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Temporary Japanese post-war housing

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

Japanese homes on Terminal Island (Calif.)

Description:: View of single story homes built by Japanese canneries to house employees on Terminal Island.
Date:: 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Tenement house in Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: Children pose on the steps of a tenement house located on 713 Casanova Street in Los Angeles
Date:: 1953
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

United China Relief billboard

Description:: United Service to China was founded as United China Relief on February 7, 1941. Their fund drive in 1942 brought in $7 million dollars for relief in China.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Professor Raymond T. Moley chatting with others, Los Angeles, 1933

Description:: Professor Moley on the very right talking to 3 other gentlemen.
Date:: November, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Professor Raymond T. Moley chatting with others, Los Angeles, 1933

Description:: Professor Moley conversing with two other gentlemen.
Date:: November, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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First National Bank of Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills, 1921

Description:: Possibly related to the article, "Kidnapers of Officer Hunted, Five Armed Autoists Abduct Street Superintendent, Escape is Made in Motor Car Believed Stolen, Plot to Rob Beverly Hills Bank Suspected," Los Angeles Times, April 1, 1921. The article states: "Five armed men believed to have been planning to hold up the First National Bank of Beverly Hills, yesterday morning abducted C.B. Duncan, Superintendent of Streets of Beverly Hills, and after forcing him into an automobile drove to a clump of eucalyptus trees near Culver City, where he was released..."
Date:: 1921
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Funeral of Moses H. Sherman, Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale, 1932

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, September 10, 1932, Gen. Sherman’s Career Closes, Death Puts End to Labors of Pioneer Developer, Activities Important Factor in Rise of Los Angeles, Funeral Services Will Be Monday at 2 p.m.
Date:: September 12, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Carte Blanche credit cards being feed into printing machine, 1967

Date:: March 26, 1967
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Sabina de la Cruz with her children in a Skid Row hotel in Los Angeles, Calif., 1983

Date:: 1983-08-01
August 1, 1983
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Galvez, Jose
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Chavez Ravine residents refuse eviction order

Date:: August 20, 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Louise Peden demonstrates coin operated vending machine at Automatic Merchandising show in Los Angeles, Calif., 1963

Date:: October 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Governor Edmund G. (Pat) Brown and Supervisor Ernest Debs surrounded by Anti-Poverty protesters in Los Angeles, Calif., 1966

Date:: September 17, 1966
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

El Salvadorian migrant workers display melon harvest from truck

Date:: August 10, 1980
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Mexican squatters' shacks in Russian community in Guadalupe, Mexico, 1966

Date:: July 17, 1966
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Brown, Frank Q.
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Auction of Subscription Television, Inc., assets in Santa Monica, Calif., 1964

Date:: December 22, 1964
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Abandoned apartments in Watts, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Date:: July 21, 1967
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Mexican migrant workers wait for jobs in the fields, Fresno (Calif.)

Date:: August 10, 1980
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Demonstration demanding more jobs on steps of Los Angeles City Hall, Calif., 1940

Date:: March 24, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Postal worker Gregory Frazier taking income tax returns from passing motorists on Alameda Avenue in Los Angeles, Calif., 1980

Date:: April 16, 1980
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Angustain family evicted from home in Chavez Ravine, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Date:: May 9, 1959
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Lines of people waiting to collect their checks at unemployment office in Los Angeles, Calif., 1946

Date:: May 8, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Selling pinatas on Olvera Street, Los Angeles, 1968

Date:: December 22, 1968
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Martin Luther King Day demonstrators demand increased employment and housing

Date:: January 15, 1975
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

First National Bank of Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills, 1921

Description:: Possibly related to the article, "Kidnapers of Officer Hunted, Five Armed Autoists Abduct Street Superintendent, Escape is Made in Motor Car Believed Stolen, Plot to Rob Beverly Hills Bank Suspected," Los Angeles Times, April 1, 1921. the article states: "Five armed men believed to have been planning to hold up the First National Bank of Beverly Hills, yesterday morning abducted C.B. Duncan, Superintendent of Streets of Beverly Hills, and after forcing him into an automobile drove to a clump of eucalyptus trees near Culver City, where he was released…"
Date:: 1921
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Customer at roadside honor system vegetable stand in Huntington Beach, Calif., 1948

Date:: September 12, 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Bulldozer clearing rubble of demolished restrooms at Gladys Park on Skid Row, Los Angeles, 1986

Date:: March 3, 1986
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Lubas, Ken
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Craig Oil Company sold out sign in front of gas pumps in Los Angeles, Calif., 1948

Date:: September 8, 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Security First National Bank's computer center in Los Angeles, Calif., 1965

Date:: June 23, 1965
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Rent control proponents demonstrating outside mayor's residence in Los Angeles, Calif., 1982

Date:: March 27, 1982
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Meyer, Rick
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Mexican American farmer plows his field in Palos Verdes (Calif.)

