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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

Lois Cantrell Thorpe, board member of the Women's International Association of Aeronautics, Los Angeles, circa 1940

Description:: Lois Cantrell Thorpe, board member of the Women's International Association of Aeronautics
Date:: [circa 1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Children unloading from Eastside Jewish Community Center bus in Los Angeles, Calif., 1952

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

Tea party at Jewish Home for the Aging in Los Angeles, Calif., 1953

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

Boys with luggage at Jewish Boys Camp, Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1953

Date:: circa 1953
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mrs. T. B. Chew Jr. and Mrs. Joe Ling modeling traditional Chinese clothing at Chinese American fashion show, Calif., 1950

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

Susan B. Anthony Club members having picture taken in front of Freedom Train in Los Angeles, circa 1948

Date:: circa 1948
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

Four Native American men and merchant standing beside two saddles in a Los Angeles, Calif. store, circa 1942

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

Mrs. Robert Lee dressed in traditional Chinese clothing for Chinese American fashion show, 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

Nile Shrine members lounging on the grass, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Members of the Nile Shrine philanthropist group lounging on the grass with young recruits. The members are recognized by their traditional fez hats.
Date:: [circa January 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mrs. Albert Sydney Brown, prominent clubwoman, Los Angeles 1930s and 40s

Description:: Mrs. Albert Sydney Brown, one time auditor for the Los Angeles District Federation of Women's Clubs and president of the Maecenas Club, posing in a rocking chair
Date:: [1930s and 1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Nile Shrine member folding flyers on the street, 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

Nile Shrine members lounging on the grass, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Members of the Nile Shrine philanthropist group lounging on the grass with young boys. The members are recognized by their traditional fez hats.
Date:: [circa January 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Group of eleven members of the Japanese YMCA holding meeting in Los Angeles, Calif. , circa 1941

Date:: 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man sitting in doorway of concrete, triangle shaped bomb shelter in Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1941

Date:: 1941
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

Audience of women applying makeup at lecture by beautician Manka Rubenstein in Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1950

Date:: circa 1950
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

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. Pearl Lathrop, Marie Gore, and Emma Wolfegang, 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

Las Damas Pan Americanas club members in evening clothes, seated at table in Los Angeles, Calif., 1948

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

Mrs. A. Julliard Hall, Mrs. Oscar C. Wilcox, Mrs. Priestly A. Horton, and Mrs. Glynn C. Ellsworth, Los Angeles, circa 1940

Description:: Mrs. A. Julliard Hall, Mrs. Oscar C. Wilcox, Mrs. Priestly A. Horton, and Mrs. Glynn C. Ellsworth standing around a small table in an otherwise empty room. Mrs. Hall is recording secretary for the Wilshire Woman's Club. Mrs. Horton and Mrs. Ellsworth are members of the Ebell Club.
Date:: [1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Pile of junk between two buildings in the slums, Los Angeles, 1925-1945

Description:: Pile of junk, including broken chairs, wire, boards, and pails, between two buildings in the Los Angeles slums
Date:: [between 1925 and 1945?]
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

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

Korean American man wearing button stating "Korea for victory with U.S." in 1941, Los Angeles, Calif.

Date:: 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Jail cell filled with sleeping men arrested for drunkenness on Christmas Day in Los Angeles, Calif., 1950

Date:: December 26, 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

Open-air library in Pershing Square, downtown Los Angeles. Circa 1937.

Description:: A man surveys the newspapers available for reading at an open-air public library in Pershing Square, downtown Los Angeles. The Pershing Square outdoor library was opened in December of 1936, and was staffed by W.P.A. workers. Visitors to the library could choose to borrow a book by simply leaving their name. The library was quite popular, circulating 24,000 books in its first six months of operation, and spawning other outdoor libraries in Los Angeles.
Date:: [circa 1937]
1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd waiting to enter Shrine Auditorium for a performance of Tristan and Isolde on opening night of the opera, Los Angeles, November 15, 1937

Description:: Crowd waiting to enter Shrine Auditorium for a San Francisco Opera Association performance of Tristan and Isolde (Tristan und Isolde) on opening night of the Opera. Star of the show was Kirsten Flagstad, the Norwegian soprano, accompanied by the San Francisco Opera Orchestra
Date:: November 15, 1937
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

Moon festival lantern parade in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: Chinese American children carry lanterns in a Moon Festival lantern parade in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
Date:: 1954
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Nisei festival queen dines 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

Street scene in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, 1941

Description:: Little Tokyo street corner on the day of the Japanese attacks on Pearl Habor in Hawaii.
Date:: December 7, 1941
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

Dancing the jitterbug

Description:: An African American couple dance the jitterbug in front of a crowd.
Date:: ca. 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives