side-pocket of the car and pushed the cartridge against the electrical contact points in the empty dash-light socket, which caused it to explode, but only injuring Richard's finger with some powder burns. The bullet from the shell had been melted.
Date:: July 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Birdeseye view of the Long Beach float with Venus, Virginia Johnson, in a sunburst throne with her attendants, Joan Slaughter, Margaret Burley, Mary Lou Turner and Gladys McCleary, dressed in Grecian robes in pastel shades. A huge peacock heads the float, with a fountain in the center supporting 2 green cockatoos with orchid tails.
Date:: January 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Palos Verdes home of Mrs. Kate Crane-Gartz publishing heiress, photographed at the time that Upton Sinclair, Democratic candidate for Governor, stayed for a rest from campaign activities (304 via Almar).
Date:: October 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph may be associated with the article, “DEATH NOTE DISCLOSED: Threat Letters Undisguised Two Sent by Mail and One Dropped Over Gate of Wagner Ranch,” Los Angeles Times 5 Aug. 1935: 3.
Date:: August 5, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A similar photograph appears with the article “Grizzled Gold Hunter in City.” Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 1934: A10
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A large group of men pose for a photograph on a ship. Harry A. Hollzer is seen on the far right, with a jacket in his hand.
Date:: [between 1924 and 1930?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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