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"Jimmy Stewart, who won the Academy Award for acting, is shown at Fort MacArthur, Calif., March 22, 1941, in his new uniform after his induction earlier in the day in Los Angeles. He is a licensed pilot and hopes to go to the Army Air Corps." (AP Photo) (vco0052)
"Federal government sponsored classes in war training for industry ... (between 1941 and 1943) ... at the University of Southern California, War Training Office." (Work Projects Administration Poster Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division) (vco61004)
"Masking operations are performed by women employees in the paint shop of the Vultee Aircraft plant at Vultee Field in Downey, Calif., on Sept. 20, 1941, during World War II. They are among some 300 women employed at the plant." (AP Photo) (vco0051)
"Ceremonies were held in Gridley, Calif., Monday, May 27, 1996, to dedicate a memorial to Seaman second class Warren McCutcheon, shown in this 1941 photo, who is thought to be the first person to die during the attack on Pearl Harbor. McCutcheon, a 17-year-old sailor aboard the battleship, USS Maryland, died instantly when struck in the heart by a Japanese machine gun bullet fired by one of the attacking planes." (AP Photo) (vco0053)
"Japanese citizens wait in line for their assigned homes at an alien reception center in Manzanar, Calif., on March 24, 1942. Many were forced from their homes in Los Angeles by the U.S. Army." (AP Photo) (vco0055)
Lone Pine, April 1, 1942, "Evacuees of Japanese descent arrive here by train and await buses for Manzanar, now a War Relocation Authority center," photographer: Clem Albers (War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley) (cc406c)
"Comedians Stan Laurel, left, and Oliver Hardy, center, stand in character with Dant the Magician on the movie set of 'A Haunting We Will Go' in Los Angeles, Calif., on May 7, 1942." (AP Photo) (vco0054)
Detail of vc40008: "Comedians Stan Laurel, left, and Oliver Hardy, center, stand in character with Dant the Magician on the movie set of 'A Haunting We Will Go' in Los Angeles, Calif., on May 7, 1942." (AP Photo)
"Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart are shown in a scene from the 1943 film classic
Casablanca
... Completed on August 22, 1942, Jack Warner planned to release the film in late summer, but premiered the film on Thanksgiving Day, and ordered a nationwide release on January 25, 1943 because of an Associated Press story released November 8 about the troops landing at Casablanca." (AP Photo) (vco0057)
"Shortly after their arrival in Stockton, Calif., Sept. 2, 1942 to alleviate a harvest labor shortage, Mexican youths immediately went to work in the beet fields. The first contingent numbered 500 men, and was the vanguard of 1,500 coming to relieve the labor shortage." (AP Photo) (vco0056)
"Frank H. Tellez, 22, who is held on a vagrancy charge, models a zoot suit and pancake hat in a Los Angeles County jail on June 9, 1943. Bands of juvenile zoot suiters have been engaging in rioting with servicemen in Los Angeles." (AP Photo/John T. Burns) (vco0058)
Detail of vc40065: "Frank H. Tellez, 22, who is held on a vagrancy charge, models a zoot suit and pancake hat in a Los Angeles County jail on June 9, 1943. Bands of juvenile zoot suiters have been engaging in rioting with servicemen in Los Angeles." (AP Photo/John T. Burns)
World War II Shipyard "Dress Code" Poster (Selections From the Henry J. Kaiser Pictorial Collection, The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley) (cc407c)
"A female technician fits the bombsight mount of a B-17F heavy bomber nearing completion in Long Beach, Calif. on Sept. 23, 1943, during World War II. The mount will carry the world's deadliest bombsight. Better known as the 'Flying Fortress,' the B-17F is a later model of the B-17." (AP Photo) (vco0059)
Detail of vc40015: "A female technician fits the bombsight mount of a B-17F heavy bomber nearing completion in Long Beach, Calif. on Sept. 23, 1943, during World War II. The mount will carry the world's deadliest bombsight. Better known as the 'Flying Fortress,' the B-17F is a later model of the B-17." (AP Photo)
"Workmen search through what was the carpenter shop on the pier at Port Chicago, Calif. after the building was leveled by the explosion of two munitions ships the evening of July 17,1944. Other buildings on the waterfront and in the town itsel were shattered by the blast, which was felt 50 miles away." (AP Photo) (vco0060)
"This aerial view shows the two-way traffic flow on Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles, Ca., on Sept. 19, 1945. The tall art deco building, right, at the southeast corner of Wilshire Blvd. and Western Ave. is the Wiltern Theatre, built in 1931." (AP Photo) (vco0061)
