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Employees at The May Co. prepare for downtown Dollar Day, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Employees at The May Co. department store prepare for downtown Dollar Day. Tom May, executive vice-president of the company predicted this Dollar Day would bring in record-breaking numbers of customers
Date:: February 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Al Pedrosa looks up from checking on his soap box derby car, Los Angeles, 1946

Description:: Al Pedrosa looks up from checking on his soap box derby racing car. This race was at least partially sponsored by Chevrolet
Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Al Pedrosa smiling in his soap box derby car, Los Angeles, 1946

Description:: Al Pedrosa smiling in his soap box derby racing car. This race was at least partially sponsored by Chevrolet
Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Al Pedrosa smiling in his soap box derby car, Los Angeles, 1946

Description:: Al Pedrosa smiling in his soap box derby racing car. This race was at least partially sponsored by Chevrolet
Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Two girls take a drink of water from a hose during a soap box derby race, Los Angeles, 1946

Description:: Two young girls pause for a drink of water from a hose during a soap box derby race in which Al Pedrosa was one of the contestants. The race was at least partially sponsored by Chevrolet
Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Marge Voigt and son explore the wilderness, Alaska, 1940s

Description:: The photograph was sent to Daily News by Marge's husband, Bob Voigt, as part of his "Alaskan Letters" correspondence.
Date:: 1940s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Marge Voigt and son explore the wilderness, Alaska, 1940s

Description:: The photograph was sent to Daily News by Marge's husband, Bob Voigt, as part of his "Alaskan Letters" correspondence.
Date:: 1940s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Spectators at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, circa 1935

Description:: Possibly during UCLA – Loyola football game
Date:: [1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowds viewing race at Santa Anita, Arcadia, circa 1935

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

Mrs. George Diskant and Mrs. Jimmie Curtis horseback riding in Los Angeles, circa 1940

Description:: Mrs. George Diskant (possibly the wife of cinematographer George E. Diskant) and Mrs. Jimmie Curtis (Mrs. T J Curtis?) on horseback in a riding ring. Possibly at the Los Feliz Woman's Club.
Date:: [circa 1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mrs. Kenneth Holmes and Mrs. Gwynn Fielding with tennis rackets by an automobile, Los Angeles, circa 1940

Description:: Mrs. Kenneth Holmes (chairman of the athletic devision of the Los Feliz Woman's Club, circa 1936) and Mrs. Gwynn Fielding holding tennis rackets by an open automobile trunk
Date:: [circa 1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mrs. Paul S. Sweeny and Bess Marcus playing golf, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:: Mrs. Paul S. Sweeney and Bess Marcus playing golf with a tennis court in the background. One woman is measuring her shot as the other looks on. Photographer's shadow is visible. The women are members of the Los Feliz Woman's club
Date:: [1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mrs. George Diskant and Mrs. Jimmie Curtis horseback riding in Los Angeles, circa 1940

Description:: Mrs. George Diskant (possibly the wife of cinematographer George E. Diskant) and Mrs. Jimmie Curtis (Mrs. T J Curtis?) on horseback in a riding ring. Possibly at the Los Feliz Woman's Club.
Date:: [circa 1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mrs. Frances Hjelte and Mrs. Virginia Petticord shaking hands on the tennis court, Los Angeles

Description:: Mrs. Frances Hjelte (possibly the wife of George Hjelte, superintendent of the Los Angeles playground and recreation dept. 1930s and 40s) and Mrs. Virginia Petticord (1901-1990?) smiling and shaking hands across the net on a tennis court
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Lottery set-up on Tony Cornero's newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill or Lux, Los Angeles, 1946

Description:: Lottery set-up 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

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

Description:: Bar 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

Bearded man sits with a dog at the Unemployed Citizens' League of Santa Monica, 1930s

Description:: Bearded man sits with a dog at the Unemployed Citizens' League of Santa Monica, a localized group of self-sustaining and self-respecting people. Many cooperatives like this one emerged in California during the 1930s, specifically in the Los Angeles - Orange County area
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man reads a newspaper at the Unemployed Citizens' League of Santa Monica, 1930s

Description:: Man reads a newspaper at the Unemployed Citizens' League of Santa Monica, a localized group of self-sustaining and self-respecting people. Many cooperatives like this one emerged in California during the 1930s, specifically in the Los Angeles - Orange County area
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd in Gilmore Stadium for a contest, Los Angeles, October 29, 1937

Description:: Crowd seated on the bleachers in Gilmore Stadium for some sort of a contest.
Date:: October 29, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

People shopping and selling at a junk sale, Los Angeles

Description:: People shopping and selling at a junk yard and sale
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Bird's-eye view of passengers outside the S.S. Mariposa, Los Angeles

Description:: Bird's-eye view of passengers outside of the S.S. Mariposa.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Group of young women read books and write together at their USC sorority house, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Group of young women read books and write together at their USC sorority house.
Date:: 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Housing on Ann St.; the subject of a proposed city "slum clearance" ordinance, Los Angeles, February 1940

Description:: Kids riding bikes outside housing on Ann St.; the subject of a proposed city "slum clearance" ordinance, which would demolish 450 units on the street at a cost of about $2,000,000. The ordinance was ultimately opposed by the City Council
Date:: February 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Woman models a black lace dress and gloves during a fashion show, Los Angeles

Description:: Woman models a black lace dress and gloves during a fashion show
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Drum majorette Betty Atkinson poses with officers during annual LAPD parade, July 9, 1937.

