Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives / Subject: Business - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Old Chinatown billboard, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: A billboard announces the revival of Old Chinatown in Los Angeles, California.
Date:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Los Angeles merchant Sam Grossberg updating liquor stamps on bottles for increased tax in 1940

Date:: July 1, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Five construction workers with water hose at Hansen Dam site, Calif., circa 1940

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

Two women packaging butter at State Relief Administration cooperative in Los Angeles, circa 1940

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

Job seekers waiting outside Chrysler plant in Los Angeles, Calif., 1954

Date:: 1954
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Lettuce packing plant, the subject of a worker's strike, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: A lettuce packing plant. A thousand lettuce workers assembled to strike in hopes of increased pay and were dispersed by police.
Date:: [circa January 9, 1934]
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

Elias Mushro adjusting price signage at National Auto Park lot, 1621 N. Hudson Avenue in Hollywood, Calif., 1949

Date:: May 11, 1949
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

Construction inside Commercial Exchange Building, Downtown Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Inside the Commercial Exchange Building. Most likely related to 1935 construction that removed a 10-foot section in the middle of the building. Building was owned by the Kress House Moving Company and the work was done by architects and engineers Walker & Eisen. Building at 416 W. 8th St (corner Olive Streets), Downtown Los Angeles.
Date:: 1935
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

Firemen battling fire at Shell Oil distribution center at 2015 Long Beach Ave in Los Angeles, Calif., 1953

Date:: March 27, 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Woman wigmaker at Max Factor in Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1954

Date:: 1954
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Women employed by SERA work with a wheelbarrow, Los Angeles, circa 1934

Description:: Women employed by State Emergency Relief Administration (SERA) repair a wheelbarrow. 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

Large used car lot, 1930s.

Date:: 1930-1940?
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man involved in the mediation efftorts to avert a strike of Pacific Electric Railway workers, 1937

Description:: The man in the photograph is probably an official involved in the mediation efftorts to avert a strike of Pacific Electric Railway workers
Date:: [August-November, 1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Line of people outside a Chinatown restaurant, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Line of people wait to enter a Chinatown restaurant.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Row of businesses including a liquor store, a cafe, the LA I.D.A. and the Sea Pride Packing Company at night, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Row of businesses including a liquor store, a cafe, the LA I.D.A. (Industrial Development Authority?) and the Sea Pride Packing Company at night. Picture is lit by the storefront signs.
Date:: [1930s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Illuminated star-shaped sign that says "LONE STAR" on the front of the Sea Pride Packing Company, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Illuminated star-shaped sign that says "LONE STAR," photographed at night. The sign is on the front of the Sea Pride Packing Company.
Date:: [1930s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Rural boom town [?], California

Description:: Rural boomtown town [?] with fenced land, scattered buildings and one building under construction, with mountains in the distance
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Police and strikers during the Conference of Studio Unions strike against all Hollywood studios, Los Angeles, October 19, 1945

Description:: Police and strikers during the Conference of Studio Unions 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:: October 19, 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Men at work at the Los Angeles Studebaker assembly plant in Vernon, CA. Circa January 2, 1936.

Description:: Men work on completing an automobile at the Los Angeles Studebaker assembly plant in Vernon, CA. The plant opened in December of 1935, and the first completed automobile rolled off the line on January 2, 1936. The plant operated until June 8, 1954.
Date:: [circa January 2, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Line of Studebaker radiator grilles, affixed with hood ornaments, at Studebaker's Los Angeles assembly plant. circa January 2, 1936.

Description:: A line of radiator grilles, affixed with Studebaker's distinctive "lark in circle" hood ornament, at Studebaker's Los Angeles assembly plant in Vernon, Ca. Studebaker's Los Angeles plant was established in December of 1935, and its first completed car rolled off the assembly line on January 2, 1936. The plant closed on June 8, 1956.
Date:: [circa January 2, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Strikers sit at a table and organize during Douglas Aircraft Corporation strike, Santa Monica, 1937

Description:: Strikers sit at a table and organize during Douglas Aircraft Corporation strike.
Date:: February 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Police officer addresses a crowd of strikers during Douglas Aircraft Corporation strike, Santa Monica, 1937

Description:: Police officer addresses a crowd of strikers during Douglas Aircraft Corporation strike.
Date:: February 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Police officers pictured with strikers during Douglas Aircraft Corporation strike, Santa Monica, 1940

Description:: Police officers pictured with strikers during Douglas Aircraft Corporation strike.
Date:: February 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Steel workers at the Columbia Steel Company's plant, Torrance

Description:: Steel workers at the Columbia Steel Company's plant in Torrance.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Machinery in a Columbia Steel Company plant, Torrance

