Rare Books

Hokubei Kashū rosuanzerusu-shi ryaku

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Description: Double sided folding map of Los Angeles printed in blue and red. One side (28 x 38 cm) shows the commercial district and adjacent Japanese area of Los Angeles, and highlights several Japanese-owned businesses. Street names are in English with Japanese names of locations of interest. The other map (32 x 35 cm) shows the greater Los Angeles area, with most place names given in English. Movie studios, points of interest and the ports of Long Beach and San Pedro are identified in Japanese. Both sides are surrounded by advertisements for Japanese-owned businesses, including the Lucky Taxi Co., Ogawa Clock Store and the Sumida Culture Store (selling records, musical instruments, etc.).
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1929
Call number: 647785
Creator: Olympic Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance

Hokubei nenkan

Rare Books

Year book and directory published by the North American Times, a Japanese ethnic paper based in Seattle.

653034

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Publications - "Los Angeles County Drug Stores"

Manuscripts

1 item: bound booklet (blue), "Los Angeles County Drug Stores - Route List, Area Maps & Market Data, file copy - Merchandising Dept. - 1954," issued in 1954. Information includes maps, store addresses, hours, personnel names, area demographic data.

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"Drug Stores Route List - District Maps & Market Data"

Manuscripts

1 item: bound booklet (blue), "(Los Angeles County) Drug Stores - Route List, District Maps & Market Data, file copy - Merchandising Dept. - 1947." issued in 1947. Information includes maps, store addresses, hours, personnel names, area demographic data.

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Renshū Kantai Hokubei junkōki

Rare Books

Collection of essays written by medical officers on baord the Iwate during the 1929 Japanese Imperial Navy Training Squadron cruise. The essays were initially published in a montly magazine over 18 months and focus on the medical officers impressions of each port and city visited. The main focus was on health, medical and sanitation issues and detailed accounts of hospitals, medical services, drinking water, sewage systems, infectious disease, and brothels were reported. Special attention was paid to the Japanese communities in the United States, Cuba, Panama and Mexico. The text is accompanied by scattered reproductions of photographs.

653762

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Visual Materials

This picture shows 3 of a group of 9 shacks located on the bank of the Los Angeles River and all occupied by single men.

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Publications - "Greatest Advertising Force in Western America"

Manuscripts

Booklet, "Greatest Advertising Force in Western America. Los Angeles Times: America's First Newspaper" (1955). Booklet, "Survey of nurserymen in the Los Angeles market" (1956). Booklet, "Survey of Shoppers J. J. Newberry's 5th and Broadway Store. Conducted by Facts Consolidated and Presented by THE MIRROR. Prepared for J. L. Packard, Manager, Newberry's 5th & Broadway Store" (circa 1955).

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Hokubei Kashū rosuanzerusu-shi ryaku

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