Color negatives

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  Color negatives

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  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.

  Subseries C

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  Color prints

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  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)

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  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

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  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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  Charles S. Greene Notes, Diaries, Writings

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  At the end of Box 4 are three notebooks, two dating from the 1890s and one from the 1930s, and 2 diaries (appointment books) from the 1940s. Continuing in Box 5 are folders containing fragmentary writings and notes, both prose and verse, various scratchpads with notes and sketches, and the typescript of Charles' novel Thais Thayer (c. 1916), as well as a typescript of an essay entitled "Symbolism" (1932).

  Subseries D.

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  Client billboards

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  This series contains photographs of client billboards created by Pacific Outdoor Advertising Company primarily in the Los Angeles region (and to a lesser extent San Diego) between 1930 and 1979, and by Gannett Outdoor Co. 1980 through 1996. While most of the billboards are photographed in situ, location information – such as specific cities and streets – is rarely noted. For images containing billboards with street information, see Series 2: "Approach" views.

  Series 1