Visual Materials

Color negatives

Description

This subseries contains color negatives, ca. 1979-1983, depicting client billboards created by Pacific Outdoor Advertising Company in the Los Angeles region and, to a lesser extent San Diego. Images are dated and show billboards in situ, but do not include city or street location information.

A full list of client names is not provided for this subseries. Box labels below give the alphabetical range between the first client and last client in each box.

Type

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Date

approximately 1979-1983

Call number

Subseries C

Provenance

Purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, 2009.

Restrictions

RESTRICTED: Collection is housed in cold storage; extended retrieval and delivery time required.

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Color negatives

Visual Materials

Color negatives depicting client billboards created by Gannett Outdoor Co. in the Los Angeles region and, to a lesser extent San Diego, ca. 1984-1989. Images are dated and show billboards in situ, but do not include city or street location information. A full list of client names is not provided for this subseries. Box labels below give the alphabetical range between the first client and last client in each box.

Subseries D

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Color prints

Visual Materials

This subseries contains color prints depicting client billboards created by Gannett Outdoor Co. chiefly in the Los Angeles region and, to a lesser extent San Diego, ca. 1989-1993. Images are organized by date and show billboards in situ (often bus stops), but do not include city or street location information. Also included are political candidate billboards, Gannett Outdoor operational photographs, and non-commercial billboards. Box 79 contains a subset of photographs of billboards outside of California.

Subseries E

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Color slides (35mm)

Visual Materials

This subseries contains color slides chiefly depicting Pacific Outdoor Advertising client billboards, as well as company facilities, presentations, and aerial views showing regional territories (Boxes 1-13). Gannett Outdoor Co. client billboards and activities (ca. 1984-1996) are represented in Boxes 14-16. This subseries contains the most comprehensive client list in the collection; there is significant overlap of clients throughout the collection.

Subseries A

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Black-and-white negatives

Visual Materials

This subseries contains negatives (some with accompanying prints) depicting Pacific Outdoor Advertising billboards from ca. 1950-1979 and Gannett Outdoor Co. billboards from ca. 1980-1996. Most of the billboards are photographed in situ but location information, such as specific cities and streets, is rarely noted. Clients are listed in full for Boxes 17-21, and partially beginning at Box 22. Also included are billboards for political candidates primarily at the city and state level from 1963-1992 (bulk 1970s), which are organized by year and alphabetically by candidate surname (Box 33). One box contains Gannett Outdoor client billboards for the years 1993-1994 (Box 34).

Subseries B

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Photographs

Visual Materials

Arranged by the name of the original client, this series contains photographs of buildings and furniture drawn from various sources, including the families of the Greenes and of the clients, from later owners, and other donors. These photographs date from the time of construction through the present. Included are photographs by well-known photographers, such as Harold A. Parker, Maynard Parker, Marvin Rand, Julius Shulman, and Ezra Stoller, as well as early photos by Gamble son, Sidney, and a professional photographer hired by the Greenes, Leroy Hulbert (a tinted photograph by Hulbert of the Camp house is in Box 121 below). See also Flat File 40 for oversize tinted photograph by Harold A. Parker of the James Culbertson garden. There are also informal snapshots as well as copy prints from other collections, and a few photographs of the builders and craftsmen, (including Emil Lange, Box 122) who worked on some of the projects.

Subseries C.

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Records of Greene and Greene Clients and Later Owners

Visual Materials

Organized by the name of the original client, these boxes contain family photographs, personal memorabilia, family histories and obituaries, property records, and business records from original clients and later owners. Boxes 189-191 contain scrapbooks and an office copybook, documents from the Pasadena Ice Co.

Subseries C.

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