Days Gone By

Elephants from Cole Brothers Circus crossing Olive Street with police escort in Los Angeles, California, 1953.

Source: Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library

Robert Monroe, Vitagraph Studios, Hollywood, California, ca. 1920s.

William A. Garnett, Smog, Los Angeles, California, 1949.

Source: Getty Museum

Jayne Mansfield with jockeys Johnny Longden, Eddie Arcaro and Willie Shoemaker at the Jockeys’ Ball in Los Angeles, California, February 1957.

Source: Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library

Burning buildings during the Watts Riots, Los Angeles, California, August 1965.

Source: Library of Congress, New York World-Telegram Collection

Girls eating in the mess hall of Griffith Park Girl’s Camp, Los Angeles, California, ca. 1920.

Source: Los Angeles Times photographic archive

Dancing the jitterbug, Los Angeles, California, ca. 1939.

Source: Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library

Allan Grant, Gangster Mickey Cohen (2L) sitting with his girlfriend Liz Renay (L), Los Angeles, California, February 1958.

Two women modeling safety garb to prevent future occupational accidents among female war workers; woman on left wearing uniform and plastic eye goggles and woman on right opening her uniform to reveal plastic bra. Los Angeles, California, 1943.