Manuscripts

Homer Laughlin business records, (bulk 1919-1950)

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Description: This collection provides documentation on the history of the Laughlin Building, the Grand Central Market and Homer Laughlin and his business activities. There is also some material related to Homer Laughlin, Jr., Homer Laughlin, III, and businessman Beach D. Lyon. There are a few items that were used for advertising the Grand Central Market.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1909-1997.
Call number: mssLaughlin
Creator: Laughlin, Homer (1843-1913)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Adele Yellin, November 2016. Adele Yellin was the wife of Ira Yellin.

Homer Laughlin business records

Manuscripts

This collection provides documentation on the history of the Laughlin Building, the Grand Central Market and Homer Laughlin and his business activities. There is also some material related to Homer Laughlin, Jr., Homer Laughlin, III, and businessman Beach D. Lyon. There are a few items that were used for advertising the Grand Central Market.

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Photograph album of a family and their home in Westlake Park, Los Angeles

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An album of 28 photographs of a well-off Los Angeles family and their expansive, richly appointed home directly across the street from Westlake Park (now MacArthur Park) in Los Angeles. The photographs were likely taken shortly before American businessman Homer Laughlin bought the home, as a handwritten caption notes it was sold to Laughlin of "East Liverpool, Ohio." Images include photographs of the exterior and various interior rooms, showing furniture, a grand piano, several angles of the parlor, the dining hall, "Papa's Room," and the children's room. Other photographs depict the lush garden around the home, often including children Marion and Elizabeth playing or picking "California wildflowers" with their grandmother Louisa and other family members, including one of "Papa" labeled with the initials "E. G. J." The family home's address is given as 9th Westlake Avenue, possibly what is current day Alvarado Street. Other photographs include women in fancy Victorian dress, images of Westlake Park, the bells of San Gabriel Mission, and a group photograph of "the Dane family, Pasadena." This is most likely Ezra Dane (1828-1921) and family at their "Sunny Ridge" residence.

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Business records

Manuscripts

The Business records series includes financial documents and records from more than 30 of Henry E. Huntington's businesses and encompasses all his business interests (the material also contains some personal financial documents). The companies included in the series are (list is not exhaustive): Central Pacific Railroad, Dolgeville Land Co., Huntington Land and Improvement Co., Huntington-Redondo Co., Kentucky Central Railroad, Los Angeles Land Co., Los Angeles Railway Co., Naples Co., Naples Extension Co., Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. and other Newport Beach companies, Pacific Electric Railway Co., Pacific Light and Power Co., Redondo Beach Co., Riverside Improvement Co., Riverside Railway Co., San Gabriel River Improvement Co., San Gabriel Wine Co., San Marino Growers' Packing Association, San Marino Land Co., San Marino Packing House, Huntington's San Marino ranch, Southern Pacific Co., and Huntington's other railroad interests, Standard Felt Co., and Temple Street Cable Railway Co. The material consists of financial records, time books, stock records, cash books, receipt books, meeting minutes, legal documents and loans, reports, field books, tract maps, blueprints, deeds, journals, ledgers, real estate information, tax information, correspondence and telegrams, loan information, photographs, by-laws and other incorporating documentation, and sales and shipping records. Some of the records document the various crops being grown on Huntington properties and contain information about fruit and crop totals and sales. Several of Huntington's business partners, such as Collis P. Huntington, George S. Patton, Adolpho Sutro, Alfred Dolge, and A.G. Walker, can be found among the documents. In the Huntington Land and Improvement Co. sub-series, there is a series of field books containing pencil tract maps of properties all around Southern California, and a card index to those books.

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Financial records, (1950s)

Manuscripts

The Albert D. Wheelon papers primarily focus on his career at the United States Central Intelligence Agency, Hughes Aircraft Company, and his research on electromagnetic scintillation. The first series primarily comprises of correspondence from his time at school through his retirement years. There are also photographs and printed ephemera related to his marriages and travels. In relation to his career at HAC, there are booklets, newsletters, notes, and photographs related to artificial satellites. The post career files consist of correspondence, notes, and reference material related to a wide variety of topics concerning national security and advancements in space. The bulk of his research related to propagation of electromagnetic waves consists of notes and reprints. Please click on the link in this record to view the full version of the scope and content.

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C. Business Records

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The Edward Durell Stone Collection consists primarily of photographs, drawings, correspondence and publicity related to the Stuart Pharmaceutical Building in Pasadena. The Stuart Company was designed by Stone and the gardens were designed by Thomas D. Church and Associates. Construction began on the building in 1956. The collection was amassed by the vice president of Stuart, Ludwig Lauerhass, Jr. Much of the material was collected by Lauerhass in conjunction with the building of Stuart and the subsequent publicity the building and its architect received after completion.It should be noted that, other than the photographs and some of the correspondence, there is very little in the way of original documentation for the Stuart building. Most of the drawings are blueprint copies and they do not comprise a complete set. Please consult the Curator for further details.

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II. BUSINESS RECORDS (UNRELATED TO STUART PHARMACEUTICAL BUILDING)

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Homer Laughlin business records, (bulk 1919-1950)

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