Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
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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
This collection contains the records of the Southern California chapter of the Index of American Design, which was a Federal Arts Project, 1933 to 1943. The collection consists of reports, correspondence, drawings, paintings, photographs, and ephemera, chiefly on California art and architecture within the 18th and 19th centuries, although other subjects and issues are also discussed. Subjects addressed within the collection include the history of African Americans in Los Angeles; Southern California history; California architecture, art and art history; California politics and government; the Federal Art Project; Native Americans in California; the history of California's material culture; old age pension plans in California; the history of Spaniards and Spanish Missions in California; and the United States Works Progress Administration in California.
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Visual Materials
Image of Tom Breneman's Hollywood Restaurant at 1539 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California, with visible signs including "Coolie Room," "Grant Auto Parks Parking," "Castle's Cameras, Photographic Supplies, Home Movies," "Robbins Miller," "Sy Devore," "Gifts," "House of Griffis," "Gruen Watch Time," "Ham N' Eggs," "Tom Breneman's radio entertainment," and "Glorifried Ham n' Eggs From Pan to Mouth."
photCL_555_06_1905

Visual Materials
Image of Tom Breneman's Hollywood Restaurant at 1539 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California, with visible signs including "Grant Auto Parks Parking," "Castle's Cameras, Photographic Supplies, Home Movies," "Robbins Miller," "Sporting Goods," "Quitting Business Sale!," "Sy Devore," "Gifts," "House of Griffis," "Gruen Watch Time," "Ham N' Eggs," "Tom Breneman's Radio Entertainment," and "Glorifried Ham n' Eggs From Pan to Mouth."
photCL_555_06_1904

Visual Materials
Image looking north on Vine Street in Hollywood California, with Tom Breneman's Hollywood Restaurant at 1539 North Vine Street at center. Visible signs including "Chinese Food Coolie Room," "Grant Auto Parks Parking," "Castle's Cameras, Photographic Supplies, Home Movies," "Robbins Miller," "Sy Devore," "Gifts," "House of Griffis," "Gruen Watch Time," "Ham N' Eggs," "Tom Breneman's radio entertainment," "Glorifried Ham n' Eggs From Pan to Mouth," "Thrifty," "Old Crow," "CBS KNX," "Plaza," "The Broadway Hollywood," and "Taft Bldg."
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of correspondence, essays, bibliographical notes, bound volumes, and ephemera either pertaining to or collected by Joseph C. Loughran. The majority of the items relate to Utah history from the 1860s to the 1940s and focus on Weber County, particularly the Ogden area. Items of note include genealogy records for the Fuller, Jacobs-Huntington, Hansen, and Young families; extensive bibliographical records related to Mormon history; a book of poetry and essays by Reba B. Pratt (1880); a book of annotated newspaper clippings by Mormon dissenter Lamoni Call; shopkeeper's day books and account books kept in Ogden from the 1860s-1880s and which feature entries for Lorin Farr, Edwin Smout, George Lake, Seth M. Blair, R.D. Sprague, H.B. Scovill, and others; a wage and account book for Ogden gravedigger Joseph Compton (1880-1883); a record of temple work in Ogden (c.1921-1922); record books of the Primary Association of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 11th Ward, Logan Stake, Utah (1931-1934); and a record book from the Ancient Order of United Workmen, Hall Fidelity Lodge No.3 of Ogden (1894-1900).
mssLoughran colllection
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Rare Books
Collection of newspaper clippings relating to communes and utopian societies in the United States. The majority of the clippings are from California based publications, primarily the Los Angeles Times.
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