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Three women getting a deal on socks during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles, February 17, 1940

Description:: Three women looking through a 5 pairs for $1 deal on socks during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles. Stores hired extra salespersons and the city arranged for extra streetcars and policemen to accommodate the more than 200,000 bargain-hunters who came out for the sale
Date:: February 17, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Three women shopping for hats during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles, February 17, 1940

Description:: Three women shop for hats during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles. Stores hired extra salespersons and the city arranged for extra streetcars and policemen to accommodate the more than 200,000 bargain-hunters who came out for the sale
Date:: February 17, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Tony Cornero's newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill or Lux, anchored offshore of Los Angeles, 1946

Description:: Tony Cornero’s newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill (also known as the Lux), which was meant to operate offshore of Los Angeles. After the Bunker Hill’s opening night, however, Cornero and five of his aides were arrested on felony charges of criminal conspiracy to conduct gambling games and serve alcohol without a license. After his arrest, Cornero announced that he was ready to go to the United States Supreme court to keep the Bunker Hill running. Cornero was also “admiral” of the Rex, another gambling vessel which was forced to suspend operations in 1938.
Date:: August 9, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Striking ice cream vendors sit on push carts, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Ice cream vendors sit on push carts while on strike. The vendors went on strike and demanded an increase in pay from 30 cents to 40 cents out of every dollar sold.
Date:: April 22, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Herman E. Hubler and his wife Anna L. Hubler, who are accused of involvement in a theater bank night fraud scandal, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Herman E. Hubler and his wife Anna L. Hubler, who are accused of involvement in a theater bank night fraud scandal. The couple convinced numerous community theaters to use their 14-year-old daughter Blanche, known as Goldilocks, to pull the winning ticket in the bank night lottery. Goldilocks would palm a fake ticket and the winner would be one of the Hubler's accomplices, Alexander Szymanski or Roy Keown. The defendants admitted to winning thousands of dollars through the scandal.
Date:: between December 24 and 27, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Nile Shrine members collecting relief from passersby, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Members of the Nile Shrine philanthropist group collecting relief from passersby. The members are recognized by their traditional fez hats.
Date:: [circa January 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Demonstrators protest discriminatory housing, Los Angeles, 1946

Description:: Picketers confront discriminatory housing and restrictive convenant laws outside Henry Law's house on 92nd Street, Los Angeles
Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Male workers with hanging pig carcasses in a Los Angeles, Calif. meat packing plant, circa 1945

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

PWA Project, Los Angeles, circa 1935

Description:: Unknown Public Works Administration (PWA) project with unknown workers. Part of the New Deal, most PWA spending came in 1933-1935 and then again in 1938 before being shut down in 1939.
Date:: [1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

PWA Project, Los Angeles, circa 1935

Description:: Unknown Public Works Administration (PWA) project with unknown workers. Part of the New Deal, most PWA spending came in 1933-1935 and then again in 1938 before being shut down in 1939.
Date:: [1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

PWA Project, Los Angeles, circa 1935

Description:: Unknown Public Works Administration (PWA) project with unknown workers. Part of the New Deal, most PWA spending came in 1933-1935 and then again in 1938 before being shut down in 1939.
Date:: [1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

PWA Project, Los Angeles, circa 1935

Description:: Unknown Public Works Administration (PWA) project with unknown workers. Part of the New Deal, most PWA spending came in 1933-1935 and then again in 1938 before being shut down in 1939.
Date:: [1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

PWA Project, Los Angeles, circa 1935

Description:: Unknown Public Works Administration (PWA) project with unknown workers. Part of the New Deal, most PWA spending came in 1933-1935 and then again in 1938 before being shut down in 1939.
Date:: [1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

PWA Project, Los Angeles, circa 1935

Description:: Unknown Public Works Administration (PWA) project with unknown workers. Part of the New Deal, most PWA spending came in 1933-1935 and then again in 1938 before being shut down in 1939.
Date:: [1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Woman employed by SERA cuts clothing patterns, Los Angeles, circa 1934

