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

Loretta Ennis and Margaret Howden pose at a Miss America event, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Loretta Ennis (right) and Margaret Howden (left) pose at an event involving the Miss America pageant.
Date:: [1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Socialites attend benefit performance of La Boheme at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Socialites mingle at a performance of La Boheme at the Shrine Auditorium, put on by the Metropolitan Civic Opera House. This particular performance benefitted the P.-T.A. milk fund.
Date:: [circa May 12, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Earl Carroll and his dancing girls at California Amusement Machine Operators Association Party in Los Angeles, Calif., 1939

Date:: October 9, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Miss Philippine Commonwealth of 1939 Gloria Talaugon with Guadalupe Palomo Malasig of Los Angeles, 1940

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

Audience watching Native American Indians on stage at event for Santa Fe Railroad 100 million miles of diesel travel, Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1948

Date:: circa 1948
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:: 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Tree planting ceremony honoring Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, April 20th, 1934.

Description:: Trees are planted to honor Los Angeles's patron of music, and as part of a ceremony marking the end of a series of concerts by the Los Angeles Philharmonic as led by conductor Otto Klemperer. The trees planted were nine eugenia trees, planted in a semi-circle around the statue of Beethoven in Pershing Square, as a represtentation of his Ninth Symphony.Pictured from left to right are Klemperer, Mayor Shaw, and John Smallman, founder of the Smallman Oratorio Society.
Date:: April 20, 1934
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:: June 12, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Sailors and civilians celebrate Japan's surrender during World War II in downtown Los Angeles, August 15 and 16, 1945

Description:: Sailors and civilians on Main Street in downtown Los Angeles to celebrate Japan's surrender during World War II.
Date:: August 15 and 16, 1945
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:: 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

View of audience for Easter service at Hollywood Bowl, 1929.

Description:: Easter sunrise service attended by approximately 45,000 at the Hollywood Bowl.
Date:: March 31, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd watching two dancers at the 1945 Los Angeles Filipino Fiesta

Date:: September 1, 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Female student crowned during paddle day 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

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. 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

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

Two unidentifed men share a box of Cracker Jack during the annual Iowa Picnic, Los Angeles, 1930s

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

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

Debutantes at the 1946 Las Madrinas Ball in Los Angeles, Calif.

Date:: December 14, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum listen to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 1, 1935

Description:: President Roosevelt speaks to the crowd from his car at the end of his motorcade through the city. during his one day visit. Tens of thousands of people greeted Roosevelt along with other dignitaries, including his wife Eleanor Roosevelt and Los Angeles Mayor Frank L. Shaw, during the motorcade.
Date:: October 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Parade celebrates Aimee Semple McPherson's 25th year of ministry service, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Parade floats and a procession of vehicles drive through downtown Los Angeles on the way to City Hall in celebration of Aimee Semple McPherson's 25th year of ministry service. The parade ended at the City Hall steps where McPherson greeted approximately 5000 people and the Mayor. Aimee Semple McPherson was a Los Angeles evangelist in the 1920s and 1930s who founded the Foursquare Church and Angelus Temple.
Date:: January 7, 1935
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:: May 3, 1952
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Pair dressed as Raggedy-Ann and Andy marching in the post-war Labor Day parade, Los Angeles, 1946

Description:: A pair dressed as classic characters Raggedy-Ann and Andy marching in the post-war Labor Day parade. Crowds reached over 150,000 during the special three-day celebration.
Date:: September 3, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Paul Wright, Iola Smith and Frances Sample during national airport Red Cross roll call day at Union Air Terminal, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Airport president Paul Wright registering for national airport Red Cross roll call day at Union Air Terminal. TWA air hostess and registered nurse Frances Sample is pinning a button to his lapel while Red Cross worker Iola Smith handles his registration.
Date:: November 24, 1936
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:: June 12, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Eileen Siedman, Aiko Uyeda, Henry Goldman and Shirley Dumas of Interracial Festival in Los Angeles, Calif., 1952

