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

Los Angeles slums in the Great Depression

Description:: Street scene of the dilapidated buildings at 311 North Mission Road near downtown Los Angeles.
Date:: ca. 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 after a brawl.
Date:: ca. 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Chang Yuin-Tsung and Anna May Wong

Description:: Chang Yuin-Tsung and Los Angeles born Chinese American actress Anna May Wong (right).
Date:: ca. 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Katheryn Padrick posing, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Katheryn Padrick sits on a desk wearing gloves and a hat with a typewriter in the background.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Jean Wilson cooks in kitchen, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Jean Wilson cooks in kitchen wearing a gingham print dress.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Children ride wooden raft across flood waters in Long Beach, 1930s

Description:: Children transport suitcases on a wooden raft across flood waters in Long Beach, California.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Jean Wilson fills a pot with water at a kitchen sink, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Jean Wilson fills a pot with water at a kitchen sink while wearing a gingham print dress.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Jean Wilson uses a hand mixer in a kitchen, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Jean Wilson uses a hand mixer while wearing a gingham print dress.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Law enforcement officials George Fisher, Elizabeth Fiske, and J.W. Buckley surrounded by bags of food, Los Angeles, circa 1930

Description:: Law enforcement officials George Fisher (Lieutenant), Elizabeth Fiske (City Mother Policewomen), and J.W. Buckley (Patrolman) surrounded by bags filled with food goods, including Bagdad Coffee. Elizabeth Fiske was with LAPD from 1929-1964 and served on the City Mothers Bureau, a crime prevention division of LAPD staffed entirely by policewomen.
Date:: 1930s?
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Archbishop John Joseph Cantwell in vestments with other Catholic clergy, circa 1937

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

Portrait of artist and activist Rockwell Kent with his first wife Frances Lee Kent, circa 1937

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

Jean Wilson serves drinks in a kitchen, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Jean Wilson serves drinks in a kitchen while wearing a gingham print dress.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Jean Wilson poses wearing a gingham dress, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Jean Wilson poses for picture wearing a gingham print dress.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Unidentified men and women carry belongings and pets across flood waters, Long Beach, circa 1930s

Description:: Unidentified men and women carry belongings and pets across flood waters in Long Beach.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Unidentified men weigh goods at a cooperative, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Unidentified men weigh goods from bins on a scale. One bin is labeled sugar and another is labeled salt.
Date:: 1930s?
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Actress Marsha Hunt receives a document from Judge Marshall McComb.

Description:: Actress Marsha Hunt smiles as she receives a document from Judge Marshall McComb.
Date:: [between 1932-1937?]
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

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

Women watching cooking class in WPA Household Employees training, circa 1937

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

Unidentified men and women receive sacks of flour at a county food exchange program, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Unidentified men and women gather at food exchange windows to recieve sacks of flour as part of a county charity program.
Date:: 1930s?
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Unidentified men and women stand in line to receive food at a county food exchange program, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Unidentified men and women stand in line to receive food at a county food exchange program.
Date:: 1930s?
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Unidentified men move boxes of food at a county food exchange program, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Unidentified men handle boxes of food at a county welfare food exchange program.
Date:: 1930s?
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Spectators read the paper at the Santa Anita racetrack, February 22, 1937.

Description:: Spectators at a $50,000 Derby day at the Santa Anita racetrack on February 22, 1937. The crowd in attendance was estimated at 45,000 spectators. Twenty-three horses raced that day, beating out the Kentucky Derby's record of twenty-two starting horses at that time. The $50,000 purse was won by the horse Fairy Hill.
Date:: February 22, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Portrait of Dr. Francis Everett Townsend

Description:: Portrait image of Dr. Francis Everett Townsend, originator of the Townsend Plan, an old-age pension plan which influenced the creation of Social Security.
Date:: [1930s]
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

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

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

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

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

Heavyweight champion Dean Detton wrestling an opponent at the Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Heavyweight wrestling champion Dean Detton grappling with an opponent at the Olympic Auditorium.
Date:: [circa November 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Heavyweight champion Dean Detton wrestling an opponent at the Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Heavyweight wrestling champion Dean Detton grappling with an opponent at the Olympic Auditorium.
Date:: [circa November 1937]
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

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

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

Patrons at the Forbidden Palace restaurant in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Patrons fill the tables at the Forbidden Palace restaurant in Chinatown.
Date:: 1930s
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

Girls sit on the sidewalk in front of a store in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Girls sit on the sidewalk in front of a store in Chinatown.
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

