Genre: news photographs and cellulose nitrate film / Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: View of the central, "Youth Arisen," panel of Katz's mural of three panels, funded by the WPA (Works Project Administration). A central youth, with his eyes closed, is shown between creative uses of technology (like the movie camera seen in this photograph) and destructive uses as in war. The overall theme of the murals shown in the other two panels is the history of the uses of tools serving the creative and destructive passions of man within the context of the Toltec and Aztec cultures.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: View of the central, "Youth Arisen," panel of Katz's mural of three panels, funded by the WPA (Works Project Administration). A central youth, with his eyes closed, is shown between creative uses of technology (like the movie camera seen in this photograph) and destructive uses as in war. The overall theme of the murals shown in the other two panels is the history of the uses of tools serving the creative and destructive passions of man within the context of the Toltec and Aztec cultures.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Miss Jerry Brewer at the Los Angeles City Pound, located downtown at 215 W. Ann St. and established in 1927.
Date:: [circa 1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Young girl stands in a shop holding a globe during the Christmas shopping season
Date:: December 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Young Los Angelino Yvonne Marion Wolff sits piled under produce grown in a local community garden.Beginning in 1933, small tracts of land throughout Los Angeles county were used by the government as locations for community gardens, where men left unemployed by the Great Depression could work and grow food to feed their families. In 1933, 890 acres of land in Los Angeles County were used toward this purpose; the program expanded to 2,500 acres of land in 1934. This land was approximately enough to grow the vegetables consumed by 20,000 county welfare families.
Date:: [circa February, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Young girls Barbara and Rosalie Bell laying next to each other in a twin-sized bed
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Young girls Barbara and Rosalie Bell laying next to each other in a twin-sized bed
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A young boy stands in floodwaters at W. 54th and 5th Avenue after disastrous storms in January of 1940. The heavy rainstorms halted traffic and caused highway and bridge damage. At least three died and many were treated for injuries
Date:: between January 8 and January 10, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A young boy stands in front of a sewing machine on a desk. He appears to be sewing something, but he is looking away from his work.
Date:: [between 1925 and 1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A young boy stands in front of a car in the Los Angeles slums, he is barefoot and playing with something in his hands. Three well-dressed men are also in the picture, one is in the extreme foreground. In the background are meager homes and a clothesline full of laundry
Date:: [between 1925 and 1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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