Description:: Drum majorette Betty Atkinson photographed with a group of police officers during an annual parade and entertainment show put on by the Los Angeles Police Department. The event drew 40,000 spectators. July 9, 1937.
Date:: July 9, 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

Crowded beach scene on Labor Day, Los Angeles, September 3, 1945

Description:: Crowded beach scene on Labor Day 1945
Date:: September 3, 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Judge Irvin Taplin on a motorcycle, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Judge Irvin Taplin on a motorcycle in a parking lot. Another man is examining his vehicle. Taplin served on the Municipal Court bench from 1931 to 1964.
Date:: [1936?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Judge Irvin Taplin on a motorcycle, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Judge Irvin Taplin on a motorcycle wearing sunglasses in a parking lot. Taplin served on the Municipal Court bench from 1931 to 1964.
Date:: [1936?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Foster wearing waders in their flooded kitchen, Long Beach, 1937

Description:: Mrs. Frank Foster wearing waders and pouring her husband a cup of tea in their flooded kitchen during a flood in Long Beach.
Date:: [1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Spectators place their bets on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season, Arcadia, December 25, 1937

Description:: Spectators 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

Spectators place their bets on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season, Arcadia, December 25, 1937

Description:: Spectators 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

Spectators watch a race on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season, Arcadia, December 25, 1937

Description:: Spectators 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

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

Description:: Spectators 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

Spectators between races on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season, Arcadia, December 25, 1937

Description:: Spectators 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

Janice Lipking, a Zeta Tau Alpha sorority sister at UCLA, playing badminton at a summer rush party, Los Angeles, July 29, 1937

Description:: Janice Lipking, a Zeta Tau Alpha sorority sister at UCLA, playing badminton at a summer rush party.
Date:: July 29, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Three eggs on a table to be used during the Daily and Evening News Cooking School, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Close-up of three eggs sitting on a table which would be used to bake a cake during the Daily & Evening News Cooking School held at Philharmonic Auditorium
Date:: February 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mrs. Mary Dell Eaton sitting in a chair and laughing, Los Angeles

Description:: Mrs. Mary Dell Eaton sitting in a chair and laughing. She is wearing an overcoat, gloves, and a wide-brimmed hat
Date:: [between 1925 and 1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Boys 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's 1937 season lasted from July 6th to September 4th.
Date:: [circa July 6, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Miniature old English house on 4-year-old Gloria Lloyd's private mini-estate on her parent's sixteen-acre estate, Beverly Hills, 1927

Description:: Completely furnished miniature four-room old English house on 4-year-old Gloria Lloyd’s private estate which was created by her parents, film comedian Harold Lloyd and Mildred Harris Lloyd, at the summit of the family’s sixteen acre home. In addition to the house, Gloria’s estate includes: a miniature stable for her pony and cart, a miniature wishing well and a slide, swing and sand pile.
Date:: [1927?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Swimming pool and diving board on the estate of film comedian Harold Lloyd and his wife Mildred, Beverly Hills, 1927

Description:: Swimming pool with a diving board on the sixteen-acre estate of film comedian Harold Lloyd and his wife, Mildred Harris Lloyd in Beverly Hills.
Date:: [1927?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

View through the trees towards a swimming pool on the estate of film comedian Harold Lloyd and his wife Mildred, Beverly Hills, 1927

Description:: View through the trees towards a swimming pool on the sixteen-acre estate of film comedian Harold Lloyd and his wife, Mildred Harris Lloyd in Beverly Hills.
Date:: [1927?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Aerial view of pedestrians and Owl Drug on the corner of Hollywood and Vine, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Aerial view of pedestrians and The Owl Drug Co. on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street. Photo was probably taken by Elizabeth Straughn as part of her "street-corner experiences" series
Date:: June 1940
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

Top view of a chess board and player's hand moving the white queen, Los Angeles

Description:: Top view of a chess board and the hand of a person playing. The player is holding the white queen and moving it towards the black king.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Aimee Semple McPherson and Mrs. M. B. Godbey in a pantry preparing food baskets, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Aimee Semple McPherson and Mrs. M. B. Godbey in a pantry preparing food baskets. McPherson was a noted evangelist and founder of the Angelus Temple and the Foursquare Church.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Wrestler and football player Bronko Nagurski poses with a group of women in the wrestling ring at Wrigley Field, Los Angeles, August 11, 1937

Description:: Wrestler and Chicago Bears fullback Bronko Nagurski poses with a group of women before his match against Vincent Lopez at Wrigley Field. Nagurski won the match in front of 20,000 fans to defend his title as world heavyweight champion
Date:: August 11, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

San Bernardino County float in the Admission Day parade, Santa Monica, September 9, 1937

Description:: Float from the Lugonia Parlor and Arrowhead Parlor in San Bernardino County in the California Admission Day parade, held in Santa Monica. The parade, led by Governor Merriam, was a feature event of the three day Admission Day celebration, which commemorated the 87th anniversary of the day California became a state
Date:: September 9, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Female impersonator Johnnie David preparing to sing with an unidentified man, Hollywood, circa 1937

Description:: Female impersonator Johnnie David sits on a piano and prepares to sing with an unknown man at a Hollywood nightclub.
Date:: [1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Two drive-in restaurant waitresses leaving work, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Two drive-in restaurant waitresses leaving work together.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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