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

Three Mexican American children in costumes at Re-Enactment of 1769 Portola expedition Los Angeles, Calif., 1948

Date:: July 1, 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Group of women participating in Clog Dancing Festival at Los Angeles Griffith Park, 1939

Date:: December 1, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Loretta Ennis and Margaret Howden pose at a Miss America event, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Loretta Ennis (right) and Margaret Howden (left) pose at an event involving the Miss America pageant.
Date:: [1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Noche de Carnival Queen Anita Aros with two people in papier-mâché masks at Olvera Street in Los Angeles, Calif., 1948

Date:: February 7, 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowds gather at Central Station to see President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrive for tour, Los Angeles, October 1, 1935

Description:: The trip, accompanied by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, was his first to the city as President. Papers estimated hundreds of thousands saw the President . Central Station was located at Fifth and Alameda Street.
Date:: October 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Members of the Screen Actors Guild marching in the Labor Day Parade, Los Angeles, September 6, 1937

Description:: Members of the Screen Actors Guild Marching in the Labor Day Parade. Fourteen of the parade's fifty floats were prepared by the Screen Actors Guild
Date:: September 6, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Confetti-filled streets during a celebration of Japan's surrender during World War II, Los Angeles, August 15 and 16, 1945

Description:: People walk over the confetti that was thrown out of windows over Main Street in downtown Los Angeles. This was part of a celebration of Japan's surrender during World War II.
Date:: August 15 and 16, 1945
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:: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Van Sky, Julia; Repp, Mary; Davis, Howard; Woef, Emma; Lathrop, Pearl
Date:: May 26, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Miss Lil Tokio Alice Watanabe extends an invitation to Mayor Frank L. Shaw for the annual Nsei festival, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Frank L. Shaw accepts an invitation to the formal opening of the Nsei festival from "Miss 'Lil Tokio" Alice Watanabe and her attendants. In front, left to right, Fukiko Hori, Alice Watanabe, Frank L. Shaw, and Kay Okamoto. In the back, left to right, Miye Fujioka and Mary Ota.
Date:: August 12, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Aerial view of parade route 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:: June 12, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd celebrates Japan's surrender during World War II in the streets of downtown Los Angeles, August 15 and 16, 1945

Description:: Crowd celebrates Japan's surrender during World War II on Main Street in downtown Los Angeles. People walk in the streets while confetti falls from the windows.
Date:: August 15 and 16, 1945
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:: June 12, 1937
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:: June 12, 1937
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:: June 12, 1937
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. An overturned car is visible within the crowd. 20,000 spectators enjoyed street parades on South Olive Street and festivities at the Shrine Auditorium.
Date:: June 12, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Long Beach "Queen of the Beaches" Power Parade float in Los Angeles, Calif., 1936

Date:: October 10, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.)
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Six civic leaders and boys at groundbreaking ceremony for Eastside Boys' Club in Los Angeles, Calif., 1953

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

Civil War veterans parade on Memorial Day, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Civil War veterans take part in a parade on Memorial Day, 1935. The day's festivities included parades, decorations, and live music.
Date:: [circa May 26, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

David Yee, Alan Young and Frank Tang joking around with firecrackers during Chinese New Year in Los Angeles, 1948

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

Dale Evans at book signing for her book "Angel Unaware" in Los Angeles, Calif., 1953

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

Shriners dressed in Arab robes with float in shape of a camel during Shriners convention parade in Los Angeles, Calif., 1950

