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Los Angeles - Weather
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Los Angeles - County
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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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Los Angeles - Maps
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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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The Mirror and other Los Angeles region newspapers
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Includes last edition of the Los Angeles Mirror, January 5, 1962, with "The Mirror consolidates with Times" banner headline. Other Los Angeles region newspapers include: L.A. Tribune, L.A. Nationalist, L.A. Record, The Evening Express, The Evening Republican, L.A. Daily Star, The New Italy (the L.A. immigrant's guide to homes in Southern California, 1875), South Los Angeles magazine, The Angelino, L.A. Herald, L.A. Express, L.A. Examiner, Daily Free Press (Ventura, California), Ventura Daily Post, Alhambra Post-Advocate, and others.
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Banks - Los Angeles
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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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Los Angeles Stockbrokers Society Luncheon
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Four items of correspondence pertaining to a speech given by Otis Chandler at the Los Angeles Stockbrokers Society Luncheon on November 4, 1976. A letter of praise from Ronald R. Richards, Assistant Vice President at Security Pacific National Bank; a letter from Bob Dresser of Stockbrokers Society, confirming the date and location; a response letter from Otis Chandler to Bob Dresser, reconfirming the date and location.
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Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
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2 items: letter, 7/7/1960, from Harold Wright (L.A. Chamber of Commerce) to Norman Chandler and memo from Nick Williams, 7/18/1960, both on the subject of the preservation of Angels Flight (funicular railway) in downtown L.A.
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