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Description:: Left to Right: Miguel Roura, Cuauhtli Roura, Yolanda Roura, Quetzal Roura, and Quiche Roura.This family portrait was taken at a professional studio at the Montebello mall. This was their first family portrait.
Date:: November 1991
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Latino Families Photo Project

Description:: Left to Right:Jaime David Vargas, Daniel Vargas, and Rodrigo Vargas Jr. This portrait was taken in a professional photography studio in Santa Monica, CA.
Date:: mid 1970s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Latino Families Photo Project

Description:: Pictured is "Pop-eye," the two-year-old Persian housecat in the arms of his owner, Miss Betty Jean Welch. Pop-eye became famous for killing a four-foot-long black diamond rattlesnake. The snake invaded Pop-eye's backyard, wherein Pop-eye defended his territory and bravely defeated the reptilian invader.
Date:: March 15, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A photograph of "Prince" (not, as captioned here, "Grand Duke") Michael Romanoff, a Hollywood restaurateur and actor, who claimed to be a member of the Russian royal family. This claim was widely known to be false; however, Romanoff kept up the deception throughout his life in Los Angeles.Romanoff was born Hershel Geguzin in Lithuania. He traveled extensively before settling in Los Angeles and into the role of Michael Romanoff. In Hollywood, he acted on stage and in film, but was perhaps most successful as the owner of the restaurant "Romanoff's" in Beverly Hills. The restaurant was popular for its chocolate souffles, and was frequented by many celebrities. It closed its doors in 1962.
Date:: 1934?
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Herbert C. Legg, chairman of the Los Angeles County Board of Commissioners from 1934 to 1938, representing Los Angeles' 1st Distict. Legg served the city's 1st District again from 1950 until 1958.
Date:: 1934-1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Herbert C. Legg, chairman of the Los Angeles County Board of Commissioners from 1934 to 1938, representing Los Angeles' 1st Distict. Legg served the city's 1st District again from 1950 until 1958.
Date:: 1934-1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Mantz, Paul; Mantz, Myrtle L.
Date:: [circa February, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Mantz, Paul; Mantz, Myrtle L.
Date:: [circa February, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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