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Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 7081
Abstract
Monthly report typescripts from the Art Commission. The reports describe plans considered, costs, and plans approved with valuations. The volume also includes a copy of the Los Angeles City Charter that covers the Department of Municipal Art.
Dates:
1936-1938
Collection
Identifier: 7065
Abstract
The Los Angeles City Receiving Hospital first opened in 1868 to provide emergency care for victims of pestilence, primarily smallpox. Located in Chavez Ravine, the institution quickly expanded its scope, admitting patients afflicted with other contagious diseases. After occupying four different locations, the hospital, now known as the Central Receiving Hospital and located at 6th Street and Loma Drive, closed its doors in 1970 and the building was demolished in 2005 to make way for the...
Dates:
1903-11-17 - 1908-01-03
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7080
Abstract
Curricular projects and bibliiographies prepared for teachers in Los Angeles County public schools by the Division of Secondary Education in the Office of the County Superintendent of Schools.
Dates:
1935
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5283
Abstract
Scrapbook containing photographic reproductions of clippings about the proposed Los Angeles World's Fair. The clippings came from many different local newspapers.
Dates:
1943
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7024
Abstract
This collection consists of photographs, pamphlets and clippings documenting Los Angeles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The majority of the photographs are of the downtown area and feature intersections of major Los Angeles streetsn. Current and former landmarks also appear in the collection's photographs. There are also photographs of San Pedro Harbor, an old city hall building, and the remnants of the LA Times building after the bombing of 1910. The pamphlets and clippings...
Dates:
circa 1890-1920
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2678
Abstract
Collection consists of photographs and correspondence belonging to production manager and producer Doc Merman (1900-1979).
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1930s-1960s
Collection
Identifier: 5284
Abstract
The Annette Moore papers consist of research materials used to write “The University of Southern California: 1880-2005,” the 125th Anniversary history book of USC, which covers the years 1880-2005. The collection consists of emails, clippings, photocopies, bound copies, drafts, notes, and correspondence. Annette Moore served as co-writer of “The University of Southern California: 1880-2005,” and as Director of Web, Special, and Communications Projects at USC University Communications from...
Dates:
circa 2005
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7008
Abstract
The Ersey O'Brien scrapbooks consists of two ledger format spiral binders containing green bar computer paper that has been repurposed as scrapbook pages. The scrapbooks, one entitled "My friends" and the other "High School Memories," contain clippings and printed ephemera that document the activities of Jefferson High School alumni in Los Angeles from the 1950s through the 1980s.
Dates:
1950s-1980s
Collection
Identifier: 0373
Abstract
R.A. Rowan & Co. was one of the Los Angeles area's earliest and most long-lived real estate development firms, spanning almost a hundred years of the twentieth century. Robert A. Rowan was responsible for founding the company in 1904; the company remained in family hands for many generations until it finally folded in the late 1990s. By then, the original real estate company had expanded into several other ventures including property management, agriculture, insurance, thoroughbred...
Dates:
1904-1999
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2661
Abstract
Collection consists of author and researcher Muriel I. Smith’s materials on the life and careers of actors including Errol Flynn, John Gilbert, and John Barrymore.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1980s-1999