Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Laws of the Corso mining district, Inyo County, Calif
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Assortment of indentures, contracts, and expense reports relating to the development of Yuba County, California. Includes indentures and contracts for land sales, driving a mule train, the operation of toll bridges (including the Bullards Bar Bridge and one on the North Yuba River), public highway right of way, mining claims (including the Connor and Daily mine in the Cherokee Mining District), and an account of provisions provided to the Yuba County Hospital. Other items include a list of tax payers in Yuba Road District No.6, a report of criminal activity in New York Township, a variety of expense reports and claims submitted to Yuba County, a resolution on water rates in Yuba County, a letter regarding building a wall near the Marysville Courthouse, an expense claim for the 1889 Mechanic's Fair Exhibit in San Francisco, a letter regarding the Marysville Tunnel and Quartz Mining Company, and a letter and map regarding redistricting in the Buckeye County School District.
mssHM 74700-74734
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Manuscripts
Notarized document signed by John Nightingale in which he describes land in the Bencicia district of San Joaquin County that he claimed in April 1853.
mssHM 73983
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Manuscripts
Microfilm of Book "A" of the Box Elder Mining District records, beginning with the By-Laws of the Box Elder Mining District adopted August 7, 1880, and signed by Committee secretary and chairman F.J.P. Pascoe. The book also includes minutes from a meeting of the Box Elder Mining District held at Brigham City on August 26, 1880, and notices of location for various mines, including the Highland Mine and extensions, the Yellow Jacket Mine and extensions, the King Fisher Mine, the Sunny Side Mine, the Great Western Tunnel Mine, the Nabob Mine, the Elizabeth Mine, the Louisa Mine, the Arabella Mine, the American Mine, the Uintrah Mine, the Lake View Mine, the Excelsior Mine, the Keystone Mine, the Henrietta Mine, the Star Metal Mine, the Locators Storm Cloud Mine, and the Box Elder Quarry.
MSS MFilm 00120
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Visual Materials
The collection consists of 70 panoramic negatives, 3207 copy prints, and corresponding negatives and interpositives, covering the years 1924-1948. The images depict specific places, businesses, and commercial activity in both central and southern California, with the emphasis on Los Angeles County. The collection provides a broad overview of the commercial landscape of the area during the first half of the twentieth century. In addition, there is also a tape measure produced by the studio in the 1950s. The 70 panoramic negatives depict undeveloped and newly developed areas of Los Angeles, including Pacific Palisades, Santa Monica, and Alhambra, views of Lido Isle in Newport, and Republic Studios in Studio City. There are also images of Los Angeles industries, including film and automotive, as well as specific locations, such as the Hollywood Bowl, and events, such as swimming events during the 1932 Olympics. The first part of the collection of copy prints depicts specific towns, businesses, street scenes and landscapes in central and southern California, specifically El Dorado, Inyo, and Nevada Counties, Lake Tahoe, Kern, Tulare, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Imperial Counties, Mexico, and Los Angeles County. The bulk of these images depict Ventura, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Los Angeles Counties. The Ventura County images concentrate on Port Hueneme. The Orange County images depict Fullerton, Santa Ana, Anaheim, Laguna Beach, Capistrano Beach, Balboa and Newport Beach, and Lido Isle. In Riverside County, the images depict Lake Elsinore, Perris, Corona, the Sherman Institute, Riverside, Norco, Palm Springs, San Jacinto, Hemet, and a number of hot springs. The San Bernardino images depict Twentynine Palms, Fontana, Chino, Ontario, San Bernardino, Big Bear and Lake Arrowhead. In San Diego County, images depict Mount Helix, La Mesa, El Cajon, Alpine, Pine Valley, Descanso, Lakeside, Ramona, Escondido, Vista, Rancho San Luis Rey, Bonsall, Tahiti Beach, Del Mar, Solana Beach, La Jolla, Casa de Manana, and the San Diego Fairgrounds (Balboa Park). Los Angeles County images form the bulk of the second section. Images of the San Gabriel Valley and nearby areas depict Flintridge, Altadena, Monrovia, Glendora, Azusa, East Los Angeles, Montebello, Whittier, the Pio Pico Adobe, Santa Fe Springs, Downey, Norwalk, Bellflower, El Monte, Baldwin Park, Covina, the Pomona Fairgrounds, San Marino, Pasadena, Sierra Madre, Alhambra, El Sereno, San Gabriel, Monterey Park, Arcadia, and Santa Anita. Images of Los Angeles beach communities include Long Beach, San Pedro and Fish Harbor, Palos Verdes and Rancho Palos Verdes, Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Playa del Rey, Venice, Santa Monica and coastal areas. The collection also depicts West Los Angeles, specifically Westwood and the University of California, Los Angeles, Bel Air, and Brentwood. Central, East and South Los Angeles are represented by images of Hollywood, Los Feliz, Culver City, Leimert Park, Baldwin Hills, Inglewood, View Park, Hawthorne, Westchester, and Gardena. The San Fernando Valley images depict Woodland Hills, Encino, Sherman Oaks, North Hollywood, and Studio City. Also present in the collection are images of specific locations within Los Angeles proper (such as the Los Angeles riverbed, the Farmer's Market and Gilmore Stadium, Olvera Street, Los Angeles theaters, hospitals