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photCL 480 Part II | Collections | The Huntington

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photCL 480 Part I
Visual Materials
This set of 19 loose prints documents the Century Freeway project from 1982 to 1983. The images consist primarily of the exteriors of condemned buildings with boarded-up windows, vacant yards, and relocated houses on flat-bed trucks. Image 19 includes a dog corpse in a yard. The photographs are accompanied by a letterpress title page, introduction, and numbered descriptive notes by the photographer. Image titles transcribed from the accompanying "Notes on Photographs." (1) Downey, California (2) Norwalk, California (Aerial photograph) (3) Downey, California (4) Downey, California (Aerial photograph) (5-8) Downey, California (9) Downey, California (Vacant field with foundation remnants) (10) Downey, California (11) Hawthorne, California (12) Downey, California (Backyard swimming pool with painted palm trees) (13) Hawthorne, California (Boundary of the Century Freeway right-of-way) (14-18) Los Angeles, California (19) Downey, California
photCL 480
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In Our Path
Visual Materials
In Our Path contains two series of black-and-white photographs by Jeff Gates that chronicle the construction and impact of the I-105 Century Freeway in Los Angeles, California, between 1982 and 1983 and later from 1990 and 1995. The first set of 19 images focus primarily on the initial condemnation and relocation of houses and property in the proposed path of the freeway in the early 1980s. The later set of 27 images document the continued construction in the early 1990s and the opening of the freeway. Each set of photographs is accompanied by a letterpress title page, introduction, and numbered descriptive notes by the photographer.
photCL 480
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North Whittier Heights, Puente, California
Visual Materials
37 loose images showing the development of the citrus district of North Whittier Heights in Puente, California, around 1913 (Items 1-27), with views of undeveloped land and the opening day festivities (including a barbeque and entertainment for prospective buyers) of tracts for sale on May 17, 1913, to images of its subdivision for residential tracts, known as "Hacienda Northridge," in the early 1960s (Items 29-34). There is also a photograph of Grover T. Russell, sales manager of North Whittier Heights, who compiled the photographs (Item 35), and William Reichling, the Association's president (Item 36).
photCL 290, photOV 10750-10758
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Sullivan, Joseph T. P
Manuscripts
2 items: letter, 11/27/1964, to Norman Chandler "and Buff," from Joseph T.P. Sullivan ; letter, 12/1/1964, to Sullivan from Norman Chandler. The letters involve congratulations from Sullivan to the Chandlers on the opening of The Music Center, and an invitation to attend a dinner in NYC with Sullivan, then Norman Chandler's responses.
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Edison Centennial Reel 48
Manuscripts
Format of original: U-Matic (See DVD copy) Run time: 21:40 Edison Centennial Reel 48 (Library Roll #1169). Includes the following drawings and photographs: 1. Old street scene 2:00:20 2. Buildings exterior 2:01:27 3. 2 men in Edison horse buggy cart 2:04:51 4. Building exterior 2:08:13 5. Men around ditch 2:08:58 6. Big white building 2:10:16 7. Interior of plant 2:11:35 8. Drawing of tram line 2:13:30 9. Tram line 2:14:21 10. Early turbine 2:14:37 11. Hauling up equipment 2:17:00
SCE MP 247
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Subjects - Marketing Research
Manuscripts
Approx. 10 items: multipage "Confidential" report, 6/27/1986, on "New York Times' National Edition," by Dickson Louie (with appendices including charts, lists, chronologies) ; multipage report, "Target Marketing at The New York Times," 5/9/1985 ; planning chart of 1986-87 for the LAT National Edition ; multipage info packet including agenda of 11/1/1988 LAT / Anti-Defamation League luncheon, draft copies of opening and closing remarks by Tom Johnson, and a guest list ; related items.
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