Description:: Woman employed by State Emergency Relief Administration (SERA) cuts shirt patterns. In the 1930s, SERA started fifteen work projects in Los Angeles for unemployed men and women. SERA created approximately 1008 jobs for women, including office and sewing jobs.
Date:: [ca. 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

WPA workers with files, circa 1936

Date:: [1936?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Slum sought out during a SERA housing study, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: A slum. Part of the housing study carried out by the State Emergency Relief Administration. County officials were asked to make a study of housing conditions in their city.
Date:: [circa June 17, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Patrons playing cards in a casino, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Patrons gathering in a casino to play card games. Hawthorne, Compton, Monterey Park, and Long Beach closed several gaming places after Attorney General Webb found games of chance unlawful.
Date:: [circa January 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Silent film actress Sylvia Breamer in court with her sister Doris Kelly, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Silent film actress Sylvia Breamer (full name Sylvia Poppy Breamer Bohan) with her sister Doris Kelly in court attempting to recover $4000 which was loaned to her ex-husband Edmund R. Bohan from her late mother Jessie K. Plunkett. Breamer claimed that Bohan had never paid her mother back and now the money was rightfully owed to her and her sister, the heirs to their mother's estate. Bohan said the money was a gift from his former mother-in-law.
Date:: February 20, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Men knead and roll dough in a large room, Los Angeles, November 1937

Description:: Men knead and roll dough in a large room. Picture is related to the landslide in Elysian Park, the men may be baking for the thousands of spectators who came to view the landslide aftermath on Riverside Drive. The landslide began as a small crack in the earth in November of 1937, widened to a meandering zig-zag, and ultimately dumped tons of rock and dirt onto the Drive.
Date:: [November 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Members of the Worker's Alliance at 1st and Soto Streets protesting a 40% cut to checks given out to S.R.A. relief workers, Los Angeles, February 27, 1940

Description:: Members of the Worker’s Alliance at 1st and Soto Streets protesting State Relief Administrator Walter Chambers’s seemingly arbitrary 40% cut to checks given out to S.R.A. relief workers.
Date:: February 27, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Members of the Worker's Alliance at 22nd and San Pedro Streets protesting a 40% cut to checks given out to S.R.A. relief workers, Los Angeles, February 27, 1940

Description:: Members of the Worker’s Alliance at 22nd and San Pedro Streets protesting State Relief Administrator Walter Chambers’s seemingly arbitrary 40% cut to checks given out to S.R.A. relief workers.
Date:: February 27, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Members of the Worker's Alliance at 1st and Soto Streets protesting a 40% cut to checks given out to S.R.A. relief workers, Los Angeles, February 27, 1940

Description:: Members of the Worker’s Alliance at 1st and Soto Streets protesting State Relief Administrator Walter Chambers’s seemingly arbitrary 40% cut to checks given out to S.R.A. relief workers.
Date:: February 27, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Members of the Worker's Alliance protesting a 40% cut to checks given out to S.R.A. relief workers, Los Angeles, February 27, 1940

Description:: Members of the Worker’s Alliance protesting State Relief Administrator Walter Chambers’s seemingly arbitrary 40% cut to checks given out to S.R.A. relief workers.
Date:: February 27, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Unemployed men ordered to work or starve, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Unemployed men ordered by the W.P.A. (Works Progress Administration) to either work or starve.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Veteran receiving his bonus payment at a government office, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: An American veteran receiving his bonus payment at a government facility. Frank T. Hines, administrator of the Veterans' Bureau said 2,700,000 applications for bonus payments had been received nationwide.
Date:: [circa April 15, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Armed men unloading veterans' bonus payments from a delivery truck, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Armed men unloading veterans' bonus payments from a delivery truck. Frank T. Hines, administrator of the Veterans' Bureau said 2,700,000 applications for bonus payments had been received nationwide.
Date:: [circa April 15, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Elizabeth Klomp in court for shoplifting $10.45 of merchandise, Los Angeles, February 19, 1940