and businesses, City Hall, the Los Angeles Public Library, the Los Angeles Times Building under construction, Memorial Coliseum and the Olympic pool, and the Pan-Pacific Auditorium). Of particular note are the series of photographs that depict new housing tracts (Midwick View Estates, Rolling Knolls, Rolling Hills Estates, Beverly Wood), Wilshire Boulevard from Westlake to Western Avenues, the business district around La Brea Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard, and the construction of the Federal Building and Post Office in central Los Angeles. The collection also contains images arranged by subject. These include photographs of advertising (signs, billboards and displays); radio and television communications; clubs; people (including Herbert Hoover, J.W. Robinson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Frank Shaw, Archibald Joseph Cronin, and Bing Crosby); transportation (including Los Angeles Railway cars and Union Station); industries (food processing, fruits, water, rubber, steel, quarries, entertainment, and miscellaneous); construction (dams and aqueducts, housing); recreation; circuses; police and fire; cemeteries, charities and relief; religion; photography and photographers; World War II effort; medical; ranches; automobiles; trucks; buses; motorcycles; automobile dealerships and used car lots; racing cars; races; National Auto School; and aviation. Of particular note are the series of photographs depicting tire production by Goodyear; the interior of the Bethlehem Steel Plant; the construction of the Metropolitan aqueduct and Parker Dam; the construction of Boulder (now Hoover) Dam; assembly lines in Ford, Plymouth, Studebaker, and Willys-Knight plants; photographs of Amelia Earhart, Howard Hughes, and other aviators; images of the Douglas Aircraft plant; Timm Aircraft plastic plane construction; and images of Vultee Aircraft plants.
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Manuscripts
The collection contains business correspondence, documents, and ephemera relating to the operation of the Perris District Defense Association, and a single document and multiple pieces of ephemera relating to the operation of the Val Verde Water Company. The materials are organized into two series 1. Perris District Defense Association material; and 2. Val Verde Water Company material. Within each series the materials are divided into sub-series of document type, and organized chronologically within these subseries. The one letter authored by the Val Verde water company to the Perris District Defense Association (HM 74201) is in the sub-series of letters pertaining to the Perris District Defense Association. The correspondence of the Perris District Defense Association (HM 74187-74204) consist primarily of letters relating to the legal strategy the association regarding their attempt to release District property holders from their financial obligations to the Perris Irrigation District. HM 74195, a letter soliciting contributions from property holders in the district, offers a good overview of the aims of the association. HM 74205 is the agreement between the association and an attorney working in the legal department of the Southern California Railroad Company, who assisted the law firm of Works & Lee in serving as legal advisors for the association. The minutes of the Perris District Defense Association, HM 74206, offers perhaps the most complete record in the collection of the association's activities. The materials of the Val Verde Water Co. are much more incomplete. The draft contract, HM 74207 outlines the company's intent to solicit subscriptions for the purpose of constructing a pumping station, and the two folders of ephemera provide a very partial sense of the company's quotidian expenses and activities. There are also nine volumes in the collection; arranged chronologically. They include cash books, ledgers, journals, stock ledger, transfer journal, record book, and a minutes book that includes meeting minutes and the by-laws of the Val Verde Water Co. The material found in Minutes Book (HM 74416) includes: receipts, invoices, reports, proxy notes, meeting minutes, insurance information, miscellaneous financial documents and one piece of correspondence all related to the Val Verde Water Co.
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Manuscripts
Collection of correspondence and reports related to Frank E. Trask's work with water resource and flood control projects in Southern California from 1931 to 1936. Topics covered include the Los Angeles County Flood Control District's 1927-1931 comprehensive flood control plan, which included the creation of permanent flood channels, reservoirs, and debris basins throughout Los Angeles County; the construction of the Colorado River Aqueduct, which was funded by a $220,000,000 Metropolitan Water District of Southern California bond in 1931; and the funding for various flood control and water resource projects in Southern California from the Fulmer Act (of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration) and the Clarke-McNary Fund. In addition to Trask, notable correspondents include C.H. Howell (Chief Engineer for the Los Angeles County Flood Control District), Senator Hiram Johnson, Senator William G. McAdoo, John Anson Ford, and George Harris Collingwood (American Forestry Association). Also includes correspondence relating to the Municipal League of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, the National Recovery Administration, the Santa Monica Mountains Fire Prevention Association, the Venice Flood Relief Association, the American Forestry Association, and the National Rivers and Harbors Congress.
mssHM 73000-73025
photCL Whitt
mssHM 74187-74207, mssHM 74412-74420