View of trucks driving down a flooded street. The front truck carries 2 trailers, the front one covered with a large tarp, and has a sign reading "Pioneer Truck Co." A sign painted on a building reads "Compton Iron-Metal Salvage." Houses are in the background on the right.
Wooden tree house with balcony, windows, and stairs to roof, built in eucalyptus tree, with two children standing below. Floor of tree house is higher than roof of house in background.
The "Treasure Ship" float with a Spanish galleon bearing golden gifts; the intended inhabitants of the float were driven away by the rain. The Pasadena Memorial Flagpole (Goodhue Flagpole) is visible behind the float in its original location in the middle of the intersection of Orange Grove and Colorado Boulevard. The float was entered by the Hotel Vista del Arroyo.
Photograph of about 5-6 men working on top of a frozen Jackson Lake to remove snow. The man on the left stands on the lake holding a broom. To his right, a man wearing ice skates pushes a plow-like apparatus. To his right, two men use brooms to remove the snow. To the right of them, a man drives a tractor across the lake. In the distance, another person stands on the ice. On the opposite side of the lake, a small structure with large chimney sits along the shore left-of-center of the photograph. A hillside covered in trees and snow slopes down towards the lake on the left and another hillside covered in trees and snow rises up in the background on the right. A white dwelling sits in the gap between these two hillsides in the background. In the foreground at right, a piping fixture rises out of the snow-covered ground.
This is a picture of three young women harvesting hay. Two of them, in the foreground of the picture, appear to be tying a large bale of hay together, while the third looks out of the frame and smiles while holding a large plough.
An out-of-focus and slightly lopsided photograph of three unknown persons sitting on a long bench in a park. The trio sits in a row left-of-center and appear to be sloping downward to the left. Starting at left, a woman dressed in white sits and looks to camera; she holds a jacket in her lap. A man sits at center. He looks to the camera while holding a box in his lap. A woman sits to his right. She folds her hands in her lap as she turns her head to look at the man. A dirt pathway crosses in front of them. A brush covered hillside rises directly behind them.
View through stone archway of woman, sidesaddle, and man on horseback, woman standing, all in Spanish-style dress, near pueblo-style wall with rough wooden supports and director's chair
Three men, dressed in suits, stand at the top of the steps and under the pergola of the Pebble Beach Lodge. The lodge and the pergola are constructed out of logs. A car (partial view) is parked on the right in front of the steps. The men are automotive parts jobbers in Pebble Beach for a meeting of the Automotive Parts Jobbers of the Pacific Coast.
Kneen’s Kamp, built by Thomas W. (Bill) Kneen in 1916, was a resort located on Topanga Canyon Boulevard near Robinson Road. The camp operated until the mid- 1920's.
Ten postcards views including: one view of the main Outside Inn building, six views of cabins at the Outside Inn, one aerial view of Topanga Canyon including the Outside Inn property, and two views of the road wending through Topanga Canyon
Photograph of tablets inset into the garden wall of the Old North Memorial Garden in Boston. The brick, garden wall stretches across the image. At center, one tablet is set into the wall. Tablets to the left and right of it are obscured by shadows cast by surrounding trees. The shadows naturally frame the tablet at center.
SWAHILI: Sura hii inayopendeza ya Ustadh Mau ilipigwa kwenya duka lake la mkate. Ustadh Mau alianza kuvaa miwani alipokuwa miaka thalatini na tatu.<br>ENGLISH: This beautiful portrait of Ustadh Mau was taken at his bakery. Ustadh Mau started wearing glasses when he was thirty-three years old.
SWAHILI: Picha ya Ustadh Mau nyumbani kwake. Sehemu ya kichwa haionekani.<br>ENGLISH: Picture of Ustadh Mau taken at his place. Unfortuantely his front is cut.
"Submarine Garden" float from Educational Pictures at the Electrical Parade and sports pageant in the Memorial Coliseum, a charity event produced by local film studios. A sign on the float reads "Educational Pictures."
Hayward Thompson successfully drove for five hours and thirteen minutes, a total of 100 miles, through congested traffic all while completely blindfolded. The affair was his 333rd exhibition and the longest since his sixty mile drive in Miami.
Photograph of storm-flooded intersection of Beverly Boulevard and Lake Street. Several automobiles and a bus are traveling through the floodwater on the street. Commercial signs read "Pacific Duco Auto Finishing," "Broadway Hill and Seventh presents...Frances Denney's Herbal Throat and Neck Blend, Corrects 'Crepey' Throat," "Grace Tabernacle...," "Pasadena laundry, 20% off on Laundry Left Here," "Van de Kamps Bakers," and on the bus "E..s Railway 2011."
Spectators watch the preparations for a track event at the Olympic Games. There are people on the field near the track. There are spectators scattered throughout the stands, including a man in a hat who is in the foreground of the photograph.
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.
Soldiers in old military uniforms stand next to others wearing the new "streamlined" style during a military show for National Defense Week. The show was held at the Los Angeles Airport and more than 60 officers and men participated.
Laundry hanging in 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.
This image is of Miss. Shirley R. Doman. She poses leaning against the wall, with her arms crossed. She wears a dress with laces running through the neckline and down the center of the bodice. There are bows on her sleeves. Behind her, is a framed drawing of classic archways.
The Casa Madre was a Spanish colonial style residence built for Mrs. E. W. Halliday in 1919, Francis Pierpont Davis and Walter Davis, architects. Demolished by 2012.
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![Trees near Mono Lake, Mono County, [1929?]](https://iiif.library.ucla.edu/iiif/2/ark%3A%2F21198%2Fzz002bd5qw/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg)
