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

Preparing for New Year festivities in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: A Chinese American man posts festive posters for the New Year celebration in Chinatown, Los Angeles
Date:: 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Medicine shop in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: An herbalist uses his mortar and pestle in a medicine shop on North Broadway Street in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
Date:: ca. 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Fortune teller in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: A woman consults a Chinese fortune teller in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
Date:: ca. 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Street scene in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: View of a walkway on North Broadway Street in "New" Chinatown, Los Angeles following the move from the Union Station area.
Date:: ca. 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Returning evacuated Japanese Americans

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

Altar of Plaza Church, Los Angeles, 1942-1952

Description:: The Plaza Church altar decorated for mass during the fiesta of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe.
Date:: ca. 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Sleepy Lagoon murder case acquittal

Description:: Robert Telles, age 19, reunites with family members Betty Telles and Josie Telles in the Los Angeles Hall of Justice following his acquittal in the Sleepy Lagoon murder case.
Date:: Oct 1944
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Home in Chavez Ravine, Los Angeles, 1953

Description:: Chavez Ravine residents were forced to relocate in the 1940s when the City voted to accept federal funding for new housing developments in the area. When these apartment projects failed several years later, the remaining residents of Chavez Ravine were removed by a controversial order of eminent domain to build Dodger Stadium.
Date:: 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

March of Dimes parade in Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: Eddie "Rochester" Anderson and Jack Benny campaign for the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation.
Date:: ca. 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Los Angeles slums in the Great Depression

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

Undocumented Mexican workers arrested in rail yard, Los Angeles, 1953

Description:: Undocumented Mexican workers (identified as "wetbacks" in a handwritten notation on the negative) are discovered and arrested by Los Angeles police officers in the Southern Pacfic rail yards.
Date:: 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Duplex at 3087/3089 Guirado Street, Boyle Heights

Description:: In the 1950s, Boyle Heights was racially and ethnically diverse, with Jews, Mexican Americans, Russians, Serbs, Croatians, Portuguese, and Japanese Americans living in the neighborhood.
Date:: ca. 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Street scene on Terminal Island (Calif.) on December 8, 1941

Description:: Main Street on Terminal Island (East San Pedro) during a curfew and blackout on December 8, 1941, the day that the United States declared war on Japan.
Date:: December 8, 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Hillside view of Chavez Ravine, Los Angeles, 1946

Description:: View of the Mexican American community Chavez Ravine, near present day Elysian Park and Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, from a nearby hillside.
Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Japanese immigrants register as Los Angeles residents, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Japanese immigrants and aliens register as Los Angeles residents under the Alien Registration Act of 1940. Interior view of the United States Post Office at 660 E. 22nd Street in downtown Los Angeles.
Date:: 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Sleepy Lagoon murder case acquittal

Description:: Defendants in the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial are reunited with family and friends in the Los Angeles Hall of Justice following their acquittal.
Date:: Oct 1944
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Sleepy Lagoon murder case acquittal

Description:: After the murder and assault convictions of 17 Mexican American youths in the Sleepy Lagoon murder case, the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee advocated for the defendants until the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the convictions as a miscarriage of justice.
Date:: Oct 1944
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Japanese women board bus for evacuation and relocation

Description:: Japanese nationals board a bus during an evacuation and relocation from Los Angeles in 1942.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Los Angeles slums in the Great Depression

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

Mexican American youths detained for questioning

Description:: Mexican American youths in "zoot suits" are detained for questioning in a Los Angeles jail following a brawl.
Date:: ca. 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mexican American female gang

Description:: Photographed left to right are: Frances Silva, Josephine Gonzales, Juanita Gonzales, Lorena Encina, and D. Barrios.
Date:: ca. 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Japanese nationals on a bus during evacuation and relocation

Description:: Japanese nationals on board a bus during an evacuation and relocation from Los Angeles
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Street scene on Terminal Island (Calif.) on December 8, 1941

Description:: Main Street, Terminal Island (East San Pedro) is empty in preparation for a curfew and blackout on December 8, 1941, the day that the United States declared war on Japan.
Date:: December 8, 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Home in Chavez Ravine, Los Angeles, circa 1951