Description:: Mrs. Elizabeth Klomp, in Municipal Court for stealing three garments with a total value of $10.45 on Dollar Day. Ironically, at the time she stole the clothes, Mrs. Klomp had $27,009 in her purse, money she had withdrawn from the bank to make a real estate investment. In court, Mrs. Klomp pled guilty and asked for probation. She said she hadn’t meant to steal the clothes; she just got confused in the bustle of the sale. A month later, Mrs. Klomp was fined $100 and sentenced to five days in City Jail.
Date:: February 19, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Elizabeth Klomp in court for shoplifting $10.45 of merchandise, Los Angeles, February 19, 1940

Description:: Mrs. Elizabeth Klomp, in Municipal Court for stealing three garments with a total value of $10.45 on Dollar Day. Ironically, at the time she stole the clothes, Mrs. Klomp had $27,009 in her purse, money she had withdrawn from the bank to make a real estate investment. In court, Mrs. Klomp pled guilty and asked for probation. She said she hadn’t meant to steal the clothes; she just got confused in the bustle of the sale. A month later, Mrs. Klomp was fined $100 and sentenced to five days in City Jail.
Date:: February 19, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Elizabeth Klomp in court for shoplifting $10.45 of merchandise, Los Angeles, February 19, 1940

Description:: Mrs. Elizabeth Klomp, in Municipal Court for stealing three garments with a total value of $10.45 on Dollar Day. Ironically, at the time she stole the clothes, Mrs. Klomp had $27,009 in her purse, money she had withdrawn from the bank to make a real estate investment. In court, Mrs. Klomp pled guilty and asked for probation. She said she hadn’t meant to steal the clothes; she just got confused in the bustle of the sale. A month later, Mrs. Klomp was fined $100 and sentenced to five days in City Jail.
Date:: February 19, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Deck of Tony Cornero's newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill or Lux, Los Angeles, 1946

Description:: Deck of Tony Cornero’s newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill (also known as the Lux), which was meant to operate offshore of Los Angeles. After the Bunker Hill’s opening night, however, Cornero and five of his aides were arrested on felony charges of criminal conspiracy to conduct gambling games and serve alcohol without a license. After his arrest, Cornero announced that he was ready to go to the United States Supreme court to keep the Bunker Hill running. Cornero was also “admiral” of the Rex, another gambling vessel which was forced to suspend operations in 1938.
Date:: August 9, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Landlords picketing rent control office at 1206 Santee Street in Los Angeles, Calif., 1950

Date:: October 20, 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Veterans waiting in line at Bank of America to cash bonds during G.I. bond "gold rush" in Los Angeles, Calif., 1947

Date:: September 3, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Woman sewing mattress in California State Emergency Relief Administration work program, 1935

Description:: Women laborers constructing mattresses for a SERA employment program at a factory in Kern fairgrounds.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Rosalind Roennburg poses on a pile of mattresses at a factory, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Rosalind Roennburg poses on a pile of mattresses at a factory. A SERA program created jobs for women constructing mattresses at a factory at Kern fairgrounds.
Date:: [circa January 20, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Women in masks make mattresses through SERA program, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Women laborers in protective masks constructing mattresses for a SERA employment program at a factory in Kern fairgrounds.
Date:: [circa January 20, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Pickets protesting "Hoovervilles" and supporting cooperative stores during hearing of California State Relief Administration, Los Angeles, 1940

Date:: March 18, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Actors Bud Abbott, Lou Costello and Lila Dean selling war bonds at Defense House in Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1942

Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Three women manning information desk at Los Angeles area employment office, Los Angeles, circa 1944

Date:: 1944
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Customers waiting to purchase margarine at Boys Market during Oleo margarine shortage, Los Angeles, 1945

