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Description:: Easter sunrise service attended by approximately 45,000 at the Hollywood Bowl.
Date:: March 31, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Pictured is "Pop-eye", the two-year-old Persian housecat pet of one young Miss Betty Jean Welch, 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:: Men from families requiring state assistance hoe lettuce grown on community land. Beginning in 1933, small tracts of land throughout Los Angeles county were used by the government as locations for community gardens, where men left unemployed by the Great Depression could work and grow food to feed their families. In 1933, 890 acres of land in Los Angeles County were used toward this purpose; the program expanded to 2,500 acres of land in 1934. This land was approximately enough to grow the vegetables consumed by 20,000 county welfare families.The man posed in front, W.C. Spurling (or possibly Spiering), is a local man deeply involved in the organization of the community garden programs.
Date:: [circa February, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: View of the Seven Star Sacred Caverns and wishing pool designed by Prof. Liu Hong Kay in Chinatown, Los Angeles, which are artistic renderings of an actual scenic spot in Guangdong province.
Date:: 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: View towards three popular early beach clubs: from left to right, the Breakers (under construction), Edgewater, and the Castle Del Mar Club (1910 Ocean Way).
Date:: [circa 1926-1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Bottom photo: view of Palisades Park showing a walkway lined by plants and trees including a palm tree, century plant.
Date:: [circa 1920-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Taylor, photographer
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: View from Palisades Park down the dirt road incline (now the California Incline) descending to the beach. The road is bordered on the left by a rustic eucalyptus branch fence and the tall center blooming branches of three century plants. At the start of the road, on the left is a sign that reads: "Rail Road Crossing." On the right is a wide walkway of Palisades Park lined by a long lawn with a row or palm trees. Coastal mountains are visible in the distance.
Date:: [circa 1930-1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: View from Ocean Avenue towards Palisades Park, with lawns and palm trees in planting beds, and the entrance to the top of the incline road at California Avenue, with the ocean onthe right and the Santa Monica amusement pier in the distance.
Date:: [circa 1915-1925]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Coastline views of Santa Monica Bay, including: two views in the area of Las Flores Canyon, two views of Castle Rock on the Topanga coast, one view of Topanga Beach and Topanga Beach Drive, four views of Santa Monica Beach and the Palisades Park and one birdseye view of the coast towards Point Dume
Date:: [circa 1915-1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

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