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Approx. 12 items: 7-pp. typed "Notes taken during an interview with Mrs. Jones at her home in Sierra Madre" - 8/18/1925, it appears Jones was a high ranking administrator who first came to the L.A. Public Schools in 1875 ; from LAT, 8/29/1937, "Outline map showing locations of School Sites in Los Angeles City School Districts" ; booklet, History of Los Angeles High School, 1873 - 1938" ; 49-pp. stapled booklet, Pioneer and early public schools of California and of Los Angeles (1948) ; booklet, Public Education in Los Angeles County, California, 3/1952 ; booklet, Los Angeles High School Centennial Celebration (1873 - 1973).
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Approx. 12 items: LAT clips and promotional materials--booklets, brochures, annual reports, charts, maps--all boosting tourism in Southern California. Notable items: booklet (in Spanish), "Revista Grafica - Condado de Los Angeles..." 1945 - inside is a sheaf of stapled papers with an English translation of the Spanish & Portugese material ; booklet w/ map, "Official All-Year Club Sight-seeing Map - Southern California," 1956 ; brochure, "15 Guide-Yourself Trips by Public Transportation," 1956.
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The Fanchon & Marco collection contains approximately 1400 photographs depicting hundreds of Fanchon and Marco Inc. sets and performers between approximately 1925 and 1938. The collection also includes three boxes of ephemera, dated from around 1912 to 1940, that consist of newspapers clippings, musical scores, miscellaneous photographs, and the supplemental press books that were included with Fanchon & Marco's promotional magazine, Now (later The Idea), dating from 1930 and 1931. The 16 volumes (now disbound) of photographs in this collection served as a visual inventory for hundreds of Fanchon & Marco sets and performers. The images document the actors, dancers, costumes, sets, and concepts and appear to have been primarily photographed during rehearsals before the shows premiered in Los Angeles theaters such as Loew's State Theater and the Paramount Theater. The first volume contains some photographs presumably taken in San Francisco and later volumes include a few photographs by New York-based photographers. Photographers represented in the collection are: Archer's Art Shop of Los Angeles; Hollywood photographers Irving Archer; Archer's Studios; Curt Fox; Paralta Studios; and Harry Wenger. A few photographs include the imprints of Peerless Photo of Los Angeles, John Sirgio, H.W. Steward of San Francisco, Talbot of New York, Weaver of Los Angeles, and White Studio of New York.
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6 items. Materials include: 20-pp. promotional booklet on LAT Home Magazine (1982); promo flyer (1984) for Home magazine reprints on '84 Olympics; 5 sheets (stapled) with financial figures - "Home Magazine offers national advertisers a better advertising value than California Magazine"; promotional packet in folder, "International Opportunities in the Los Angeles Times" (1984); info packet in folder, "(LAT) Television Times," 1981; ad for "Nuestro Tiempo" clipped from 9/12/1988 LAT.
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Location: 612 S. Flower Street between 6th & Wilshire, Los Angeles, California Job #: 675 Architect/Designer: Wurdeman, Walter ; Becket, Welton Format: Manuscripts ; Ephemera Description: Office correspondence, cost data sheet, 1948 progress schedule, ephemera including dedication invitation, 1949 General Petroleum promotional booklet, General Petroleum Building Press Kit, April 1, 1949, and clippings.
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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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