Resource Type: still image / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives / Subject: Lifestyle and Culture - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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 Created:: [between 1925 and 1945?]
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 Created:: 1943
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 Created:: 1935
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 Created:: circa 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Members of the American Legion Auxillary hold bouquets of artificial poppies on Memorial Day, May 26, 1934.

Description:: Memorial Day, also known as "Poppy Day", May 26, 1934. Pearl Lathrop, Marie Gore, and Emma Wolfegang, members of the Los Angeles American Legion Auxillary, hold bouquets of artificial poppies, made by veterans of the First World War. The poppies were sold by members of the American Legion Auxillary in order to raise money for disabled veterans and their families.Poppies were chosen as representative of Memorial Day due to their presence in the iconic World War I memorial poem, "In Flanders Fields". The poem was written by Canadian physician and Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
Date Created:: May 26, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Pile of junk between two buildings in the slums, Los Angeles, 1925-1945

Description:: Pile of junk, including broken chairs, wire, boards, and pails, between two buildings in the Los Angeles slums
Date Created:: [between 1925 and 1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

LAJC students gather around unidentified woman after a mud fight, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Men covered in mud after a mud fight at the Los Angeles Junior College gather around an unidentified woman.
Date Created:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Woman taking notes at L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics seminar in Los Angeles, Calif., 1950

Date Created:: 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Group of eleven members of the Japanese YMCA holding meeting in Los Angeles, Calif. , circa 1941

Date Created:: 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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

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

Three members of the California Tip Toppers club for tall men and women arriving for first national convention in Los Angeles, Calif., 1947

Date Created:: July 18, 1947
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 Created:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Actress Cathy Downs modeling evening gowns with unidentified woman, circa 1946

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

Mrs. T. B. Chew Jr. and Mrs. Joe Ling modeling traditional Chinese clothing at Chinese American fashion show, Calif., 1950

Date Created:: 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Inez Geraldine Wray, aka Sweet and Sour Mickey, displaying her tattooed arms, circa 1947

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

Moon festival lantern parade in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: Chinese American children carry lanterns in a Moon Festival lantern parade in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
Date Created:: 1954
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Children unloading from Eastside Jewish Community Center bus in Los Angeles, Calif., 1952

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

Crowd waiting to enter Shrine Auditorium for a performance of Tristan and Isolde on opening night of the opera, Los Angeles, November 15, 1937

Description:: Crowd waiting to enter Shrine Auditorium for a San Francisco Opera Association performance of Tristan and Isolde (Tristan und Isolde) on opening night of the Opera. Star of the show was Kirsten Flagstad, the Norwegian soprano, accompanied by the San Francisco Opera Orchestra
Date Created:: November 15, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Susan B. Anthony Club members having picture taken in front of Freedom Train in Los Angeles, circa 1948

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

Child actors Billy, Bobby, Delmar and Garry Watson setting off fireworks on the Fourth of July, Los Angeles

Description:: Child actors Billy, Bobby, Delmar and Garry Watson gathered around an ignited firework on the Fourth of July. The Watson family was known as "the first family of Hollywood" and included at least nine children that acted in motion pictures.
Date Created:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mrs. Harry E. Willis pouring a beverage for Mrs. Howard M. Jay during a women's club picnic meeting at the home of Mrs. Jay, Los Angeles, July 10, 1939

Description:: Los Angeles County Federation of Women's Clubs President Mrs. Harry E. Willits (left) pouring a beverage for extension secretary Mrs. Howard M. Jay 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 Created:: July 10, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Boys with luggage at Jewish Boys Camp, Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1953

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

Woman stands with four children in the slums, Los Angeles, 1925-1945

Description:: A woman stands with four children between two meager homes in the Los Angeles slums.
Date Created:: [between 1925 and 1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

People on Broadway Street celebrating New Year's Eve, 1940 Los Angeles, Calif.

