Manuscripts

Los Angeles - Maps

Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1910 - 1970
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,

Los Angeles - Real Estate

Manuscripts

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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Los Angeles Suburban Homes Co

Manuscripts

2 items: map of town sites in the San Fernando Valley. The map is titled "Van Nuys - Lankershim Lands." Surveyor - Y.J. (or V.J.) Rowan, 1910. The area shown included, west to east, the towns of Owensmouth, Marian and Van Nuys, with the Santa Monica Mountains to the south. Area marked "Not a part of this subdivision" is today's Sepulveda Basin ; printout of information sheet on another edition of same map from Huntington Rare Books Map Collection. NOTE: the town site of "Marian" was originally named for Harry Chandler's wife. The district is now know as Reseda.

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Los Angeles County - Sheriffs

Manuscripts

1 item: 96-pp. copied from Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department - Commemorative Book, 1850 - 1981 (published by Sheriff's Relief Assn. of Los Angeles County).

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Speeches - Los Angeles Bar Association

Manuscripts

3 items: three copies of speech Thomas presented to Los Angeles Bar Assn., 4/27/1978.

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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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Los Angeles Newspaper Publishers Association

Manuscripts

1 item: Norman Chandler memo to Richard Robinson on Los Angeles Newspaper Publishers Assn.

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