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Photographer Ray McSavaney in his Los Angeles loft at The Brewery
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Photographs in Los Angeles County and Pasadena
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Consists of fourteen photographs. Ten photographs, including some duplicates, are portraits of Arthur W. Sinclair, Marjorie Rowley Sinclair, Robert S. Sinclair, and Agnes Rowley (labeled as Mrs. H. H. Sinclair). Some were taken at 375 Waverly Drive, Pasadena. One photograph of a 1842-3 portrait of Mary Elizabeth Jenkins, later Mrs. Levi Rowley, is also included. The four remaining items are: one photograph of a portrait of Samuel Sewall; one group photo of a picnic on Mount Wilson with Dr. B. M. Page, Governor Henry Harrison Markham, Benjamin Page, and Frank Daggett in attendance; and two photographs of Robert W. Lull and his bookstore at 1 Chapel St., Newburyport, Massachusetts.
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Los Angeles lights photographed from Mt. Wilson
Manuscripts
The papers of Edwin P. Hubble include manuscripts and reprints of his articles, papers, public lectures, addresses, etc., scientific documentation for his papers, logbooks of photographic plates taken by Hubble at Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, diaries and biographical memoirs of his wife Grace Burke Hubble, professional, personal, and social correspondence, photographs, medals and awards, a scrapbook assembled by Grace Hubble, newspaper clippings, etc.
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Los Angeles Times, news desk and photographer, Los Angeles. 1941
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A man seated at a desk covered with proofs and newspapers speaks with two standing men at the Los Angeles Times. One of the standing men is wearing a three piece suit and hat and holding a paper that the seated man is pointing at with his pencil. The other man is shorter, wearing a dark two piece suit and rests his hand on a camera that is on the desk.
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Los Angeles County Medical Association (LACMA) photograph collection
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A collection of three photograph albums, approximately 200 loose photographs, and three panoramic photographs related to the Los Angeles County Medical Association. Subjects include portraits of LACMA members; medical personnel, buildings, equipment, and facilities. The panoramic photographs depict a group portrait of a member picnic in Sunland (1923); movie extras dressed as bathing beauties in Venice (1918); and a post-convention clinic at Hal Roach Studios, featuring the movie set and over 100 people in a group portrait (1920). The three albums are: USC School of Medicine, Los Angeles, first post-graduate class, Summer 1900; California Hospital, Los Angeles, personnel (doctors and nurses), 1908. Includes original photograph of Leon Czolgosz with Bertillon measurements from the Detective Bureau, Police Department of Buffalo, New York, September 6, 1901; and Portraits of French Doctors of the second half of the 19th century.
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Philip B. Harris photographs of Los Angeles railway surveys and World War I France
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This collection contains photographs taken or compiled by Philip B. Harris, related to his 42-year career with the Los Angeles Railway and his service as a captain in the U.S. Army Engineers, World War I. The majority of railroad construction scenes are related to the Los Angeles Railway, approximately 1905-1920s. Images include: construction and engineering work on railroads in the Los Angeles area; Harris and other men working on surveying projects, 1902, in Mount Lowe and Garvanza; survey parties in the California Sierras and San Bernardino Mountains. Some images appear to depict the Pacific Electric Railway construction surveying party that Harris was put in charge of soon after he graduated, in 1901. A photograph album, 1901-approximately 1919, includes views of Redondo Beach; personal images of Harris and family members; San Pedro Harbor; and railroad tracks being laid for a streetcar line. Several images show Latino workers digging and laying tracks, approximately 1903. The album has handwritten captions for several photographs, but many scenes are unidentified. The images of World War I France include 52 photographs by Harris, with some commercial photographic postcards. Images show war ruins; decorated graves; battlefields; soldiers; people at train stations; countryside scenes, and a group portrait of Harris and other uniformed soldiers at Roymeaux Field, May 21, 1919. There are also photographic postcards of various tourist scenes in France and war-damaged buildings. Box 3 contains a rolled panoramic photograph of over 100 soldiers, including Harris, of the U.S. Army 22nd Corps of Engineers, 1918, at Fort Harrison, Indiana. The collection also includes a typewritten biographical sketch of Harris and a list of names and addresses of engineers and railroad workers from Harris' address book.
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Photograph albums -- Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
Manuscripts
The Charles D. Miller papers consist primarily of memorabilia accumulated by Miller over the span of his career at Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company, Booz, Allen & Hamilton, and Avery Dennison Corporation. The combination of business records and Miller's personal notes, shows the growth of Avery Dennison under the leadership of a confident and innovative businessman. Also included are items related to his involvement as a business leader and community activist. There are also some personal letters and greeting cards sprinkled throughout the collection, primarily, during his later years. The memorabilia are organized chronologically and include, but not limited to: correspondence, clippings, information packets, memos, newsletters, notices, outlines, photographs, printed matter, reports, reviews, speeches, and summaries. At the beginning of the collection, there are items related to Miller's father, Mark A. Miller. They primarily concern his career at The Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company, where he was the assistant general manager. At the end of the collection, there are adhesive samples, stamps, compact discs, VHS, photograph albums, scrapbooks, and 3-D objects.
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