Date:: January 10, 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoster, Don
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Archibald Young, chairman of the Citizens' Relief Committee, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Archibald Young, chairman of the Citizens' Relief Committee, poses. He was involved with a $500,000 improvement project for the Los Angeles Municipal Airport. The intent of the project was to provide jobs and boost morale.
Date:: [circa January 19, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Archibald Young, chairman of the Citizens' Relief Committee, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Archibald Young, chairman of the Citizens' Relief Committee, poses. He was involved with a $500,000 improvement project for the Los Angeles Municipal Airport. The intent of the project was to provide jobs and boost morale.
Date:: [circa January 19, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Slum sought out during SERA housing study, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: Unidentified children in Los Angeles slum. Part of the housing study carried out by the State Emergency Relief Administration. County officials were asked to make a study of housing conditions in their city.
Date:: [circa June 17, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Slum sought out during SERA housing study, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: Unidentified children in a Los Angeles slum. Part of the housing study carried out by the State Emergency Relief Administration. County officials were asked to make a study of housing conditions in their city.
Date:: [circa June 17, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Elderly persons wait in line for pension application under the Old Age Security Act, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Group of elderly persons wait in line to complete an application for a pension under the Old Age Security Act.
Date:: September 15, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Elderly persons wait in line for pension application under the Old Age Security Act, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Group of elderly persons wait in line to complete an application for a pension under the Old Age Security Act.
Date:: September 15, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Coast guard and fire fighters working to extinguish the fires that began when the Markay oil tanker exploded in L.A. Harbor, Los Angeles, 1947

Description:: Coast guard and fire fighters working to extinguish the fires that began when the Markay, an oil tanker owned by the Keystone Tankship Corp., exploded in L.A. Harbor. The fire was fed by leaking gasoline and threatened at least five terminals in the harbor. At least 22 were injured and 9, possibly 12, people were killed. Damage was estimated at $10,000,000.
Date:: June 22, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Thomas W. Warner Jr. testifies in his suit against Pearl Antibus, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Thomas W. Warner Jr., son of millionaire automobile parts manufacturing magnate Thomas W. Warner Sr., pictured on the stand. Warner Jr. had brought a suit against Pearl Antibus, a private investigator, whom he had hired to determine if his fiancee, Jean MacDonald, loved him for himself or was only interested in his fortune. Antibus investigated by placing a dictaphone in MacDonald's home. The sum total of her services came to $2500, $1500 of which was still owed to her. Warner disputed the amount, which he asserted he had never agreed to, and thus brought suit against Antibus. Superior Judge Stutsman ruled on April 14 that, as Antibus had successfully completed her services and determined that Warner's fiancee did love him, she thus was owed the full amount. He further opined that, after viewing Jean MacDonald on the stand, that "she is well worth that $1500 and more."
Date:: April, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Men loading sacks of onions onto a truck as part of the WPA garden project, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Men loading sacks of onions onto a truck as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) garden project. The WPA was a New Deal agency which employed millions of people across the country to carry out public works projects. In 1938 the WPA garden project employed 1867 people on 665 acres.
Date:: [1938 and 1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Golfer Fay Coleman demonstrates a series of "right" and "wrong" golf swings.

Description:: Popular Culver City professional golfer Fay Coleman demonstrates the "right" and "wrong" form of various swings. Coleman, born into a family of golfers, was associated with the Los Angeles Country Club, and had a successful amateur career. In later years, he taught at the country club.
Date:: [between 1935-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Luggage belonging to a passenger of the S.S. Mariposa, Los Angeles

Description:: Luggage belonging to a passenger of the S.S. Mariposa.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Jack "Diamondfield" Davis, a Nevada prospector who struck it rich after being pardoned for murder, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Jack "Diamondfield" Davis, a Nevada prospector who stuck it rich after being pardoned for an Idaho murder in 1902. When he was working for a cattle company, Diamondfield was accused of the murder of two sheepherders. He was sentenced to hang, but his execution date was postponed and then changed to life inprisonment after two other men confessed to the crime. Diamondfield was pardoned by Idaho Governor Frank W. Hunt in December of 1902.
Date:: [1930s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Playwright Mark Linder during his suit against actress Mae West, Los Angeles, 1938-1940

