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Drawing of homes & garden exhibit, Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, 1939

Description:: Bird's-eye view drawing of exhibit space, with houses, trees, formal parterre garden areas, and fountain
Date:: 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Loretta Ennis and Margaret Howden pose at a Miss America event, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Loretta Ennis (right) and Margaret Howden (left) pose at an event involving the Miss America pageant.
Date:: [1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Socialites attend benefit performance of La Boheme at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Socialites mingle at a performance of La Boheme at the Shrine Auditorium, put on by the Metropolitan Civic Opera House. This particular performance benefitted the P.-T.A. milk fund.
Date:: [circa May 12, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Civil War veterans parade on Memorial Day, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Civil War veterans take part in a parade on Memorial Day, 1935. The day's festivities included parades, decorations, and live music.
Date:: [circa May 26, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Earl Carroll and his dancing girls at California Amusement Machine Operators Association Party in Los Angeles, Calif., 1939

Date:: October 9, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Miss Philippine Commonwealth of 1939 Gloria Talaugon with Guadalupe Palomo Malasig of Los Angeles, 1940

Date:: 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Audience watching Native American Indians on stage at event for Santa Fe Railroad 100 million miles of diesel travel, Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1948

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

Daphne Alley in Mexican costume and R. Allen Pelton in Bavarian costume dancing at Folk Dance Festival in Los Angeles, Calif., 1949

Date:: 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Tree planting ceremony honoring Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, April 20th, 1934.

Description:: Trees are planted to honor Los Angeles's patron of music, and as part of a ceremony marking the end of a series of concerts by the Los Angeles Philharmonic as led by conductor Otto Klemperer. The trees planted were nine eugenia trees, planted in a semi-circle around the statue of Beethoven in Pershing Square, as a represtentation of his Ninth Symphony.Pictured from left to right are Klemperer, Mayor Shaw, and John Smallman, founder of the Smallman Oratorio Society.
Date:: April 20, 1934
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

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

Sailors and civilians celebrate Japan's surrender during World War II in downtown Los Angeles, August 15 and 16, 1945

Description:: Sailors and civilians on Main Street in downtown Los Angeles to celebrate Japan's surrender during World War II.
Date:: August 15 and 16, 1945
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

Long Beach parade float for Tournament of Roses Parade, 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

Boy Scout showing two Cub Scouts model plane at Scout-O-Rama event in Los Angeles, Calif., 1948

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

View of audience for Easter service at Hollywood Bowl, 1929.

Description:: Easter sunrise service attended by approximately 45,000 at the Hollywood Bowl.
Date:: March 31, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Crowd watching two dancers at the 1945 Los Angeles Filipino Fiesta

Date:: September 1, 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Female student crowned during paddle day at Los Angeles Junior College, February 1936

Description:: Most likely related to the yearly mud battle between first and second year students and the first time female students took part. Students unknown. LAJC is now known as Los Angeles City College located near Vermont and Santa Monica Blvd.
Date:: [circa February 19, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Members of the American Legion Auxillary hold bouquets of artificial poppies on Memorial Day, May 26, 1934.

Description:: Memorial Day, also known as "Poppy Day", May 26, 1934. Members of the American Legion Auxillary pose with Los Angeles's City Council president. In the front row of the photo are City Councilman Howard Davis, Auxillary members Marie Gore, and Mary Repp. Behind them are Auxillary members Julia Van Sky and Mrs. Tom Rice.Members of the Los Angeles American Legion Auxillary hold bouquets of artificial poppies, made by veterans of the First World War. The poppies were sold by members of the American Legion Auxillary in order to raise money for disabled veterans and their families.Poppies were chosen as representative of Memorial Day due to their presence in the iconic World War I memorial poem, "In Flanders Fields". The poem was written by Canadian physician and Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
Date:: May 26, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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Drawing of homes & garden exhibit, Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, 1939

Loretta Ennis and Margaret Howden pose at a Miss America event, Los Angeles, 1935

Socialites attend benefit performance of La Boheme at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, 1935

Civil War veterans parade on Memorial Day, Los Angeles, 1935

Earl Carroll and his dancing girls at California Amusement Machine Operators Association Party in Los Angeles, Calif., 1939

Miss Philippine Commonwealth of 1939 Gloria Talaugon with Guadalupe Palomo Malasig of Los Angeles, 1940

Audience watching Native American Indians on stage at event for Santa Fe Railroad 100 million miles of diesel travel, Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1948

Daphne Alley in Mexican costume and R. Allen Pelton in Bavarian costume dancing at Folk Dance Festival in Los Angeles, Calif., 1949

Tree planting ceremony honoring Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, April 20th, 1934.

Labor Day Parade. Los Angeles, 1937

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

Sailors and civilians celebrate Japan's surrender during World War II in downtown Los Angeles, August 15 and 16, 1945

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

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

Long Beach parade float for Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1937

Boy Scout showing two Cub Scouts model plane at Scout-O-Rama event in Los Angeles, Calif., 1948

View of audience for Easter service at Hollywood Bowl, 1929.

Crowd watching two dancers at the 1945 Los Angeles Filipino Fiesta

Female student crowned during paddle day at Los Angeles Junior College, February 1936

Members of the American Legion Auxillary hold bouquets of artificial poppies on Memorial Day, May 26, 1934.

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