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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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Rare Books
250000
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Manuscripts
The Ely Collection consists of the papers of United States Federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Justice Walter R. Ely, Jr., past President of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and prominent Los Angeles attorney. Roughly one-third of the collection consists of over 2000 U.S. Circuit Court case files for the period 1971-1984, including private internal memoranda between Ely and such prominent fellow justices as Anthony Kennedy (now on the Supreme Court) and Shirley Hufstedler. Included are many cases with both local significance and larger regional or national impact, with a random check finding topics such as offshore drilling, censorship ("The Beard"), race relations and education (Los Angeles NAACP vs. California Department of Education), immigration (numerous INS cases), labor relations (Teamsters; NLRB cases), feminism (NOW), and financial fraud (Equity Funding; Bernard Cornfeld), with private comments by the justices not only on the cases but also on Supreme Court behavior, personnel, etc. In addition, there is material on the Committee on Standards of Judicial Administration, the Criminal Justice Act of 1964, and the Bankruptcy Appeals Panel in the early 1980s. Before being appointed to the bench, Walter Ely was a prominent and politically active lawyer in Los Angeles. There is extensive documentation of his involvement with the Los Angeles County Bar Association, of which he was president in 1962, the California Conference of State Bar Delegates, and the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association, not to mention his own personal practice. He was also an active Democrat, and there is material on California politics for 1956-1964, especially the election campaigns of Governor Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, Attorney General Stanley Mosk, Richard Richards, and others in 1962.
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94467
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Visual Materials
A promotional album with 33 photographs for the California Income Estates in Sacramento County, California, introductory text and map, and letters of reference from twenty banks, chambers of commerce, lawyers, vineyards, and real estate companies. The collection of photographs begins by showing 11 attractive views of California, including a beach, Mount Shasta, Yosemite, and Lake Tahoe, then shows buildings and views in and around Sacramento, followed by a view of the land before development (2 photographs), and 21 photographs chiefly documenting the progression of the Bellani Vineyard over four years, as well as some orchards. One photograph shows airplanes used by the Rudd Brothers in surveying their real estate developments with the title "Rudd Brothers Aeroplane Fleet, first to use aeroplanes in real-estate subdivision." Most of the photographs have titles on the images, and some identify "McCurry" as the photographer.
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