Description:: Metallurgical machinery in the Columbia Steel Company's plant in Torrance.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Machinery in a Columbia Steel Company plant, Torrance

Description:: Metallurgical machinery in the Columbia Steel Company's plant in Torrance.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Ruins of a fire that occurred at Dura Steel Products Co., Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Ruins of a fire that occurred at Dura Steel Products Co. An electrical short circuit ignited 20 barrels of highly flammable paint thinner. The fire destroyed the plant and left approximately 100 employees without a job.
Date:: February 22, 1940
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

Production line of lettuce parkers in warehouse, Calexico, Calif., circa 1948

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

Kelley Kar Company dealership, sign on side of building reads "Attention! Veterans use your bond to buy a car" in Los Angeles, Calif., 1947

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

Picket with sign reading "I am a writer blacklisted by the Un-American Committee" outside committee hearing in Los Angeles, Calif., 1952

Date:: October 1, 1952
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Ribbon cutting for opening of Sears, Roebuck & Co. store in San Fernando Valley, Calif., 1951

Date:: September 13, 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Clyde Beatty Circus workers, Ruth Harvey, Marcia Larkin, Mel Rennick and Lita Griggs outside costume trailer, Los Angeles, Calif., 1950

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

F-86 Sabre jets being assembled at North American Aviation in Los Angeles, Calif., 1948

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

Construction workers at a Kaiser Homes housing tract in Los Angeles, Calif., 1947

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

Workers constructing prefabricated house made by Hamill and Jones Lumber Company in Los Angeles, Calif., 1946

Date:: October 24, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoster, Don
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Used car salesmen, Joe Velasquez, E. E. Clifford and Clyde K. Byfield in Los Angeles, Calif., 1946

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

Crowd surrounding 4-H club members milking cow in Pershing Square during California Milk Ship campaign, Los Angeles, Calif., 1948

Date:: January 16, 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Group of primarily women waiting to take civil service exam in Los Angeles, Calif., 1948

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

Customers at meat counter of Los Angeles' Grand Central Market in 1946

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

Smiling Irishman used car dealership in Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1946

Date:: circa 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Scene from a nightclub before the patrons arrive, Hollywood, circa 1937

Description:: Scene from a Hollywood nightclub before the patrons arrive. One man smiles at the camera while another prepares the tables and a pianist and singer rehearse in the background.
Date:: [1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Steel worker at the Columbia Steel Company's plant, Torrance

Description:: Steel worker at the Columbia Steel Company's plant in Torrance.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Steel worker at the Columbia Steel Company's plant, Torrance

Description:: Steel worker at the Columbia Steel Company's plant in Torrance.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Steel worker at the Columbia Steel Company's plant, Torrance

Description:: Steel worker at the Columbia Steel Company's plant in Torrance.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Machinery in a Columbia Steel Company plant, Torrance

Description:: Metallurgical machinery in the Columbia Steel Company's plant in Torrance.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Sailors back to work on a ship after the end of a 98-day coast maritime strike, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Sailors back to work on the ship after the end of a 98-day coast maritime strike which included longshoremen, cooks and stewards, firemen and sailors
Date:: February 5, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man sleeping at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant where workers participated in a sit-down strike, Santa Monica, 1937

Description:: Man sleeping at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant where workers participated in a sit-down strike. The strike began when the plant allegedly began to lay off workers who were members of the Committee for Industrial Organization. A bitter struggle ensued between union labor leaders whether or not to support the strike.
Date:: circa February 25, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Men marching at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant where workers participated in a sit-down strike, Santa Monica, 1937

Description:: Men marching in protest with signs at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant where workers participated in a sit-down strike. A bitter struggle ensued between union labor leaders whether or not to support the strike.
Date:: [circa February 25, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Staircase at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant, the location of a sit-down strike, Santa Monica, 1937

Description:: A staircase at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant where workers participated in a sit-down strike. A bitter struggle ensued between union labor leaders whether or not to support the strike.
Date:: [circa February 25, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Men marching at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant where workers participated in a sit-down strike, Santa Monica, 1937

Description:: Men marching in protest with signs at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant where workers participated in a sit-down strike. A bitter struggle ensued between union labor leaders whether or not to support the strike.
Date:: [circa February 25, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant, the location of a sit-down strike, Santa Monica, 1937

Description:: The Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant where workers participated in a sit-down strike. A bitter struggle ensued between union labor leaders whether or not to support the strike.
Date:: [circa February 25, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant, the location of a sit-down strike, Santa Monica, 1937

