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Proposals For A Loan To The Louisiana Tehuantepec Company

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    Farmers Loan and Trust Company

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    The documents provide insight into the business history and practices of the South Riverside Land and Water Company as well as the Jameson Packing House, which shipped citrus fruit, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

    mssSouth Riverside Land and Water Company records

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    Pacific Fence Company Proposal and Invoices

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    The papers provide a unique perspective of 20th century California history and American business history and more specifically, a view of business practices in Los Angeles. The Business Files, the largest series of the collection has 6,436 items. This material includes invoices, receipts, bills of lading, purchase orders, bid requests, bids, statements, and other general account and job information including handwritten notes, drawings, construction plans and diagrams. The Correspondence series contains 768 items. Most of the correspondence is also business-related. The Photographs and Negatives series contains 1,110 items. The photographs (and negatives) include views of jobs (at various stages of completion), plants, machinery, as well as a few aerial views of the company's jobs. The Ephemera series contains 124 items. The series includes: business-related newsletters and bulletins, brochures and publications, newspaper clippings; tax forms, several LA Paving Company related artifacts, a copy of the 1926 Who's who in Los Angeles and a copy of Scratches: a volume of cartoons and caricatures of Los Angeles citizens, 1911 (Ernest R. Werdin is in both volumes). There is also one folder related to E. Russell Werdin's involvement in the USC Alumni Association. The 38 volumes include bid requests, daily job reports, invoices, journals, one photograph album, a plant and shop register, and stock certificates.

    mssLA Paving Co records

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    Pacific Electric Railway System showing proposed parkways

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    Apparently an early layout for the Los Angeles Freeway system. First freeway was the Arroyo Seco Parkway, now I-110. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Miles, feet. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography.

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