Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives / Subject: Arts - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: An electrical-themed float including a throne, costumed participants and an imitation crystal ball created for the Hoover Dam Power Inaugural. The celebration was held to honor the first instances of power-production from the dam. Downtown Los Angeles was flooded with 7.2 million candle-power light, and engineers claimed that the display was visible from 100 miles away.
Date:: October 9, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A floral-themed float including a throne, costumed participants and glowing flowers created for the Hoover Dam Power Inaugural. The celebration was held to honor the first instances of power-production from the dam. Downtown Los Angeles was flooded with 7.2 million candle-power light, and engineers claimed that the display was visible from 100 miles away.
Date:: October 9, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A Grecian-themed float including columns and costumed participants created for the Hoover Dam Power Inaugural. The celebration was held to honor the first instances of power-production from the dam. Downtown Los Angeles was flooded with 7.2 million candle-power light, and engineers claimed that the display was visible from 100 miles away.
Date:: October 9, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Painting of indigenous Mexican man by John Coleman Burroughs and exhibited at Stendahl Gallery. The painting is titled "Hombre y Pipa" (Man and Pipe). The paintings were oils and pastels. Burroughs was the son of Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author best known for his creation of the character Tarzan.
Date:: March 20, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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

Description:: Anita Aros (center) poses with other costumed actors as they prepare for a fiesta on Olvera Street in Los Angeles, California.
Date:: ca. 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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

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