A Ford Tri-Motor plane circles City Hall, 1929.
The 3rd Street Tunnel, circa 1943.
From a series of photos documenting the 1924-1925 Los Angeles Bubonic Plague Outbreak, which killed 37 people. Here is Ground Zero of the plague, a grocery store on Clara Street, where the Twin Towers jail now stands.
Aerial view of Wilshire Boulevard at La Brea, looking north at the Beverly oil fields in the middle distance, and on to Hollywood nestled at the foot of the Santa Monica Mountains, 1922.
A WPA model of Bunker Hill, Downtown LA, circa 1940.
Los Angeles City Hall under construction, 1927.
The UCLA Vermont campus as seen in a hand-tinted photograph from 1922. The campus became home to the Los Angeles City College when UCLA moved to Westwood in 1929. Many of the original buildings remain.
L.A. Times photo of a Nevada atomic test blast as seen from City Hall, 1951.
Sunset and Vine, looking north up Vine, with a great view of the long-demolished ABC and NBC studio buildings (though the ABC facade is preserved in the Sunset+Vine building.) Date unknown.
Aerial view of MacArthur Park, looking west, date unknown.
