Empire Steel Building Company Bid Proposal and Notes | Collections | The Huntington

Empire Steel Building Company Bid Proposal and Notes | Collections | The Huntington

Description: The papers provide a unique perspective of 20th century California history and American business history and more specifically, a view of business practices in Los Angeles. The Business Files, the largest series of the collection has 6,436 items. This material includes invoices, receipts, bills of lading, purchase orders, bid requests, bids, statements, and other general account and job information including handwritten notes, drawings, construction plans and diagrams. The Correspondence series contains 768 items. Most of the correspondence is also business-related. The Photographs and Negatives series contains 1,110 items. The photographs (and negatives) include views of jobs (at various stages of completion), plants, machinery, as well as a few aerial views of the company's jobs. The Ephemera series contains 124 items. The series includes: business-related newsletters and bulletins, brochures and publications, newspaper clippings; tax forms, several LA Paving Company related artifacts, a copy of the 1926 Who's who in Los Angeles and a copy of Scratches: a volume of cartoons and caricatures of Los Angeles citizens, 1911 (Ernest R. Werdin is in both volumes). There is also one folder related to E. Russell Werdin's involvement in the USC Alumni Association. The 38 volumes include bid requests, daily job reports, invoices, journals, one photograph album, a plant and shop register, and stock certificates.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1955, Sep. 15
Call number: mssLA Paving Co records
Creator: Los Angeles Paving Company(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Linda Carson Werdin, November 19, 1999.
Associated people: Soo Hoo, Peter,; Werdin, E. Russell.; Werdin, Ernest R.
Associated organizations: American Red Cross.; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company.; Ford Motor Company.; General Electric Corporation.; General Motors Company.; Loyola Marymount University.; Mobil Oil Company.; Paramount Pictures Corporation.; Railroad Commission of the State of California.; RKO Radio Pictures.; Sears, Roebuck and Company.; Shell Oil Company.; Southern California Edison Company.; Southern Pacific Company.; United Artists Corporation.; United States.; United States.; Universal Pictures Company.; University of California, Los Angeles.; Walt Disney Productions.
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