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Manuscripts
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A collection of 465 items from 1923 to 1983. The first section deals with public housing in Los Angeles and covers the Citizens' Committee for Better Housing; the Civilian Defense Housing Committee; Aliso Village and Ramona Gardens. Included is correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, and press releases. Additionally, there is material related to the dismissal of Roger C. Johnson as manager of Aliso Village. The second section deals with the Los Angeles Newspaper Guild and its role as a labor union chapter of the American Newspaper Guild. Included is correspondence, press releases, meeting minutes, reports, administrative papers, and guild publications. The third section covers politics, specifically Roger C. Johnson's role on the Committee of 25 of the Federation for Civic Betterment and his role as campaign coordinator for Judge Ben Barr Lindsey; the material regarding Judge Lindsey's campaign includes correspondence, press releases, and reports. The material regarding the Committee of 25 includes correspondence, meeting minutes, and press releases that cover the recall election of Mayor Frank L. Shaw in 1938.
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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.
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