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Santa Monica Road Races, car number 12 crossing finish line, Santa Monica, 1911-1914, rephotographed 1950

Description:: Race car marked 12 crossing finish line, with 2 men with arms raised, with man waving flag at left and crowd in grandstand in background
Date:: 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Santa Monica Road Races, car number 12, Santa Monica, 1911-1914, rephotographed 1950

Description:: Race car in motion, with 2 men, with wall and 1 spectator in background
Date:: 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Santa Monica Road Races, Earl Cooper in Stutz car, Santa Monica, 1911-1914, rephotographed 1950

Description:: Earl Cooper and another man, in jackets marked Stutz, in race car marked 8, on dirt area with raised dust behind car, with eucalyptus trees and spectators standing in left background, spectators climbing pole in right background
Date:: 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Santa Monica Road Races, race start or finish, Santa Monica, 1911-1914, rephotographed 1950

Description:: Three race cars, marked 2, 5, and 11, trailing dust, with men on track nearby, press box, scoreboards, and advertisements in background, START FINISH banner overhead, crowd in grandstand in foreground
Date:: 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Santa Monica Road Races revival, three cars and crowd, Santa Monica, 1950

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, June 25, 1950, Old-Time Cars to Revive Noted Santa Monica Race. Santa Monica’s famous road race for the Vanderbilt Cup will be revived Sunday, July 16, when 12 old-time race cars roar around a two-mile course … It will be the first time the event has been revived since the seven years from 1910 to 1916. …
Date:: 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Santa Monica Road Races, two cars and crowd, Santa Monica, 1911-1914, rephotographed 1950

Description:: Two cars, marked 1 and 2, in cloud of dust, with four men in foreground, crowd in grandstand in background. Two men in car #1 are in helmets, goggles, and shirts reading Isotta Fraschini. Man or men in car #2 are obscured by dust.
Date:: 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Santa Monica Road Races, two cars and crowd, Santa Monica, 1911-1914, rephotographed 1950

Description:: Two race cars in motion, marked 9 and Stutz 3, each with 2 men in helmets and goggles, with crowd in flag-decorated grandstand in background
Date:: 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Sarah Vaughan performing in Los Angeles, Calif., 1986

Date:: August 29, 1986
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Barrera, Aurelio Jose
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Satirical comedy team, The Credibility Gap, performing in radio station sound room in Los Angeles, Calif., 1970

Date:: July 26, 1970
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Gunderson, Judd
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Saul Zaentz, Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher and Michael Douglas posing with their Oscars at the 1976 Academy Awards

Date:: March 30, 1976
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Scene from a nightclub before the patrons arrive, Hollywood, circa 1937

Description:: Scene from a Hollywood nightclub before the patrons arrive. One man smiles at the camera while another prepares the tables and a pianist and singer rehearse in the background.
Date:: [1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Scene from Los Angeles Theatre Center production of "La Victima," 1987

Date:: February 14, 1987
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jaskol, Ellen
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Scene from production of "Cyrano de Bergerac" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, Calif., 1973

Date:: October 17, 1973
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bessel, Larry
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Scene from silent film "Little Lord Fauntleroy," with Mary Pickford as Fauntleroy, butler, maids, and visiting children, 1921, rephotographed 1935

Description:: Mary Pickford, center, in costume as Little Lord Fauntleroy, with actors as tenant's children at left and in right foreground, butler at right, maids at top of stairs, in set depicting Dorincourt Castle, filmed at Brunton Studio.
Date:: 1921 & 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Scene of flaming dirigible collapsing during filming of motion picture "Hindenburg" in Los Angeles, Calif., 1974

Date:: November 28, 1974
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Frampton, Mary
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Screenshot from a film used by the prosecution at the DeWitt Clinton Cook murder trial of Cook re-enacting his murder of Anya Sosoyeva, Los Angeles, October 11, 1939

Description:: Screenshot from a film used by the prosecution at the murder trial of DeWitt Clinton Cook. The film showed Cook (right) re-enacting his murder of dancer Anya Sosoyeva, who he hit on the head with a 2x4. Cook willingly confessed to the murder, as well as the assaults of two other women, Delia Bogard and Myrtle Wagner. This was the first time sound motion pictures were used during a trial in California history. The trial was also considered very unusual because Cook never denied the murder, personally offer a not guilty plea, or put up any defense. Cook was sentenced to death and executed in the San Quentin gas chamber on January 31, 1941, at age 21
Date:: October 11, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Screenshot from a film used by the prosecution at the DeWitt Clinton Cook murder trial of Cook re-enacting his murder of Anya Sosoyeva, Los Angeles, October 11, 1939

Description:: Screenshot from a film used by the prosecution at the murder trial of DeWitt Clinton Cook. The film showed Cook (right) re-enacting his murder of dancer Anya Sosoyeva, who he hit on the head with a 2x4. Cook willingly confessed to the murder, as well as the assaults of two other women, Delia Bogard and Myrtle Wagner. This was the first time sound motion pictures were used during a trial in California history. The trial was also considered very unusual because Cook never denied the murder, personally offer a not guilty plea, or put up any defense. Cook was sentenced to death and executed in the San Quentin gas chamber on January 31, 1941, at age 21
Date:: October 11, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Screenshot from a film used by the prosecution at the DeWitt Clinton Cook murder trial of Cook re-enacting his murder of Anya Sosoyeva, Los Angeles, October 11, 1939

