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Two women standing next to bleechers at Inglewood Bowl, Centinela Park, Inglewood, 1935

Description:: Photograph of two women associated with the production of the pageant, "Romance of Centinela Springs" (one of the women may be the pageant's director, Betty Farrington). The pageant was performed August 16 and 17, with rehearsals noted on August 12. Photographed at Inglewood Bowl, Centinela Park (Edward Vincent Jr. Park).
Date:: [August 12, 1935 or August 16, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image

Murder suspect Robert S. James sitting on the witness stand with a plan of his house behind him, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Robert S. James sitting in the witness stand with a map of his home behind him. An unidentified man is visible in front of 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:: [circa May 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Murder suspect Robert S. James sitting on the witness stand with a plan of his house behind him, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Robert S. James sitting in the witness stand with a plan of his home behind him. An unidentified man is visible in front of 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:: [circa May 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Murder suspect Robert S. James sitting on the witness stand with a plan of his house behind him, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Robert S. James sitting in the witness stand with a plan of his home behind him. An unidentified man is visible in front of 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:: [circa May 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Murder suspect Robert S. James standing next to an unidentified man in court, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Robert S. James standing next to an unidentified man in court. 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:: [circa May 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Jockey George Woolf on horse Top Row

Description:: Jockey George Woolf on Top Row recieving prize money. George H. Williams holding cup. Date and location unknown, possibly Santa Anita Park
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Three men ride a boat across flood waters, Long Beach, circa 1930s

Description:: Three men ride a boat across flood waters in Long Beach. Signs for Salisbury and Pate, Sinclair Motors, and Texaco appear in the photograph.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Accused murderer Fred Stettler showing Capt. Bert Wallis and Det. Lt. Miles Ledbetter money Stettler had stolen and hidden in a potato sack at his home

Description:: Swiss chauffeur Fred Stettler, accused of the arson murders of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Barbour, showing Det. Lt. Miles Ledbetter (left) and Capt. Bert Wallis of the police homicide squad (center) $34 in silver hidden in a potato sack at Stettler's home. Stettler confessed to stealing the money from the Barbours after murdering them with a heavy object and setting a timing device which would set the bodies on fireNote: text on the nitrate sleeves and handwritten on the negative likely transcribed "Bert Wallis" incorrectly as "Bert Wallace"
Date:: February 21, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Defense attorney Jerry Giesler in court during the trial of accused murderer Paul A. Wright, Los Angeles, 1938.

Description:: Prominent Los Angeles defense attorney Jerry Giesler photographed addressing the jury, during the "white flame" double homicide trial of aviation executive Paul A. Wright. Wright was charged with the shooting deaths of his wife Evelyn and best friend John Kimmel, whom he claimed to have caught in an "inappropriate" embrace in the Wright home.Giesler led Wright's defense team, and argued that Wright was not guilty by reason of insanity. The jury found Wright guilty of two counts of manslaughter, and subsequently ruled that he had been insane at his sanity trial.Defendant Paul A. Wright is pictured at far left.
Date:: [between January 13-February 18, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Bert Goodrich, Mr. America 1939 shaking hands with Mr. America 1946 Alan Stephan

Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Portrait of John F. Kennedy in navy uniform, circa 1943

Date:: 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Clubwomen at a picnic meeting of county women's club presidents and chairmen, Los Angeles, July 10, 1939

Description:: From left to right, Mmes. John W. Condon, Anne L. Taylor, Bessie I. Ryan, Howard M. Jay, and Los Angeles County Federation of Women's Clubs President Mrs. Harry E. Willits at a picnic meeting of county women's club presidents and chairmen. The event was held at the home of Mrs. Howard M. Jay on July 10, 1939 to discuss club legislative issues
Date:: July 10, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the witness stand, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the stand. Wright, an airport executive, shot his wife and his best friend while they sat together on a piano bench. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Date:: [circa January 13, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the witness stand, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the stand. Wright, an airport executive, shot his wife and his best friend while they sat together on a piano bench. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Date:: [circa January 13, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the witness stand, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Accused murderer Paul A. Wright on the stand. Wright, an airport executive, shot his wife and his best friend while they sat together on a piano bench. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Date:: [circa January 13, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Members of the Pacific Electric Trainmen's strike committee receiving news that their 2:00 am worker walkout would be postponed due to intervention from President Roosevelt, Los Angeles, November 2, 1937