Description:: Playwright Mark Linder who brought a $1,000,000 damages suit against actress Mae West. Linder claimed West didn’t deliver on their agreement to split the profits of his play "Diamond Lil," which West sold to Paramount to be made into the picture "She Done Him Wrong.” West eventually won the suit because there was a lack of evidence corroborating Linder's claims.
Date:: between January 19, 1938 and February 20, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Employees at The May Co. prepare merchandise for downtown Dollar Day, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Employees at The May Co. department store prepare merchandise for downtown Dollar Day. Tom May, executive vice-president of the company predicted this Dollar Day would bring in record-breaking numbers of customers
Date:: February 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Employees at The May Co. prepare merchandise for downtown Dollar Day, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Employees at The May Co. department store prepare merchandise for downtown Dollar Day. Tom May, executive vice-president of the company predicted this Dollar Day would bring in record-breaking numbers of customers
Date:: February 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Employees at The May Co. prepare merchandise for downtown Dollar Day, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Employees at The May Co. department store prepare merchandise for downtown Dollar Day. Tom May, executive vice-president of the company predicted this Dollar Day would bring in record-breaking numbers of customers
Date:: February 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Louis M. Rich and family sit in their empty home after being evicted on Thanksgiving Day, Los Angeles, November 22, 1945

Description:: Louis M. Rich and family, who were evicted on Thanksgiving Day, sit on and stand around a suitcase in their empty house. A man holds a small table in the doorway.
Date:: November 22, 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Louis M. Rich and family sit in their empty home after being evicted on Thanksgiving Day, Los Angeles, November 22, 1945

Description:: Louis M. Rich and family, who were evicted on Thanksgiving Day, sit on a suitcase in their empy home.
Date:: November 22, 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Inside a home in the slums, Los Angeles, 1925-1945

Description:: Inside a home in the Los Angeles slums. There is trash scattered throughout the room, the toilet is leaking, and the walls are in need of repair
Date:: [between 1925 and 1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Clerk recording bets in a casino, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: A clerk taking bets in a casino. Hawthorne, Compton, Monterey Park, and Long Beach closed several gaming places after Attorney General Webb found games of chance unlawful.
Date:: [circa January 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man stands in front of a row of automobiles at a junk yard and sale outside Eureka Iron & Metal Co., Los Angeles

Description:: Man stands in front of a row of automobiles at a junk yard and sale outside Eureka Iron & Metal Co.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Sign detailing policies hanging inside of a casino, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: A sign detailing policies hanging inside of a casino. Hawthorne, Compton, Monterey Park, and Long Beach closed several gaming places after Attorney General Webb found games of chance unlawful.
Date:: [circa January 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Unidentified men wearing business suits in a cooperative warehouse, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Unidentified men in business suits next to sacks and boxes. The setting appears to be a warehouse.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

PWA Project, Los Angeles, circa 1935

Description:: Unknown Public Works Administration (PWA) project with unknown workers. Part of the New Deal, most PWA spending came in 1933-1935 and then again in 1938 before being shut down in 1939.
Date:: [1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Two women sewing at California State Workshop for the Blind, circa 1930

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

Slum sought out during SERA housing study, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: A couple tending to a makeshift stove in a slum. Part of the housing study carried out by the State Emergency Relief Administration. County officials were asked to make a study of housing conditions in their city.
Date:: [circa June 17, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Striking transit union members voting on proposals from company in Los Angeles, Calif., 1950

Date:: June 1, 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Women and children on porch in slums of Los Angeles, circa 1937

Date:: 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Butcher Alex Wright working with Butcher Boy meat cutter during 1946 meat shortage

Date:: June 7, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Police dragging off man as crowd watches during unemployment demonstration led by communists, dubbed "Red Riot" in Los Angeles, Calif., 1930

