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Description:: Stage and screen actor Del Lawrence (also known as Del Stone Lawrence, and Landen Stone Gans) is viewed from the back seated at a desk and reflected in a mirror. He is wearing a costume of an American Indian feather headdress. Lawrence was playing the character of "Wahnotee" (an "Indian Chief") in a revival of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon. It is likely that this photograph was taken at the Mason Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Theatre Project.
Date:: April 21, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A similar photograph appears with the caption, "Diagnosing Mayor Shaw's Personality," Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 1935: 16
Date:: [circa January 23, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Hundreds of people stand in the streets of downtown Los Angeles as they celebrate the New Year. The crowd occupies the majority of the image and are viewed from a bird's'-eye perspective. A couple power lines pass over the crowd on an angle across the image. Streamers and confetti are visible throughout the crowd.
Date:: [between December 31, 1935 and January 1, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Hal Styles dressed in suit and tie holding some documents on his left hand. He is accompanied by three women all wearing hats. Grace Crosgrove, Aline Wood and Leonore Cordial. Ed Wheeler is standing behind Hal Styles. They are standing in the hallway of the Los Angeles Superior court department 14.
Date:: January 5, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: At center, toys cover a table that sits in a large gallery space. From left to right, Friday Morning Club clubwomen, Cynthia Glatte, Gwen Carlson and Lila Mae Sampson stand around the left, back and right edges of the table, respectively. Both Cynthia Glatte and Lila Mae Sampson hold some of the toys. In front of them, Diane Glatte sits on the front left corner of the table and Paul Frederick sits on a tricycle in front of Lila Mae Sampson. Chairs are lined up against the back wall at right. From the same wall, 4 paintings hang. Light flows into the space from a window along the back wall at left.
Date:: December 23, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: The State Building was completed in 1931 at a cost of more than $2 million, and was dedicated the day before the opening of the 1932 Olympics. It occupied most of the block bounded by 1st & Temple Streets, and Spring and Broadway. The building sustained significant damage from the 1971 San Fernando earthquake, and was torn down in 1975 or 1976
Date:: [between 1931 and 1932)
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A large crowd of shoppers walks along Broadway. The photograph was likely taken from the corner of 5th and Broadway, facing east.
Date:: December, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The camera views the Times Building's full rose garden auditorium from above. About a hundred or so people, mostly men, sit at long banquet tables during the second annual "Sports Headliners Dinner." The nearest table enters frame from the bottom edge at center and angles back to the left. A few more tables sit to the right of it. At the far end of the tables, a stage stands, off-center to the left. The Tournament of Roses band sits on the stage.
Date:: [circa December 29, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Calvert, Paul
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: No date is provided on the negative or negative sleeve, however, a similar image taken on the same day features an advertisement on the side of the building for the re-election of Mayor John C. Porter, who served his term from 1929 to 1933.
Date:: circa 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Attorney and former Judge Robert M. Clarke adjusts the costume of Lawyer Norman A. Bailie. The men participated in a pageant presented by the Los Angeles Bar Association, "The Making of the Constitution of the United States of America," at the Philharmonic Auditorium. Bailie was portraying Robert Morris of Philadelphia, and the other participants played other authors of the United States Constitution.
Date:: July 19, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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