Description:: C.T. Nolan, strike chairman of the Pacific Electric section of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, with O.R. Newhouse, J.S. Newman, W.P. Cook, and L.R. Spindel, other members of the strike committee, receiving news that their planned 2:00 am worker walkout had been blocked by President Roosevelt. The President had appointed a commission to negotiate the Brotherhood's disputes over unfair wages and hours. It was agreed that, during the negotiations, the strike would be postponed.
Date:: November 2, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Leo Carrillo, A.L. Lathrop, Mayor Frank L. Shaw, and Paul G. Ritter at a breakfast given by the Women's Committee of the Philharmonic Orchestra, Los Angeles, October 14, 1935

Date:: October 14, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Fire fighters hosing down the former site of the Golden State Fireworks and Display Co. plant after an explosion, February 1940

Description:: Fire fighters with a hose on the night of an explosion at the Golden State Fireworks and Display Co. plant at Redondo Beach (Feb. 7, 1940). The blast was felt 40 miles away, injured four, and caused damage to many nearby homes. Cause of the explosion was suspected to be decomposing firework shells, or possibly a gopher chewing on powder. Damages estimated at $100,000
Date:: February 7, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Group of maritime workers holding hooks at the end of a 98-day coast maritime strike, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Group of maritime workers holding hooks at the end of a 98-day coast maritime strike which included longshoremen, cooks and stewards, firemen and sailors
Date:: February 5, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Fountain on the estate of film comedian Harold Lloyd and his wife Mildred, Beverly Hills, 1927

Description:: Fountain on the sixteen-acre estate of film comedian Harold Lloyd and his wife, Mildred Harris Lloyd in Beverly Hills.
Date:: [1927?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Wrestling match between Italian newcomer Vincent Austeri and Salt Lake City native Del Kunkel at Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Wrestling match between Italian newcomer Vincent Austeri and Salt Lake City native Del Kunkel at Olympic Auditorium. It Austeri's first time at the Auditorium and he was victorious.
Date:: March 16, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Wrestling match between Italian newcomer Vincent Austeri and Salt Lake City native Del Kunkel at Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Wrestling match between Italian newcomer Vincent Austeri and Salt Lake City native Del Kunkel at Olympic Auditorium. It Austeri's first time at the Auditorium and he was victorious.
Date:: March 16, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

German author Erika Mann with her father, author Thomas Mann, Los Angeles

Description:: German author Erika Mann with her father, author Thomas Mann
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Marching band led by baton twirlers participating in the post-war Labor Day parade, Los Angeles, 1946

Description:: A marching band led by baton twirlers participating in the post-war Labor Day parade. Crowds reached over 150,000 during the special three-day celebration.
Date:: September 3, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Fire engine used to combat wildfires, Malibu, 1936

Description:: A fire engine used to combat the Malibu wildfires of September 1936.
Date:: [circa September 9, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Dr. George K. Dazey and his attorney, Jerry Giesler, at the trial where Dr. Dazey is accused of the murder of his second wife, Doris S. Dazey, Los Angeles, 1939-1940

