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Los Angeles Harbor and Vicinity

Description: Originally published in 1918, and modified to 1921, shows the harbor and incorporates 14 photographs of ships, etc. and an index to water front users. Submap:[Location map for relating harbor to city center.] Vignettes: Photographs of eight ships, five loading facilities, breakwater. . Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Vignettes
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: 31 March 1921
Call number: 219198
Creator: Los Angeles (Calif.)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 54 x 54 cm
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Los Angeles Harbor and vicinity : showing improvements underway and proposed

Visual Materials

No old shelf mark. Includes a water front index of wharfs, berths and companies. Submap: Harbor location in So. Cal. MS notes: pencil routes. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography.

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Los Angeles Harbor

Manuscripts

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.

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Los Angeles Harbor

Manuscripts

Correspondence, including to/from Harry Chandler, and articles related to the Los Angeles harbor. File of William Holden.

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Los Angeles Harbor, San Pedro, Los Angeles. 1905

Visual Materials

A panoramic view of a part of the docks of Los Angeles Harbor in San Pedro, Los Angeles. Railroad tracks run across the immediate foreground, as well as alongside the docks, and there are cargo and flatbed train cars on many of the tracks. There are two long breakwaters, one in the distance that is low and simple, and another closer to the shore that is lined with buildings. A three mast tall ship is docked at a pier along the inner breakwater. There are a couple dozen small sailboats anchored inside the breakwaters.

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Los Angeles Harbor Scandal

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items. Material includes: several transcripts of news programs from Radio TV Reports; a statement by attorney Grant B. Cooper on the drowning death of his client, Harbor Commission Pres. Pietro Di Carlo; demand by George D. Watson for multiple retractions/corrections related to LAT stories of October 1967; copy of KNXT (TV) editorial on "The Times Harbor Department Story," which notes "the Times has performed a public service in the best tradition of journalism"; items related to the Times-(Mayor Sam)Yorty "feud"; transcript of Yorty press conference; reaction, in the form of another KNXT broadcast, from a member of the Board of Harbor Commissioners.

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Aliso City : a subdivision of Lots 2. & 3. of the Rancho Cañada de los Alisos Los Angeles Co., Cal

Rare Books

The train station between Santa Ana and Capistrano, appears to be at today's Mission Viejo in Orange County. The train station was new and the promised hotel yet to be erected. Submap: Southern Orange County MS notes: 384615 numerous pencil notes on lots. Bound edges. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography.

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