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Description:: A portrait of film actress, Melody Riley, in a dark satin gown. Photo appears with the article "Film extra sends call for police: woman wanting friend makes mistake that puts her in jail," Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 1931: A3.
Date:: November 9, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A seated portrait of film actress, Fritzi Ridgeway. Photograph appears with the article "Bicycle fall brings woe to Miss Ridgeway," Los Angeles Times, 11 May 1933: 10.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A portrait of film actress Jean Riley. Photo appears with the article "Dramatic Stories of Events in Murders Recounted," Los Angeles Times, 02 June 1931: A3.
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: ANSWER: Shown in the photo is the Cascades, which tumbles beneath Foothill Blvd. and the Golden State Freeway out beyond San Fernando. This is Owens River water, pictured at the terminus of the 233-mile Owens River Aqueduct. It is, of course, a project of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and some of that water cascading down there could very well have provided your morning shower.
Date:: March 27, 1956
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Louise Peete was convicted on Feb. 5, 1921 of first-degree murder in the death of Jacob Denton. She served 18 years in San Quentin before being released. In 1945 she was convicted of a second murder, this time of Margaret Logan, a wealthy woman who had supported Peete while she was in prison. For the second murder she was given the death penalty, and in 1947 became the second woman to be executed in California.
Date:: [between 1920-1921]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Santa Anita Park, the oldest thoroughbred racetrack in Southern California, opened on December 25, 1934.
Date:: January 3, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Possibly related to the article “Big Bear Lake is Gem Crowning Mountain Top, Nature’s Charms Allure in Region Visited by Scout Party, Years Bring Many Improvements.” Los Angeles Times, 26 May 1935. The article states: "… To obtain first hand facts about this wonder area, The Times scout car … rolled up into the San Bernardino Mountains the other day. Smooth pavement all the way from First and Broadway to the village of Pine Knot seemed almost incredible, but it is there, for the State has spent $1,500,000 building this de luxe roadway, and reducing the grade, which had run as high as 16 per cent, to a maximum of 4 per cent, creating one of the most ideal mountain roads in the world. …"
Date:: [1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of C. H. Schildauer, Pan-American Airline's chief of operations engineers; Colonel Clarence M. Young, former director of the aeronautics branch of the United States Department of Commerce and acting for Pan-American Airlines; and L. L .Odell, chief airport engineer for the line, standing in front of part of an airplane. They were in Los Angeles during a tour to inspect potential airport sites for Pan-American Airways.
Date:: [November 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, “Paroled Pair’s Deadly Weapon,” Los Angeles Times, 18 Jul. 1935: A2.
Date:: July 18, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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