Manuscripts
Miscellaneous printed matter
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Printed matter related to genealogy
Manuscripts
The Magazine of American Genealogy no. 1, 7, 11, 16¸ 23, 25; The Bulletin of the California State Society of Sons of the Revolution vol. IX, no. 3; The Mayflower Quarterly vol. 27, no. 2 and vol. 28, no. 1, 3, and 4; and Genealogy and Local History, Catalogue 230. 11 items
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Los Angeles - Name
Manuscripts
2 items: cover letter, sent to Carolyn Strickler, LAT Archivist, from Jean Bruce Poole, Curator, El Pueblo de Los Angeles State Historic Park,12/31/1985 (referencing next entry) ; article copy, 7-pp., Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, Spring 1973, "Los Angeles, California...the question of the City's original Spanish name."
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Miscellaneous -- Financial, notes, and printed matter
Manuscripts
Six items. 1. An estimate for bricks from [Otto K-----?], 1885; 2. Transbay Construction Company stock certificate, 1933; 3. State of California. Department of Water Resources. Contractor's Experience and Financial Condition, 1961; 4. Printed genealogy material from myfamily.com, 2007; 5. Log of photographs, undated; 6. One handwritten list beginning "635 C.E. Clegham?"
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Water - Los Angeles Aqueduct - Articles and Pamphlets
Manuscripts
approx. 20 items: collection of material on above topic including some major articles. Among the significant articles with sources and dates: Sunset, 12/1909, "Water for Millions--building the great aqueduct...to supply Los Angeles" ; personal account of Jack Heyser, 1939, "Los Angeles City Fathers go water hunting...the birth of the Owens River Aqueduct" ; American Heritage, 12/1961, "The Water War" ; Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, 3/1963, "Myth-making in the Los Angeles Area" ; California Historical Quarterly, "The politics of California water-- Owens Valley and the Los Angeles Aqueduct, 1900-1927" ; California History, 9/1986, "Picnic at Alabama Gates...the Owens Valley Rebellion, 1904-1927" ; Historical Society of Southern California, Fall 1988, "The Los Angeles Aqueduct -- 1913 -1988, A 75th Anniversary Tribute."
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