Manuscripts

Shell Oil Company - service station

Description: Approx. 30 items: letters, memos, Title Insurance and Trust Co. forms, bill or sale documents related, in the main, to dealings between Southwest Land Co. and Shell Oil Co. The names of Harry Chandler, Marian Otis Chandler, Frank X. Pfaffinger and Elizabeth Pfaffinger appear in the material.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1934 - 1936
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.

Tejon Ranch Company

Manuscripts

Approx. 70 items: letters, balance sheets, legal and banking documents related to ownership and operation of Tejon Ranch in the Tehachapi Mountains, fifty miles north of Los Angeles. Includes: "Minutes of meeting of Bondholders' Committee (11/30/1944)" ; multiple copies of "Request - To Title Insurance and Trust Company... (subordination agreement)" ; collected correspondence of the Tejon Ranch Co. for the period 1944 - 1948.

mssLAT

Image not available

Brant, O. F

Manuscripts

1 item: LAT appreciation / obituary for O.F. Brant, of Title Insurance & Trust Co., written by Harry Chandler.

mssLAT

Image not available

Legal - Chandler Family & Chandis Securities

Manuscripts

The following are bound and loose in box 185: No. 12550 In the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. May Chandler Goodan, Marian Otis Chandler, Norman Chandler, Philip Chandler, Constance Chandler Crowe, Helen Chandler Garland, and Ruth C. Williamson. Brief for the Petitioner, Brief for the Respondents, Transcript of Record; No. 9735 United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, George D. Martin, Internal Revenue Agent, v. Chandis Securities Company and H.E. Downing. Appellees' Brief (2 copies), Appellees' Cumulative Brief (3 copies), Transcript of Record (2 copies, one with tabs); Before the Tax Court of the United States Docket No. 3034, Trust No. 1; Harry Chandler, Norman Chandler, and Marian Otis Chandler, trustees v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Brief for Petitioner (3 copies), Reply Brief for Petitioner (3 copies); Before the Tax Court of the United States Docket No. 3035, Trust No. 2; Marian Otis Chandler, et. al., present trustees v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Brief for Petitioner (3 copies), Reply Brief for Petitioner (3 copies); No. 8262 United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Marian Otis Chandler. Brief for Petitioner, Brief for Respondent, and Transcript of Record (2 copies).

mssLAT

Image not available

Pfaffinger, Frank - Wickersham Account (1 of 2)

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items: multi-page "Title Trust Agreement" (1/7/1928) - "Whereas...(Frank X. Pfaffinger) has loaned to Sam Wickersham...the sum of...$185,000" ; 10-pp. "Pfaffinger - Wickersham Trust Statement," 10/1/1929 ; 46-pp. Agreement of "Property Transferred" related to above Trust (with brown backing) ; invoices, notes, financial statements ; 49-pp. bound "Summary," cover title is "Wickersham Collection Chinese Ceramics" by Herbert J. Devine, 10/1930 ; more.

mssLAT

Image not available

Pfaffinger, Frank - Wickersham Account (2 of 2)

Manuscripts

mssLAT

Image not available

Pfaffinger - Wickersham Trust

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items: notes, letters, financial statements, invoices, involving the Pfaffinger - Wickersham Trust, and other material from Faries and Williamson, attorneys at law.

mssLAT

Shell Oil Company - service station

Opening Hours

Admission Info and Tickets

You might also be interested in

Tejon Ranch Company

Brant, O. F

Legal - Chandler Family & Chandis Securities

Pfaffinger, Frank - Wickersham Account (1 of 2)

Pfaffinger, Frank - Wickersham Account (2 of 2)

Pfaffinger - Wickersham Trust