Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Approx. 45 items: clips and copies of LAT editorials and news stories on city planning and urban renewal, especially in the central city area, 1912 to the 1970s. Notable items: booklet, Annual Report - Board of City Planning Commissioners, Los Angeles, 1934-35 ; booklet, A Report to Honorable Fletcher Bowron, Mayor of Los Angeles (City Planning Commission), 12/4/1942 ; 48-pp. booklet, Accomplishments - City Planning Commission, 1957; 18-pp. booklet, City Charter - excerpts relating to City Planning, 1959 ; booklet of LAT reprints, originally published during 4/1966, "Urban renewal...salvation or new blight?"; undated brochure (ca. 1990), Central City West, produced by Center City West Associates.
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7 items: "keepsake"-type booklet, The Farmer's & Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles...Fifty Years of Banking Service, 1921; advert. / greeting card, "Life more abundant," from Bank of Italy National Trust and Savings Association, 1927; brochure, "President's Statement," from The First National Bank of Los Angeles - Pacific Southwest Bank, First Securities Co., 8/9/1927; 1-pp. letter (no signature, subsequent pages may be missing), to Don Taylor of LAT, on Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles letterhead, with historical "information about the second home of the Farmers & Merchants Bank," dated 10/24/1956; pp. 336 - 341 copied from a book titled A Mirror for Californians [Oliver Carlson, 1941]; two undated ads (ca. 1925) for Citizens...Bank of Los Angeles.
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Approx. 40 items: selected clips from LAT, Downtown News, Time (magazine), various brochures and booklets. Notable items: 10-pp. report from (LAT staffer) Ed Ainsworth to "Mrs. [Dorothy] Chandler," 12/9/1957, "Civic Auditorium Memorandum" ; brochure, (8/1963?) "An invitation to become a founder of The Music Center - a living memorial to peace" ; brochure, "Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra - The Music Center...1964-1965 Inaugural Season" ; cover & article tear sheets, Time, 12/18/1964, story on The Music Center and Dorothy Chandler ; souvenir booklet, The Music Center, 1968 ; 2 copies of booklet, LA Edition - Fall/Winter 1984, with articles on The Music Center and on Dorothy Chandler ; LAT tear sheets, 5/10/1987, Calendar cover story, "The Music Center - What lies ahead?"
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8 items: three versions of the LAT Fund brochure, 1984, 1994, with one undated (ca. 1990); several memos and bulletins, 1962 - 1990, on LAT fund raising events; multi-page report, LAT "Summer Camp Fund Five-Year Financial Summary" (materials produced in 1993).
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Approx. 10 items: copy of LAT editorial, 8/3/1921, "The New Library" ; 49-pp. booklet, "Los Angeles Public Library - Central Building," 1927 ; 64-pp. booklet, "Los Angeles Public Library Branches," 1928 ; 78-pp. booklet, "Los Angeles Public Library - 1936" ; 9-pp. transcript of "Broadcast by Mayor Fletcher Bowron and Harold L. Hamill, City Librarian, Station KMPC," 10/12/1947 ; 108-pp. (plus Appendix) booklet, "Organization, Administration, and Management of the Los Angeles Public Library - Volume (3), Central Library," 1/1950 ; two 1986 newsletters with articles on the fires ; brochure, "Building, Art and Text - the Los Angeles Central Library," 9/1993 ; related materials. Split into two folders.
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4 items: small packet (in plastic sleeve) of Edison pension and benefit fund information, 1919 - 1928 ; copy of LAT editorial, 5/2/1933, "The Political Power Bureau," on L.A. Bureau of Power and Light ; brochure, 8/1937, "Electric Rates," from L.A. Bureau of Power and Light ; 30-pp. booklet (8 x 11"), "Water and Power - 59th Annual Report, 1959-1960, Board of Water and Power Commissioners, City of Los Angeles."
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