The papers provide a unique perspective of 20th century California history and American business history and more specifically, a view of business practices in Los Angeles. The Business Files, the largest series of the collection has 6,436 items....
This collection comes from the files of Harvey Seeley Mudd and is divided into three separate sections. The first consists of correspondence dealing with the history of the Alexander and Brooklyn Mines from 1921 to 1944 and covers the following...
Comprised largely of letters and other correspondence sent to Helen Carhart Williams during her childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. Her friends, both women and men, and admirers describe their lives as they move from high school through to...
The collection consists of positive microfilm copies of the proceedings of land cases brought before the United States District Court between 1852-1862 with transcripts of records from the U.S. Land Commission, where the claims had originally been...
The chief topics of the Curphey papers are: his work as Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Battered Child Syndrome, air pollution, smoking and smog, aircraft accidents, suicide and suicide prevention, drug...
The Manuscripts series contains various poems, stories, and historical accounts written by Samuel L. Kreider. Many of these accounts relate to individuals like Charles Victor Hall and Mary Hall (original homesteaders of Los Angeles' West Adams...
The alphabetically-arranged collection is arranged in the following manner: Arizona Mines, California Mines, California Land Subdivisions, Canada and Mexico Mines, and Montana, Nevada, and New Mexico Mines; Miscellaneous Mining Charts, Surveys, and...
The collection is single-item cataloged and contains 759 items including 92 manuscripts. Most of the manuscripts are documents regarding the advertising, circulation, and financial concerns of The Los Angeles record, The San Diego sun, and The San...
The collection consists of personal and business papers primarily related to the James De Barth Shorb family and their business ventures and estate settlements. There is also a substantial amount of material about Benjamin Davis Wilson and his...
The collection contains 12 folders in 2 boxes. The largest folder has 223 pages while the smallest has only 21. The inclusive dates are 1928-1929. This collection includes correspondence, meetings minutes, press releases, photographs, and other...
The collection is arranged chronologically and consists primarily of legal documents pertaining to real estate transactions in and around San Jan Capistrano, Los Angeles, and San Diego in the late nineteenth century. The collection also includes...
The collection is made up of material gathered by Knox Mellon for his dissertation about Job Harriman. The papers chiefly deal with Job Harriman; Frances Nacke Noel; socialism; the Llano del Rio Colony; labor and union issues; and suffrage and...
The letters are all written by Ami Inuzuka to her friends Hardin and Raemond Craig. The first thirteen letters were written while the Inuzukas were interned at the Gila River Relocation Center in Rivers, Arizona. Inuzuka talks about life in the...
The collection consists primarily of correspondence related to the professional activities of John Dustin Bicknell, who was a partner in several Los Angeles law firms. In addition, the collection also includes 51 bound volumes (19 letter books,...
There are 376 pieces of manuscripts, the majority of which are by Olive Percival. The manuscripts comprise of biographical sketches, diaries, notebooks, poems, short stories, typescripts, and miscellaneous notes. There are 122 pieces of...
The collection consists of material relating to Florence Ranuzzi's personal activities, including her early life in the motion picture industry, and business papers concerning Poor Richard's Bookshop. The collection includes 249 single-item...
The collection contains manuscripts, correspondence and ephemera. The manuscripts consist of 36 items arranged in alphabetical order by author. The items are materials created by the Health Plan Consultants Committee, the Committee on Multiphasic...
The manuscripts mainly consist of speeches or short pieces written by Gurdon Wallace Wattles regarding business practices, Nebraska, and his political views. It also includes scripts written by True Boardman. The majority of the correspondence is...
The collection consists mainly of letters and questionnaires written between 1904-1908 on the topic of mid-19th-century Los Angeles. Most of the questionnaires, composed by Mary A. Forman, include a correspondent's answers. The documents address...
This collection consists of business records, correspondence, and maps; the majority of which deal with the purchase of Boschke's Island (or Smith's Island) by the Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill & Lumber Company from Albert and Martha Ellen Boschke. There...