Description:: Chavez Ravine residents were forced to relocate in the 1940s when the City voted to accept federal funding for new housing developments in the area. When these apartment projects failed several years later, the remaining residents of Chavez Ravine were removed by a controversial order of eminent domain to build Dodger Stadium.
Date:: ca. 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Virginia Swanson Yamamoto in front of Terminal Island Baptist Church, Terminal Island, 1940

Description:: Virginia Swanson Yamamoto, wife of Reverend Kichitaro Yamamoto, stands outside the Terminal Island Baptist Church with a Japanese American child in her arms.
Date:: Feb 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Paul Robeson awaits testimony before the Committee of Un-American Activities

Description:: Civil rights activist and accomplished actor and singer Paul Robeson awaits testimony before the Committee of Un-American Activities.
Date:: circa 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Interior view of Plaza Church, Los Angeles, 1942-1947

Description:: Interior view of Plaza Church during mass for the fiesta of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe.
Date:: [between 1941-1947]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Wartime housing in the Japanese Union Church in Little Tokyo, 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

Sleepy Lagoon murder case acquittal

Description:: Defendants in the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial are reunited with family and friends in the Los Angeles Hall of Justice following their acquittal.
Date:: Oct 1944
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Henry Armstrong with Al Jolson and his manager Eddie Mead in the boxing ring, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:: Boxer Henry Armstrong, also known as "Hurricane Henry" and "Homicide Hank," with Al Jolson and manager Eddie Mead before a fight.
Date:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Hollywood fundraiser for the Sleepy Lagoon defense fund

Description:: Photographed left to right are J. Edward Bromberg, Lupe Leyvas, and Dooley Wilson.
Date:: ca. 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Major General Joseph Stilwell, portrait

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

Sleepy Lagoon murder case acquittal

Description:: Defendants in the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial are reunited with family and friends in the Los Angeles Hall of Justice following their acquittal.
Date:: Oct 1944
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

African American soldiers entertain at Camp Ord, Monterey Bay Peninsula (Calif.)

Description:: Camp Ord was the tent city that served as barracks for Fort Ord soldiers during World War Two.
Date:: ca. 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Los Angeles slums in the Great Depression

Description:: Street scene of children playing in a dirty alley surrounded by dilapidated buildings, in an unidentified Los Angeles area slum.
Date:: ca. 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Cinco de Mayo celebration at Los Angeles City Hall

Description:: Preparations are ready for a Cinco de Mayo celebration on the steps of Los Angeles City Hall.
Date:: May 5, 1944
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Police officer poses with weapons submitted to the Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles, 1942

Description:: Los Angeles Police Department officer Dewey Foster with guns, swords, and bows submitted by Japanese, German, and Italian Americans.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Community center balcony in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: The balcony of a community center in Chinatown, Los Angeles, decorated with flags.
Date:: ca. 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Street scene in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: Two boys sell treats on a busy sidewalk in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
Date:: 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Interior view of a Chinatown shop, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: A woman purchases goods at a gift shop in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
Date:: 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Four Families Association building in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: Interior view of the Lung Kong Tin Yee (Four Families) Association Building, a community-based aid and services organization in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
Date:: 1949
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

Ku Klux Klan cross burning incident, Los Angeles, circa 1946

Description:: A man investigates a Ku Klux Klan cross burning incident outside a Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity house in the 1940s.
Date:: circa 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Luis Verdusco, standing portrait

Description:: Los Angeles resident Luis Verdusco points to his head, where he sustained a personal injury during the Zoot Suit Riots.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Watts Towers, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: The Watts Towers are the artistic creation of Italian American immigrant Simon Rodia, who single-handedly built his creation over a period of 34 years on a triangular lot at 1761-1765 East 107th Street in Los Angeles.
Date:: ca. 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Boxing, Art Aragon vs. Bobby Campbell

Description:: Boxer Art "Golden Boy" Aragon fights Bobby Campbell in the ring, with Mushy Callahan as referee.
Date:: ca. 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Boxing, Joe Louis vs. Jack Roper

Description:: Joe Louis v. Jack Roper compete for the heavyweight championship at Wrigley Field.
Date:: July 14, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Raising funds for flood victims in Sonora, Los Angeles, 1949

Description:: Los Angeleans raise funds for flood victims in Sonora, Mexico on Olvera Street in Los Angeles (Calif.)
Date:: 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Shinto temple on Terminal Island (Calif.)

