Genre: news photographs / Subject: People - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Chang Yuin-Tsung and Los Angeles born Chinese American actress Anna May Wong (right).
Date:: ca. 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Katheryn Padrick sits on a desk wearing gloves and a hat with a typewriter in the background.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Portrait image of Dr. Francis Everett Townsend, originator of the Townsend Plan, an old-age pension plan which influenced the creation of Social Security.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Louis B. Mayer, film producer and studio executive at MGM, pitches a baseball in front of a crowd of spectators. Mayer served as studio boss at MGM and produced films with stars like Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, and Katharine Hepburn.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Portrait of William Moseley Jones. Jones (1905 - 1988) was a Democratic attorney from Montebello, California who served several terms in the California State Assembly, including one term as Speaker.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Frank E. Walton sits next to Templeton Peck while Peck takes down notes from a book.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Screenshot from a film used by the prosecution at the murder trial of DeWitt Clinton Cook. The film showed Cook (right) re-enacting his murder of dancer Anya Sosoyeva, who he hit on the head with a 2x4. Cook willingly confessed to the murder, as well as the assaults of two other women, Delia Bogard and Myrtle Wagner. This was the first time sound motion pictures were used during a trial in California history. The trial was also considered very unusual because Cook never denied the murder, personally offer a not guilty plea, or put up any defense. Cook was sentenced to death and executed in the San Quentin gas chamber on January 31, 1941, at age 21
Date:: October 11, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Politician and attorney Kent Parrot sits in a courtroom. Parrot was a politician and attorney who was heavily involved in municipal politics in Los Angeles
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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