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Description:: F.W. Fetherston from Corvallis, Oregon points to an area of rust on a truck for sale at the War Assets Administration's surplus truck and trailer sale at Port Hueneme. The sale was open to veterans only and 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

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

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

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

Description:: Turkeys to be exhibited in a competition for $5,100 at the seventh Turkey Show and Congress. The turkeys were raised for Thanksgiving in the Western states and exhibited during the four-day event. The event included nationally known authorities on turkey diseases, breeding, and marketing.
Date:: November 5, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Douglas Aircraft Corporation workers on strike put ballots into box.
Date:: February 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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

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

Description:: A child plays in the backyard alley of her home at 477 Temple Street, as the buildings of downtown Los Angeles loom in the background.
Date:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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