Description:: Exterior view of a Shinto temple located on Terminal Island
Date:: 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Corpus Christi Festival at Plaza Church, Los Angeles, 1942

Description:: Crowds gather to pray in front of the Plaza Church during the Corpus Christi Festival in Los Angeles, California.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Tom C. Clark points to notice for alien enemy prohibited territory no. 30

Description:: Tom C. Clark, Attorney General from 1945-1949, points to a notice baring Japanese, German, and Italian aliens from area no.30.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Bridge in Chavez Ravine's "Lil' Town". Los Angeles, 1950

Description:: Chavez Ravine residents were forcibly removed from their homes and properties in 1950 to make way for Dodger Stadium, in a controversial eminent domain decision enforced by local and state authorities.
Date:: 1950
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

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

Women walk the road into Chavez Ravine, Los Angeles, 1946

Description:: Two women walk along the road between Chavez Ravine and downtown Los Angeles, near present day Elysian Park and Dodger Stadium.
Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Temporary Japanese post-war housing

Description:: Japanese Americans settle into temporary housing in Burbank, California following their release from wartime internment camps.
Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Chinese funeral in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: The funeral in Los Angeles Chinatown of Lew Sing Kai.
Date:: ca. 1948
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

A.L. Wirin, George Ochikubo, and Saburo Kido representing the Japanese American Citizens League

Description:: A.L. Wirin and Saburo Kido filed a brief together in 1944 representing the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), in Korematsu v. United States. Ochikubo, a dentist, was the plaintiff in Ochikubo v. Bonesteel, a 1944 federal lawsuit challenging the Western Defense Command's continued exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast. Kido was an attorney and the wartime president of the JACL. Wirin was an ACLU attorney and chief counsel for the JACL during and after World War II.
Date:: ca. 1944
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Authorities meet to discuss the Zoot Suit Riots, Los Angeles, 1943

Description:: Photographed left to right are Eugene Biscailuz (Los Angeles County Sheriff), Police Captain Thad Brown, Los Angeles District Attorney Fred N. Howser, and Carl Moritz.
Date:: 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Lugo family members

Description:: Photographed from left to right are Lugo family members Aders Lugo, Risita Lugo, and Vincente Lugo.
Date:: ca. 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Henry Agard Wallace speaks on Mexican Independence Day

Description:: Vice President Henry A. Wallace addresses a crowd at a celebration of Mexican Independence Day on the steps of Los Angeles City Hall.
Date:: September 16, 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Kenny Washington receives a football award

Description:: Professional football player and UCLA alum Kenny Washington recieves an award from his team, the Los Angeles Rams.
Date:: ca. 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Boxing coach advises his athletes at an outdoor gymnasium, Los Angeles, 1942

Description:: Several boxers receive coaching advice during a practice at an outdoor gym at 28th and Central Avenues, Los Angeles, California.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mexican American male gang

Description:: Members of a suspected gang from Sleepy Lagoon, located in the present day city of Maywood, Los Angeles.
Date:: ca. 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Police officials await evacuation of Japanese residents in Palos Verdes (Calif.)

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

Chinese lottery and casino in Gardena (Calif.)

Description:: Chinese lottery and casino located at 182nd Street and South Western Avenue in Gardena, California.
Date:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Pan American Day celebration

Description:: Photographed from left to right are Jorge Maroto, Manuel Aguilar, Mayor Fletcher Bowron, and Gabriela Mistral.
Date:: April 14, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Father Divine's Peace Mission and Truth Center expansion, Los Angeles (Calif.), 1930's

Description:: Hotel property at 4611 Compton Avenue purchased to be used as a "heaven, " or "Peace Mission and Truth Center" for Father Divine's International Peace Mission movement. Father Divine, also known as Reverend M.J. Divine was a controversial African American spiritual leader from 1907-1965. He founded the International Peace Mission movement and claimed to be God
Date:: ca. 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Wishing pool in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1939

Description:: View of the Seven Star Sacred Caverns and wishing pool designed by Prof. Liu Hong Kay in Chinatown, Los Angeles, which are artistic renderings of an actual scenic spot in Guangdong province.
Date:: 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Street scene in Chavez Ravine, Los Angeles, 1950

Description:: Street scene of the Mexican American community Chavez Ravine. located near present day Elysian Park and Dodger Stadium.
Date:: 1950
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

