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Lane-Wells Company records
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7055
Abstract
This small collection consists of a commemorative album celebrating the 100,000th Gun Perforating Job by the Lane-Wells Company of Los Angeles on June 18, 1948 and additional printed ephemera, 1939-1954, created and collected by Walter T. Wells, co-founder and Chairman of the Board of the Lane-Wells Company. Walter T. Wells studied electrical engineering at Iowa State, graduating in 1910. He worked as an engineer in the Philippines and British Guiana (for the Demerara Bauxite Company), as...
Dates:
1939-1954
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Harry F. Maidenberg scrapbooks
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0069
Abstract
This collection contains six scrapbooks containing clippings, photographs, and ephemera documenting the early history of California. The scrapbooks were compiled by Harry F. Maidenberg, who was an insurance salesman in Los Angeles.
Dates:
1950 - 1960
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
National Housing Exposition scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: 7034
Abstract
The Pan-Pacific Auditorium, originally located at 7600 West Beverly Boulevard in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles, was designed by Plummer, Wurderman and Becket and financed by a commmittee led by Clifford W. Henderson and his brother Phillip. The National Housing Exposition, the Pan-Pacific's inaugural event, was one of a number of similar expos held across the country after the passage of the National Housing Act in 1934, which was designed to make home ownership affordable for all...
Dates:
1935
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Osborne-Montague family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0190
Abstract
The Osborne-Montague family papers contains the papers of multiple generations of the Osborne and Montague families, as well as of the families they married into (primarily the Tingstads and the Caleffs). Rodney Montague moved to Los Angeles in 1853, while Henry Zenas Osborne moved to the area in 1878. Montague was a farmer; Osborne owned the Los Angeles Evening Express and was a Congressman for California's 10th Congressional District from 1917 until his death in 1923. His son, Henry...
Dates:
1847 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1890 - 1945
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections