Manuscripts
Travels from Los Angeles City to Malibu Canyon and return
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City directory of surveyors of Los Angeles
Manuscripts
This manuscript is a directory of surveyors based in Los Angeles from 1849-1900. Some of the prominent names listed in this directory include: Fremont Ackerman, Isidore Dockweiler, Fred Eaton, George Hansen, S. B. Reeve, and Alfred Solano.
mssHM 4369
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Mayor and Common Council. City ordinances
Manuscripts
This manuscript contains innumerable city ordinances copied by Sidney Bernard Reeve for various people. A large portion of these ordinances were copied by Reeve for railroad magnate Henry Edwards Huntington. The ordinances copied for Huntington included "Sale of stock in the Los Angeles and San Pedro Railroad Company by City to Southern Pacific Railroad Company," "Depot Grounds of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, Re-located," "Workshop Grounds Southern Pacific Railroad Company, located," "Right of way for the Southern Pacific Railroad Co.," "Franchise, Spring and Sixth Street Horse Railroad," "Franchise extension of Spring and Sixth Street Railroad (Street Cars)," "Transfer of City stock of the Los Angeles and San Pedro Railroad Company to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company," among others. A few ordinances, such as an 1856 ordinance regarding the "Old Plaza, Sonora Town" in Los Angeles, were copied by Reeve for real estate agent William May Garland. Additionally, ordinances involving the "Grant of City Lands to the Pioneer Oil Company of Los Angeles" and the "Concession of Lands to Phineas Banning, Heirs, etc." were copied by Reeve for oil tycoon Edward Laurence Doheny and his business partners Charles Canfield, and Danziger.
mssHM 4374
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A story of a battle between police dogs and a rattlesnake
Manuscripts
This manuscript written by Sidney Bernard Reeve describes a confrontation between German shepherd police dogs and a rattlesnake that took place on an afternoon in June 1928. It occurred while Reeve was on a surveying job in the Santa Monica Mountains. Along with his assistants, Reeve was accompanied by a government ranger and his two police dogs - one male and one female. The female dog was the mother of the male dog. Before the ranger managed to shoot the rattlesnake dead with his revolver, the mother dog had already been struck twice by its poisonous fangs. The ranger thought it best to put the poor suffering dog out of her misery, but Reeve insisted on using his poison kit to try to save the dog's life. Reeve used his syringe to inject the mother dog with two separate doses of permanganate of potash. Clearly in agony, the dog's head had swollen to double in size. Reeve also gave her some medicine and plenty of water. The ranger took the poisoned dog to a veterinary surgeon that evening, and was told that all he could do was take good care of her and wait and see what happens. Then, a little more than a month after the incident, while Reeve was out on another surveying job, he again encountered the ranger with his two dogs. Reeve was overcome with tears of joy when he saw that the mother dog had fully recovered from her nearly fatal poisoning.
mssHM 4372
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Where we are located, on the globe & State Normal School, Los Angeles, Cal. Notes, sketches, etc. and letter
Manuscripts
This manuscript provides information concerning the State Normal School in Los Angeles, which was located at the southwest corner of Charity Street (renamed Grand Street in 1887) and Fifth Street. This manuscript includes three main sections. The first section titled, "Where We Are Located," is derived from a Los Angeles Daily Herald article which was originally published on May 24, 1889. This section describes the precise geographic coordinates of the State Normal School in Los Angeles. The second section is titled, "State Normal School. January 23, 1886," and this portion details the grading of the grounds for this building's lot. The third section is titled, "Normal School at Los Angeles, Cal." This third section briefly describes the origin of the Normal School in Los Angeles. In 1881, the California State Legislature established the school as a branch of the State Normal School of San José. The school opened on August 29, 1882.
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California -- Los Angeles County -- Aliso Canyon
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The Clarence E. Van Gundy papers contain material related to his education, but consist primarily of material related to mining and his career in the petroleum industry from 1903-1985. Series 1: Education papers consists of Van Gundy's class notes and assignments, while a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1930s. Included are notebooks, notes, manuscripts, photographs, and specimen samples related to his doctoral research in the Grand Canyon. This series also includes scientific papers produced from his research related to faulting in the eastern part of the Grand Canyon. Series 2: Mining papers consists of analyses of various oil fields and individual wells scattered throughout California; also included are core report samples, expenses, memorandums, technical drawings, logging reports, and a plethora of maps, many of them manuscripts or heavily annotated. The mining papers are arranged in the following manner: state - county or valley - area, district, or field (if available). Material in the two sub-series may be related, for example material in subseries 1 may reference memorandums that investigate heavy minerals in the San Joaquin Valley in subseries 2. Although the papers are heavily focused on California, there is also material related to other states.
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Election returns from Los Angeles
Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters, manuscripts, documents and maps related to the life and business affairs of Benjamin D. Wilson. Subject matter includes business and social life in California (1850-90), Indian affairs in Southern California (1852-56), the wine industry, the Santa Fe trade, the estate settlement of Solomon Sublette, and the early history of Pasadena, San Marino, and Wilmington, California. There is also a great deal of personal correspondence from Wilson's wife Margaret S. Hereford Hereford Wilson, his daughters Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb, Ruth Wilson Patton, and Annie Wilson, his son John B. Wilson, Ruth's husband George S. Patton, Sr., and many of Margaret's Hereford relatives. Also included are diaries kept by Margaret, Ruth, and Annie Wilson. Other individuals represented in the collection include Phineas Banning, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Joseph Lancaster Brent, Cave Johnson Couts, Stephen Clark Foster, John Charles Fŕemont, John S. Griffin, William McKendree Gwin, Benjamin Hayes, Henry Edwards Huntington, George S. Patton, Jr., and Jonathan Trumbull Warner.
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