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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

Description:: American Federation of Labor's Conference of Studio Unions members during their strike against all Hollywood studios. The CSU strike began in March 1945 and was around the six month mark when it turned violent on October 5, 1945, known as Hollywood Black Friday. National exposure of this violence forced negotiations between studios and the CSU. Negotiation ended the strike about a month later, but CSU didn't last much longer and was eventually disbanded and absorbed by rival union IATSE.
Date:: 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mrs. Rosita Yacopi and three young children sitting on a bale of hay and writing under a tent at the Shrine Charity Circus. The circus is an annual 10-day event held at Shrine Auditorium, which features an indoor show by the Polack Bros. Circus. Orphaned and underprivileged children are allowed to visit the circus as their admission is paid by affluent members of the community. The circus also travels to the children's hospital to entertain the sick children who can't attend. Proceeds from the circus go to Shrine charitable activities.
Date:: between June 8 and June 18, 1946
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:: Photographed left to right are J. Edward Bromberg, Lupe Leyvas, and Dooley Wilson.
Date:: ca. 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: 2-part float decorated as pagoda and elephant, with students in Javanese costume on and alongside, on coliseum track, with audience in background
Date:: June 5, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, June 3, 1929, Hundred in “Laugh Army,” Huge Clown Troupe to Feature Shrine Circus; Sixty-five-Act Bill Announced
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Float decorated as sailing ship San Carlos, with sails and waves, with about five students in padre and Spanish military costumes riding, on coliseum track with audience in background
Date:: June 5, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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