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Where we are located, on the globe & State Normal School, Los Angeles, Cal. Notes, sketches, etc. and letter
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Normal School, 5th & Grand Ave., Los Angeles, Cal
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Image of the California State Normal School, southern branch, on Fifth Street and Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, California, with people standing on the stairway and grounds. Sign on the front of the building reads "State Normal School."
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Normal School, Los Angeles
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Image of the State Normal School on Fifth Street, Los Angeles, immediately after its construction.
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City directory of surveyors of Los Angeles
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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.
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Normal School Entrance at Charity Street
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Drawing No. 1 referred to in the specification of walls, etc. of the State Normal School. Structures, footage indicated. Alt title supplied by cataloger.
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Travels from Los Angeles City to Malibu Canyon and return
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This manuscript recounts an adventurous trip made by Sidney Bernard Reeve to and from a surveying job in 1901. The Santa Monica Land and Water Company hired him to look for a potential dam and reservoir site in the Malibu Canyon located in the Santa Monica Mountains. Accompanied by two of his assistants, Reeve rented horses, a phaeton, and a driver from the Tally Ho Stables in Los Angeles. The group traveled on El Camino Real to the Cahuenga Pass and continued to follow the historic route as they headed west across the southern portion of the San Fernando Valley. After they passed through Rancho El Encino, Old Calabasas, and Calabasas proper, they continued west and crossed the Calabasas divide and then entered the Las Virgenes Canyon. They were directed to an old wagon trail which led to the Malibu Canyon. After they made it there, Reeve examined the potential location for the Dam Site, but he and his men were suddenly startled to hear a rough voice coming from the cliffs above, which commanded them to throw up their hands in the air. Since the men confronting them had their guns pointed at them, the unarmed Reeve and his unarmed companions complied with this unfriendly request. Reeve managed to use diplomacy to calm the gunmen down. The gang then invited them to have some lunch, and they felt compelled to accept. This meal almost turned deadly when Reeve simply pulled out his handkerchief - two revolvers were suddenly pointed at him. Fortunately, tensions were quickly eased, and Reeve and his men were soon permitted to be on their way. With this dangerous situation behind them, Reeve's group began to head back to Los Angeles.
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Mayor and Common Council. City ordinances
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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.
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