Japanese return from internment camps

Description:: Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals returning to Los Angeles after wartime internment in Heart Mountain, Colorado unload their belongings from a passenger train.
Date:: November 5, 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Joe Louis in the boxing ring

Description:: Joe Louis in the boxing ring before a fight.
Date:: ca. 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Zoot Suit Riots

Description:: Violence erupts during the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles (Calif.).
Date:: 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Art Aragon, portrait

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

Selling newspapers in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, 1941

Description:: A newspaperman sells Rafu Shinbun's December 7, 1941 papers on the streets of Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. The papers report the news of the Japanese attacks on Pearl Habor in Hawaii.
Date:: December 7, 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Kenny Washington and friends celebrate New Year's Eve, 1938

Description:: Photographed left to right are Dr. Lois J. Evans (chiropodist), Woodrow Wilson Strode, UCLA football star Kenny Washington, and June Bradley celebrating New Year's Eve festivities
Date:: December 31, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Costumes for a fiesta on Olvera Street, Los Angeles, 1953

Description:: Anita Aros (center) poses with other costumed actors as they prepare for a fiesta on Olvera Street in Los Angeles, California.
Date:: ca. 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Luis Verdusco, seated portrait

Description:: Los Angeles resident Luis Verdusco points to a head injury sustained during the Zoot Suit Riots.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Street scene in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, 1941

Description:: A Japanese American man and his children cross the street in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, on the day of the Japanese attacks on Pearl Habor.
Date:: December 7, 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Painting a signpost in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: A shop employee paints the signpost on his storefront in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
Date:: ca. 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Inquest of the death of Faustino Sanchez

Description:: A crowd assembles at the inquest of the death of Faustino Sanchez.
Date:: ca. 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

U.S. Army authorities discuss Japanese American activities, Los Angeles, 1941

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

Raid on a Chinese lottery

Description:: Police officers raid a Chinese American lottery.
Date:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Notice for alien enemy prohibited territory no. 30

Description:: Notice posted to warn Japanese, German, and Italian immigrants and aliens that they must remove from area no. 30 by February 15, 1942. Notice was sponsored by the Department of Defense and Attorney General Francis Biddle.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Japanese immigrants register as Los Angeles residents, Los Angeles, 1942

Description:: Japanese immigrants and aliens queue up to register as Los Angeles residents under the Alien Registration Act of 1940 at the United States Post Office at 22nd and San Pedro Street.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Roy Wilkins speaks at an NAACP convention, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, addresses delegates at the annual convention held in Los Angeles, California.
Date:: ca. 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Simon Rodia and his Watts Towers, portrait

Description:: Italian American immigrant Simon Rodia poses with his artistic creation, popularly known as the Watts Towers, in the background.
Date:: ca. 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mexican workers move into lodgings at Whittier Ranch, Los Angeles County (Calif.)

Description:: Mexican agricultural workers adjust their bedding as they move into lodgings at Whittier Ranch.
Date:: 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Japanese cannery workers on Terminal Island (Calif.)

Description:: Female employees of a Japanese fishing cannery on Terminal Island leave work for the day.
Date:: 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Temporary Japanese post-war housing

Description:: View of a Burbank, California trailer park used for temporarily housing Japanese Americans recently released from wartime internment camps.
Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mayor Fletcher Bowron, Marian Anderson, and the Reverend Baxter Duke

Description:: Mayor Fletcher Bowron, Marian Anderson, and the Reverend Baxter Duke meet to discuss African American History Week in Los Angeles.
Date:: ca. 1952
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Richard Gonzales plays a tennis match

Description:: Mexican American tennis player Richard "Pancho" Gonzales returns service in a Los Angeles tennis tournament.
Date:: ca. 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Japanese man with vegetables

Description:: Motoyoshi Murakami holds the vegetables he will take with him during his evacuation from Terminal Island.
Date:: Feb 1942
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

Belvedere Grammar School play, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Date:: ca. 1944
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mexican Independence Day celebration, 1938

Description:: Mexican Independence Day is celebrated in Los Angeles with dancing, music, and stage performances
Date:: September 16, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek with dignitaries at the Hollywood Bowl

Description:: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, visiting Los Angeles during her Chinese War Relief fundraising tour, sits with dignitaries at the Hollywood Bowl following her speech on the subject of Congress's Chinese Exclusion laws.
Date:: 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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