Manuscripts
Southern California
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Southern California - Tourism
Manuscripts
Approx. 12 items: LAT clips and promotional materials--booklets, brochures, annual reports, charts, maps--all boosting tourism in Southern California. Notable items: booklet (in Spanish), "Revista Grafica - Condado de Los Angeles..." 1945 - inside is a sheaf of stapled papers with an English translation of the Spanish & Portugese material ; booklet w/ map, "Official All-Year Club Sight-seeing Map - Southern California," 1956 ; brochure, "15 Guide-Yourself Trips by Public Transportation," 1956.
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Histories
Manuscripts
6 items: 32-pp. booklet, Five Acres of Heaven by Ed Ainsworth, 1955 ; Fall 1965 issue of Pioneer (Valley Federal Savings), "Historic Homes" ; 30+ pp. booklet, The California Story, 1950 ; 24-pp. booklet, Fact sheets on Historic-Cultural Monuments, Cultural Heritage Board - City of Los Angeles, 1966 ; 20-pp. booklet, "...Bonanza IV at The Bradbury Building," 1966 ; 16-pp. booklet, Fabulous San Fernando Valley by W.W. Robinson, ca. 1961 (published by Western Federal Saving & Loan ; note card inviting Ed Ainsworth to a "Coffee Salute for THE NIGHT OF TRADITION," to be held 8/25 (no year given) at the Hollywood Bowl Patio - a handwritten note reads, "I hope you can be there! - Dorothy Chandler" ;
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San Diego County
Manuscripts
2 items: booklet, "History of Julian," Julian Historical Society, 1969 ; booklet, "Portrait of a Boom Town - San Diego in the 1880s," Copley Books, 1977 ; booklet, "California Pacific International Exposition Official Guide," 1935,
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Museums - Southern California
Manuscripts
6 items: booklet, Guide to the Exhibit of Fossil Animals from Rancho La Brea, L.A. County Museum of History, Science & Art, 4/1915 ; booklet, Notes on the Pleistocene fossils obtained from Rancho La Brea asphalt pits, L.A. Museum of History, Science and Art, 11/1926 ; booklet, History of Puppetry, Los Angeles County Museum, 1959 ; booklet, Los Angeles County Museum - 50th Anniversary, 1910 - 1960 ; tear sheet, Los Angeles Free Press, 4/18/1975, "Freedom to ignore vs. responsibility" ; tear sheet, LAT, 3/27/1987, "Money shortage closes Southwest Museum library"; 4 postcards featuring the First Interstate Bank Athletic Foundation Sports Museum, 1985; postcard featuring Kimberly Crest House and Gardens in Redlands, CA.
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Southern California - Growth
Manuscripts
Approx. 35 items: subjects include, real estate booms, increase in automobile ownership, the change from a generally rural area to a sprawling urban "megalopolis,forecasts for the future," etc. Notable items: several lengthy journal articles on the land "boom" of the late 1880s ; booklet, Dollars and census, from Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, 1932 ; booklet, From Rural to Urban, The Haynes Foundation, 1947 ; booklet, The Cost of Metropolitan Growth, 1959 ; booklet, The Southern California Metropolis - 1980, predictions about 1980 from Southern California Research Council, appears to be from ca.1960.
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"The Great Southern California Market"
Manuscripts
2 items: duplicate copies of a booklet, "The Great Southern California Market" (ca. 1926).
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