Manuscripts

City of Los Angeles Book 1

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Description: Volumes 1 and 2 of City of Los Angeles Book 1, containing land tracts of property in Los Angeles, California.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: undated.
Call number: mssHM 84465
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of March 2020.
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Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors road records

Manuscripts

Set of record books kept by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors regarding ordinances, property boundaries, and construction details for various road building projects in Los Angeles County. Includes 6 volumes of "Road Books," with Volume I covering 1873-May 1882, Volume II: May 1882-August 1889, Volume III: August 1889-December 1891, Volume IV: December 1891-May 1895, Volume V: June 1895-February 1900, and Volume VI: February 1900-January 1902; a volume identified as "Road Orders. Ordinance Book 1 and Minute Books [1 and 2 of the Court of Sessions]," which is dated April 1891-November 1898 and includes Court of Sessions entries on road matters from 1851; an index volume including an alphabetical listing of street names, a property index of matters in the City Archives (Volumes 5-31 inclusive) effecting real property within the boundaries of the present city limits, as well as items from the Municipal and County records (p.1-177; references to archives and county records are in red), and a miscellaneous list of items not located (p.179-188), with numbers on the map index corresponding to the pages where the references are found; and a loose manuscript identified as "Specifications for the construction of the New Santa Susanna Pass Road" (Sep.22, 1893).

mssHM 80341-80349

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Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors road records

Manuscripts

The road records kept by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors document ordinances, property boundaries, and construction details for various road building projects in Los Angeles County. The collection includes six volumes of road books; one volume identified as "Road Orders. Ordinance Book 1 and Minute Books [1 and 2 of the Court of Sessions]," which includes Court of Sessions entries on road matters from 1851; one index volume including an alphabetical listing of street names, a property index of matters in the City Archives (Volumes 5-31 inclusive) effecting real property within the boundaries of the present city limits, as well as items from the Municipal and County records (p.1-177; references to archives and county records are in red), and a miscellaneous list of items not located (p.179-188), with numbers on the map index corresponding to the pages where the references are found; and a loose manuscript identified as "Specifications for the construction of the New Santa Susanna Pass Road."

mss.HM.80341-80349

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Reports -- Statistical areas of the City of Los Angeles

Rare Books

This collection contains professional papers generated by Calvin S. Hamilton during his tenure as planning director for the City of Los Angeles. The Bound Volumes Series contains 45 scrapbooks of newspaper clippings on subjects such as Calvin S. Hamilton and planning issues related to Los Angeles during the period of 1964 to 1986. This series also contains an area plan of Los Angeles (1963 to 1975), land use community plan, City of Los Angeles employees' telephone directory, and a zoning code book. The Correspondence, Manuscripts, and Ephemera Series contains a range of unbound materials that were generated by Hamilton. Most prominently are periodicals that featured Hamilton and the City of Los Angeles planning endeavors and projects, various planning reports, transcripts of speeches given by Hamilton, and subject files on earthquake preparedness and Olvera Street in Los Angeles, California. The Los Angeles City Archives also holds a large collection of Calvin S. Hamilton's professional papers.

605981

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John C. Platt Los Angeles city block book

Manuscripts

Block book made for Wesley Clark (1852-1926) and Elden Bryan (1851-1925), both land owners in early Los Angeles history and who in 1902 setp up the Westmoreland tract. A letter by John C. Platt to "Messers Clark and Bryan" tipped in, 1901 June 3.

mssHM 84288

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Abstract of title to land in Los Angeles belonging to Alexander Bell

Manuscripts

Bound, handwritten title abstract, prepared by Judson, Gillette and Gibson of Los Angeles, containing documents, dating back to 1844. Included are original documents such as tax assessments, mortgages, a deed, certificates of title, and descriptions of the property known as the "Bell Block" or "Bell Estates" on the S.E. Corner of Los Angeles and Alisio Streets in the city of Los Angeles owned by Captain Alexander Bell.

mssHM 40693

City Plant #1 (Los Angeles) Needle valves

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City Plant #1 (Los Angeles) Needle valves

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City of Los Angeles Book 1

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