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Maxwell Hunley Rare Books records

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Description: This collection consists of a ledger recording sales, purchases and expenses for the period 1941-1948; ephemera including a copy of Maxwell O. Hunley's lease for 9533 Santa Monica Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California dated June 29, 1962; and catalogs of stock from Maxwell Hunley Rare Books.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1930-1992.
Call number: mssMaxwellHunleyrecords
Creator: Maxwell Hunley Rare Books (Los Angeles, Calif.)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Kenneth Karmiole Bookseller, Inc., February 2012.

Maxwell Hunley Rare Books records, 1930-1992

Manuscripts

This collection consists of a ledger recording sales, purchases and expenses for the period 1941-1948; ephemera including a copy of Maxwell O. Hunley's lease for 9533 Santa Monica Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California dated June 29, 1962; and catalogs of stock from Maxwell Hunley Rare Books.

mssMaxwellrecords

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Los Angeles County ledger recording commercial licenses

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A ledger recording commercial licenses issued by the County of Los Angeles between 1852 and 1855. The licenses are for selling general merchandise; operating a restaurant; selling wine and liquor; and being a foot peddler. For each license granted, the ledger records the date of transaction, period of the license (mostly only good 3-6 months), person to whom it was granted, and fee paid to the County. Only 25 pages of the ledger are used, but they record about 400 transactions and seem to be a complete record of the period May 1852 to May 1855.

mssHM 83162

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Land rights records for property included in the Maxwell Land Grant

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Assorted court records and land deeds related to land originally included in the Maxwell Land Grant. Includes a quit-claim deed for land in San Miguel County, New Mexico, between Madison Calhoun and Henry M. Porter (1882); court records related to Eliza C. Winburn vs. Alice Clara Heck et al. (including Lucien B. Maxwell, Charles Beaubien, and the Maxwell Land Company), 1930; a warranty deed between J.A. Heyde and Company and Thomas P. James for land in Union County, New Mexico (1906); a grid map of land belonging to the Vinson Land Company in Otero County, Colorado; and court papers for Walter Clement et al. vs. William H. Dyer and Charles F. Whitcher regarding the Maxwell Land Grant and Good Fairy Mine (1897). Also includes a manuscript entitled "Fortunes in Western Lands," which speculates on the future of gold mining and territory expansion in the western United States, and some business correspondence belonging to Charles Springer, mainly related to his highway activities in Oklahoma and New Mexico. The donor, Rev. F. Stanley, was the author of The grant that Maxwell bought (1952).

mssHM 73257-73268

Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills

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View of the Beverly Hilton Hotel, automobiles, and parking lot located at 9876 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California, with a sign for "Minute Man Service."

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Beverly Hills

Manuscripts

3 items: two booklets, "The Ranch of the Gathering of the Waters" [a history of Beverly Hills], 1934 ; booklet, "Beverly Hills - a calendar of events in the making of a city," 1938.

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Exterior view of Corrine Griffith Shops, Beverly Drive and Charleville Blvd., Beverly Hills

Visual Materials

View of the "Corinne Griffith Bldg No. 3" at 170 Beverly Drive, one of the "Four Corners" buildings at the intersection with Charleville Boulevard in Beverly Hills, with automobiles in front and the storefront for "Tall and tailored" and a campaign office for Wendell Wilkie, the 1940 Republican presidential candidate, with signs for "We the People Committee for Wilkie."

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Maxwell Hunley Rare Books records

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