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R.R. Spear blueprints and sketches
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0319
Abstract
The collection is comprised of a subdivision map as well as specifications, blueprints, and sketches of several structures constructed in South Los Angeles between 1910 and 1930.
Dates:
1910 - 1930
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Union Pacific Railroad Tidelands records
Collection
Identifier: 0243
Abstract
When the Union Pacific Railroad and Southern Pacific Railroad merged in 1997 and the former did a housecleaning of its inventory, many of the Union Pacific's archival materials were saved. The records that were donated to USC were chiefly those that were generated in the 1940s and 50s as part of the Tidelands controversies, concerning the Los Angeles / Long Beach / Wilmington harbor areas, and documenting channels, wetlands, islands, elevations, and shoreline. In addition to many maps,...
Dates:
1940s-1950s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections