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Ballet dancers on stage in the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo performance of "Ghost Town," Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Ballet dancers on stage in the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo performance of "Ghost Town." The ballet was choreographed by American dancer Marc Platoff and performed at the Philharmonic Auditorium.
Date:: February 09, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Ballet dancers on stage in the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo performance of "Ghost Town," Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Ballet dancers on stage in the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo performance of "Ghost Town." The ballet was choreographed by American dancer Marc Platoff and performed at the Philharmonic Auditorium.
Date:: February 09, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Behind the scenes at 1939 Union Station Pageant people dressed as Native American Indians holding up men in business office

Date:: 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Betty Redd, O.E. Hanson, and Howard Blez in costume for Anaheim's annual Halloween festival, Anaheim, October 31, 1946

Description:: (left to right) Betty Redd, O.E. Hanson, and Howard Blez around a desk in an office and in costume for Anaheim's annual Halloween festival
Date:: [October 31, 1946]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Betty Redd, O.E. Hanson, and Howard Blez in costume for Anaheim's annual Halloween festival, Anaheim, October 31, 1946

Description:: (left to right) Betty Redd, O.E. Hanson, and Howard Blez around a desk in an office and in costume for Anaheim's annual Halloween festival
Date:: [October 31, 1946]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Bob Hope performing for servicemen at the Hollywood Guild and Canteen in 1945

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

Bodybuilder Abbey Stockton lifting barbell as crowd looks on at Muscle Beach in Santa Monica, Calif.

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

Boys gathered around piano and pianist, taking part in a free summer camp organized by Los Angeles Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz. Circa July 1937.

Description:: Boys from financially disadvantaged backgrounds participate in a free summer camp in Griffith Park. The camp, which was organized by Sheriff Biscailuz, lasted hosted groups of 100 boys for 10 days at a time. While at camp, the boys participated in activities such as swimming, fencing, baseball, various hobbies, and a nonsectarian religious program. The camp operated from July 6th to September 4th, 1937.
Date:: [circa July 6, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Boys playing in marbles tournament, one with sign reading "No Cameras Please," 1950

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

"Bride of the Sea" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1934

Description:: The "Bride of the Sea" float representing a beautiful young maiden riding beneath a floral canopy. The Pasadena Memorial Flagpole (Goodhue Flagpole) is visible behind the float in its original location in the middle of the intersection of Orange Grove and Colorado Boulevard. The float was entered by the city of Santa Monica.
Date:: January 1, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

British film producer Alexander Korda with United Artists founders Samuel Goldwyn, Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin and also Robert Fairbanks, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Great Britain's foremost film producer Alexander Korda during a week long visit to America for meetings with Samuel Goldwyn, Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin of United Artists. Also pictured is Robert Fairbanks, brother of Douglas.
Date:: September 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

British nobles Lord and Lady Louis Mountbatten with their daughter Patricia and southern California host, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Los Angeles, October, 1941

Description:: (Left to right) Cousin of King George VI and Captain of the Royal Navy, Lord Louis Mountbatten, his wife Lady Edwina Mountbatten, their daughter Patricia Mountbatten, and actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. during the Mountbatten's week long visit to Southern California. Mr. and Mrs. Fairbanks hosted the Mountbattens for their stay, during which they relaxed, saw the city, and toured the Walt Disney Studio.
Date:: between October 1 and October 9, 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Bugle player on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season, Arcadia, December 25, 1937

Description:: Bugle player on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season. On this day, over 50,000 spectators wagered a total of $789,159 on the eight races held, toppling the previous records of 40,000 people and $599,009 wagered. Big winners of the day were horse He Did, who won the feature race by more than a length and Bing Crosby's horse High Strike, who won his sixth straight race.
Date:: December 25, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Burlesque dancer Betty Rowland on stage performing before male audience, circa 1946

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

Cameramen and soundmen filming Mary Pickford and Charles Buddy Rogers on ranch in California, 1936

Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Capt. Leopold McLagle, American Jiu-Jitsu instructor and actor, in court, November 18, 1937

Description:: Capt. Leopold McLaglen, self-styled Jiu-Jitsu champion of the world, appears in court over charges that he attempted to blackmail and extort his former employer, millionaire Philip M. Chancellor. McLaglen was accused of threatening to implicate Chancellor in a robbery, unless Chancellor paid McLaglen $20,000. McLaglen is accompanied in court by his lawyer, Harry F. Sewell, at left. November 18, 1937.
Date:: November 18, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Capt. Leopold McLagle, American Jiu-Jitsu instructor and actor, in court, November 18, 1937

Description:: Capt. Leopold McLaglen, self-styled Jiu-Jitsu champion of the world, appears in court over charges that he attempted to blackmail and extort his former employer, millionaire Philip M. Chancellor. McLaglen was accused of threatening to implicate Chancellor in a robbery, unless Chancellor paid McLaglen $20,000. McLaglen is accompanied in court by his lawyer, Harry F. Sewell, at left. November 18, 1937.
Date:: November 18, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Capt. Leopold McLagle, American Jiu-Jitsu instructor and actor, in court, November 18, 1937