Description:: Dr. George K. Dazey (left) with his attorney, Jerry Giesler, at the trial in which Dr. Dazey is accused of murdering his second wife, actress Doris S. Dazey, in 1935. Doris Dazey's death was originally believed to be suicide by monoxide poisoning. However, witnesses claimed that Dr. Dazey had been boasting about committing the "perfect crime" and a night watchman testified to witnessing Dazey carry a woman's body from the house to the garage on the night of the murder. Other factors complicating the trial were the paternity of Doris and George Dazey's child, Doris Dazey's possible mental illness, and false testimonies from some of the witnesses. Dr. Dazey was ultimately acquitted of the crime.
Date:: between December 3, 1939 and March 10, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Private detective Pearl Antibus appears in court with her daughter Norma Thelan and son Robert Antibus during her trial against millionaire Thomas W. Warner, Sr, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Private detective Pearl Antibus appears in court with her daughter Norma Thelan and son Robert Antibus during her trial against millionaire Thomas W. Warner, Sr. Thomas Warner, Jr. sits next to the Antibus family. Mrs. Antibus sued Mr. Warner after her home was raided by Buron Fitts and several of his deputies at the request of Mr. Warner. The raid of Mrs. Antibus' home was conducted in order to search for Mr. Warner's son, Thomas W. Warner, Jr. Mr. Warner, Jr. was found hiding inside the home with his girlfriend Mrs. Jean MacDonald. The pair had been hiding in the home from Mr. Warner, Sr. who was opposed to their relationship and was seeking to end all contact between the pair. Mrs. Antibus served as a private detective for Mr. Warner, Jr. and had previously conducted an investigation into the life of Mrs. MacDonald in attempt to determine whether she was truly in love with Mr. Warner, Jr. Mrs. Antibus alleged that the raid left several of her visitors injured and was unnecessarily violent.
Date:: April 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Private detective Pearl Antibus appears in court with her daughter Norma Thelan and son Robert Antibus during her trial against millionaire Thomas W. Warner, Sr, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Private detective Pearl Antibus appears in court with her daughter Norma Thelan and son Robert Antibus during her trial against millionaire Thomas W. Warner, Sr. Thomas Warner, Jr. sits next to the Antibus family. Mrs. Antibus sued Mr. Warner after her home was raided by Buron Fitts and several of his deputies at the request of Mr. Warner. The raid of Mrs. Antibus' home was conducted in order to search for Mr. Warner's son, Thomas W. Warner, Jr. Mr. Warner, Jr. was found hiding inside the home with his girlfriend Mrs. Jean MacDonald. The pair had been hiding in the home from Mr. Warner, Sr. who was opposed to their relationship and was seeking to end all contact between the pair. Mrs. Antibus served as a private detective for Mr. Warner, Jr. and had previously conducted an investigation into the life of Mrs. MacDonald in attempt to determine whether she was truly in love with Mr. Warner, Jr. Mrs. Antibus alleged that the raid left several of her visitors injured and was unnecessarily violent.
Date:: April 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Private detective Pearl Antibus appears in court with her daughter Norma Thelan and son Robert Antibus during her trial against millionaire Thomas W. Warner, Sr, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Private detective Pearl Antibus appears in court with her daughter Norma Thelan and son Robert Antibus during her trial against millionaire Thomas W. Warner, Sr. Thomas Warner, Jr. sits next to the Antibus family. Mrs. Antibus sued Mr. Warner after her home was raided by Buron Fitts and several of his deputies at the request of Mr. Warner. The raid of Mrs. Antibus' home was conducted in order to search for Mr. Warner's son, Thomas W. Warner, Jr. Mr. Warner, Jr. was found hiding inside the home with his girlfriend Mrs. Jean MacDonald. The pair had been hiding in the home from Mr. Warner, Sr. who was opposed to their relationship and was seeking to end all contact between the pair. Mrs. Antibus served as a private detective for Mr. Warner, Jr. and had previously conducted an investigation into the life of Mrs. MacDonald in attempt to determine whether she was truly in love with Mr. Warner, Jr. Mrs. Antibus alleged that the raid left several of her visitors injured and was unnecessarily violent.
Date:: April 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd rejoices at the Democratic headquarters after Franklin D. Roosevelt wins the presidential election, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Crowd rejoices at the Democratic headquarters after Franklin D. Roosevelt wins the presidential election. Roosevelt won by a landslide against the Republican Alf Landon.
Date:: November 3, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mary Pickford and Buddy Rogers being filmed at a ranch, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Film stars and married couple Mary Pickford and Charles "Buddy" Rogers being filmed with a horse at a ranch.
Date:: [1936?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Aimee Semple McPherson sits at a desk reading a book, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Aimee Semple McPherson sits at a desk reading a book. McPherson was a noted evangelist and founder of the Angelus Temple and the Foursquare Church.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mrs. Harold Appleton, Los Angeles, circa 1935