"Soldiers of the 37th (Buckeye) Division wave from the deck of the USS General Mitchell as the transport pulled into dock, Dec. 11, 1945. There were 5,000 veterans of Luzon and other Pacific Islands aboard the ship returning home from the Pacific Theater." (AP Photo) (vco0062)
Detail of vc40018: "Soldiers of the 37th (Buckeye) Division wave from the deck of the USS General Mitchell as the transport pulled into dock, Dec. 11, 1945. There were 5,000 veterans of Luzon and other Pacific Islands aboard the ship returning home from the Pacific Theater." (AP Photo)
"Riding in ambulances, the 272 American World War II fighting men, heroes of Bataan and Corregidor, and captives of the Japanese at Cabanatuan prison camp in Luzon, P.I., move along Market Street during a welcome home parade in San Francisco on March 12, 1945." (AP Photo) (vco0063)
"Governor Earl Warren signing bill restoring Japanese American citizens rights" (California Faces: Selections from The Bancroft Library Portrait Collection, Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley) (vco53019)
"Comdr. Turner F. Caldwell walks from the jet propelled D-558 skystreak which he flew to a new world air speed record at Muroc Army Air Base in California in this Aug. 20, 1947 file photo, after the Marine Corps flyer set a new world speed record of 640.7.The next day Caldwell set a new world speed record of 650.6 miles per hour in the same Jet-propelled Navy Skystreak." (AP Photo) (vco6716)
"Howard Hughes' 200 ton, eight-story tall flying boat, nicknamed the Spruce Goose, is shown in the water off Long Beach, California, the only time it ever flew, November 2, 1947, when it was airborne for about a mile with Hughes at the controls." (AP Photo) (vco6717)
"Rev. Norman L. Hammer, of the Emmanuel Lutheran Church, preaches at the pulpit in the first "drive-in" church in North Hollywood, Calif., on July 10, 1949. Parsons said that if people can just come in their old cloths and sit in their cars that a lot more people will attend church." (AP Photo) (vco6719)
"Rep. Richard M. Nixon stands on the back fender of a Mercury car to address crowds on a campaign trail along the California coast on April 22, 1950. Nixon is running for the U.S. Senatorial nomination in California." (AP Photo) (vco6720)
Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900-1980}
"Actress who also served in Congress (1945-1951) as a Democrat and was defeated for the U.S. Senate (1951) by Richard M. Nixon when he accused her of being soft on communism." (California Faces: Selections from the Bancroft Library Portrait Collection, Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley) (vco0030)
"This is a view of downtown Los Angeles from the top of City Hall looking just slighly south of west on Jan. 12, 1951. The building in the left backround with the mast on top is the Richfield building. Steelwork for the new Statler Hotel is just to the right of he Richfield building. The large buildings in the right center background with the cupola on top is the Good Samaritan hospital on Wilshire Blvd." (AP Photo) (vco6721)
(Left to right) Gov. Earl Warren, Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, Maj. Gen. C. O'Sullivan, who accompanied Warren, confer at Haneda AFB, Tokyo, Japan, following Gov. Warren's arrival to visit headquarters of the 40th Division in Japan. (The Bancroft Library Portrait Collection, The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley) (cc413c)
"From left are actors Victor Mature, Richard Burton and Michael Rennie in a scene from "The Robe" in this April 1953 photo. The writers of some of Hollywood's best-known films are getting the credits they were long denied since they had to work under fake names to get around a McCarthy-era blacklist. Albert Maltz's name was added the movie co-written with Philip Dunne and adapted by Gina Kaus. The original credit listed Dunne and Kaus." (AP Photo) (vco6722)
"Marilyn Monroe, left, and Jane Russell leave their hand prints in concrete for posterity in the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California, June 26, 1953. Their hand prints, footprints, and signatures joined the scores of other film celebrities." (AP Photo) (vco6723)
"Governor Knight and F.G. Gurley, president of the Santa Fe Railway, congratulate Walt Disney on the opening of his fantasy theme park Disneyland. The formal dedication of the $17.5 million creation took place on Main Street in a flag-raising ceremony," July 1955. (Los Angeles Times,
Images of Our Times: Sixty Years of Photography from the Los Angeles Times
[New York: Harry H. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1987], 72.) (lat05)
"This is a photo of Fantasyland at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., taken on July 5, 1955." (July 17 was opening day.) (AP Photo) (vco6724)
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