Description:: Capt. Leopold McLaglen, self-styled Jiu-Jitsu champion of the world, appears in court over charges that he attempted to blackmail and extort his former employer, millionaire Philip M. Chancellor. McLaglen was accused of threatening to implicate Chancellor in a robbery, unless Chancellor paid McLaglen $20,000. McLaglen is accompanied in court by his lawyer, Harry F. Sewell, at left. November 18, 1937.
Date:: November 18, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Card game being played at a casino, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: A card game being played in a casino. Hawthorne, Compton, Monterey Park, and Long Beach closed several gaming places after Attorney General Webb found games of chance unlawful.
Date:: [circa January 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Card game being played at a casino, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: A card game being played in a casino. Hawthorne, Compton, Monterey Park, and Long Beach closed several gaming places after Attorney General Webb found games of chance unlawful.
Date:: [circa January 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Card game being played at a casino, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: A card game being played in a casino. Hawthorne, Compton, Monterey Park, and Long Beach closed several gaming places after Attorney General Webb found games of chance unlawful.
Date:: [circa January 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Card game being played at a casino, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: A card game being played in a casino. Hawthorne, Compton, Monterey Park, and Long Beach closed several gaming places after Attorney General Webb found games of chance unlawful.
Date:: [circa January 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Card game being played at a casino, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: A card game being played in a casino. Hawthorne, Compton, Monterey Park, and Long Beach closed several gaming places after Attorney General Webb found games of chance unlawful.
Date:: [circa January 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Carey McWilliams seated in chair, Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1941

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

Casino on Tony Cornero's newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill or Lux, Los Angeles, 1946

Description:: Casino on 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

Charles Caudle using puppets and props for lecture on the do's and don'ts during an atomic bomb attack in Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1951

Date:: circa 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Charlie Chan, fortune teller, in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Charlie Chan, self-proclaimed fortune teller, speaks to a crowd in Chinatown.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Charlie Chan, fortune teller, speaks to customers in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Charlie Chan, self-proclaimed fortune teller, speaks to a crowd in Chinatown.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Charlie Chaplin standing in Los Angeles courtroom during 1945 paternity trial

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

Charlotte Lander and two other models prepare for a fashion show in their dressing room, Los Angeles, September 1946

Description:: UCLA student Charlotte Lander and two other models prepare for a fashion show in their dressing room. The show featured swim suit and restort-wear designs by local designers including Mary Ann De Weese, Margit Fellegi, and Lynn Lester
Date:: September 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Chess set on a table in the house of actor John Gilbert, Beverly Hills, 1936

Description:: Chess set on a table in the Beverly Hills house of actor John Gilbert, probably shortly after his death in 1936. The house was located at 1400 Tower Grove Road.
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Chico and Groucho Marx standing at ticket windows during filming of scene for "A Day at the Races", Los Angeles, 1937

Date:: 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Chief Davis hands actress Gloria Swason the paid mortgage to the Bide-a-Wee home founded by Minnie Barton, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Chief James Edgar Davis hands Gloria Swanson, silent film actress, the mortgage to the Bide-A-Wee home for women. Swanson helped Minnie Barton, home founder, pay the mortgage by sending $100 a month for several years. The group gathered to burn the mortgage in celebration of completing payment on the home set up by Barton to help working mothers. Also pictured are Mary Brill, president of the Big Sister League, Superior Judge Georgia Bullock, and Mrs. Robert Ladd Gifford. Minnie Barton was the second woman to join the Los Angeles Police Department and also founded the Barton Home for girls in 1917. Gloria Swanson was an actress best known for her role as Norma Desmond in the film Sunset Boulevard.James E. Davis James Edgar Davis was Los Angeles Chief of Police from 1926–1931 and from 1933-1939.
Date:: January 25, 1935
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

Children play in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Children play in Chinatown.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Children play on a street in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Children play on a street in Chinatown.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Choreographer and film director Busby Berkeley being carried into his manslaughter trial on a stretcher in Los Angeles, Calif., 1935

Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Choreographer Busby Berkeley attending court to face murder charges, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Famed director and choreographer Busby Berkeley attending court to face three murder charges after he caused a car accident that resulted in fatalities after leaving a cocktail party. Witnesses reported smelling alcohol on Berkeley's breath at the time.
Date:: [circa December 9, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Chris Arnold, muscle man and wrestler in 1947

Date:: January 8, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoster, Don
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Cinco de Mayo entertainers at the Los Angeles Coliseum

Description:: Dancer Alicia Leonard and musicians prepare for Cinco de Mayo celebrations in the Los Angeles Coliseum
Date:: May 5, 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Circus girls laugh over a game of checkers, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Circus performers (left to right) Flo Hudson, Hazel Moss, and Doris Cleveland laugh over a game of checkers. Most likely to do with the Al G. Barnes circus performances throughout March and April of 1935.
Date:: [circa March 30, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Clerk recording bets in a casino, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: A clerk recording bets in a casino. Hawthorne, Compton, Monterey Park, and Long Beach closed several gaming places after Attorney General Webb found games of chance unlawful.
Date:: [circa January 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Clerk recording bets in a casino, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: A clerk recording bets in a casino. Hawthorne, Compton, Monterey Park, and Long Beach closed several gaming places after Attorney General Webb found games of chance unlawful.
Date:: [circa January 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Close-up of a chess board and a player's hand checking the black king, Los Angeles

Description:: Close-up of a chess board and one of the player's hands. The player is taking out a black knight with the white queen and at the same time checking the black king.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Close-up of a chess board and a player's hand moving the white queen, Los Angeles

Description:: Close-up of a chess board and one of the player's hands. The player is moving the white queen.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Close-up of a chess board and player's hand moving one of the white bishops, Los Angeles

Description:: Close-up of the corner of a chess board and the hand of a person playing. The player is holding a white bishop and moving it toward a group of black pieces.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
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

Cole Brothers Circus workers pounding in stakes for tent in Los Angeles, Calif.

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

Comedian Bob Burns speaks on the telephone, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Comedian Bob Burns speaks on the telephone at desk surrounded by newspapers. Bob Burns was a radio and film comedian who was known as The Arkansas Traveler and The Arkansas Philosopher.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Comedian Buster Crabbe entertaining crippled children during Buster Crabbe's Aqua Parade at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles, Calif., 1948

Date:: July 20, 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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