Description:: Most likely related to the Ebell of Los Angeles Women’s Club
Date:: [1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Singing Wood and trainer, circa 1936

Description:: Singing Wood was owned by Mary Elizabeth Altemus Whitney (later Person Tippett), a wealthy socialite and thoroughbred racehorse breeder. Photo is likely related to Singing Wood’s victory in the March 1936 Santa Margarita Invitation at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California.
Date:: [1936?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Four men stand aside as a horse-drawn wagon drives through an alley in the slums, Los Angeles, 1925-1945

Description:: Four men stand aside as a horse-drawn wagon drives through an alley in the Los Angeles slums
Date:: [between 1925 and 1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Spectators on Derby Day at Santa Anita, February 22, 1937.

Description:: Spectators at a $50,000 Derby day at the Santa Anita racetrack on February 22, 1937. The crowd in attendance was estimated at 45,000 spectators. Twenty-three horses raced that day, beating out the Kentucky Derby's record of twenty-two starting horses at that time. The $50,000 purse was won by the horse Fairy Hill.
Date:: February 22, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Spectators read the paper at the Santa Anita racetrack, February 22, 1937.

Description:: Spectators at a $50,000 Derby day at the Santa Anita racetrack on February 22, 1937. The crowd in attendance was estimated at 45,000 spectators. Twenty-three horses raced that day, beating out the Kentucky Derby's record of twenty-two starting horses at that time. The $50,000 purse was won by the horse Fairy Hill.
Date:: February 22, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Overlook on the estate of film comedian Harold Lloyd and his wife Mildred, Beverly Hills, 1927

Description:: Overlook on the sixteen-acre estate of film comedian Harold Lloyd and his wife, Mildred Harris Lloyd in Beverly Hills.
Date:: [1927?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

"Chinese Empress" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936

Description:: The theme for the forty-seventh Rose Parade was "History in Flowers"
Date:: January 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Los Angeles District Attorney Buron Fitts and Special Prosecutor Clyde Shoemaker, at Fitts' 1936 perjury trial.

Description:: Los Angeles District Attorney Buron Fitts and Special Prosecutor Clyde Shoemaker, pictured at Fitts' perjury trial, circa January 1936. Dist. Atty Fitts was charged with perjuring himself during testimony to a 1931 grand jury, in regards to real estate transactions carried out by his family. His sister and secretary, Mrs. Berthal Gregory, was also a defendant in this case.
Date:: [circa January, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

US Senator William Gibbs McAdoo meets with Robert Riddell

Description:: Most likely taken 1935-1938. Riddell was a supporter of McAdoo
Date:: [1935-1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Wartime housing in Little Tokyo's Bronzeville, Los Angeles, 1943

Description:: Little Tokyo in Los Angeles was dubbed "Bronzeville" during World War Two, as African American families and workers moved into the empty homes and businesses of the relocated Japanese American community.
Date:: 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Gatehouse on the estate of film comedian Harold Lloyd and his wife Mildred, Beverly Hills, 1927

Description:: Gatehouse on the sixteen-acre estate of film comedian Harold Lloyd and his wife, Mildred Harris Lloyd in Beverly Hills.
Date:: [1927?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Cowboy film extra Jerome "Blackjack" Ward kisses his wife Mickey Ward during his trial for the murder of fellow extra Johnny Tyke, Los Angeles, July 1940

