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Description:: Courtroom scene from the "white flame" murder trial where Paul A. Wright is accused of murdering his wife and best friend after finding them in an embrace. Wright's lawyer, Jerry Giesler, eventually won his client's freedom with a temporary insanity defense
Date Created:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Coach Frank Thomas and Mildred Cowan stand on football field with Bill Lee and Millard "Dixie" Howell, members of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team. Howell played college football at Alabama from 1932 to 1934
Date Created:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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 Created:: 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Robert S. James sitting in the witness stand with a plan of his home behind him. He was most likely testifying in his own defense for the murder trial of his wife Mary Emma James. He purportedly had an affair with his niece, which spurred him to tie down his wife and have a rattlesnake bite her, and then later drown her in their fish pond. He was supposedly helped by his friend, ex-sailor Charles H. Hope, who was also charged with murder.
Date Created:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Loretta Ennis (right) and Margaret Howden (left) pose at an event involving the Miss America pageant.
Date Created:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mrs. Hiram Raney and Mrs. Edna Holton baking biscuits in an oven.
Date Created:: 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Crowd seated on the bleachers in Gilmore Stadium for some sort of a contest.
Date Created:: 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mexican American youths in "zoot suits" are detained for questioning in a Los Angeles jail after a brawl.
Date Created:: 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Man stands in front of the wreckage of Berth 153, a terminal in L.A. Harbor that was destroyed when the Markay, an oil tanker owned by the Keystone Tankship Corp., exploded in the wee hours of the morning. The fire was fed by leaking gasoline and threatened at least five terminals in the harbor. At least 22 were injured and 9, possibly 12, people were killed. Damage was estimated at $10,000,000.
Date Created:: 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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