Date:: 1950
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:: August 12, 1935
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. An overturned car is visible within the crowd. 20,000 spectators enjoyed street parades on South Olive Street and festivities at the Shrine Auditorium.
Date:: June 12, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Aerial view of parade route for the Mystic Shrine's Durbar Festival, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Aerial view of 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:: June 12, 1937
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:: June 12, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Members of Angelus Temple ride a parade float, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Unidentified members of the Angelus Temple house of worship ride on a parade float. The parade celebrated Aimee Semple McPherson's 25th year of ministry service. The parade ended at the City Hall steps where McPherson greeted approximately 5000 people and the Mayor. Aimee Semple McPherson was a Los Angeles evangelist in the 1920s and 1930s who founded the Foursquare Church and Angelus Temple.
Date:: January 7, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Pre-Christmas parade in downtown; features rocket ship float with Santa Claus in Los Angeles, 1940

Date:: November 21, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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

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

Tree lighting ceremony for 105-foot Christmas tree in Pershing Square, Los Angeles, Calif., 1949

Date:: November 29, 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Cinco de Mayo entertainers at the Los Angeles Coliseum

Description:: Dancer Alicia Leonard and musicians prepare for Cinco de Mayo celebrations in the Los Angeles Coliseum
Date:: May 5, 1942
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:: September 7, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Five women in ethnic costumes at piano during the 1945 Los Angeles Filipino Fiesta

Date:: September 1, 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Interior of St. Paul's Catholic Church during Boy Scouts service awards ceremony, Los Angeles, 1949

Description:: Related to the article, "Boy Scout Week Opened Here in Church Rites." Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 1949: I2.
Date:: February 7, 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd watches parade celebrating Aimee Semple McPherson's 25th year of ministry service, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Crowd watches parade floats and a procession of vehicles drive through downtown Los Angeles on the way to City Hall in celebration of Aimee Semple McPherson's 25th year of ministry service. The parade ended at the City Hall steps where McPherson greeted approximately 5000 people and the Mayor. Aimee Semple McPherson was a Los Angeles evangelist in the 1920s and 1930s who founded the Foursquare Church and Angelus Temple.
Date:: January 7, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Group of Jewish women selected to be contestants in 2nd Annual California Queen Esther Ball, 1940

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

Group celebrates Japan's surrender during World War II on Main Street in downtown Los Angeles, August 15 and 16, 1945

Description:: Group of sailors and civilians celebrate Japan's surrender during World War II on Main Street in downtown Los Angeles.
Date:: August 15 and 16, 1945
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:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Flowers placed at the Wee Kirk O' the Heather chapel, in honor of Jean Harlow after her sudden death, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Film star Jean Harlow's home after her sudden death. Harlow, known by many as "Baby," died of renal failure at age 26. Harlow's funeral was conducted at the Wee Kirk O' the Heather chapel at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, CA on June 9, 1937.
Date:: [circa June 9, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Floral-themed float created for the Hoover Dam Power Inaugural, Los Angeles, 1936

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

Authorities meet to discuss the Zoot Suit Riots, Los Angeles, 1943

Description:: Photographed left to right are Eugene Biscailuz (Los Angeles County Sheriff), Police Captain Thad Brown, Los Angeles District Attorney Fred N. Howser, and Carl Moritz.
Date:: 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Pan American Day celebration

Description:: Photographed from left to right are Jorge Maroto, Manuel Aguilar, Mayor Fletcher Bowron, and Gabriela Mistral.
Date:: April 14, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Raising the American flag for a Cinco de Mayo celebration

Description:: Mexican consul Rudolpho Salazar raises the flag in the Los Angeles Coliseum for the Cinco de Mayo celebration.
Date:: 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Japanese return from internment camps

Description:: Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals returning to Los Angeles after wartime internment in Heart Mountain, Colorado unload their belongings from a passenger train.
Date:: November 5, 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Zoot Suit Riots

Description:: Violence erupts during the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles (Calif.).
Date:: 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mexican Independence Day celebration, 1938

Description:: Mexican Independence Day is celebrated in Los Angeles with dancing, music, and stage performances
Date:: September 16, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mexican Independence Day celebration, 1946

Description:: Mexican Independence Day is celebrated in Los Angeles with dancing, music, and stage performances.
Date:: September 16, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mayor Fletcher Bowron at a Nisei festival 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:: 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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