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San Marino, CA 91108
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What is the outlook?
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Student Outlook was a weekly publication made for junior and senior high students. It was a newsletter focusing on local issues, edited by teachers, and sanctioned by the Los Angeles city school system. Each issue included a few articles and a quiz on current events. Date range is 1961-1986.
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Manuscripts
The papers provide a unique perspective of 20th century California history and American business history and more specifically, a view of business practices in Los Angeles. The Business Files, the largest series of the collection has 6,436 items. This material includes invoices, receipts, bills of lading, purchase orders, bid requests, bids, statements, and other general account and job information including handwritten notes, drawings, construction plans and diagrams. The Correspondence series contains 768 items. Most of the correspondence is also business-related. The Photographs and Negatives series contains 1,110 items. The photographs (and negatives) include views of jobs (at various stages of completion), plants, machinery, as well as a few aerial views of the company's jobs. The Ephemera series contains 124 items. The series includes: business-related newsletters and bulletins, brochures and publications, newspaper clippings; tax forms, several LA Paving Company related artifacts, a copy of the 1926 Who's who in Los Angeles and a copy of Scratches: a volume of cartoons and caricatures of Los Angeles citizens, 1911 (Ernest R. Werdin is in both volumes). There is also one folder related to E. Russell Werdin's involvement in the USC Alumni Association. The 38 volumes include bid requests, daily job reports, invoices, journals, one photograph album, a plant and shop register, and stock certificates.
mssLA Paving Co records
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Manuscripts
The collected issues of Student Outlook for the indicated time frame, including the 4-pp. news sheets, teacher bulletins and quiz answer sheets.
mssLAT
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Manuscripts
The collected issues of Student Outlook for the indicated time frame, including the 4-pp. news sheets, teacher bulletins and quiz answer sheets.
mssLAT
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Manuscripts
The collected issues of Student Outlook for the indicated time frame, including the 4-pp. news sheets, teacher bulletins and quiz answer sheets.
mssLAT
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Manuscripts
The collected issues of Student Outlook for the indicated time frame, including the 4-pp. news sheets, teacher bulletins and quiz answer sheets.
mssLAT