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P.J. Walker Company photos

Description

Format: Photographic prints

Description: Two photographs showing employees of the company consisting of a March 21, 1942, group photograph of employees on the Douglas Aircraft Project and a May 5, 1942, group photograph of employees standing in front of the Walker Construction Co. Office; a promotional photograph of Walker buildings built between 1929 and 1930; and an advertising photograph of a building under construction.

Type

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Date

approximately 1929; 1942; and undated

Call number

photCL 454

Creator

P.J. Walker Company(Opens in new tab)

Provenance

Gift of Fred C. Walker Jr., 1989.

P.J. Walker Construction Company Photographs

Visual Materials

This collection contains photographic prints, film negatives, photo albums, company records, ephemera, and promotional material depicting construction jobs of the P.J. Walker Company, chiefly commercial buildings in the Los Angeles region from the early 1920s to the 1960s. Building types include office buildings, department stores, public utilities, industrial plants, university buildings, banks, hotels, and residences. Many of the construction projects are documented as 8 x 10 in. black-and-white progress photographs by local commercial photographers, and show the building process from the ground up over a period of months or years,. Several important architects are represented in the collection including Morgan, Walls & Clements, John and Donald Parkinson, Edward Durrell Stone, Walker & Eisen, George Kelham, and Gordon Kaufmann, to name a few. Identified photographers represented in the collection include: the "Dick" Whittington Studio; Dwyer Studios, L.A.; Green & Tillisch; and Mushet Photography. While the bulk of the collection consists of construction site photographs, there are also manuscripts and ephemera, which chiefly consist of cost reports, business correspondence, and miscellaneous ephemera and magazines and newspaper clippings related to the opening of the building. There is a small group of additional company records including job indexes, promotional booklets, and some photographs, film negatives, photo albums, company records, ephemera, and promotional material documenting construction jobs of the P.J. Walker Company, chiefly of commercial buildings in the Los Angeles region from the early 1920s to the 1960s.

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P.J. Walker Company job lists, photographs, and ephemera

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P.J. Walker Company, Contractors

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Format: Ephemera Description: Booklet showing Walker Company buildings.

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P.J. Walker Company, Builders, Los Angeles, California

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Format: Ephemera Description: Booklet showing Walker Company buildings.

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Architecture and Design: a Selection of Buildings erected by P.J. Walker Company

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Format: Ephemera Description: Booklet showing Walker Company buildings.

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Miscellaneous unidentified photographs

Visual Materials

Format: Manuscripts ; Photographic prints Description: Consists of a Walker Company business card for Robert L. Alexander; a photograph envelope; a caption for a Sun Valley News Bureau photograph; a photograph for a building model labeled "City of Paris Dry Goods Co.," San Francisco; four unidentified building renderings; and a photograph of an unidentified factory building.

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P.J. Walker Company photos

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