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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Books
Agritourism and nature tourism in California
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Approx. 12 items: LAT clips and promotional materials--booklets, brochures, annual reports, charts, maps--all boosting tourism in Southern California. Notable items: booklet (in Spanish), "Revista Grafica - Condado de Los Angeles..." 1945 - inside is a sheaf of stapled papers with an English translation of the Spanish & Portugese material ; booklet w/ map, "Official All-Year Club Sight-seeing Map - Southern California," 1956 ; brochure, "15 Guide-Yourself Trips by Public Transportation," 1956.
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Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, documents, manuscripts, photographs and ephemera related to the life and career of Los Angeles mayor and Superior Court judge Fletcher Bowron. It includes official correspondence kept during Bowron's term as mayor of Los Angeles, reports, and information on his election campaigns. There is also source material gathered for his Metropolitan Los Angeles History Project, particularly in the fields of public housing, city planning, and transportation. In the addenda there are 38 bound volumes containing addresses by Mayor Bowron from September 1938 to July 1953 as well as oversize awards, albums and maps.
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Rare Books
This collection contains the professional papers of Albert A. Dorskind (1922-2004) generated during his tenure as an executive at MCA Inc. The papers primarily document Dorksind's work developing Universal City and the Universal Studios Tour tourist attraction and theme park in Los Angeles, California, from the late 1950s into the 1970s. There are a total of three legal upright boxes, one oversize box and four bound volumes. Document types include agreements, master plans, reports, and various business records.
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Manuscripts
Approx. 20 items: copies of LAT clips--editorials, ads and promotions--1901 - 1919, related to tourism and real estate ; booklet, undated, "10 Fun auto trips with a day's drive of Los Angeles," prepared by American Petroleum Institute and presented by LAT ; copy LAT editorial, "The cliché that never dies," 1/2/1962 ; 1976 Art Seidenbaum column, "Tourist industry lacks industry."
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