Officer Frank E. Walker provides his signature on a document with Deputy District Attorney Howard R. Hinshaw present, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Officer Frank E. Walker provides his signature on a document with Deputy District Attorney Howard R. Hinshaw present. This may be related to a shooting where Mr. Walker's wife was shot and killed by Gladys Carter, wife of Deputy Sheriff Archie Carter. Mrs. Walker lived with the deputy and his wife.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Louis B. Mayer pitches a baseball in front of a crowd of spectators, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Louis B. Mayer, film producer and studio executive at MGM, pitches a baseball in front of a crowd of spectators. Mayer served as studio boss at MGM and produced films with stars like Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, and Katharine Hepburn.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Portrait of attorney William Moseley Jones, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Portrait of William Moseley Jones. Jones (1905 - 1988) was a Democratic attorney from Montebello, California who served several terms in the California State Assembly, including one term as Speaker.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Frank E. Walton and Templeton Peck, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Frank E. Walton sits next to Templeton Peck while Peck takes down notes from a book.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Frank E. Walton, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Portrait of Frank E. Walton wearing a coat and tie.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd gathers to catch a glimpse of the airplane that set a world record, flying non-stop from Moscow to southern California. July 14, 1937.

Description:: A crowd gathers to view the Tupolev ANT-25 flown by Mikhail Gromov, Andrei Yumashev, and Sergei Danilin from Moscow to a field outside San Jacinto, CA. The non-stop flight covered 6700 miles in 62 hours and 12 minutes, smashing the previous record for longest non-stop flight. July 14, 1937.
Date:: June 14, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Wrestlers Bluebeard Lewis and Baron Benny Ginsberg grapple outside the ring, May 26, 1937

Description:: "Baron" Benny Ginsberg and Bluebeard Lewis take their wrestling match outside the ring at the Olympic stadium in downtown Los Angeles. Lewis pinned Ginsberg in 3 minutes and 12 seconds. May 26, 1937.
Date:: May 26, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Wrestler Jules Strongbow after being knocked out of the ring at the Olympic, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Wrestler Jules Strongbow on the ground after falling out of the ring during a match against Daniel Boone Savage at the Olympic. Also known as the "Cherokee Choker," Strongbow weighed in at 285 pounds and measured at six foot four inches.
Date:: [circa May 16, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Wrestler Daniel Boone Savage petting a hound in the ring before a match, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Wrestler Daniel Boone Savage petting a hound in the ring at the Olympic before a match against Jules Strongbow. "Whiskers" Savage was known for his rustic sensibility and untameable locks.
Date:: [circa May 16, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Heavyweight wrestling champion Bronko Nagurski prepares to take on challenger Vincent López, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Heavyweight wrestling world champ Bronko Nagurski, pictured, prepares to take on challenger Vincent Lopez. The two met in a much-touted match before a crowd of 20,000 at Los Angeles' Wrigley Field. Nagurski won the match after 30 minutes of grappling with his opponent.
Date:: [circa August 11, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Female impersonator seated on piano in Los Angeles club, circa 1937

Description:: Female impersonator in a sparkly gown seated on piano in Los Angeles club with a pianist playing, a man in a short white jacket at a microphone and posters of movie stars on the walls
Date:: 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Labor Day Parade. Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Labor Day Parade members of the Screen Actors Guild, Veterans Division marching down street
Date:: September 7, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man with a full dinner tray at the Midnight Mission on Thanksgiving Day, Los Angeles, November 25, 1937

Description:: Man with a tray full of Thanksgiving dinner at the Midnight Mission on Thanksgiving day. The Mission served food to thousands of men during this annual celebration of the holiday
Date:: November 25, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Spectators check their betting sheet 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 as a fireman hoses down flames from a forest fire in the Glendale Woodlands, December 20, 1937

Description:: Spectators watch as a fireman hoses down flames from a forest fire in Glendale's Verdugo Woodlands and Rossmoyne sections. 2500 acres burned but the firemen were able to keep the blaze from damaging any of the nearby homes. Firemen battled the flames for ten hours and dealt with high winds, which made the situation more dangerous
Date:: December 20, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Construction workers on the Ivanhoe Reservoir near Silver Lake, Los Angeles

Description:: Construction workers on the Ivanhoe Reservoir near Silver Lake
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Four well-dressed men stand together in the Los Angeles slums while a fifth man looks on, Los Angeles, 1925-1945

Description:: Four well-dressed men stand together in the Los Angeles slums while a fifth man looks on. In the background are several meager homes and clotheslines full of laundry
Date:: [between 1925 and 1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Aerial view of the Santa Anita horse paddock, Arcadia, December 25, 1937

