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Wishing pool tourists in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Tourists view the Seven Star Sacred Caverns and wishing pool designed by Prof. Liu Hong Kay in Chinatown, Los Angeles, which are artistic renderings of an actual scenic spot in Guangdong province.
Date:: 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Chang Yuin-Tsung and Anna May Wong

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

Shinto temple on Terminal Island (Calif.)

Description:: Exterior view of a Shinto Temple in the Japanese community on Terminal Island.
Date:: 1940
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

Socialites attend benefit performance of La Boheme at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Socialites mingle at a performance of La Boheme at the Shrine Auditorium, put on by the Metropolitan Civic Opera House. 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

Civil War veterans parade on Memorial Day, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Civil War veterans take part in a parade on Memorial Day, 1935. The day's festivities included parades, decorations, and live music.
Date:: [circa May 26, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd watching a couple dance in Jitterbug Dance contest Los Angeles, Calif., 1939

Date:: 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Overhead view of crowded auditorium during Jitterbug Dance contest Los Angeles, Calif., 1939

Date:: 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd watching a couple dance in Jitterbug Dance contest Los Angeles, Calif, 1939

Date:: 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Korean American children's chorus in Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1954

Date:: 1954
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Earl Carroll and his dancing girls at California Amusement Machine Operators Association Party in Los Angeles, Calif., 1939

Date:: October 9, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Miss Philippine Commonwealth of 1939 Gloria Talaugon with Guadalupe Palomo Malasig of Los Angeles, 1940

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

Burlesque dancer Betty Rowland, (aka Ball of Fire) being escorted by policewoman June Howard after being convicted of lewd conduct in Los Angeles, Calif., 1952

Date:: November 15, 1952
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Four destitute Mexican American children sitting on bench Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1953

Date:: circa 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man looking out a gas station window upon which is written "CHOKE THE JAPS WITH YOUR GIRDLES WE WANT RUBBER" in 1942, Los Angeles, Calif.

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

Audience watching Native American Indians on stage at event for Santa Fe Railroad 100 million miles of diesel travel, Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1948

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

Indian children in tribal dress dancing at Los Angeles Indian Center, 1949

Date:: December 1, 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Three women preparing Christmas gifts at Los Angeles Indian Center, 1949

Date:: December 1, 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Daphne Alley in Mexican costume and R. Allen Pelton in Bavarian costume dancing at Folk Dance Festival in Los Angeles, Calif., 1949

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

Tree planting ceremony honoring Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, April 20th, 1934.

Description:: Trees are planted to honor Los Angeles's patron of music, and as part of a ceremony marking the end of a series of concerts by the Los Angeles Philharmonic as led by conductor Otto Klemperer. The trees planted were nine eugenia trees, planted in a semi-circle around the statue of Beethoven in Pershing Square, as a represtentation of his Ninth Symphony.Pictured from left to right are Klemperer, Mayor Shaw, and John Smallman, founder of the Smallman Oratorio Society.
Date:: April 20, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Paramahansa Yogananda with Self-Realization Fellowship members, group portrait, 1949

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

Crowded marriage license office after draft boards announced in Los Angeles, Calif., 1948

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

Women watching cooking class in WPA Household Employees training, circa 1937

Date:: 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Swimmers at Los Angeles' La Cienega Municipal Pool, circa 1945

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

Jesse Owens competes in a long jump event at the Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Jesse Owens for the Ohio State University track team competes in the long jump event.
Date:: June 15, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Slum sought out during a SERA housing study, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: A slum. Part of the housing study carried out by the State Emergency Relief Administration. County officials were asked to make a study of housing conditions in their city.
Date:: [circa June 17, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Large used car lot, 1930s.

Date:: 1930-1940?
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Boys taking part in a free summer camp organized by Los Angeles Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz. Circa July 1937.

Description:: Boys from financially disadvantaged backgrounds participate in a free summer camp in Griffith Park. The camp, which was organized by Sheriff Biscailuz, lasted hosted groups of 100 boys for 10 days at a time. While at camp, the boys participated in activities such as swimming, fencing, baseball, various hobbies, and a nonsectarian religious program. The camp's 1937 season lasted from July 6th to September 4th.
Date:: [circa July 6, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Labor Day Parade. Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Labor Day Parade members of the Screen Actors Guild, Veterans Division marching down street
Date:: September 7, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Four well-dressed men stand together in the Los Angeles slums while a fifth man looks on, Los Angeles, 1925-1945

Description:: Four well-dressed men stand together in the Los Angeles slums while a fifth man looks on. In the background are several meager homes and clotheslines full of laundry
Date:: [between 1925 and 1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Member of the Mystic Shrine attending to a sign for the Durbar festival, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: A member of the Mystic Shrine attending to a sign created for the Durbar festival. 20,000 spectators enjoyed street parades on South Olive Street and festivities at the Shrine Auditorium.
Date:: June 12, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Sailors and civilians celebrate Japan's surrender during World War II in downtown Los Angeles, August 15 and 16, 1945

Description:: Sailors and civilians on Main Street in downtown Los Angeles to celebrate Japan's surrender during World War II.
Date:: August 15 and 16, 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Tournament of Roses floates in staging area along Orange Grove Blvd. (probably), Pasadena, 1937

Description:: The theme for the forty-eighth Rose Parade was "Romance in Flowers"
Date:: January 1, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Santa Clara County parade float for Tournament of Roses, Pasadena, 1937

Description:: The theme for the forty-eighth Rose Parade was "Romance in Flowers"
Date:: January 1, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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

Description:: Crowd 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

Long Beach parade float for Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1937

Description:: The theme for the forty-eighth Rose Parade was "Romance in Flowers"
Date:: January 1, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Woman baking pies at a cooperative in Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Woman baking pies at a cooperative located at 21st and Santee St. in Los Angeles. Many self-sustaining communities like this one emerged in California during the 1930s, specifically in the Los Angeles - Orange County area
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

African American boy reading a Little Black Sambo book in a Los Angeles Drugstore, circa 1947

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

Boy Scout showing two Cub Scouts model plane at Scout-O-Rama event in Los Angeles, Calif., 1948

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

Ed Holovchik [aka Ed Fury], bodybuilder and Mr. Los Angeles contestant with model Jackie Coey, 1953

Date:: 1953
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

Two WPA workers hitchhiking besides Highland Springs Resort and cherry orchards billboard, Beaumont, circa 1939

Date:: 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Seventeen-year-old Josephine Amaya with mohawk haircut, Los Angeles, Calif., 1951

Date:: June 27, 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

View of audience for Easter service at Hollywood Bowl, 1929.

Description:: Easter sunrise service attended by approximately 45,000 at the Hollywood Bowl.
Date:: March 31, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Attorney Martin McManus reading "lewd" book "Memoirs of Hecate County" by Edmund Wilson

Date:: July 15, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Earl Browder, secretary of the Communist Party USA surrounded by listeners, circa 1938

Date:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd watching two dancers at the 1945 Los Angeles Filipino Fiesta

Date:: September 1, 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Female student crowned during paddle day at Los Angeles Junior College, February 1936

Description:: Most likely related to the yearly mud battle between first and second year students and the first time female students took part. Students unknown. LAJC is now known as Los Angeles City College located near Vermont and Santa Monica Blvd.
Date:: [circa February 19, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Korean American women's group members in traditional Korean clothes with Korean drummer Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1952

Date:: circa 1952
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Chinese Women's Club members Bessie Loo, Lily Quon and Mrs. I. L. Chow Los Angeles, Calif., 1952

Date:: 1952
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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