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

Actress Gloria Swanson and Minnie Barton burn the mortgage to the Bide-A-Wee home for working mothers, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Gloria Swanson, silent film actress, holds the burning mortgage to the Bide-A-Wee home for women while Minnie Barton watches. Swanson helped Minnie Barton, home founder, pay the mortgage by sending $100 a month for several years. A group gathered to burn the mortgage in celebration of completing payment on the home set up by Barton to help working mothers. Also in attendance were Mary Brill, president of the Big Sister League, Superior Judge Georgia Bullock, Mrs. Robert Ladd Gifford, and Chief Davis. Minnie Barton was the second woman to join the Los Angeles Police Department and also founded the Barton Home for girls in 1917. Gloria Swanson was an actress best known for her role as Norma Desmond in the film Sunset Boulevard.
Date:: January 25, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Actress Gloria Swanson and Minnie Barton burn the mortgage to the Bide-A-Wee home for working mothers, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Gloria Swanson, silent film actress, holds the burning mortgage to the Bide-A-Wee home for women while Minnie Barton watches. Swanson helped Minnie Barton, home founder, pay the mortgage by sending $100 a month for several years. A group gathered to burn the mortgage in celebration of completing payment on the home set up by Barton to help working mothers. Also in attendance were Mary Brill, president of the Big Sister League, Superior Judge Georgia Bullock, Mrs. Robert Ladd Gifford, and Chief Davis. Minnie Barton was the second woman to join the Los Angeles Police Department and also founded the Barton Home for girls in 1917. Gloria Swanson was an actress best known for her role as Norma Desmond in the film Sunset Boulevard.
Date:: January 25, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

James J. Boyle, Rex Thomson, Lew Harwood, C.C. Talbot, and Culbert Olson stand in a field used as county food cooperative, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: J.J Boyle, Rex Thomson, Lew Harwood, C.C. Talbot, and Culbert Olson stand in a field that was to be used as a cooperative for the unemployed of Los Angeles county. Possibly included in the picture is Bruce McDaniel, general manager of Mutual Orange Distributers. Thomson served as the Chief Assistant Superintendent of Charities. Olson was the 29th Governor of California from 1939 to 1943.
Date:: 1930/1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Townsend pension plan meeting is held in the Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Supporters of Dr. Francis Townsend's old-age pension plan gather in the Grand Olympic Auditorium.
Date:: [1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

May Co. employee with dollies during the department store's preparation for downtown Dollar Day, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Several dollies in The May Co. warehouse. An employee grabs one to use during the department store's preparation for downtown Dollar Day. Tom May, executive vice-president of the company predicted this Dollar Day would bring in record-breaking numbers of customers
Date:: February 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Employees at The May Co. prepare merchandise for downtown Dollar Day, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Employees at The May Co. department store prepare merchandise for downtown Dollar Day. Tom May, executive vice-president of the company predicted this Dollar Day would bring in record-breaking numbers of customers
Date:: February 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Employees at The May Co. prepare for downtown Dollar Day, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Employees at The May Co. department store prepare for downtown Dollar Day. Tom May, executive vice-president of the company predicted this Dollar Day would bring in record-breaking numbers of customers
Date:: February 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Cuts of meat and prices displayed, Los Angeles, 1930s

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

Harry Hopkins meets with local relief leaders, Los Angeles, October 1, 1935

Description:: Photo taken when Hopkins, then national administrator of the WPA, met with local relief leaders in Los Angeles during a trip with President Roosevelt. Connolly was LA county Public Works Administrator. Young was chairman of the Citizens’ Relief Committee. Hinckley was director of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Pilling was director of LA County Relief Administration. McLaughlin was state director of the WPA.
Date:: October 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Thomas W. Warner Jr. testifies in his suit against Pearl Antibus, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Thomas W. Warner Jr., son of millionaire automobile parts manufacturing magnate Thomas W. Warner Sr., pictured on the stand. Warner Jr. had brought a suit against Pearl Antibus, a private investigator, whom he had hired to determine if his fiancee, Jean MacDonald, loved him for himself or was only interested in his fortune. Antibus investigated by placing a dictaphone in MacDonald's home. The sum total of her services came to $2500, $1500 of which was still owed to her. Warner disputed the amount, which he asserted he had never agreed to, and thus brought suit against Antibus. Superior Judge Stutsman ruled on April 14 that, as Antibus had successfully completed her services and determined that Warner's fiancee did love him, she thus was owed the full amount. He further opined that, after viewing Jean MacDonald on the stand, that "she is well worth that $1500 and more."
Date:: April, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Capt. Robert C. Burdett, skipper of Tony Cornero's newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill or Lux, Los Angeles, 1946