Description:: The Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant where workers participated in a sit-down strike. A bitter struggle ensued between union labor leaders whether or not to support the strike.
Date:: [circa February 25, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

View of street shops during the post-war Labor Day parade, Los Angeles, 1946

Description:: View of the street during the post-war Labor Day parade. A movie theater is visible. 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

Los Angeles Country Relief Administration workers strike due to salary cuts, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Los Angeles Country Relief Administration workers strike due to salary cuts. The strike signs demand a 25% increase in budgets and support the unionization of workers.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Machinery in a Columbia Steel Company plant, Torrance

Description:: Metallurgical machinery in the Columbia Steel Company's plant in Torrance.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Signs on Riverside Drive which was affected by a landslide in Elysian Park, Los Angeles, November 1937

Description:: Signs on Riverside Drive which was affected by a landslide in Elysian Park. The landslide dumped 1,500,000 tons of loose dirt and rock onto a 600 foot stretch of Riverside Drive.
Date:: November 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Ruth Jackson, director at The Kern Ridge Oil Company, with a group of unidentified men, Los Angeles, 1941

Description:: Ruth Jackson with a group of unidentified men. This is most likely the same Ruth Jackson who was on the board of directors for the Kern Ridge Oil Company
Date:: [1941]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd outside Forbidden Palace restaurant in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Crowd stands outside of Forbidden Palace, a restaurant serving Chinese dishes and cocktails, in Chinatown.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Interior of a Chinatown shop, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Woman visits a shop in Chinatown.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Employee works on a ceramic toilet tank at the Universal Vitreous China Factory, Mentone, circa 1948

Description:: Employee works on a ceramic toilet tank at the Universal Vitreous China Factory of the Universal-Rundle Corporation (9477 North Opal Avenue).
Date:: [circa 1948]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Employee sprays a new ceramic sink with a hose at the Universal Vitreous China Factory, Mentone, circa 1948

Description:: Employee hoses down a new ceramic sink at the Universal Vitreous China Factory of the Universal-Rundle Corporation (9477 North Opal Ave.).
Date:: [circa 1948]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Albert Smith, Jerry Ramlow, and Barney Bernard with gambling equipment confiscated during a police raid on 1019 N. Doheny Rd., Los Angeles, January 1938

Description:: Albert Smith, Jerry Ramlow, and Barney Bernard with equipment confiscated from a police raid on the residence at 1019 North Doheny Road on the night of January 4, 1938. The house was apparently operating as a casino for two weeks before tuxedo-clad policemen infiltrated the party and confiscated gambling equipment, $1755 in cash, and arrested seven men. Almost a hundred others, including high profile film actors and producers, were found at the residence.
Date:: January 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Unidentified man speaks on stage during a meeting of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Los Angeles

Description:: Unidentified man speaks on stage during a meeting of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Firefighters walk through the ruins of a fire that occurred at Dura Steel Products Co., Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Firefighters walk through the ruins of a fire that occurred at Dura Steel Products Co. An electrical short circuit ignited 20 barrels of highly flammable paint thinner. The fire destroyed the plant and left approximately 100 employees without a job.
Date:: February 22, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Men at work completing an automobile at the Los Angeles Studebaker assembly plant in Vernon, CA. Circa January 2, 1936.

Description:: Men at work on completing an automobile at the Los Angeles Studebaker assembly plant in Vernon, CA. The plant opened in December of 1935, and the first completed automobile rolled off the line on January 2, 1936. The plant operated until June 8, 1954.
Date:: [circa January 2, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Cafe operator Agnes O'Brien on the witness stand during the liquor license bribe trial, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Cafe operator Agnes O'Brien who was a witness at the liquor license bribe trial. O'Brien testified that she had paid money to the Board of Equalization in the hopes of having her liquor license reinstated, but never received the reinstated license. Defendants in the bribe trial included several high-ranking officials such as state board of equalization member William G. Bonelli and chief liquor control officer Merle Templeton.
Date:: March 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Cafe operator Agnes O'Brien on the witness stand during the liquor license bribe trial, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Cafe operator Agnes O'Brien who was a witness at the liquor license bribe trial. O'Brien testified that she had paid money to the Board of Equalization in the hopes of having her liquor license reinstated, but never received the reinstated license. Defendants in the bribe trial included several high-ranking officials such as state board of equalization member William G. Bonelli and chief liquor control officer Merle Templeton.
Date:: March 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man sleeping at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant where workers participated in a sit-down strike, Santa Monica, 1937

Description:: Man sleeping at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant where workers participated in a sit-down strike. A bitter struggle ensued between union labor leaders whether or not to support the strike.
Date:: [circa February 25, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Unloading oranges at Damarel-Allison plant in Covina, Calif., circa 1949

