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A promotional photograph album for Tanner Motor Tours with an embossed title on the cover, a first page listing tours and prices, and 41 gelatin silver 8 x 10-inch photographs adhered to paper pages. The photographs have imbedded titles and document places of interest, approximately 1930s, in Pasadena, Los Angeles, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Riverside, Ontario, San Diego, and Agua Caliente, Mexico. Three images show people riding in the Tanner Motor Tours motor coaches, or small buses. There are several images of motion picture studios: Hal Roach, R.K.O.-Pathe, and M.G.M. studios in Culver City; Fox Movietone City, Westwood; United Artists, Hollywood; and Universal Pictures in Universal City. Other images of note are: oil wells in Huntington Beach; the Angelus Temple, bearing signs for Aimee Semple McPherson; Casa Figueroa, the home of Ramon Figueroa; and the home of Pio Pico in Whittier. Photographs are credited to Dingman & Dreessen?, Long Beach, California. Some pages are missing photographs.
photCL 627
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photCL 400 volume 2 & volume 3
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This photograph album contains 90 photographs documenting the progress of construction of the Edison Building in central Los Angeles, California in 1917, as well as photographs of some of the building's architectural details.
photCL 400 volume 14