Manuscripts

New Los Angeles Plat Book

Description: The New Los Angeles Plat Book including restrictions, Realty Map and Service Co., Los Angeles: maps of Los Angeles showing land divisions, complete with street index, 1935.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1935
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.

Issues of the Los Angeles Times

Manuscripts

2 items: one copy of Los Angeles Times, 10/17/1934, complete special section ("Progress Number" features numerous stories on "The New Times Building") and one copy Los Angeles Times, 8/17/1935, complete issue (front page headline on deaths of Will Rogers & Wiley Post in plane crash in Alaska).

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Los Angeles - Streets - Obsolete

Manuscripts

Approx. 100 sheets. Photocopied sheets containing information from the Bureau of Engineering, Dept. of Public Works. Cover sheet reads: "Obsolete Streets" (1974), "Prepared from the Street name card file of Index to Records Section, Bureau of Engineering. Compiled in 1980 - 1981..." Also, newspaper clipping from the Los Angeles Times about street names.

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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 - Weather

Manuscripts

1 item: large, fold-out chart, "Rainfall Chart of Los Angeles County - Compliments of Security First National Bank (of L.A.)," 1935 edition.

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Los Angeles - County

Manuscripts

"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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Secret Six (Los Angeles)

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items: originals and copies of several items related to the "Secret Six" organization of the mid-1930s. Notable items: two issues, 3/9 and 3/20, 1935, of The Unemployed Vigilante (Civil Service Assn.) including Pg. 1 stories on "The Secret Six" ; one issue, 3/30/1935, of The Equalizer ; 5-pp. (onionskin ppr) "Statement to the newspapers and public of Los Angeles City and County, from The Secret Six, outlining their aims and goals ; related letters and information.

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