Date:: May 27, 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Jose Alvarez sitting on a cot in the Tent City for the homeless in Los Angeles, Calif., 1984

Date:: December 23, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Lubas, Ken
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Attorney and convicted tax evader Williamson S. Summers, 1934

Description:: This photograph, cropped, appears with Los Angeles Times article, March 13, 1934, Attorney Given Sentence Stay
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Grave of Moses H. Sherman, Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale, 1932

Description:: Grave of Moses H. Sherman, with coffin on raised platform, memorial sculpture of a woman with each arm around a praying child, curtain, wreaths in foreground
Date:: September 12, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Homeless Mrs. John Groves and family preparing meal on open cookstove at camp setup on hillside in Los Angeles, Calif., 1948

Date:: April 24, 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

First National Bank, interior, following robbery, Arcadia, 1922

Description:: Related to 2 articles: (1) "Nab Four For Bank Robbery, Mexicans Are Taken After One Hour’s Chase, First National of Arcadia Out Five Thousand, Cashier Saves Institution from Greater Loss." Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 1922. Print. The article states: "… That the four men are members of the band that held up and robbed the Bank of Alhambra Tuesday afternoon and escaped with $700 in cash was asserted by the arresting officers …" (2) "Outlaws Raid Alhambra Bank, Armed Men Grab Cash and Escape to City, Seven Hundred Dollars is Taken from Cage, Robbers Force Autoists to Help Their Flight." Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 1922. Print.
Date:: 1922
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Mexican laborers return home from work in the United States

Date:: February 8, 1954
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Four boys playing on slide in playground at San Fernando Gardens Housing Project, Calif., 1964

Date:: April 26, 1964
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Skid Row children on door step of apartment building in Los Angeles, Calif., 1979

Date:: October 28, 1979
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Yaro, Boris
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Bank teller, Mrs. Joe Melton holding amount of money that the average San Fernando Valley, Calif. family made in 1963

Date:: December 29, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Three women working on semiconductor assemblies at International Rectifier Corp. in Los Angeles, Calif., 1977

Date:: May 29, 1977
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Whitney, Fitzgerald, b. 1928
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Workers building prefabricated houses in factory in Fountain Valley, Calif., 1976

Date:: November 14, 1976
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Montney, Cal
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

American Veterans' Committee protests lack of housing for veterans in MacArthur Park, Calif., 1947

Date:: January 11, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Balloon vendor holding on the route of the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1928

Description:: Balloon vendor holding a large group of floating balloons and the hand of a little girl with spectators seated on the street curb behind them on the route of the Tournament of Roses Parade
Date:: January 2, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Day laborers speaking to a potential employer in Los Angeles, Calif., 1986

Date:: August 17, 1986
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Galvez, Jose
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Braceros loading their belongings onto a bus for trip home to Mexico, El Centro, 1965

Description:: The Bracero Program was instituted by the Mexican and United States governments to ease American agricultural labor shortages during World War Two. The program attracted millions of Mexican laborers, hopeful for higher wages and legal contract work, until its demise in 1964.
Date:: January 1, 1965
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Homeless people receiving food hand-outs outside of Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors meeting, Calif., 1986

Date:: February 26, 1986
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Barnard, Tony
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Man washing dishes in bathtub in Frostonya Apartment-Hotel slum in Los Angeles, Calif., 1984

Date:: September 18, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jaskol, Ellen
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Chavez Ravine property owners protest Elysian Park public housing development, Los Angeles, 1951

Date:: April 27, 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Homeless sleeping in boxes along storefronts in Los Angeles, Calif., 1987

Date:: January 22, 1987
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Gladstone, Penni
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Kaz Hirata standing outside his gas station with "No Gas" signs written in English and Chinese in Los Angeles' Chinatown, Calif., 1974

Date:: February 16, 1974
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Gaunt, Jack
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Professor Raymond Moley arrives in Los Angeles, 1933

Description:: Professor Raymond Moley of the Columbia University faculty has stated that he takes a middle ground in the controversy raging between proponents of a return to the gold standard and extreme inflationists.
Date:: November, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Illegal immigrant squatter on mattress under freeway in Los Angeles, Calif., 1986

Date:: August 7, 1986
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Vehicle moves through crowds of waiting workers, Mexicali (Mexico)

Date:: January 30, 1954
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Child in front of building in "doomed" town Prado, California

Description:: Prado, California, a "doomed" town relocated due to construction of Prado Dam.
Date:: July 3, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Homeless sleeping on floor of Council Chambers at City Hall, Los Angeles, 1987

Date:: January 22, 1987
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Gladstone, Penni
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

The Santos Lopez family, migratory farm workers talk with reporter in their tent camp in Nevada, 1959

Date:: February 25, 1959
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Oliver, R. L.
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

United Farm Worker's strike in Delano, 1965

Date:: October 17, 1965
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Brown, Frank Q.
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Rows of oil pumps stretching along Pacific Coast Highway near Huntington Beach, Calif., 1958

Date:: October 12, 1958
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Laursen, Rene
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Pacific Southwest Trust and Savings Bank, El Centro, [1927?]

