Genre: cellulose nitrate film and maps (documents) / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Illustrated map of the Hollywood area by Charles Ray, who, according to inscriptions on the map, owned a flower shop on Hollywood Boulevard.
Date:: May 26, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photograph of a hand-drawn diagram that depicts Aimee Semple McPherson's account of her escape from her kidnappers in Sonora, Mexico. A dotted line, representing the U.S./Mexico border, extends across the upper third of the image. Below, the Sonoran town of Agua Prieta and its surroundings are depicted. Above the dotted line, Douglas, Arizona is represented. Notations and scale markers are also included in the diagram. A compass rose sits in the upper right corner. Signatures of witnesses Jackson Bergh and Mayor (of Agua Prieta) Ernesto Boubion are in the lower left corner.
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Possibly old plan of Los Angeles Plaza, the first one was commissioned in 1781. There have been many changes and other plans since then, and on this one there are annotations English while the majority is in Spanish.
Date:: [1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Diseno (design) map of a rancho land grant (Los Nietos grant) in Mexican California. This grant contained parts of modern day Los Angeles and Orange County. Map is in Spanish.
Date:: March 28, 1822
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Copy of a map titled, Arroyo Seco Parkway. The map is produced by the Engineering Department, Automobile Club of Southern California and is dated Feb. 1936. William Neely's signature "W. Neely" sits in the lower right corner. The illustrated map shows the proposed Arroyo Seco Parkway connecting downtown Los Angeles to its northeastern communities. Four inset illustrations depict, from top to bottom: bridge elevation in South Pasadena, typical sections through Arroyo Seco, typical section through South Pasadena and viaduct.
Date:: [circa May 2, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Arbitrary Zoning Move for Beverly Opposed," Los Angeles Times, 29 May 1927: E1.
Date:: May 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Diseno (design) map of a rancho land grant containing Rancho Palos Verdes. Map is in Spanish.
Date:: [circa 1846]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Arbitrary Zoning Move for Beverly Opposed," Los Angeles Times, 29 May 1927: E1.
Date:: May 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Aimee McPherson was widely known for being an alleged kidnapping victim in 1926.
Date:: September 1, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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