Manuscripts

Los Angeles History Project

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Description: This interview bank consists of 92 3/4 inch videocassettes and 2 binders of corresponding transcripts collectively entitled "Los Angeles History Project." The videotapes include interviews with prominent Los Angeles residents and were used to create volumes 2 and 3 of the "Los Angeles History Project".
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: [1987-1990]
Call number: mssLAHP
Creator: KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of KCETLink, May 2017.
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Histories And Outside Publications - Los Angeles Times Book Project

Manuscripts

Originally maintained as the Los Angeles Times History Center, the Los Angeles Times Records contains materials related to the business life of the Los Angeles Times and its owners - both corporate and personal. The business material is roughly organized by Times department; research material collected by the History Center to document the Times and materials related to the Otis/Chandler families are organized by subject. The records include accounting papers, legal documents, correspondence, directories, memoranda, reprints of articles, supplements to the newspaper, manuscripts, oral history transcripts, ephemera, newspapers, newspaper clippings, and objects. The collection includes a significant amount of audiovisual material, including photographs, film, and audio tapes. There are also several samples of printed newspapers that were collected by the Times History Center.

mssLAT

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Metropolitan Los Angeles History Project

Manuscripts

The collection contains letters, documents, manuscripts, photographs and ephemera related to the life and career of Los Angeles mayor and Superior Court judge Fletcher Bowron. It includes official correspondence kept during Bowron's term as mayor of Los Angeles, reports, and information on his election campaigns. There is also source material gathered for his Metropolitan Los Angeles History Project, particularly in the fields of public housing, city planning, and transportation. In the addenda there are 38 bound volumes containing addresses by Mayor Bowron from September 1938 to July 1953 as well as oversize awards, albums and maps.

mssBowron

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History - Chronologies/Milestones

Manuscripts

Approx. 40 items. [Materials compiled between 1987 and 1993] Subjects include: "Major Events in Recent Los Angeles Times History," multi-page lists of LAT events and accomplishments, dated 12/92, 2/93, etc. Other document titles include "Technological Milestones," "Highlights of 1992," "Recent (also "Major...") Changes at the Los Angeles Times," a history of "LAT Sunday Supplements," "Some LAT Firsts,"L.A.T. Timeline, 1960-1980," etc.

mssLAT

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Los Angeles County Transportation Commission -- Rail transit project

Rare Books

The Southern California Regional Planning Collection was donated by the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Department, George Marr, Edward Holden, Glen Blossom, Simon Eisner, and Glenda Hamilton to the Huntington Library in 1997. The Southern California Regional Planning Collection is organized into two series: 1) Published Planning Reports Series (organized by individual item numbers) 2) Internal Documents Series (organized by box and folder numbers).The Published Planning Reports Series contains 1,913 individual items that were generated by the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission, Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning, and other planning agencies and organizations in Southern California. Type of reports include annual reports, area study, comprehensive planning reports, census, conference papers, general plans, guides to zoning and subdivision, planning proposals, traffic and environmental surveys, zoning ordinance, etc. The date range of this series is 1909 to 2003.The Internal Documents Series contains approximately 913 items in 14 Hollinger boxes. Similar to the Published Planning Reports Series, the majority of the documents were generated by the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission and Department of Regional Planning, followed by the Los Angeles Department of City Planning. Type of documents include census reports, conference papers, maps, memorandums, minutes, photos, plans, reports, speeches, summaries, etc. The date range is 1924 to 2000.

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Los Angeles Region Goals Project -- We can make it. Why not

Rare Books

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Los Angeles (Calif.). Department of City Planning -- Vernon-Central project

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605982

Los Angeles History Project

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