Description:: Captain Robert C. Burdett, skipper of Tony Cornero’s newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill (also known as the Lux), which was meant to operate offshore of Los Angeles. After the Bunker Hill’s opening night, however, Cornero and five of his aides were arrested on felony charges of criminal conspiracy to conduct gambling games and serve alcohol without a license. After his arrest, Cornero announced that he was ready to go to the United States Supreme court to keep the Bunker Hill running. Cornero was also “admiral” of the Rex, another gambling vessel which was forced to suspend operations in 1938.
Date:: August 9, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Woman braids fabric at a cooperative in Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Woman braids fabric at a cooperative located at 21st and Santee St. in Los Angeles. Many self-sustaining communities like this one emerged in California during the 1930s, specifically in the Los Angeles - Orange County area
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

People shopping and selling at a junk sale, Los Angeles

Description:: People shopping and selling at a junk yard and sale
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Detective Lieutenants R.S. Hamilton, E.J. Henry, and E.C. Biffle with suspect Adolfo Campos and a suitcase full of smuggled marijuana, Los Angeles

Description:: Left to right: Detective Lieutenant R.S. Hamilton, Adolfo Campos, Det. Lt. E.J. Henry, and Det. Lt. E.C. Biffle, with a suitcase full of smuggled marijuana. Campos is the suspected smuggler.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

State Relief Administrator Walter Chambers addressing members of the Worker's Alliance, Los Angeles, February 27, 1940

Description:: State Relief Administrator Walter Chambers (center, glasses) addressing a crowd of Worker's Alliance members protesting Chambers’s seemingly arbitrary 40% cut to checks given out to S.R.A. relief workers.
Date:: February 27, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Housing on Ann St.; the subject of a proposed city "slum clearance" ordinance, Los Angeles, February 1940

Description:: Housing on Ann St.; the subject of a proposed city "slum clearance" ordinance, which would demolish 450 units on the street at a cost of about $2,000,000. The ordinance was ultimately opposed by the City Council
Date:: February 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man fighting fires from a Navy Tugboat after the Markay oil tanker explosion in L.A. Harbor, Los Angeles, 1947

Description:: Man fighting fires from a Navy Tugboat in L.A. Harbor. The fires started when the Markay, an oil tanker owned by the Keystone Tankship Corp., exploded in the wee hours of the morning. The fire was fed by leaking gasoline and threatened at least five terminals in the harbor. At least 22 were injured and 9, possibly 12, people were killed. Damage was estimated at $10,000,000.
Date:: June 22, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Craft workers strike against major motion picture studios, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Nearly 2500 craft studio workers went on strike against major motion picture studios, including MGM, Warner Brothers, and Paramount. The strike was issued by Charles Lessing, president of the Federated Motion Picture Crafts, and the American Federation of Labor.
Date:: July 31, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Veterans receiving their bonus payments at a government office, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: American veterans receiving their bonus payments at a government office. Frank T. Hines, administrator of the Veterans' Bureau said 2,700,000 applications for bonus payments had been received nationwide.
Date:: [circa April 15, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

