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Description:: Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (left) with Antoinette Jones, wife of lawyer Mattison Boyd Jones, during the opening of the first airplane apprentice school at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Perkins visited Los Angeles for two days to welcome the new class of 37 junior employees who were to begin the program.
Date:: February 15, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Leah Wilson sits weeping in the County Jail after pleading guilty to charges of bigamy. Wilson married three men using different names.
Date:: February 01, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mrs. Jack Scheuer (possibly Kathryn Scheuer), board social chair for the Catholic Woman's Club, 1930s and 40s. Frequent event hostess
Date:: [1930s and 1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mona J. Pickett and an unidentified man with his back to the camera. Picture is possibly in connection to her spring 1940 divorce from Carl J. Pickett
Date:: between January 12 and March 16, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Thomas Mann, German author and father to author Erika Mann, seated in a chair
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mrs. Nita Randall, acting as a witness in a murder trial. Mrs. Randall identifed a broken-off blade found in the body of 17-year-old Alice (Jerry) Burns as having been kept in the kitchen of her boarding house. One of her boarders, 25-year-old John Frank Reavis, is accused of the murder.
Date:: May 1, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Famous and influential motion picture producer and co-founder of Paramount Pictures, Jesse L. Lasky, photographed with an older woman, possibly his mother Sarah.Jesse Louis Lasky was born in San Francisco, California in 1880. He began a career as a vaudeville performer in his 20s, which led him to business in Hollywood. In 1913, he founded the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, with his sister's husband Samuel Goldwyn and close friend Cecil B. DeMille. This company later joined with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company to release films as Paramount Pictures.
Date:: 1930s?
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Thomas Mann, German author and father to author Erika Mann, seated in a chair
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Thomas Mann, German author and father to author Erika Mann, seated in a chair
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Thomas Mann, German author and father to author Erika Mann, seated in a chair
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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