Resource Type: still image / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Subject: Events and Lifestyle - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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

Description:: Two unidentified men share a box of Cracker Jack on a bench during the annual Iowa Picnic. The Iowa Picnic was an annual gathering of Iowans living in Los Angeles and Long Beach. The gathering brought together over 100,000 people in 1935 and was often held at Bixby Park and Lincoln Park.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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

Description:: Mrs. Paxton Lytle and Mrs. J.M. Hughes cut a cake during a women's club meeting. Mrs. Paxton Lytle served as the president of the L.A. County Federation of Women's Clubs.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Memorial Day, also known as "Poppy Day", May 26, 1934. Members of the American Legion Auxillary pose with Los Angeles's City Council president. In the front row of the photo are City Councilman Howard Davis, Auxillary members Marie Gore, and Mary Repp. Behind them are Auxillary members Julia Van Sky and Mrs. Tom Rice.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:: May 26, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Two unidentified women play on a swing set during the annual Iowa Picnic. The Iowa Picnic was an annual gathering of Iowans living in Los Angeles and Long Beach. The gathering brought together over 100,000 people in 1935 and was often held at Bixby Park and Lincoln Park.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Two cyclists prepare to start the Transcontinental Bicycle Relay Race, with 2 men supporting their bicycles as spectators watch
Date:: August 19, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Two cyclists prepare to start the Transcontinental Bicycle Relay Race, with 2 men supporting their bicycles as spectators watch
Date:: August 19, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Six cyclists standing next to their bicycles at the start of the Transcontinental Bicycle Relay race in Los Angeles flanked by 2 motor cycle policemen. Spectators watch on the right and a sign on a truck behind them reads: "Official Relief Convoy, Los Angeles - New York Transcontinental Bicycle Relay."
Date:: August 19, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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