Changing Times: Los Angeles in Photographs, 1920-1990

Changing Times: Los Angeles in Photographs, 1920-1990 [http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/dlib/lat/] - From Raymond Chandler's hardboiled gumshoes to the decline and fall of the city's streetcar system, the City of Angels underwent a dramatic transformation from 1920 to 1990. This remarkable digital archive offered by the UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections brings together over 5700 photographs from that period. Culled from the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Daily News photographic archives of 3 million photographs, this collection covers topics that include religion, popular culture, urban development, law enforcement, and the entertainment industry. Visitors can browse through a list of subjects or search for specific items of interest by keyword. To get started, visitors may wish to search for "Bud Abbott", "Oil Wells", and "Urban renewal". >From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2008. http://scout.wisc.edu/