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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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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
Rare Books
Covers the area from the Town of Owensmouth (now Canoga Park) through the Town of Marian (now Reseda) to Van Nuys, with the Santa Monica Mountains to the south. Ventura Freeway now follows the Southern Pacific right of way. "Not a part of this Subdivision" is today's Sepulveda Basin. Properties with circled numbers had been sold. Term, Rules and Regulations for building.. "Y. J. Rowan, Surveyor, Nov. 1910." "Form T-3-1M. 2-23-12." Relief: hachures. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography.
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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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4 items: copies of press releases and "news" stories on Los Angeles Suburban Homes Co., which profited greatly from real estate deals in the San Fernando Valley in the 1910s. "The "Board of Control" of this syndicate were Harrison Gray Otis, Harry Chandler, Moses Sherman, O.F. Brant, H.J. Whitley. FACSIMILES MAY NOT BE COPIED OR PUBLISHED.
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4 items: ad from LAT, "I need the 5 best salesmen in the City..." 3/6/1913, for Van Nuys - Lankershim Lands ; LAT ad, for San Fernando Mission Land Co., 4/3/1913 ; LAT editorial, "End of a racket," 8/7/1931 ; 2-pp. with report and timeline of a 1913 real estate scandal involving Los Angeles Investment Co., and its president, Charles A. Elder, sent in-house in LAT, 1976.
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Approx. 60 items - memos, reports, a map and related materials. Notable subjects and items include: motion picture ratings systems ; large folded map of San Fernando Valley and adjacent areas to promote The Van Nuys News & Valley Green Sheet (Thomas Bros., 1963) ; materials from Better Business Bureau.
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"La Reina: Los Angeles in Three Centuries, A Volume Commemorating the Fortieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Security Trust & Savings Bank of Los Angeles," includes a pasted-in card announcing the consolidation of Security Trust & Savings and Los Angeles - First National Trust & Savings Bank, 1929; "Los Angeles County - California," pamphlet with statistics and map of Los Angeles area, circa 1931; "The Romance of the Ranchos," published by the Title Insurance and Trust Company, includes fold-out map of early ranchos, circa 1934; "Los Angeles County, California," pamphlet with statistics and photographs, circa 1938.
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