Manuscripts

Special project - Los Angeles Historic Trails

Description: Handwritten note with ideas for a self-guided tour of downtown Los Angeles with kiosk displays; a news clipping on "Power of the Place" efforts to commemorate Los Angeles historical sites with meaning to minorities.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1988
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.

Architecture and Historic Preservation - Los Angeles

Manuscripts

Approx. 40 items: article tear sheets and copies from LAT, Sunset, Westways, L.A. Herald-Examiner, Downtown News, Los Angeles (mag), and others. Material mostly written between 1960s and 1990s but examining the Los Angeles lifestyles of earlier decades. Highlights: original of house sales booklet, The New Spanish Bungalow, 1923; multi-page tear sheet, L.A. Herald-Examiner, 12/31/1967, "The Los Angeles that Was"; typed list (7-pp.) of 145 "Historic-Cultural Monuments" in City of Los Angeles, as of 1975; 2 copies of a postcard featuring Dominguez Adobe Rancho San Pedro labeled "Historic Preservation" postmarked "first day of issue Sep 16, 1984".

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Los Angeles - City

Manuscripts

"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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Los Angeles Times labels

Manuscripts

Sheets of blank Los Angeles Times self-stick address printer labels.

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Customhouse in Los Angeles

Manuscripts

Approx. 50 items. Correspondence, memos and U.S. government publications related to the relocation of the U.S. Customs House from downtown Los Angeles to the Los Angeles harbor area.

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Los Angeles - Maps

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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Los Angeles - City Halls

Manuscripts

7 items: commemorative booklet, Corner-stone laying - Los Angeles City Hall, 6/22/1927 ; article copy, California History, 9/1987, "El Portugese...Don Antonio Rocha, California's first Portugese sailor ; white folder, with pocket containing booklets, brochures and other material relating to Project Restore (L.A.), 1990 ; tear sheet, Downtown News, 10/27/1986, "New clothes for City Hall"; etc.

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