Genre: news photographs and cellulose nitrate film / Resource Type: still image / Location: Van Nuys (Los Angeles, Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: W.P. Whitsett, one of the founders of the city of Van Nuys, recounts its founding at the city's twenty-third birthday party. February 22nd, 1934.
Date:: February 22, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: W.P. Whitsett, one of the founders of the city of Van Nuys, recounts its founding at the city's twenty-third birthday party. February 22nd, 1934.
Date:: February 22, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Abram "Abe" Lincoln was an American Dixieland jazz trombonist. He never led his own recording session, though he recorded copiously as a sideman.
Date:: December 26, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: During the annual Van Nuys gourd festival, Iris Smith poses beside 2 flamingo sculptures, created from gourds and bamboo sticks, posed next to a water bowl in a garden.
Date:: October 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Florence Kroiss and Marian Waddell feeding Zero the zebra, who was part of Ken Maynard's circus. The girls stand on a fence and both wear frilly dresses, socks, and Mary Janes.
Date:: [circa February 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: On February 22, 1911, Van Nuys got its start with an ad in the Los Angeles Times: A free train ride was being offered to the “Van Nuys townsite,” for a free Washington’s Birthday barbecue, a patriotic speech about the birth of a town, and an auction of lots in an undeveloped part of the San Fernando Valley.
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: This photograph appears with the article, "'Make Gateways to Los Angeles Beautiful!': Civic Beauty Drive Urged: More Than 100 Leaders Go to Van Nuys Conference and Hear Plans Outlined," Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 1936: 6.
Date:: January 22, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A different photograph of Florence Kroiss taken on the same occasion appears captioned, "Van Nuys, Marking Anniversary Today, Proud of Its Newest Attraction - the Circus!" Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 1936: A5.
Date:: [circa February 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Ken Maynard holds Colleen Fitzgerald in his arms, while also holding onto one of the camels from his circus. Maynard wears a cowboy outfit, complete with gun holsters and cowboy hat. Fitzgerald wears white cowboy boots and a large bow on her head.
Date:: [circa February 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Queen Walker Boardman at a luncheon sponsored by the Civic Beautification Committee. Mrs. Boardman was an official of the committee. She wears a hat and a fur stole and stands in front of a window.
Date:: January 22, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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