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Rare Books
Rare Books
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
Note electric light on mast at the corner of Figueroa and Jefferson Blvd. Accompanied by card from Day, Hinton & Mathes, Real Estate Dealers, listing prices for each lot. Imprint date from listings in L.A. city directories. Submap: relation of tract to surrounding property. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS notes: University Addition Map 442357.
442357
Rare Books
A high level birds-eye view of the multistory section of downtown Los Angeles in 1913, stretching north from Washington Blvd. to Temple St. Subliminal advertising "Compliments of Robert Marsh & Co." across map face in fade out lettering. Bought from Dawson's Bookstore. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Birdseye view. Printing Process: Lithography.
400655
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Manuscripts
2 items: street map (with street widths and block lengths, in feet) titled "Robinson Plan for the development of Wilshire Boulevard between Park View and Figueroa Streets," no date ; LAT editorial, 3/29/1924, "Widening Wilshire Boulevard."
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Visual Materials
Images of central L.A.: Civic Center skyline at night; Wilshire Boulevard in MacArthur Park; elevated view of City Hall, Hall of Records, former Los Angeles Times building; Pershing Square; Chinatown; J. W. Robinson department store; Western Auto Supply; Los Angeles Times building at First and Spring Streets; Echo Park; Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum; Richfield Oil building; Sixth Street bridge; Arroyo Parkway (Figueroa Street) tunnels. Also includes images of children around what appears to be temporary housing.
photCL MLP 3863
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Rare Books
The Southern California Regional Planning Collection was donated by the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Department, George Marr, Edward Holden, Glen Blossom, Simon Eisner, and Glenda Hamilton to the Huntington Library in 1997. The Southern California Regional Planning Collection is organized into two series: 1) Published Planning Reports Series (organized by individual item numbers) 2) Internal Documents Series (organized by box and folder numbers).The Published Planning Reports Series contains 1,913 individual items that were generated by the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission, Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning, and other planning agencies and organizations in Southern California. Type of reports include annual reports, area study, comprehensive planning reports, census, conference papers, general plans, guides to zoning and subdivision, planning proposals, traffic and environmental surveys, zoning ordinance, etc. The date range of this series is 1909 to 2003.The Internal Documents Series contains approximately 913 items in 14 Hollinger boxes. Similar to the Published Planning Reports Series, the majority of the documents were generated by the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission and Department of Regional Planning, followed by the Los Angeles Department of City Planning. Type of documents include census reports, conference papers, maps, memorandums, minutes, photos, plans, reports, speeches, summaries, etc. The date range is 1924 to 2000.
605982
Visual Materials
Sales meeting at the Hotel Statler [Wilshire & Figueroa, Los Angeles] - [with 28 variants]
photCL SCE 06 - 70532