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Disneyland closed after Kennedy’s assassination, 1963
Photo Credit: Disney Disneyland park closed its gates on November 23, 1963 in honor of President John F. Kennedy. He was assassinated the day before, November 22, 1963. Kennedy is known to have...
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Navy nurses and WAVES playing softball, 1943
Photo Credit: Navy Medicine Dorothy Wheeler, of Lincoln, Nebraska, captain of one of the Navy Nurses softball teams, slams out a long single into left field during a game at the U.S. Naval Hospital,...
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Easter bonnet makers, 1965
Photo Credit: George Brich/Los Angeles Public Library Five of the more than 150 girls who took part in the annual Easter Bonnet Fashion Show at Panorama Recreation Center on April 17, 1965, show off...
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Hostess dwarfed by huge Easter bunnies, 1964
Photo Credit: Los Angeles Public Library Posed amidst and dwarfed by huge Easter bunnies, Amanda Levant, daughter of wit-pianist Oscar Levant, prepares for her duties as a hostess at the Teen-Age Fair...
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First female jury in Los Angeles, 1911
Photo Credit: Library of Congress Photo shows the first all-woman jury in Los Angeles, California who acquitted the editor of the Watts News of printing indecent language on Nov. 2, 1911.
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Exhausted Disneyland visitor, 1980
Photo Credit: Los Angeles Public Library Disneyland visitor Laura Smith naps at the end of a long night on July 19, 1980. According to Laura’s button, she visited the amusement park during its 25th...
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Wedding of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth, 1943
Photo Credit: International News Photo Photograph of the wedding of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth, with best man Joseph Cotten, in Santa Monica, California on September 7, 1943.
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Fourth of July outing on the beach, 1920s
Photo Credit: Los Angeles Public Library Family members enjoy a 4th of July outing on Santa Catalina Island in the late 1920’s.
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San Diego police officers, ca. 1912
Photo Credit: San Diego Historical Society Group of seven San Diego police officers, four on motorcycles, three standing around 1912.
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John and Ethan Wayne on a log ride, 1969
Photo Credit: Orange County Archives John and Ethan Wayne are first on the log ride at Knott’s Berry Farm in 1969.
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Leaving for the Klondike, 1897
Photo Credit: University of Washington Libraries Steamer Excelcior leaving San Francisco for the Klondike on July 28, 1897. Excelcior was the first steamer to carry passengers to the Klondike after...
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Carriage on a Yosemite Valley trail
Photo Credit: California Historical Society Horse-drawn carriage on a trail in Yosemite Valley, California.
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A group of penny-farthing enthusiasts in Piedmont
Photo Credit: California Historical Society A group of bicyclists (with penny-farthings) in front of Isaac L. Requa’s residence on Highland Avenue and Hazel Lane in Piedmont, California.
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Mug Shots: Bertha Boronda
Mug shot: A photograph of someone’s face especially one made for police records. The word ”mug shots” comes from the British slang word “mug” meaning “face.” Early in the morning on May 30th, 1907,...
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Migrant agricultural worker’s family, 1936
Photo Credit: Dorothea Lange/Library of Congress Photo shows Florence Thompson with several of her children in a tent shelter as part of the “Migrant Mother” series in Nipomo, California. Florence had...
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Albert Einstein riding a bicycle, 1933
Photo Credit: Center for Jewish History Albert Einstein riding a bicycle in front of Ben Meyer’s House in Santa Barbara, California on February 6, 1933. Meyer was a California Institute of Technology...
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Crowd watching a solar eclipse with protective glasses, 1923
Photo Credit: National Geographic1920s On September 10, 1923, a solar eclipse lasting three hours obscured 90 percent of the sunlight over Los Angeles. The watching crowd wore protective glasses but...
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Soldier bottle-feeding a puppy, 1946
Photo Credit: Los Angeles Daily News Soldier feeds a puppy from a baby bottle during the Army-Navy Maneuvers that took place off the coast of Southern California at the end of 1946. The goal of the...
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Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth serving food at the Hollywood Canteen, 1942
Photo Credit: Library of Congress Actresses Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth serving food to soldiers at the Hollywood Canteen on November 17, 1942.
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Confiscating a 100-gallon alcohol still, 1931
Photo Credit: Los Angeles Public Library Two Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs examine an alleged 100-gallon alcohol still. The still was attached to the wall-bed at right in such a manner that it could be...
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