Description:: Cowboy motion picture extra Jerome "Blackjack" Ward kisses his wife Mickey Ward during his trial for the murder of fellow extra John Ainsworth Tyacke (Johnny Tyke) in Gower Gulch. Gower Gulch is the name given to the area near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street where film extras hang out waiting for work; many of the nearby studios produce westerns so often actual working cowboys come here to break into the film business. Ward entered a plea of not guilty based on self defense and temporary insanity. He was ultimately set free after many witnesses attested to Tyke's violent nature.
Date:: between July 15 and July 18, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Deputy Sheriff Bess Bailey escorts Betty Flay Hardaker during her trial for the murder of her daughter, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Deputy Sheriff Bess Bailey escorts Betty Flay Hardaker through the courtroom during the inquest conducted by Deputy Coroner Frank Monfort. Mrs. Hardaker was convicted of murdering her 5 year old daugher, Geraldine Hardaker, in a Montebello park washroom. The jury convicted her of committing the crime while of unsound mind.
Date:: February 23, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Charles Hardaker at the inquest for his wife, Betty Flay Hardaker, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Charles Hardaker at the inquest for his wife, Betty Flay Hardaker, who was accused of murdering their 5 year old daugther. Charles Hardaker went before a jury and Police Judge Paul G. McIver to testify about his wife's mental state. He told of many quarrels, seperations, and suicide attempts. Betty Hardaker was convicted of murdering her 5 year old daughter, Geraldine Hardaker, in a Montebello park washroom. The jury convicted her of committing the crime while of unsound mind.
Date:: February 23, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Betty Hardaker, mother convicted of murdering her daughter, sits in jail after being taken into custody, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Betty Flay Hardaker sits at the Los Angeles County Jail wearing boots, trousers, and a sport jacket. Mrs. Hardaker was convicted of murdering her 5 year old daughter, Geraldine Hardaker, in a Montebello park washroom. The jury convicted her of committing the crime while of unsound mind.
Date:: February 20, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Annual meeting of the California AFL, 1945.

Date:: 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Ribbon cutting for opening of Sears, Roebuck & Co. store in San Fernando Valley, Calif., 1951

Date:: September 13, 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Woman testifying in a courtroom, Los Angeles, 1930-1939

Description:: Woman, wearing a light dress and a light hat with a dark band, testifying in a courtroom. Her clutch purse is on the ledge of the witness stand.
Date:: [between 1930-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Alleged Smith Act violators in court, Los Angeles, Calif., 1951

Date:: July 1, 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Paramahansa Yogananda instructing yoga students in headstand in lotus position, 1949

Date:: 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Dressed in traditional Scandinavian clothing, 14-year-old Anita Roos sells Mayor Bowron the first ticket to the Finnish Relief bazaar, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Dressed in traditional Scandinavian clothing from her native Finland, 14-year-old Anita Roos sells Los Angeles Mayor Fletcher Bowron the first ticket to the Finnish Relief Fund bazaar, held in S.A.E. Auditorium. Looking on are secretary-treasurer of the bazaar committee, Victor Kallio, and acting bazaar chairman, Peter Williams.
Date:: February 6, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mrs. Mary E. Smith, an alternate juror on the murder trial of Paul A. Wright, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Mrs. Mary E. Smith of Alhambra, serving as an alternate juror for the "White Flame" double homicide trial of aviation executive Paul A. Wright.Wright's defense team, led by famed Los Angeles defense attorney Jerry Giesler, argued that Wright was not guilty by reason of insanity. The jury found Wright guilty of two counts of manslaughter, and subsequently ruled that he had been insane at his sanity trial.
Date:: [between January 17-February 18, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Abe Schwartz, a juror for the murder trial of Paul A. Wright, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Mr. Abe Schwarz, Los Angeles tire worker and juror for the "White Flame" double homicide trial of aviation executive Paul A. Wright.Wright's defense team, led by famed Los Angeles defense attorney Jerry Giesler, argued that Wright was not guilty by reason of insanity. The jury found Wright guilty of two counts of manslaughter, and subsequently ruled that he had been insane at his sanity trial.
Date:: [between January 17-February 16, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz at home in Los Angeles, Calif., 1949

