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Making outdoor decorative candles, 1960
Photo Credit: USC Libraries Dick Birch making decorative candles for outdoor Christmas displays on December 11, 1960.
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Starlet selling Christmas Seals, 1956
Dani Crayne, Warner Brothers starlet, selling Christmas Seals to Roy Williams, of the Mickey Mouse Club, at the opening of the Christmas Seal booth at Hollywood and Vine, Saturday, December 8, 1956.
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Santa at Santa Land in Reseda, 1956
Photo Credit: Valley Times Collection Santa’s helpers, Margie Miles, left, and Babs Manausa, ‘Miss Reseda,’ introduce two youngsters to Santa Claus at Santa Land in Reseda on December 1, 1956. Kristen...
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Boys with a nativity scene on Christmas Eve, 1955
Photo Credit: Los Angeles Public Library David Paulson, 8, and his brother Peter, 3, looking at a nativity scene on Christmas Eve, 1955.
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Ship fitters at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 1943
Ship fitters at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, circa 1943. During World War II, base facilities included a hospital, ammunition depot, paint and rubber testing laboratories, and schools...
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Oakland Municipal Auditorium as a temporary hospital, 1918
Photo Credit: Oakland Public Library The Oakland Municipal Auditorium in use as a temporary hospital during the 1918 flu epidemic.
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CCC enrollees repairing a truck
Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees repairing a truck at the Yosemite auto repair shop in California.
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National Headstanding Week, 1940
Elsinore Assistant Police Chief Barker takes inverted aim. In late 1940, the world seemed to be turned upside down with a war raging in Europe and President Franklin D. Roosevelt running for a...
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The history behind the HOLLYWOODLAND sign
Surveyors and builders working on the Hollywoodland housing development pose for a portrait beneath the sign erected to advertise the site, ca. 1923. In 1923, Los Angeles Times owner and real estate...
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Street cleaners at work after the San Francisco earthquake, 1906
Street cleaners working on the reconstruction of San Francisco after the earthquake and fire of 1906.
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Marilyn Monroe in the woods, 1950
In 1950, LIFE photographer Ed Clark got a call from a friend at 20th Century Fox about a “hot tomato” the studio had just signed: Marilyn Monroe. The twenty-four year old was still mostly unknown when...
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Dumping wine into Los Angeles sewers, 1920
Around 33,000 gallons of wine are pumped into the sewers of Los Angeles in February 1920 during Prohibition.
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Sam the Sea Lion and his trainer at the Pacific Missile Test Center, 1965
Sam the Sea Lion and his trainer Wally Ross head down the ramp at the Marine Biology Facility (at the Pacific Missile Test Center in Point Mugu, CA) for a workout in the lagoon on March 16, 1965. Sam...
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Reagan at the opening of Disneyland, 1955
Ronald Reagan joins other actors and celebrities attending the opening of Disneyland on July 17, 1955.
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Riveting a A-20 bomber at Douglas Aircraft Company, 1942
A Douglas Aircraft Company worker rivets a A-20 bomber at the plant in Long Beach, California in October 1942.
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