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Financial Building Company leases

Description: The collection consists mainly of photographs and a small number of contact sheets, negatives, and slides pertaining to the construction and infrastructure of the bank, its leaders, employees, and presumably clients. Of note are images of board members including former Los Angeles city councilman and Mayor Tom Bradley, civil rights leader Reverend Thomas Kilgore, Jr., and Dr. Leroy R. Weekes, founder of the King/Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles. Also included are newspaper clippings; press releases; communications, and resource referral lists; an August 1964 National Association of Real Estate Brokers 17th Annual Convention journal; a Governor's Commission report on the Los Angeles riots; invitations; advertisement printing plates; a 1975 Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC) Achievement Award engraved plaque plate; biographical data on Tom Bradley; a Second Baptist Church First Decade Award certificate and program honoring the bank; as well as a Man of the Year Award program honoring United States Congressman Augustus F. Hawkins. The collection also contains Financial Building Company leases and canceled stock certificates.
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1964-1966

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mssBOF

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Bank of Finance (Los Angeles, Calif.)(Opens in new tab)

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Purchased from Caroliniana Rare Books, January 2023.

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