Los Angeles Harbor

Approx. 55 items: large selection of LAT stories, from 1880s, 1890s, 1900s up to 1980, on the controversy over the proposed location of the harbor, planning for the harbor, building it, and operation of the completed harbor; book and journal excerpts on the harbor; article tear sheet from American West, 1/1969, "The Million-dollar mud flat"; two major articles on L.A. Harbor from "The Quarterly of the Historical Society of Southern California, one from 3/1945, another from Spring 1973; pp. 107 - 127 copied from Los Angeles, by Morrow Mayo, 1932; 4-pp. chronology of how Harrison Gray Otis militated for the San Pedro Harbor location both in private correspondence and in the pages of LAT; a second chronology (on yellow sheets) which largely parallels the previous mentioned one; related material.