Description:: Aerial view of the Santa Anita horse paddock, likely taken on opening day of the track's fourth racing season.
Date:: [December 25, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Member of the Mystic Shrine attending to a sign for the Durbar festival, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: A member of the Mystic Shrine attending to a sign created for the Durbar festival. 20,000 spectators enjoyed street parades on South Olive Street and festivities at the Shrine Auditorium.
Date:: June 12, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Member of the Mystic Shrine attending to a sign for the Durbar festival, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: A member of the Mystic Shrine attending to a sign created for the Durbar festival. 20,000 spectators enjoyed street parades on South Olive Street and festivities at the Shrine Auditorium.
Date:: June 12, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Parade float for the Aahmes Shrine Band in the Durbar festival, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: An automobile representing the Aahmes Shrine Band for the Mystic Shrine's Durbar festival. 20,000 spectators enjoyed street parades on South Olive Street and festivities at the Shrine Auditorium.
Date:: June 12, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Patrons playing cards in a casino, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Patrons playing cards 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

Patrons playing cards in a casino, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Patrons playing cards 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

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

Construction site near rural boom town [?], California

Description:: View of a two men working on a wooden framework under construction next to an excavated area in the vicinity of a rural boomtown [?].
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
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

Illustration of Union Station, the city's main railway station, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Illustration of Union Station, the city's main railway station.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Kent Parrot, politician and attorney, sits in a courtroom, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Politician and attorney Kent Parrot sits in a courtroom. Parrot was a politician and attorney who was heavily involved in municipal politics in Los Angeles
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Jess Millman, University of Southern California varsity player, on the tennis court, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: University of Southern California varsity player Jess Millman on the tennis court.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Dr. Ralph Wagner pictured with Deputy Sheriff Allen T. Ball, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Dr. Ralph Wagner pictured with Deputy Sheriff Allen T. Ball. Dr. Ralph Wagner wears a hat.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Scott M. Loftin, Democratic politican from Florida, speaks at a podium, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Scott M. Loftin, Democratic politican from Florida, speaks at a podium.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Dr. Ralph Wagner poses with a gun and hat, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Dr. Ralph Wagner poses with a pistol while wearing a hat.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Dr. Ralph Wagner poses with guns and hat, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Dr. Ralph Wagner poses with two pistols while wearing a hat.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Dr. Ralph Wagner poses wearing a hat, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Dr. Ralph Wagner poses while wearing a hat.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Hollywood "mystery man" John Montague fights extradition charges to New York state, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Hollywood mystery man and "golf wizard," John Montague, battles extradition charges. New York's Essex County Sheriff's Department charged Montague, real name LaVerne Moore, as being one of three burglars suspected of robbing a road house of $700 on April 5, 1930. While living in Los Angeles, Montague became incredibly popular with celebrities such as Bing Crosby, due in large part to his prowess at golf. At the time of his arrest, Oliver Hardy was his roommate. Montague, left, is pictured with his lawyer, Jerry Giesler, right. Circa July 10, 1937.
Date:: July 10, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Los Angeles Police Department annual parade color guard members and young drum major pose with officers, July 9, 1937

Description:: A young drum major and several members of the color guard for the annual Los Angeles Police Department parade pose for a photograph with several police officers. July 9, 1937.
Date:: July 9, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee holds her small dog by a train, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee holds her small dog by a train. Lee, originally named Rose Louise Hovick, worked in burlesque, starred in five Hollywood films, wrote for the New Yorker, and published two novels.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Female U.C.L.A. students playing soccer in a field, Los Angeles

Description:: Female students at the University of California, Los Angeles playing soccer in a field
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Archbishop John Joseph Cantwell, the first archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Bishop John Joseph Cantwell, the first archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Date:: [1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Wrestler Man Mountain Dean in bed with a broken leg, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Wrestler Man Mountain Dean in bed with a broken leg. A common opponent of his was Sandor Szabo, the "Handsome Hungarian."
Date:: [circa July 11, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd watch as heavyweights Bob Pastor and Bob Nestell box in a much-anticipated match at Los Angeles' Wrigley Field. May 28, 1937.

