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Description:: Popular LA Times Op-Ed columnist from the 1930s E.V. Durling poses for a humorous photograph.
Date:: [between 1930-1940?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: George W. McDill, member of the 1935 Los Angeles Board of Education, sits looking solemn. McDill was a part of the law and rules committee of the Board.
Date:: [circa July 2, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia presides over the Pacific coast regional meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors. Boston Mayor Frederick Mansfield served as Mr. La Guardia's secretary. Approximately 60 Pacific coast mayors attended the conference. Unemployment relief was a focal topic at the conference, which was held at Los Angeles' City Council chamber. May 15, 1937.
Date:: May 15, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: An unidentified lawyer approaching Robert S. James as he sits in the witness stand. A map of his home is visible behind him. He was most likely testifying in his own defense for the murder trial of his wife Mary Emma James. He purportedly had an affair with his niece, which spurred him to tie down his wife and have a rattlesnake bite her, and then later drown her in their fish pond. He was supposedly helped by his friend, ex-sailor Charles H. Hope, who was also charged with murder.
Date:: [circa May 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Young actress Ada Williams Ince, 21, divorces her husband of 5 years, William "W.T." Ince, on claims of abuse due to her husband's violent temper. Williams was granted the divorce in Superior Judge Edmond's court, and attributed it to the date of Friday the 13th, her "lucky number", contrary to popular convention.
Date:: April 13, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Popular LA Times Op-Ed columnist from the 1930s E.V. Durling poses for a humorous photograph.
Date:: [between 1930-1940?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mrs. Marie Earl in a close-up photograph, while seated on an outdoor balcony, 1920s.
Date:: 1920-1930?
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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