Al Martínez is a writer and newspaper columnist. He was born July 29, 1929 in Oakland, California. He joined the Marines in 1950 and served in Korea until 1952. While in the Marines he became a war correspondent and upon discharge became a writer...
Founded by members of the Bixby and Flint families and their business partner, I. W. Hellman, in 1888, the Alamitos Land Company was first organized as a land sale company during the real estate boom of Southern California in mid 1880s. The company...
Landscaping and exterior views of a modern house. Includes general view of the house and patio, as well as details of fences, paving, and border plantings.
Overall views of a deck with flower beds around it and close-ups of flower beds, planters, and steps. Includes one image of the Floyd Gerow garden in Palo Alto, CA.
Paul Conrad served as chief editorial cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times from 1964 to 1993. His career began at the Denver Post in 1950 where he drew until moving to the Los Angeles Times. Conrad won three Pulitzer Prizes (1964, 1971 and 1984)...
Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian physicist who spent much of his professional life in Great Britain. In the late 1890s he began experimenting with wireless telegraphy, which culminated on December 14, 1901, with the first trans-Atlantic...
William Peirce Randel was a professor of English who, later in his career, engaged in full-time writing. Randel was a Professor of English Emeritus for the University of Maine and was also a professor of English and director of American Studies at...
Joseph Rickard was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, September 17, 1918. He moved to Los Angeles in the 1930s to study ballet with Bronislava and Irina Nijinska but his real gifts lay in teaching (especially adults) and choreography. In 1946, he...
Arthur Dominique Rozaire (Rosaire) was born in Montreal, Canada on January 17, 1879 to Dominique Joseph Francois Rosaire, a decorative designer, and Mary Hammall. Rozaire attended the Quebec Council of Arts and Manufactures at Monument National....
Ralph Henry Cameron was born in Southport, Maine, in 1863. He moved to Arizona in 1883, and operated a sheep ranch with his brother Niles in Flagstaff. In 1890, he and his partners turned to mining and filed numerous mining claims in and around the...
Rosario Andrea Curletti, in whose honor this collection was donated, was a respected Southern California anthropologist, genealogist, historian and book collector. Her main specialties were Santa Barbara history and the Chumash Indians. Miss...
British novelist Hilary Mantel was born in Derbyshire, England, but has lived and worked in Botswana and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, experience which she utilized in two of her novels, A Change of Climate and Eight Months on Ghazzah Street. She has won...
The Mark Taper Forum opened in Los Angeles in 1967 and is known for its development of new plays and voices for the theatre. Located at the Performing Arts Center (formerly The Music Center) in downtown Los Angeles, the Taper has received virtually...
Jabez and Margaret Stutterd came to England from Perth, Scotland to settle in Lancashire, sometime before 1748; they had three sons and one daughter: John Stutterd (1750-1818), Thomas Stutterd (1752-1815), Mary (Stutterd) Sugden (b. 1753), Jabez...
Key figures in the banking history of Tucson and Tombstone, Barron and Lionel Jacobs initially began their financial careers as merchants and suppliers. In 1867 they partnered with their father, Mark Israel Jacobs, to expand the family's mercantile...
Thomas Edward Lawrence was born Aug. 16, 1888, at Tremadoc, North Wales. His parents, Sir John Chapman and Sarah Junner never married, though they lived as "Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence," for the remainder of their lives. T.E. Lawrence attended City of...