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Description:: Architectural movie set with 2 men conferring, a motion picture camera and other filming equipment at Columbia Pictures Studio. A sign on a kiosk reads "Stop For Inspection By Order Of Warden."
Date:: [between 1926-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Columbia Pictures stills and key books

Description:: Biltmore chef Gus Schaarschmidt showing a candy Christmas decoration to Donald Plune and Frederick Shehhlurd.
Date:: circa December 22, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Terrell, Maurice
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Chinese lion on a street in Chinatown with spectators on the sidewalk. A sign on a commercial building reads: "The Asiatic Costume Co., Chinese Wardrobe & Props, Sold & Rented."
Date:: [circa 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Dancing Chinese lion during festival in Chinatown on unpaved street with spectators on the sidewalk. The man supporting the front holds the lion's head high above his own head and is smiling. There is allot of dust or smoke in the foreground. A sign on a commercial building reads: "Eastern Grocery Co."
Date:: [circa 1920-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, “Raging Brush Fire Stopped by Fighters: Southland’s Worst Blaze Leaves Vast Area in Ruins,” Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 1938: 1.
Date:: November 28, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Detective Lieutenant Ellis holds the death report of Mildred Gross, completed with all her information, beside his face.
Date:: November 26, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 28-year-old Mildred Gross had been declared dead at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital from an overdose of sleeping powder. But over the course of an hour Dr. A.D. Trotter administered several intravenous injections to Mrs. Gross that successfully restored her pulse, respiration, and reflexes, even though she did not regain consciousness.
Date:: December 1, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The I. Magnin & Co. building at the intersection of New Hampshire and Wilshire in Los Angeles. A five story cube-shaped building. A carving of a stag and two does is at the top of the column over the main doors. To the left, a sandwich shop and a mechanic's garage can be seen. Several cars can be seen parked in front of the building on Wilshire. A blurred figure of a woman can be seen on the sidewalk at the corner of the building.
Date:: [circa February 10, 1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A slightly different version of this photograph taken on the same occasion appears in "Store Holds Gay Premiere: Magnin's New Style Center on Wilshire Viewed by Leaders," Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb 1939: 7.
Date:: [circa February 10, 1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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