Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
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
Approx. 25 items: correspondence related to Theatre Arts Alliance of Hollywood and related to real estate dealings, and related to a traffic accident "Miss Chandler and her mother" were involved in, and other matters in which Martin represented them.
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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. 12 items: correspondence, invoices and other material related to the operations of Fernando Valley Feed & Fuel. Many items of correspondence involve attorney E.N. Martin. One letter, 6/3/1919, is from Myron Wells of First National Bank of Los Angeles to Martin on the subject of "approximately twenty acres of land...located immediately south of Oneonta Junction [Fremont & Huntington Dr.] on the lines of the Pacific Electric Railway in South Pasadena." Huntington Hall, a school for girls, is also mentioned as being on this property
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Approx. 15 items: collection of financial memos, receipts, reports, etc., related to operations of Southwest Company, 1918 - 1920.
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Approx. 55 items: several pieces of correspondence, 1917-1918, between Valley Concrete Pipe Co. and representatives of the Estate of Harrison Gray Otis related to a dispute over payments on work done by Valley ; collection of cashier's check documentation from State Bank of Owensmouth payable to Otis Estate ; one letter, 11/17/1917, to Miss Mary Housel, at Huntington Hall [S. Pasadena girls school], urging payment of $11,000 owed to the estate of Harrison Gray Otis, which Mr. (Harry) Chandler will sign in place of Gen. Otis ; more.
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2 items: booklet, "Santa Monica - a calendar of events in the making of a city," 1959 ; booklet (spiral bound) "A datebook for the Westsiders of Los Angeles - 1982."
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