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Actress Phyllis Brooks wearing a fur-lined coat and fedora, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Actress Phyllis Brooks wearing a fur-lined coat and a fedora, with an airplane visible in the background. Brooks was originally known as the "Ipana Toothpaste Girl," and dated leading men such as Carey Grant and Howard Hughes before marrying a close friend of President John F. Kennedy, Congressman Torbert Macdonald.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd watching a baseball game at Wrigley Field in South Los Angeles

Description:: Crowd watching a baseball game at Wrigley Field in South Los Angeles. Los Angeles's Wrigley Field was built in 1925 and torn down in 1966. It was host to minor league baseball teams and home of the Los Angeles Angeles. The field is named after the same Wrigley as Wrigley Field in Chicago, but it actually received the name first and had more on-site parking than Chicago's field does now.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Spectators at a wrestling match, one man stands clapping and yelling, Los Angeles

Description:: Spectators at a wrestling match, probably at Olympic Auditorium. One man is standing, clapping, and yelling.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

"Prince" Michael Romanoff, popular Hollywood pretender to Russian royal blood, Los Angeles, 1934 (?)

Description:: A photograph of "Prince" (not, as captioned here, "Grand Duke") Michael Romanoff, a Hollywood restaurateur and actor, who claimed to be a member of the Russian royal family. This claim was widely known to be false; however, Romanoff kept up the deception throughout his life in Los Angeles.Romanoff was born Hershel Geguzin in Lithuania. He traveled extensively before settling in Los Angeles and into the role of Michael Romanoff. In Hollywood, he acted on stage and in film, but was perhaps most successful as the owner of the restaurant "Romanoff's" in Beverly Hills. The restaurant was popular for its chocolate souffles, and was frequented by many celebrities. It closed its doors in 1962.
Date:: 1934?
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Ada Williams Ince, young actress, divorces William T. Ince, son of producer Thomas H. Ince. April 13, 1934.

Description:: Young actress Ada Williams Ince, 21, divorces her husband of 5 years, William "W.T." Ince, on claims of abuse due to her husband's violent temper. Williams was granted the divorce in Superior Judge Edmond's court, and attributed it to the date of Friday the 13th, her "lucky number", contrary to popular convention.
Date:: April 13, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Picket with sign reading "I am a writer blacklisted by the Un-American Committee" outside committee hearing in Los Angeles, Calif., 1952

Date:: October 1, 1952
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Elephants from Cole Brothers Circus crossing Olive Street with police escort in Los Angeles, Calif., 1953

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

Singer Eartha Kitt, seated in empty nightclub in Los Angeles, Calif., 1953

Date:: November 1, 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd of boys watch Charles Kramer, Paul Barbata, and George Stassi compete in a marble tournament, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Charles Kramer, Paul Barbata, and George Stassi compete in a marble tournament. A crowd of mainly young boys watches in the background.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Clyde Beatty Circus workers, Ruth Harvey, Marcia Larkin, Mel Rennick and Lita Griggs outside costume trailer, Los Angeles, Calif., 1950

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

Marie Wright poses with dog Rex, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Marie Wright poses with her dog Rex while holding a book.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Fashion show at May Co. in Los Angeles, Calif., 1949

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

Strikers at Warner Bros. studio with overturned automobiles during 1945 strike riot

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

Outside the 26th Annual Academy Awards at RKO Pantages Theater in Los Angeles, Calif., 1954

Date:: 1954
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Brush, Gib
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mexican American women entertainers during Cinco de Mayo celebration in Los Angeles, 1954

Date:: May 6, 1954
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor with playboy Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza, circa 1954

Date:: 1954
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Group of male students at Los Angeles Junior College wrestle in the mud, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: A group of men wrestle in the mud at an annual Los Angeles Junior College competition between classes.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

District Attorney Buron Fitts and Actor Jack La Rue, Los Angeles, October 1935

Description:: Most likely related to the investigation into an attempted extortion plot against La Rue by a married couple
Date:: [October 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Harry E. Kunkel, director of air pollution control for Los Angeles, 1946

Date:: August 21, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mud covered students at Los Angeles Junior College, February 1936

Description:: Most likely related to the yearly mud battle between first and second year students and the first time female students took part. Students unknown. LAJC is now known as Los Angeles City College located near Vermont and Santa Monica Blvd.
Date:: [circa February 19, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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Actress Phyllis Brooks wearing a fur-lined coat and fedora, Los Angeles, 1937

Crowd watching a baseball game at Wrigley Field in South Los Angeles

Spectators at a wrestling match, one man stands clapping and yelling, Los Angeles

"Prince" Michael Romanoff, popular Hollywood pretender to Russian royal blood, Los Angeles, 1934 (?)

Ada Williams Ince, young actress, divorces William T. Ince, son of producer Thomas H. Ince. April 13, 1934.

Picket with sign reading "I am a writer blacklisted by the Un-American Committee" outside committee hearing in Los Angeles, Calif., 1952

Elephants from Cole Brothers Circus crossing Olive Street with police escort in Los Angeles, Calif., 1953

Singer Eartha Kitt, seated in empty nightclub in Los Angeles, Calif., 1953

Crowd of boys watch Charles Kramer, Paul Barbata, and George Stassi compete in a marble tournament, Los Angeles, 1935

Clyde Beatty Circus workers, Ruth Harvey, Marcia Larkin, Mel Rennick and Lita Griggs outside costume trailer, Los Angeles, Calif., 1950

Marie Wright poses with dog Rex, Los Angeles, 1930s

Fashion show at May Co. in Los Angeles, Calif., 1949

Strikers at Warner Bros. studio with overturned automobiles during 1945 strike riot

Outside the 26th Annual Academy Awards at RKO Pantages Theater in Los Angeles, Calif., 1954

Mexican American women entertainers during Cinco de Mayo celebration in Los Angeles, 1954

Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor with playboy Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza, circa 1954

Group of male students at Los Angeles Junior College wrestle in the mud, Los Angeles, 1930s

District Attorney Buron Fitts and Actor Jack La Rue, Los Angeles, October 1935

Harry E. Kunkel, director of air pollution control for Los Angeles, 1946

Mud covered students at Los Angeles Junior College, February 1936

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