Date:: 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

UCLA track athlete preparing to throw a javelin, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: A UCLA track athlete preparing to throw a javelin. UCLA and USC varsity and freshmen track teams both held events at the Coliseum, providing for a twin bill.
Date:: [circa April 24, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

USC track athlete landing in sand after a jump, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: A USC track athlete landing in sand after a jump. UCLA and USC varsity and freshmen track teams both held events at the Coliseum, providing for a twin bill.
Date:: [circa April 24, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Two vehicles parked in front of the old "Post-Record" building, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Two vehicles parked in front of the old "Post-Record" building. Refers possibly to the Los Angeles newspaper by that name.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Bodybuilder Abbey Stockton lifting barbell as crowd looks on at Muscle Beach in Santa Monica, Calif.

Date:: 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Detective Lieutenants R.S. Hamilton, E.J. Henry, and E.C. Biffle with suspect Adolfo Campos and a suitcase full of smuggled marijuana, Los Angeles

Description:: Left to right: Detective Lieutenant R.S. Hamilton, Adolfo Campos, Det. Lt. E.J. Henry, and Det. Lt. E.C. Biffle, with a suitcase full of smuggled marijuana. Campos is the suspected smuggler.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Boys compare marbles at a marble tournament, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Paul Barbata and Abram Androff compare marbles at a marble tournament.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Vehicles cross flood waters at 7th and Wall Street, 1935

Description:: Cars cross flood waters on 7th and Wall Street in Los Angeles. Businesses pictured in background.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Channel for flood waters, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: Construction vehicles work near a rocky flood water channel. A building appears next to the channel.
Date:: between December 13-14, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Terminal Island School, Terminal Island, 1940

Description:: Exterior view of the Terminal Island School, which many Japanese children attended in the years before World War Two.
Date:: 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Fire Chief Ralph J. Scott receives a hand-illuminated book at a surprise party in his honor, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Fire Chief Ralph J. Scott is honored with a surprise party to celebrate his thirty years of service to the fire department. He is receiving a hand-illuminated book signed by every member of the fire department. From left to right, Ralph J. Scott, his wife Addie Scott, Fire Commissioner Edward Lewis, Harlan De Witt of the Fireman's Relief Association, and Mayor Shaw.
Date:: July 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt greet the crowd from his train at Central Station, Los Angeles, October 1, 1935

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

Captain Lynn D. Smith of the Coast Artillery Reserve, general chairman of National Defense Week event, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Captain Lynn D. Smith of the Coast Artillery Reserve, who was appointed as general chairman of the Los Angeles sector’s National Defense Week event held between February 12 and 22. The purpose of this week is to remind the public that their citizen soldiers (“minute men”) are trained and ready to protect the community in case of attack. The program includes public meetings, radio programs and other events.
Date:: between January and February 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Roland West and Harvey Priester in audience for grand jury hearings into death of actress Thelma Todd, circa 1935

Description:: Taken at grand jury investigation into death of film actress Thelma Todd. Todd was found in the garage of film director West, her business partner and lover, dead from carbon monoxide poisoning. Priester was Todd’s friend. Todd's death was eventually ruled an accident.
Date:: [December, 1935 - January, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Governor Olson and Tournament of Roses Queen Sally Stanton at dedication of Arroyo Seco Parkway, Los Angeles, 1940

Date:: December 30, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Photograph of Dr. I.C. Sutton pinned to a wall, Los Angeles

Description:: Photograph of Dr. I.C. Sutton sitting at his desk pinned to a wall.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

USC track athlete taping his foot on the sidelines at a meet, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: A USC track athlete taping his foot on the sidelines at a meet. UCLA and USC varsity and freshmen track teams both held events at the Coliseum, providing for a twin bill.
Date:: [circa April 24, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Steel worker at the Columbia Steel Company's plant, Torrance

Description:: Steel worker at the Columbia Steel Company's plant in Torrance.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Clifford E. Clinton in court after being cited for contempt, circa December 1, 1937