WPA project on La Brea, circa 1936

Description:: Unknown WPA project, possibly on La Brea Blvd in 1936
Date:: [1936?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Dressed in traditional Scandinavian clothing, 14-year-old Anita Roos sells Mayor Bowron the first ticket to the Finnish Relief bazaar, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Dressed in traditional Scandinavian clothing from her native Finland, 14-year-old Anita Roos sells Los Angeles Mayor Fletcher Bowron the first ticket to the Finnish Relief Fund bazaar, held in S.A.E. Auditorium. Looking on are secretary-treasurer of the bazaar committee, Victor Kallio, and acting bazaar chairman, Peter Williams.
Date:: February 6, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Thomas W. Warner, Jr. sits next to private detective Pearl Antibus who was suing his millionaire father for damages that resulted from a raid on her home, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Pearl Antibus can be seen on the other side of the beam. Mrs. Antibus sued Mr. Warner, Sr. after her home was raided by Buron Fitts and several of his deputies at the request of Mr. Warner, Sr. The raid of Mrs. Antibus' home was conducted in order to search for Mr. Warner's son, Thomas W. Warner, Jr. Mr. Warner, Jr. was found hiding inside the home with his girlfriend Mrs. Jean MacDonald. The pair had been hiding in the home from Mr. Warner, Sr. who was opposed to their relationship and was seeking to end all contact between the pair. Mrs. Antibus served as a private detective for Mr. Warner, Jr. and had previously conducted an investigation into the life of Mrs. MacDonald in attempt to determine whether she was truly in love with Mr. Warner, Jr. Mrs. Antibus alleged that the raid left several of her visitors injured and was unnecessarily violent.
Date:: April 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Patrons playing cards in a casino, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Patrons playing cards in a casino. Hawthorne, Compton, Monterey Park, and Long Beach closed several gaming places after Attorney General Webb found games of chance unlawful.
Date:: [circa January 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Casino on Tony Cornero's newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill or Lux, Los Angeles, 1946

Description:: Casino on Tony Cornero’s newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill (also known as the Lux), which was meant to operate offshore of Los Angeles. After the Bunker Hill’s opening night, however, Cornero and five of his aides were arrested on felony charges of criminal conspiracy to conduct gambling games and serve alcohol without a license. After his arrest, Cornero announced that he was ready to go to the United States Supreme court to keep the Bunker Hill running. Cornero was also “admiral” of the Rex, another gambling vessel which was forced to suspend operations in 1938.
Date:: August 9, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Tony Cornero's newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill or Lux, anchored offshore of Los Angeles, 1946

Description:: Tony Cornero’s newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill (also known as the Lux), which was meant to operate offshore of Los Angeles. After the Bunker Hill’s opening night, however, Cornero and five of his aides were arrested on felony charges of criminal conspiracy to conduct gambling games and serve alcohol without a license. After his arrest, Cornero announced that he was ready to go to the United States Supreme court to keep the Bunker Hill running. Cornero was also “admiral” of the Rex, another gambling vessel which was forced to suspend operations in 1938.
Date:: August 9, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd shops at department store during Dollar Day sale, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Crowd shops at department store during Dollar Day sale. Sales totaled $15,000,000 and included over 100 downtown stores.
Date:: September 07, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Women looking through a pile of rayon print dresses during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles, February 17, 1940

Description:: Women looking through a pile of rayon print dresses, priced at $1.69, during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles. Stores hired extra salespersons and the city arranged for extra streetcars and policemen to accommodate the more than 200,000 bargain-hunters who came out for the sale
Date:: February 17, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

View from below of the damage done to a marine terminal after the Markay oil tanker exploded in L.A. Harbor, Los Angeles, 1947

Description:: View from below of damage to a L.A. Harbor terminal after the Markay, an oil tanker owned by the Keystone Tankship Corp., exploded in the wee hours of the morning. The fire was fed by leaking gasoline and threatened at least five terminals in the harbor. At least 22 were injured and 9, possibly 12, people were killed. Damage was estimated at $10,000,000.
Date:: June 22, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Wartime housing in Little Tokyo's Bronzeville, Los Angeles, 1943

Description:: Little Tokyo in Los Angeles was dubbed "Bronzeville" during World War Two, as African American families and workers moved into the empty homes and businesses of the relocated Japanese American community.
Date:: 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Los Angeles slums in the Great Depression

Description:: A mother holds her toddler son in the small kitchen of their apartment home, in an unidentified Los Angeles neigborhood slum.
Date:: circa 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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