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Los Angeles: a succinct history of the city
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The city of the saints, and the city of the angels, or a trip to San Bernardino and Los Angeles
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American solider Edward Otho Cresap Ord gives an account of his travels through California, to San Bernardino, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara in particular. He was under orders to "make sundry examinations and investigations" in that region. He arrived at Santa Barbara via the coasting steamer "Sea Bird," and makes much observation of the native people. Dated 1849, August.
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In just a few months, the steel skeleton of the height limit building was rivalling the Los Angeles City Hall for dominance of the City's skyline
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In just a few months, the steel skeleton of the height limit building was rivalling the Los Angeles City Hall for dominance of the City's skyline. Pg. 167.
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City Map of Los Angeles, Cal
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Old shelf number: eph J2d. For other maps by Whitlock which prominently feature the city's transportation system, see RB 477326, 477767, 492439, and 402169. Street car lines printed in blue. Cover for folded map contains description of points of interest. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Street Index MS note: Eph J2d. from Dawson's.
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Los Angeles - History - 1781 - 1848
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7 items: 3-pp. copied from a magazine (?), "Where the padres erred," 5/31/1936 ; 4 sheets torn from Museum Alliance Quarterly, Summer 1967, "Tracking the founders of Los Angeles" ; tear sheets, Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, Spring 1973, "Los Angeles, California... the question of the city's original Spanish name"; map of "The Old Spanish and Mexican Ranchos," copied from Los Angeles - the epic of a city, 1974 ; LAT clip, 9/4/1975, "L.A.'s founders should be honored for what they were--a racial mix"; tear sheets, Westways, 7/1976, "The Founding forty-four" (on the founders of L.A.) ; LAT clip, 9/16/1983, "Mexico's day little noticed."
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Los Angeles Department of Health documents
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These items, which are copies of bulletins, reports, letters, statements and speeches, all deal with the merger of the Los Angeles city's Department of Health and Los Angeles County's Health Department. A majority of the items were written by C. Erwin Piper, Los Angeles City Administrative Officer. Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty is mentioned in some of the documents. Other participants include several physicians including Lewis T. Bullock, Lenor S. Goerke, and Lyndon S. Hollinger. There are also four newspaper clippings.
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Los Angeles Plaza and Olvera Street
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Approx. 25 items: 8-pp. (stapled) on L.A. history which begins, "Our city's beginnings go back to 1769," which was the year explorer Portola and his expedition camped on the river very near present-day downtown ; newspapers and magazine article copies, brochures, maps and other ephemera ; original issue of Terra, Natural History Magazine of the West, Winter 1981, featuring article, "Los Angeles Plaza--living symbol of our past" (pp. 14) ; etc.
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