Description:: Crowd at boxing match between Bob Pastor, New York heavyweight boxer, and Bob Nestell, Southern California native. The fight took place at Los Angeles' Wrigley Field, to an audience of 25,000 fans. Bob Pastor was victorious in ten rounds.
Date:: May 28, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Funeral service for longshoreman Norman "Big Bill" Gregg, San Pedro, 1937

Description:: Funeral service for longshoreman Norman Gregg, who was known as "Big Bill." Gregg was shot by Patrolman W.H. Redding, and his death created an uproar amongst longshoremen. Traffic was blocked by demonstrations, and a shrine was constructed around the scene of the shooting.
Date:: [circa May 29, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Funeral procession for longshoreman Norman "Big Bill" Gregg, San Pedro, 1937

Description:: Funeral procession for longshoreman Norman Gregg, who was known as "Big Bill." Gregg was shot by Patrolman W.H. Redding, and his death created an uproar amongst longshoremen. Traffic was blocked by demonstrations, and a shrine was constructed around the scene of the shooting.
Date:: [circa May 29, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Alabama Crimson Tide football team arriving at the Pasadena train station for 1938 Rose Bowl Game, December 24, 1937

Description:: The Alabama Crimson Tide football team arriving at the Pasadena train station for their appearance in the 24th Rose Bowl game. Alabama lost the game (13-0) to the California Golden Bears from UC Berkeley, ending a four game winning streak in Rose Bowl appearances for the Crimson Tide.
Date:: [December 24, 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 take a break 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 take a break 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

14-year-old Ray Charlton, the Marble Champion of Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: 14-year-old Ray Charlton, the Marble Champion of Los Angeles, surrounded by spectators as he competes. Charlton beat our over 50 competitors in the event directed by the Los Angeles Playground Department. He received a genuine agate shooter as a prize.
Date:: December 29, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Smoke rises from a forest fire in the Glendale Woodlands, December 20, 1937

Description:: Smoke rises over a forest fire in Glendale's Verdugo Woodlands and Rossmoyne sections. 2500 acres burned, but firemen we able to keep the blaze from damaging any of the nearby homes. Firemen battled the flames for ten hours and dealt with high winds, which made the situation more dangerous
Date:: December 20, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Seven seagulls perched on a board over the water in Westlake Park, Los Angeles

Description:: Seven seagulls perched on a board over the water in Westlake Park. Photo was part of a series featuring the birds of Westlake Park (later renamed MacArthur Park)
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Policeman and man wearing a suit and hat facing a young man in a plaid shirt, Los Angeles

Description:: Los Angeles policeman and man wearing a suit and hat facing a young man in a plaid shirt in front of a store window on a city street
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Three policemen face a crowd on young people on a city street, Los Angeles

Description:: Three policemen face a crowd on young people on a city street. One youth looks agitated.
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Prominent figures in the motion picture industry seated together at a banquet table, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Prominent figures in the motion picture industry: Frank Lloyd, Joseph M. Schenck, George Jessel, Adolph Zukor, Darryl Zanuck, Louis B. Mayer and Jesse Lasky seated together at a banquet table
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Tournament of Roses floates in staging area along Orange Grove Blvd. (probably), Pasadena, 1937

Description:: The theme for the forty-eighth Rose Parade was "Romance in Flowers"
Date:: January 1, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Santa Clara County parade float for Tournament of Roses, Pasadena, 1937

Description:: The theme for the forty-eighth Rose Parade was "Romance in Flowers"
Date:: January 1, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Actress Gail Patrick, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: Gail Patrick, a prominent actress. She starred in films such as "My Man Godfrey" and "Dangerous to Know."
Date:: [circa May 9, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Spectators on Derby Day at Santa Anita, February 22, 1937.

Description:: Crowd at a $50,000 Derby day at the Santa Anita racetrack on February 22, 1937. The crowd in attendance was estimated at 45,000 spectators. Twenty-three horses raced that day, beating out the Kentucky Derby's record of twenty-two starting horses at that time. The $50,000 purse was won by the horse Fairy Hill.
Date:: February 22, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Spectators read the paper at the Santa Anita racetrack, February 22, 1937.

Description:: Spectators at a $50,000 Derby day at the Santa Anita racetrack on February 22, 1937. The crowd in attendance was estimated at 45,000 spectators. Twenty-three horses raced that day, beating out the Kentucky Derby's record of twenty-two starting horses at that time. The $50,000 purse was won by the horse Fairy Hill.
Date:: February 22, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Race horse "Caliban."

Date:: 1935-1937?
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

Mrs. Jack Scheuer, board social chair for the Catholic Women's Club, Los Angeles, 1930s and 40s

Description:: Mrs. Jack Scheuer (possibly Kathryn Scheuer), board social chair for the Catholic Women's Club, 1930s and 40s. Frequent event hostess
Date:: [1930s and 1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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