Date Created:: December 31, 1940
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 Created:: circa 1952
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Las Damas Pan Americanas club members in evening clothes, seated at table in Los Angeles, Calif., 1948

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

Los Angeles' Jewish Home for the Aged 1946 Hanukkah candle lighting ceremony

Date Created:: December 1, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mrs. Robert Lee dressed in traditional Chinese clothing for Chinese American fashion show, Calif., 1950

Date Created:: 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Photograph of Ray Harvey and June Rogers Harvey dressed like a cowboy and cowgirl, Los Angeles

Description:: Photograph of Ray Harvey and June Rogers Harvey dressed like a cowboy and cowgirl.
Date Created:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man dressed in a devil costume riding a car in the Mystic Shriners' Durbar festival street parade, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: A man dressed in a devil costume riding on a car during a street parade as part of the Mystic Shriners' Durbar festival. 20,000 spectators enjoyed street parades on South Olive Street and festivities at the Shrine Auditorium.
Date Created:: June 12, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mrs. Albert Sydney Brown, prominent clubwoman, Los Angeles 1930s and 40s

Description:: Mrs. Albert Sydney Brown, one time auditor for the Los Angeles District Federation of Women's Clubs and president of the Maecenas Club, posing in a rocking chair
Date Created:: [1930s and 1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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

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

Open-air library in Pershing Square, downtown Los Angeles. Circa 1937.

Description:: A man surveys the newspapers available for reading at an open-air public library in Pershing Square, downtown Los Angeles. The Pershing Square outdoor library was opened in December of 1936, and was staffed by W.P.A. workers. Visitors to the library could choose to borrow a book by simply leaving their name. The library was quite popular, circulating 24,000 books in its first six months of operation, and spawning other outdoor libraries in Los Angeles.
Date Created:: 1937
[circa 1937]
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 Created:: 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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

Date Created:: 1939
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 Created:: September 7, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Charlie Chan, fortune teller, speaks to customers in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Charlie Chan, self-proclaimed fortune teller, speaks to a crowd in Chinatown.
Date Created:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowds gathered for the Mystic Shrine's Durbar festival, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Crowds gathered to participate in the celebration of the Mystic Shrine's Durbar festival. 20,000 spectators enjoyed street parades on South Olive Street and festivities at the Shrine Auditorium.
Date Created:: June 12, 1937
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 Created:: June 12, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Tea party at Jewish Home for the Aging in Los Angeles, Calif., 1953

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

Crowds gathered for Mystic Shrine's Durbar festival, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Crowds gathered to participate in the celebration of the Mystic Shrine's Durbar festival. 20,000 spectators enjoyed street parades on South Olive Street and festivities at the Shrine Auditorium.
Date Created:: June 12, 1937
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 Created:: 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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

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

UCLA students dancing at Ball Night on the eve of graduation, Los Angeles, 1940

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

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

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

Nisei festival queen dines in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: "Nisei" are the second-generation Japanese Americans who founded the annual festival in 1934 to attract business to the Little Tokyo area and promote goodwill in Los Angeles.
Date Created:: 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Two women at the charity ball of the Junior Auxiliary of the Jewish Home for the Aged at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, February 11, 1940

Description:: Two women in fur coats shake hands at the 11th annual charity ball and dinner of the Junior Auxiliary of the Jewish Home for the Aged, held in the Biltmore Bowl. The theme was patriotic and Bob Hope, George Murphy and Jerry Colona presided as masters of ceremony
Date Created:: February 11, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Dancing the jitterbug

Description:: An African American couple dance the jitterbug in front of a crowd.
Date Created:: ca. 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Three women in gowns and headdresses at Las Floristas Headdress Ball at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, Calif., 1952

Date Created:: May 3, 1952
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Miss Lil Tokio Alice Watanabe poses with a fan in a traditional kimono in honor of the Nsei festival, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Winner of the Miss Lil Tokio pageant Alice Watanabe poses with a fan in a traditional kimono in honor of the annual Nsei festival.
Date Created:: August 12, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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