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

Unidentified man at store counter, surrounded by items crafted by inmates of San Quentin Prison's industrial program, Calif., circa 1948

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

Group of young women sewing at National Youth Administration's Macy Street school, Los Angeles, circa 1938

Date:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Line people waiting outside aircraft industry employment office in Los Angeles, 1950

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

Crowded department store during Los Angeles Dollar Day, 1936

Date:: September 13, 1936
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

Three cooperative supporters pictured with cows, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: J.J Boyle, Rex Thomson, Lew Harwood, C.C. Talbot, and Culbert Olson visited a cooperative. Three of the men stand with cows on 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

Interior of Kaiser Steel Mill in Fontana, Calif., circa 1949

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

Annual meeting of the California AFL, 1945.

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

Drive-in restaurant sign, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: A drive-in restaurant's sign in Los Angeles.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Drive-in restaurant, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: A drive-in restaurant in Los Angeles.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Drive-in restaurant, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: A drive-in restaurant in Los Angeles.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Drive-in restaurant, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: A drive-in restaurant in Los Angeles.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson with her nurse Ella Nordin and her business manager Giles Knight in her attorney's office, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson with her former nurse Ella Nordin and her business manager Giles Knight in the office of attorney Arndt. McPherson's former attorney Jacob Moidel had pressed a suit against her accusing her of illegally discharging him, which she contended with accusations that Moidel had attempted to force her to resign from her position at her church. Nordin and Knight were to give testimony about threatening messages received from Moidel.
Date:: [circa October 30, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Birthday/retirement party for William L. Brashear thrown by his co-workers at the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, Los Angeles, circa 1940

Description:: William L. Brashear receiving a gift from M. A. Nugent at his birthday/retirement party from the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. I. A. Cain squats to the left holding a birthday cake and a large crowd of railroad employees is gathered around the lounge chair Brashear is seated in.
Date:: [1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Steel workers at the Columbia Steel Company's plant, Torrance

Description:: Steel worker at the Columbia Steel Company's plant in Torrance.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Steel worker at the Columbia Steel Company's plant, Torrance

Description:: Steel worker at the Columbia Steel Company's plant in Torrance.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Machinery in a Columbia Steel Company plant, Torrance

Description:: Metallurgical machinery in the Columbia Steel Company's plant in Torrance.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Machinery in a Columbia Steel Company plant, Torrance

Description:: Metallurgical machinery in the Columbia Steel Company's plant in Torrance.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mae West in court during questioning about earnings from her role in the movie "She Done Him Wrong," Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Mae West (August 17, 1893–November 22, 1980) in court during questioning about profits earned from her role in the movie "She Done Him Wrong." Writer Mark Linden accused West of failing to provide half of the profits she earned from selling his play to Paramount in order to produce the film. The judge ruled that West did not owe the writer any of the additional money she received as salary for her role as an actress. West was an American actress, playwright, and screenwriter.
Date:: February 20, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man sleeping at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant where workers participated in a sit-down strike, Santa Monica, 1937

Description:: Man sleeping at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant where workers participated in a sit-down strike. A bitter struggle ensued between union labor leaders whether or not to support the strike.
Date:: [circa February 25, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man sleeping at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant where workers participated in a sit-down strike, Santa Monica, 1937

Description:: Man sleeping at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant where workers participated in a sit-down strike. A bitter struggle ensued between union labor leaders whether or not to support the strike.
Date:: [circa February 25, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Machinery in a Columbia Steel Company plant, Torrance

Description:: Metallurgical machinery in the Columbia Steel Company's plant in Torrance.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man keeps track of sales at Port Hueneme's surplus sale, Port Hueneme, May 1946

Description:: Man keeps track of sales at Port Hueneme's truck and trailer surplus sale for veterans. The sale included 5499 vehicles valued at about $14,000,000 total.
Date:: between May 20 and May 26, 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

Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant, the location of a sit-down strike, Santa Monica, 1937

Description:: A Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant where workers participated in a sit-down strike. A bitter struggle ensued between union labor leaders whether or not to support the strike.
Date:: [circa February 25, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Waitress serves a customer at a drive-in restaurant, Los Angeles

Description:: Waitress serves a customer at a drive-in restaurant. The restaurant has fountain service and several types of sandwiches advertised outside
Date:: [between 1925 and 1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man sleeping at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant where workers participated in a sit-down strike, Santa Monica, 1937

Description:: Man sleeping at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant where workers participated in a sit-down strike. A bitter struggle ensued between union labor leaders whether or not to support the strike.
Date:: [circa February 25, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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