Description:: Pacific Southwest Trust and Savings Bank, 2-story building with colonnade, awnings, and Spanish tile roof, with street, pedestrians, and parked cars in foreground, sign at left reading Clayton & Welch New and Used Furniture
Date:: [1927?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Man sleeping in chair in the waiting area of Los Angeles Union Station, 1939

Date:: May 5, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Valencia orange grove pickers gathering the fruit in rowboats and bathing suits after Puddingstone Reservoir flood, Calif., 1941

Date:: June 3, 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Line of people waiting for Federal Housing Administration permits in Los Angeles, Calif., 1945

Date:: May 21, 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Opening of Ralph's Market: view inside the store of vegetable area with shoppers in Los Angeles, Calif , 1941

Date:: October 29, 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Long line of people waiting to obtain meat during first day of war rationing in Los Angeles, Calif., 1943

Date:: March 28, 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Homeless Valerie Borgens and son, Ryan living in a moving van in San Fernando Valley, Calif., 1982

Date:: December 26, 1982
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Lubas, Ken
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors hearing tax protests, Los Angeles, 1932

Description:: This photograph appears with the article "Supervisors Have Busy Day Hearing Tax Protests, Board Hears Tax Pleas, Total of 175 Complaints on Assessed Values Heard During First Day by Supervisors." Los Angeles Times, 7 Jul. 1932.
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

R. M. Sims, vice-president of the American Trust Company, San Francisco, 1932

Description:: R. M. Sims, vice president of the American Trust Company, was made president of the trust division of the American Bankers' Association on October 4 , 1932, as reported in "Nation's Bankers to Open Annual Meeting Today," in the Los Angeles Times, pg. A1
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Housing Director Holtzendorff and men going up rickety fire escape of tenement during tour of slum areas in Los Angeles, Calif., 1948

Date:: June 6, 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Boy playing in Hoyo Mara east side slum in Los Angeles, 1963

Date:: February 24, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Police officers guard a looted store in Watts, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Date:: March 16, 1966
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Nurse Janice Estes attending to toddler with sores at "Dust Bowl Hilton," homeless camp in Los Angeles, Calif., 1987

Description:: Dubbed the "Dust Bowl Hilton", this campground was set up by the city of Los Angeles and the Salvation Army in an attempt to provide shelter and services for the homeless. Camp lasted for 103 days.
Date:: July 19, 1987
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Lubas, Ken
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Dr. Townsend advocates old age pension proposal to crowd at La Crescenta picnic, 1935

Description:: Similar to theimage of Dr. Townsend captioned: "Pension advocate addresses 20,000: Dr. Townsend, unperturbed by the plane crash which delayed his arrival at the La Crescenta picnic, addressed a crowd estimated at 20,000 on the old age pension plan which he originated." With the article "Dr. Townsend's Plane Crashes on Way to Picnic - Bowl Debater Heckled" Los Angeles Times 19 Aug. 1935.
Date:: August 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Mexican American family picks walnuts in Gilroy (Calif.)

Date:: August 10, 1983
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Lines of automobiles waiting at car wash-gas station during oil crisis in Los Angeles, Calif., 1974

Date:: February 17, 1974
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Montney, Cal
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Surplus military cargo plane being transformed into a home in Riverside, Calif., 1947

Date:: January 18, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Washington Davis, real estate broker, picketing Los Angeles Hall of Administration in protest against property taxes, 1964

Date:: November 8, 1964
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Jordan Downs Housing Project in Watts, Calif., 1989

Date:: February 10, 1989
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Gabriel, Robert
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Mexican American agricultural laborers, Culver City (Calif.)

Date:: May 24, 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Actor Fredric March, Mrs. Carol Gallagher, and Judge Lewis H. Smith discussing bond to release property of actress Mary Astor, 1932

Description:: This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, March 18, 1932, Actor Goes to Aid of Actress, Mary Astor’s Property Release Gained. Fredric March, motion-picture actor, and attractive Mrs. Carol Gallagher yesterday went to the aid of Mary Astor, screen actress, by putting up sufficient bond before Superior Judge Smith to release property of Miss Astor held under attachment pending determination of a civil suit in which she is defendant.
Date:: March 17, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection