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. 12 items: a collection of maps of Los Angeles and southern California. Notable: 11/1910, "Van Nuys - Lankershim Lands / Los Angeles Suburban Homes Co." ; map, dated 12/31/1924, titled "Relation of Downtown Section of Major Traffic Street...(L.A.) ; 1923 Edition, "Los Angeles - Pasadena - Glendale - the Harbor," from Security Trust & Savings Bank ; "Gillespie's Guide and Atlas of Los Angeles and 79 surrounding towns," [1926] ; "Los Angeles and Vicinity," Automobile Club of Southern California, 1937 ; "Southern California's Sunshine Empire & the Golden Coast," Roads to Romance Assn., Inc., 1957 ; etc.
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Approx. 55 items: large selection of LAT stories, from 1880s, 1890s, 1900s up to 1980, on the controversy over the proposed location of the harbor, planning for the harbor, building it, and operation of the completed harbor; book and journal excerpts on the harbor; article tear sheet from American West, 1/1969, "The Million-dollar mud flat"; two major articles on L.A. Harbor from "The Quarterly of the Historical Society of Southern California, one from 3/1945, another from Spring 1973; pp. 107 - 127 copied from Los Angeles, by Morrow Mayo, 1932; 4-pp. chronology of how Harrison Gray Otis militated for the San Pedro Harbor location both in private correspondence and in the pages of LAT; a second chronology (on yellow sheets) which largely parallels the previous mentioned one; related material.
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Approx. 25 items: 8-pp. (stapled) on L.A. history which begins, "Our city's beginnings go back to 1769," which was the year explorer Portola and his expedition camped on the river very near present-day downtown ; newspapers and magazine article copies, brochures, maps and other ephemera ; original issue of Terra, Natural History Magazine of the West, Winter 1981, featuring article, "Los Angeles Plaza--living symbol of our past" (pp. 14) ; etc.
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"Do You Remember? Reminiscences of Days Gone By 1894 to 1934," pamphlet of Harry Maidenberg's memories of early downtown Los Angeles, including business names and addresses, 1934; "What to See and Do in Downtown Los Angeles" courtesy of the Downtown Business Men's Association, pamphlet includes map with point-of-interest locations, undated; "The City of Los Angeles: The First 100 Years," year book with photographs and historical facts about Los Angeles 1850 -1950, 1950; "Mayors of Los Angeles," booklet prepared by the Municipal Arts Department, includes brief biographies and images of the mayors of Los Angeles, 1968; "200 Treasures of Metropolitan Los Angeles," booklet prepared by the Automobile Club of Southern California (AAA) in honor of the Los Angeles Bicentennial, two copies, 1981; "An 1886 CHINESE Labor Boycott in Los Angeles," booklet "prepared as a keepsake for the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs," 1982.
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Approx. 15 items: two large packets of informational materials, both produced by the Community Redevelopment Agency - City of Los Angeles (tucked in the folder pockets are a selection of brochures, flyers, reprints of LAT articles, etc.; several brochures for "South Park," a plan for an upscale residential area immediately adjacent to Downtown ; 8-pp. tabloid size newspaper, "Palaces of Finance - A walking tour of the Spring Street Historic District" (Los Angeles Conservancy & Spring Street Assn.) ; etc. Split into two folders.
mssLAT
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Manuscripts
Approx. 15 items: two large packets of informational materials, both produced by the Community Redevelopment Agency - City of Los Angeles (tucked in the folder pockets are a selection of brochures, flyers, reprints of LAT articles, etc.; several brochures for "South Park," a plan for an upscale residential area immediately adjacent to Downtown ; 8-pp. tabloid size newspaper, "Palaces of Finance - A walking tour of the Spring Street Historic District" (Los Angeles Conservancy & Spring Street Assn.) ; etc. Split into two folders.
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