Description:: Clifford E. Clinton, Los Angeles restaurateur and philanthropist, appears in court beside his wife Nelda Clinton. At the time of this photo, Clinton was a member of the Los Angeles County Grand Jury. He was cited for contempt of court for attempting to present the findings of his "Citizens' Independent Vice Investigating Committee (CIVIC)" before the Grand Jury, while refusing to name his sources or clarify what case he was attempting to present. Another Grand Jury member, Harry L. Ferguson, as well as Clinton's lawyer A. Brigham Rose and his legal secretary Pauline Huff, were all additionally cited for contempt. The charges were dismissed on December 1, 1937, on the technicality that the Grand Jury lacked the authority to issue the citation.
Date:: [circa December 1. 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

District Attorney Buron Fitts and his sister Mrs. Berthal Gregory appear with their attorneys, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: District Attorney Buron Fitts(rear left) and his sister Mrs. Berthal Gregory(rear middle) appear with their attorneys (front, left to right) Roland Swaffield, Walter K. Tuller, Joseph Scott, Jerry Giesler, and Jack Gilchrist(rear right) to contend with perjury charges made against them by the grand jury.
Date:: [circa November 2, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Court Clerk E.C. Averre and deputy District Attorneys Edwin Meyers, A.A. Van Cott and John Barnes, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Court Clerk E.C. Averre, deputy District Attorney Edwin Meyers, deputy D.A. A.A. Van Cott and deputy D.A. John Barnes during the Douglas Aircraft sit-down strike trial in which 352 defendants were prosecuted for conspiring to illegally enter and occupy the aircraft plant. The trial opened May 11, 1937 and ran for several months.
Date:: 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Los Angeles Mayor Fletcher Bowron with other city officials at air raid shelter dedication in 1942

Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Group portrait of eight Mexican American males taken in for questioning in the 1942 Sleepy Lagoon murder investigation, Los Angeles, Calif.

Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Flood control construction, Altadena, California, circa October-November 1935

Description:: Construction of one of the emergency basis to control winter flooding following a fire in the area
Date:: [October-November, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Flood control construction, Altadena, California, circa October-November 1935

Description:: Construction of one of the emergency basis to control winter flooding following a fire in the area
Date:: [October-November, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Children play and ride bicycles in flood waters, Long Beach, circa 1930s

Description:: Children play and ride bicycles in Long Beach flood waters.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Los Angeles County District Attorney Buron Fitts, circa 1935

Description:: Fitts was Los Angeles District Attorney till 1940.
Date:: [1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

William F. Gettle, Beverly Hills millionaire, is returned home after his kidnapping, Beverly Hills, 1934

Description:: William F. Gettle, (center, wearing spectacles) is returned to his home in Beverly Hills after being kidnapped and held for ransom.Gettle, businessman and millionaire, was kidnapped from the grounds of his Arcadia ranch home during a party on the eve of May 9th. The kidnapping attracted a great deal of attention in the community, with Mrs. Gettle even addressing the kidnappers through the pages of the Los Angeles Times. The kidnappers demanded a $60,000 ransom for the return of Gettle, which Mrs. Gettle agreed to pay. However, before the ransom was paid, two detectives of the LAPD, Chester Burris and H.P. Gearhardt, broke the case after installing a dictaphone in the home of a bank robbery suspect. Information from the dictaphone led them to a La Crescenta home where Gettle was held. He was returned, unharmed, to his family on the eve of May 14th.
Date:: May 14, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Sidney T. Graves, former L.A. County Supervisor, awaiting imprisonment in San Quentin.

Description:: A photograph of Sidney T. Graves as he awaited transfer from the Los Angeles County Jail to San Quentin Penitentiary. Graves was convicted of bribery a year before, after accepting a sum of $80,000 in connection with the high San Gabriel dam project. At that time, Graves had been a county Supervisor. He was sentenced to one to fourteen years imprisonment for his crime.The other men in the photo are unidentified. Graves is seated, right.
Date:: March 30, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Los Angeles County's prize-winning Belgian draft horses are sold at auction. April 18, 1934.

