Street scene on foggy and smoggy day in Los Angeles, 1953 Date: 1953 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Highland Park Optimist Club wearing smog-gas masks at banquet, Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1954 Date: 1954 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Men watching smog control device experiment on smoke stack in Los Angeles, 1948 Date: 1948 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Jo Jeanne Angeloff rubbing eyes from effects of smog atop the Occidental Center building in Los Angeles, Calif., 1965 Date: April 20, 1965 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Oliver, R. L. Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Ed Costanzo, walking his two dogs on a hillside in Elysian Park on a smoggy day in Los Angeles, Calif., 1980 Date: April 19, 1980 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Smoggy day in Los Angeles, Calif., 1960 Date: March 23, 1960 Resource Type: still image Collection: OpenUCLA Collections Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's electric-powered truck driving down street on smoggy day, 1967 Date: May 23, 1967 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Malmin, John Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Two women on smoggy day in downtown Los Angeles, Calif., 1964 Date: October 7, 1964 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
James Ledbetter examining results of air monitoring station in Burbank, Calif., 1964 Date: February 23, 1964 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Frampton, Mary Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Carol Ledbetter subjecting guinea pig to smog test under direction of Dr. William Blackmore, Henry Swan Jr., Lowell Wayne, Calif., 1964 Date: February 23, 1964 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Frampton, Mary Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Smoggy day at 1st and Hill Streets in Los Angeles, Calif., 1962 Date: March 27, 1962 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
Boy Scout wiping the eyes of girl during smog alert in Reseda, Calif., 1965 Date: October 7, 1965 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Dare, Ken Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Operators Grace Miller and Theresa Vincent in 1959 manning the switchboard at Los Angeles' Air Pollution Control District office Date: January 9, 1959 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Martin, Bob Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Richard D. Hopa and Hiroshi Kimura demonstrating anti-smog device for automobiles in Los Angeles, Calif., 1960 Date: March 23, 1960 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Afton Slade, president of Stamp Out Smog, at press conference marking smog's 21st anniversary, Los Angeles, Calif., 1964 Date: November 17, 1964 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Century City towers peeking through smog with Santa Monica Mountains in background, Calif., 1980 Date: October 2, 1980 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Rose, George Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Aerial view looking east towards Los Angeles from San Pedro- Los Angeles Harbor, Calif., 1974 Date: December 13, 1974 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Sharkey, Larry Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Pedestrians reacting to heavy siege of smog in Los Angeles, Calif., 1961 Date: October 4, 1961 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
View of part of the Los Angeles Civic Center masked by smog in 1948 Date: January 6, 1948 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Cityscape of Los Angeles, viewed from Mulholland Drive looking out on 101 Freeway towards downtown, Los Angeles, 1984 Date: July 12, 1984 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Dryden, Ian Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Bill Bound at entrance to his underground smog alert chamber in Manhattan Beach, Calif., 1971 Date: October 27, 1971 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Malmin, John Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Downtown high-rise buildings surrounded by blanket smog in Los Angeles, Calif., 1973 Date: October 21, 1973 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Whitney, Fitzgerald, b. 1928 Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Looking down from the hills of Arroyo Seco Parkway at Los Angeles City Hall and Civic Center buildings surrounded by smog, 1948 Date: January 13, 1948 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Dr. George M. Uhl, city health officer demonstrating electrostatic precipitator, or "smog catcher" in Los Angeles, Calif., 1945 Description: Los Angeles health officials began using this device to measure air pollution on September 13, 1945. Date: September 14, 1945 Resource Type: still image Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection