Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: The Long Beach earthquake of 1933 took place on March 10, with a magnitude of 6.4, causing widespread damage to buildings throughout Southern California. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach on the Newport-Inglewood Fault. An estimated fifty million dollars' worth of property damage resulted, and 120 lives were lost.
Date:: March 1033
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Women examine the rows of high-heeled shoes lined up on a table.
Date:: March 23, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Judge H. Parker Wood stands at far left and in profile, facing right. He lifts up his right hand to take his oath of office. At far right, Judge Marshall F. McComb stands, facing towards Judge Wood at left. He looks down towards a book he holds in his left hand and raises his right hand. Behind and between them, Judge Guy F. Bush stands at center. He faces towards camera, but turns towards H. Parker Wood. Bookshelves line the wall at left and a hallway extends behind the justices at center.
Date:: [circa 1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: The "A Sea of Sand" float was preceded by 4 thoroughbred Arabian horses and two camels, "ships of the desert." In addition to its title, the float also bears the floral sign "The Dessert Playground." A woman in a bathing suit stands on the float, braving the rain. The float was entered by the city of Palm Springs. The float is seen is seen passing the Goodhue Flagpole in the center of the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
Date:: January 1, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Envelope of a letter to Pauline Mc Doua[...] written by a man on stationary of the Hotel Sutter in San Francisco.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, October 8, 1935, Officers Capture Mae West Death Threat Suspect, Six Others Questioned in $1000 Plot After Seizure of Studio Bus Boy as He Assertedly Picks Up Decoy. Suspected as the author of a series of sinister notes to Mae West, motion-picture actress, threatening death or disfiguration by acid unless she paid $1000, George Janios, 38-year-old bus boy at a Western-avenue studio, last night was in the custody of investigators …
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Exterior view of the Bryson-Bonebrake Building, with the United States National Bank on the ground floor.
Date:: [1920-1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Three men walk down Olvera Street past La Casa La Golondrina Cafe (left), in a 2 story building with canvas awnings. A woman is seated beside the row of potted plants that line the outdoor seating area.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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