Description:: Five of the twenty-six Belgian draft horses being auctioned off by Los Angeles County at Los Angeles's Union Stock Yards. L.A. County's Board of Supervisors had assessed that the draft horses, though they had won many prizes and obtained national recognition, were too expensive to continue to care for. The twenty-six horses netted $11,367.50 at auction.
Date:: April 18, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

"Pop-eye," a brave Persian housecat, and his owner Betty Jean Welch.

Description:: Pictured is "Pop-eye," the two-year-old Persian housecat in the arms of his owner, Miss Betty Jean Welch. Pop-eye became famous for killing a four-foot-long black diamond rattlesnake. The snake invaded Pop-eye's backyard, wherein Pop-eye defended his territory and bravely defeated the reptilian invader.
Date:: March 15, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Robert Noble, self-proclaimed benefactor of the elderly, awaiting bail in County Jail, Los Angeles, November 3, 1937

Description:: Robert Noble in County Jail awaiting bail. Noble, a self-proclaimed benefactor of the elderly, was arrested as he entered court to face misdemeanor charges, on a warrant that officers had been trying to serve for days. He was seized and booked and went to jail to await his $1000 bail to be made. Noble was a radio personality who gained loyal followers from an old age pension plan he promoted. Noble and his followers were originally arrested on October 17, 1937 while staging a demonstration near radio station KMTR. Noble was charged with holding a parade without permit, blocking the sidewalk and refusing to disperse on police command. After a lengthy trial, Noble spent five days in jail, he planned to use the time to prepare speeches for a gubernatorial campaign. He said he was pleased that he would have a captive audience at this time
Date:: November 3, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Police on foot at the beginning of the L.A.P.D. parade route, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Police on foot at the beginning of the L.A.P.D. parade route, which led to the Coliseum where a four-hour entertainment program was presented. Forty-thousand persons were in attendance.
Date:: July 9, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Searching a Japanese home in Palos Verdes (Calif.)

Description:: A police officer inspects the home or office of Ino Shigeo, a Japanese resident of Palos Verdes.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd of workers gathered for a strike, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: A crowd of workers gathered for a strike.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

George Bailey talking with group of boys at All Nations Boys Club in Los Angeles, Calif., 1948

Date:: circa 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Protest rally against United States abandonment of Palestine partition policy, Los Angeles, Calif., 1948

Date:: April 9, 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Martella Lane, painter, poses with painting of California Redwoods, [1925?]

Description:: Artist Martella Lane, posing in front of her painting of California Redwoods. Artist was a member of the Save the Redwoods League.
Date:: 1925?
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Elderly woman completes application for a pension under the Old Age Security Act, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Elderly woman completes application for a pension under the Old Age Security Act.
Date:: September 15, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Loretta Ennis and Margaret Howden pose at a Miss America event, Los Angeles, 1935

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

Group of male students at Los Angeles Junior College wrestle in the mud, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: A group of men wrestle in the mud at an annual Los Angeles Junior College competition between classes.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

La Boheme performer applies make-up at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: A performer from the Metropolitan Civic Opera House applies make-up for a performance of La Boheme at the Shrine Auditorium while an unidentified man looks on. This particular performance benefitted the P.-T.A. milk fund.
Date:: [circa May 12, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Cooperative workers in Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Group of unidentified people at a cooperative working around a desk with a "Gasoline-Oil" sign on it.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson at the back of a railway car.

Description:: Popular evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, in winter furs, holds a bouquet of roses while standing at the back of a Pacific Coast Railway car.
Date:: 1933-1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Betty Flay Hardaker stands at a counter in the Los Angeles County Jail after being taken into custody, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Betty Flay Hardaker stands at a counter in the Los Angeles County Jail after being taken into custody. Mrs. Hardaker was convicted of murdering her 5 year old daughter, Geraldine Hardaker, in a Montebello park washroom. The jury convicted her of committing the crime while of unsound mind.
Date:: February 20, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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