Description:: Screenshot from a film used by the prosecution at the murder trial of DeWitt Clinton Cook. The film showed Cook (right) re-enacting his murder of dancer Anya Sosoyeva, who he hit on the head with a 2x4. Cook willingly confessed to the murder, as well as the assaults of two other women, Delia Bogard and Myrtle Wagner. This was the first time sound motion pictures were used during a trial in California history. The trial was also considered very unusual because Cook never denied the murder, personally offer a not guilty plea, or put up any defense. Cook was sentenced to death and executed in the San Quentin gas chamber on January 31, 1941, at age 21
Date:: October 11, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Screenwriter Jack Kirkland and Betty Douglas at table, Beverly Hills, 1937

Description:: This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, March 26, 1937, “New Romance Hinted for Playwright”
Date:: 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

"Sea Gull" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1934

Description:: The theme of the 1934 Rose Parade was: Tales of the Seven Seas. It rained during the parade that year.
Date:: January 1, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

"Sea Monster" (lobster?) float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1934

Description:: Described as a red sea monster in the Los Angeles Times parade review, the creature appears to be a lobster standing guard over "Captain Kid's Treasure Chest." The Pasadena Memorial Flagpole (Goodhue Flagpole) is visible behind the float in its original location in the middle of the intersection of Orange Grove and Colorado Boulevard. The float, entered by the city of Ventura, was designed and constructed by nonprofessionals.
Date:: January 1, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

"Sea Queen" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1934

Description:: The theme of the 1934 Rose Parade was: Tales of the Seven Seas. It rained during the parade that year.
Date:: January 1, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

"Sea Queen" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1934

Description:: The theme of the 1934 Rose Parade was: Tales of the Seven Seas. It rained during the parade that year.
Date:: January 1, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

"Search for Beauty" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1934

Description:: The theme of the 1934 Rose Parade was: Tales of the Seven Seas. It rained during the parade that year.
Date:: January 1, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

"Sea Serpent" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1934

Description:: View of the "Sea Serpent" float with 3 women. The Pasadena Memorial Flagpole (Goodhue Flagpole) is visible behind the float in its original location in the middle of the intersection of Orange Grove and Colorado Boulevard. The float was entered by the city of Venice.
Date:: January 1, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Selby's Girls' Band in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1932

Description:: The theme of the 1932 forty-third annual Rose Parade was "Nations & Games in Flowers," looking forward to the 1932 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles
Date:: January 1, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Selby's Girls' Band in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1932

Description:: The theme of the 1932 forty-third annual Rose Parade was "Nations & Games in Flowers," looking forward to the 1932 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles
Date:: January 1, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Selma Avenue School students, on and around float, Shriners' parade, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1925

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, June 6, 1925, “California the Golden” Notable Achievement, Spectacle of Schools Depicting History of State Acclaimed by Visiting Shriners. The public schools’ contribution to the Shrine entertainment, “California the Golden” … "Caravel of Cabrillo," Selma-avenue school ...
Date:: June 5, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Senator William Knowland atop elephant at three-ring circus in Orange County, Calif.

Date:: October 18, 1958
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Fry, George R.
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Sergei Gerasimov and Playwright Georgrii Mdivani tour Disneyland in fire engine, Anaheim, 1958

Date:: November 28, 1958
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Service Clubs float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1929

Description:: The theme of the 1929 fortieth annual Rose Parade was "Poems in Flowers"
Date:: January 1, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Sesame Street's Big Bird with Flip Wilson filming episode of "The Flip Wilson Show," 1970

Date:: September 16, 1970
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bessel, Larry
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor and producer, disembarking plane in Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1948

Date:: circa 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Seven actors and studio workers during telephone conference with A.F.L. officials in Los Angeles, Calif., 1946

Date:: October 26, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Sheehan Apartments, Beverly Hills, built-in radio phonograph

Date:: [between 1929-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Sherry Lansing, president of 20th Century-Fox, 1980

Date:: January 4, 1980
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Frampton, Mary
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Showgirls at the Cotton Club, New York, 1930s

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [1930s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Showgirls with a musician, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Shriners dressed in Arab robes with float in shape of a camel during Shriners convention parade in Los Angeles, Calif., 1950

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

Shriners in horse-and-rider costumes, Los Angeles, 1925

Description:: A similar photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, June 5, 1925, Shrine Parade and Film Pageant Draw Record Crowd of Big Week, with caption: Pony Horsemen of Osman Temple, St. Paul
Date:: 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Shriners marching in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1931

Description:: The theme of the 1931 forty-second annual Rose Parade was "Dreams in Flowers"
Date:: January 1, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Sidney Poitier holding his Oscar pose with Gregory Peck, Annabella and Anne Bancroft backstage at the Academy Awards, Los Angeles, 1964

Date:: April 14, 1964
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Sign detailing policies hanging inside of a casino, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:: A sign detailing policies hanging inside of 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

Signed headshot of actor Charles Lampkin, 1950s

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [1950s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Silent film actress Sylvia Breamer in court with her sister Doris Kelly, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Silent film actress Sylvia Breamer (full name Sylvia Poppy Breamer Bohan) with her sister Doris Kelly in court attempting to recover $4000 which was loaned to her ex-husband Edmund R. Bohan from her late mother Jessie K. Plunkett. Breamer claimed that Bohan had never paid her mother back and now the money was rightfully owed to her and her sister, the heirs to their mother's estate. Bohan said the money was a gift from his former mother-in-law.
Date:: February 20, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives