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El Nido Services and Lodges records
Collection
Identifier: 0409
Abstract
The El Nido Services and Lodges records cover the practical details of El Nido's operations, 1930-1980, documenting its real estate management, zoning battles, tax questions, insurance and "disaster preparedness" provisions, and occasional personnel problems of this social service agency. Originally a project of the Los Angeles Section of the National Council of Jewish Women, the Section established a Children's Bureau in Los Angeles in 1925, and three years later built a camp for...
Dates:
1932-1986 (bulk 1970s-1980s)
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
Ian Wayne map and photograph collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 7030
Abstract
17 historic maps of Beverly Hills, Doheny Beverly Ranch, Bel-Air, Coldwater and Benedict Canyons, and one map of the industrial and commerical development of the San Fernando Valley; 26 10 x 13 photographs and 1 28 x 24 aerial photograph of the G. Allan Hancock home at 2000 N. La Brea Terrace circa 1944.
Dates:
circa 1925-1944
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections