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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:

Forthmann family photographs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6087
Abstract This collection consists of photographs of members of the Forthmann family, one of the first prominent families in Los Angeles at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century. John Albert Forthmann I was a German immigrant who arrived in Los Angeles as a teenager in the 1860s and bought a small soap business that he turned into the Los Angeles Soap Co. The photographs in this collection include various members of the Forthmann family, but generally center around...
Dates: 1912-1949, undated

Mabel C. Harris papers

 Collection
Identifier: 7068
Abstract

Mabel C. Harris, also professionally known as Virginia O'Neal and Martha Logan, was a trained home economist who, after working for Swift and Company and Kerr Glass Manufacturing Corp., was hired by Vons grocery stores in 1960 to be the first home economist hired by a supermarket chain. Her papers consist of photographs, scrapbooks, correspondence, clippings, ephemera, and cookbooks relating to her career in the Los Angeles food and grocery industry from the 1940s to the 1970s.

Dates: 1937 - 1989

Household Survey records

 Collection
Identifier: 0231
Abstract

In 1939, the Works Progress Administration provided funding for a comprehensive household survey of the Los Angeles area. Over the course of the project, about 400,000 documents, mostly census cards, were generated.

Dates: 1939

Jitney Buses scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 6023
Abstract This small scrapbook contains clippings, from December 1914 to March 1915, documenting the controversy over lack of regulation of "jitney" buses in Los Angeles. Many of the clippings come from the Los Angeles Times, the Express, the Tribune, and the Examiner, and are identified as such in pencil or ink annotations, along with dates (often without year). The remainder of the clippings are not identified as to source. The jitneys were private automobiles that operated as "buses" and...
Dates: 1914 December-1915 March

George Ligar USC alumnus papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 5064
Abstract

This collection consists of a scrapbook, publications, drafting papers, blueprints, sketches, and design files of architect and USC graduate George Ligar (1918-1995).

Dates: 1918-1960s

Lindbergh to Los Angeles broadside

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 7021
Abstract

Broadside published by Pacific Electric Railway Company advertising Charles Lindbergh's visit to Los Angeles on September 20, 1927, as part of his 48-state tour of the country following his historic cross-Atlantic flight. The broadside includes a list of "reduced fares" to Los Angeles; information about the parade downtown; and the reception at the Los Angeles Coliseum.

Dates: 1927

Los Angeles city directories

 Collection
Identifier: 0235
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...
Dates: 1886 - 1953

Los Angeles City Municipal Art Commission reports

 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

Los Angeles City Receiving Hospital clinical record books

 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

Los Angeles County Schools curricular materials

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275056890859]
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