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Description:: Mrs. Betty McDonald Miller talking on the telephone while sitting at a desk
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Military personnel on the beach during the Army-Navy Maneuvers that took place off the coast of Southern California at the end of 1946. The goal of the war games was to practice two maneuvers: Operation Mountain Goat, an amphibious landing designed to dislodge "enemy" troops, and Operation Oilskin, a landing to cut off "enemy" communications. The Army, Navy, and Marine Corps aircrafts participated in the exercise.
Date:: November and December 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The insert that accompanies this photograph says “City Desk TIMES: Here’s a negative of Fred Davis, San Pedro man who drew ‘Precipitation’ in the Irish Sweeps. Waldo Drake requested the negative. Its [sic] undeveloped. He’s got the story. –Herm Wilson, Matson Line. 1936”. The Item Ark for this insert is 21198/zz002j7vst.
Date:: May 24, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A crowd watches as Mrs. E. E. Remsberg speaks to her brother, President Warren G. Harding, and other prominent people listen in. A map of the United States is on the table in front of Mrs. Remsberg. The black line across the map probably represents the path of the telephone wires that connected Anaheim to Washington D. C.
Date:: [circa May 1921]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Harding Hears Sister's Voice: President Has Chat When He Opens Orange Show: Sixty Citizens 'Listen In' at Anaheim Event: Valencia Exhibit Attracts Throng on First Day," 18 May 1921: II1.
Date:: [circa May 1921]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The curly-haired dog stands on a short table, smelling a candlestick phone with an open book propped next to it.
Date:: July 10, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Pearl Stevenson is questioned about her involvement in Wheeler's accounts.
Date:: January 27, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Similar photograph appears with the article, "Bookies Gone When Police Raid Wilshire Area Flats," Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec 1938: A3.
Date:: December 16, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Arnott, Andrew Hugh, 1905-1985
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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