Genre: news photographs / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Subject: Transportation - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Passengers on the deck of the S.S. Mariposa looking down below.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Dick Russell signing the speeding ticket he received from police officer Dick Barlow during a planned race between an automobile and a bus. The race was part of a "Don't be April fools, obey Traffic rules" campaign to prove that safe driving always prospers. Russell sped and disobeyed traffic laws in the automobile and almost beat safe driver Frank Lampley's bus full of Chamber of Commerce ladies, until the officer intervened. Russell is holding the Dunce cap he was obliged to wear after the exercise.
Date:: April 1, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Police officer Dick Barlow writing a ticket for Dick Russell during a planned race between an automobile and a bus. The race was part of a "Don't be April fools, obey Traffic rules" campaign to prove that safe driving always prospers. Russell sped and disobeyed traffic laws in the automobile and almost beat safe driver Frank Lampley's bus full of Chamber of Commerce ladies, until the Barlow intervened.
Date:: April 1, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Automobile driven by Dick Russell and a bus full of Chamber of Commerce ladies that competed in a race as part of a "Don't be April fools, obey Traffic rules" campaign to prove that safe driving always prospers. Russell sped and disobeyed traffic laws in the automobile and almost beat safe driver Frank Lampley's bus full of Chamber of Commerce ladies, until police officer Dick Barlow intervened. California Rug Cleaning Co. is in the background
Date:: April 1, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Antoinette Jones (left), wife of lawyer Mattison Boyd Jones, welcomes Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins upon her arrival in Los Angeles for the opening of the first airplane apprentice school at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Perkins visited Los Angeles for two days to welcome the new class of 37 junior employees who were to begin the program.
Date:: February 15, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: John H. Ozmun is pictured in his "Highwheeler" Model 3 Holsman automobile, after completing a cross-country drive from Akron, Ohio to San Diego, California. The Holsman Model 3 was manufactured by the Holsman Automobile Company of Chicago, Illinois from 1902 to 1910. The car averaged twenty miles to the gallon during its trip to the West coast, a trip which took Ozmun twenty-six days. Ozmun later drove the Model 3 across the country again, to attend the 1939 World Fair in New York.
Date:: February 16, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Date:: 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Woman holding roses next to Roosevelt is his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt. President Roosevelt was accompanied by the First Lady on his first tour of Los Angeles as President. Central Station was located at Fifth and Alameda Street.
Date:: October 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Man next to President Roosevelt unknown. The trip was his first to Los Angeles as President. Central Station was located at Fifth and Alameda Street.
Date:: October 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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