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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
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Manuscripts
2 items: 4-pp. "The History of Los Angeles County General Hospital," issued 1/1/1936 ; single-sheet, copied from Associated Historical Societies newsletter,4/1988, "The French Hospital."
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7 items: orig. booklet, Historical Murals in the Los Angeles County Hall of Records Board of Supervisors Hearing Room, "a Federal art project of the Works Progress Administration...", 1939 ; orig. booklet, Los Angeles County Government (1964) ; tear sheets, Los Angeles (mag), articles on Sheriff Peter Pitchess and on the five County Supervisors ; orig. complete issue of newsletter, "Associated Historical Societies of Los Angeles County," 1/1988 ; related materials.
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Approx. 12 items: LAT article copy, 6/10/1931, "Fifth official city flag proposed" ; LAT editorial, 9/14/1964, "Time for a charter change?" ; LAT edit., 10/25/1966, "Reforming Los Angeles' City Charter" ; LAT edit., 11/21/1969, "Charter reform debate" ; LAT edit., 2/23/1970, "Hollywood faces...harsh facts" ; a 1973 exchange of letters betw. Samuel Leask, ex-City Administrative Officer and James Bassett of LAT ; article copy, Los Angeles (mag), 12/1980, "His dishonor, the Mayor" (on A.C. Harper, L.A. mayor 1906 - 1909) ; LAT tear sheet, articles on new City Council District (1st), 1/18/1987 ; LAT article tear sheet, list & brief bio sketch of L.A. mayors, 1850 to 1988, 9/6/1988 ; article copy, Times Mirror (mag), Summer 1989, "A tale of two cities" (L.A. and N.Y.).
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1 item: 1-pp. copied from pamphlet "Los Angeles 1900 - 1961" (L.A. County Museum, 1961), "Los Angeles County Library."
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Approx. 20 items: LAT copies, news clips, feature stories and editorials, on the Chinese community and their interaction with other citizens of Los Angeles; complete issue, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Quarterly, Fall 1967, including article, "The Chinese in Los Angeles"; 2-pp. copied from L.A. City Historical Society Newsletter, 3/1988, "Bing cherries, Pebble Beach and Lotus"; tear sheet, (L.A.) Downtown News, 6/6/1988, cover story on Chinatown.
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Approx. 35 items: eclectic mix of LAT clip, magazine and journal article copies or tear sheets, plus a few promo. booklets. Of note: 5-pp. article, Sunset Magazine, 1/1910, "Los Angeles--a sketch," by Harrison Gray Otis ; article, Saturday Evening Post, 10/18/1950, "Los Angeles in fact and dream"; booklet, "Dynamic Los Angeles County," 1938, published by (L.A. County) Board of Supervisors ; approx. 20-pp. article, Life (mag), "Los Angeles is the damnedest place" ; pp. 124-135 from book, Fabulous Boulevard (Ralph Hancock), 1949 ; approx. 10-pp. from Holiday (mag), 1/1950, "Los Angeles--typically American and prodigiously proud" ; 3 sheets cpd. from Frontier (mag), "Los Angeles" ; original Fall 1955 issue, Los Angeles County Museum Quarterly ; approx. 20-pp. from U.S. News & World Report, 9/6/1955, "A city--200 miles long!" ; 7-pp.,Holiday (mag), 10/1965, "Mining-camp megalopolis" ; 9-pp. from Playboy, 5/1972, "In search of Los Angeles" ; article, Pacific Historical Review, 11/1975, on L.A.'s growth in the 1920s ; cover & article, Travel & Leisure, 10/1978, "L.A. through the Looking Glass" ; approx. 12-pp. from Atlantic Monthly, 1/1988, "Los Angeles comes of age" ; etc. Split into two folders.
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