Los Angeles city directories
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Scope and Content
USC's set of Los Angeles city directories cover the years between 1886 and 1953, except for the following years: 1889, 1897, 1898, 1900, 1919, 1943-48, 1950-52. Most of the volumes are fragile and enclosed in phase boxes for protection. The first 20 boxes include one year of each year that is included in the collection; the last 7 boxes are duplicate volumes.
Dates
- Creation: 1886 - 1953
Creator
- Los Angeles City Directory Co. (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Advance notice required for access.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Extent
31.5 Linear Feet (28 boxes )
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
City directories are among the most important sources of information about urban areas and their inhabitants. They provide personal and professional information about a city's residents as well as information about its business, civic, social, religious, charitable, and literary institutions. A typical city directory provides a listing of residents, streets, businesses, organizations or institutions, giving their location in a city.
The collection consists of 78 bound volumes of Los Angeles city directories covering the years 1886 through 1953, though not every year is represented.
Processing Information
This collection is not fully processed.
Subject
- Los Angeles City Directory Co. -- Archives (Organization)
Geographic
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Archival resources
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Directories
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 19th century -- Archival resources
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources
- Los Angeles County (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Topical
- Title
- Inventory of the Los Angeles city directories
- Status
- Minimally Processed
- Author
- Jacqueline Morin
- Date
- 2010
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2012: finding aid revision description not supplied
- 2023 January: Finding aid updated by Marissa Chavez and Sarah Jardini for History Associates Incorporated
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States
specol@usc.edu