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

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

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

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:: Los Angeles Mayor John C. Porter bids farewell to group in 19th century costumes departing Los Angeles in a stagecoach for the 2-day journey to the Old Spanish Days Fiesta in Santa Barbara, where they were to participate in the parade and deliver an invitation to the Los Angeles World Congress of Rough Riders and Rodeo. The group includes: (front, L to R) Hilton McCabe, Francis Josef Hickson (stage actor), Marion Parks (California history advocate), John C. Porter, Thomas Workman Temple (early California family member), (in coach, L to R) Miss Irene Tillinghast (of the Los Angeles Museum of History and Science), Orpha Klinker (California artist), (on top) Jose Arias, left, and his celebrated Mexican orchestra (Jose Arias Troubadours) holding guitars and possibly a mandolin, with driver Buster Trow (silent Westerns actor). "U.S. Mail" and "Louisville and..." are painted on the stagecoach.
Date:: August 16, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The same man in the same lion's head is seen in image ark no. 21198/zz002d9cxc
Date:: [circa 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Chinese lion on a street in Chinatown with spectators on the sidewalk. A sign on a commercial building reads: "The Asiatic Costume Co., Chinese Wardrobe & Props, Sold & Rented."
Date:: [circa 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Eight pallbearers carrying coffin of Moses H. Sherman along front walk of First Congregational Church, with crowd of mourners at left and right
Date:: September 12, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Dancing Chinese lion during festival in Chinatown on unpaved street with spectators on the sidewalk. The man supporting the front holds the lion's head high above his own head and is smiling. There is allot of dust or smoke in the foreground. A sign on a commercial building reads: "Eastern Grocery Co."
Date:: [circa 1920-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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