Visual Materials

Entrance, Rolling Hills, Palos Verdes. 1937

Description: Palm trees and a wood gate frame the entrance to the Rolling Hills area of Palos Verdes. A sign over the gate reads "Rolling Hills : country life -- city convenience". The road that passes through the gate and into the distance is unpaved and has picket fences and young trees lining the sides.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1937
Call number: photCL Whitt 0575 ; Whitt neg. 1566
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House, Rolling Hills, Rancho Palos Verdes. 1937

Visual Materials

A view of a longs ranch house in the Rolling Hills area of Rancho Palos Verde. There is a gravel driveway and two trees in front of the house. Two girls stand by the porch of the house, and a dog is on the front lawn.

photCL Whitt 0581 ; Whitt neg. 1568

House, Palos Verdes. 1940

Visual Materials

A street view of a ranch house and partially surrounding picket fence in Palos Verdes. There is a building, possibly a barn or garage, to the right of the house, and a paddock with horses in it. The background is an area of rolling, undeveloped hills.

photCL Whitt 0571 ; Whitt neg. 1635

House, Palos Verdes. 1940

Visual Materials

A street view of a long ranch house in Palos Verdes. There is a circular driveway in front of the house and a lawn with molasses sacks stretched between posts. There is another house on the right, separated by a picket fence, and in the background there are oil fields.

photCL Whitt 0570 ; Whitt neg. 1636

Entrance gate, Paramount Studios, 5451 Marathon, Los Angeles. 1937

Visual Materials

Gates at the entryway to Paramount Pictures at 5451 Marathon in Los Angeles. There is an ornate metalwork gate set beneath a rounded arch. The studio and Hollywood hills sign are visible behind the gate.

photCL Whitt 1838 ; Whitt neg.1563

View of real estate office and surrounding hills, Topanga Oaks. 1925

Visual Materials

A slightly raised panoramic view of a real estate office in Topanga Oaks in Los Angeles County. The office is surrounded by hills and trees, and has an unpaved road leading up to and past it.

photCL Whitt 3072

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y. Rolling Hills: Palos Verdes

Manuscripts

The collection consists of letters and documents (including 8 volumes) and 876 maps related to irrigation projects in the western United States. There are correspondence, reports, etc. regarding Colorado River projects (including the Colorado River-Los Angeles Gravity Flow Aqueduct); the Klamath Lake Project in Oregon; the Merced Irrigation District in California; the San Juan River, Little Colorado, and Verde projects in Arizona; and many others. Of note in the collection are diaries of La Rue's Colorado River trips from 1921, 1922, and 1924, and maps of western areas.

mssLa Rue papers

Entrance, Rolling Hills, Palos Verdes. 1937

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