"Showing all streets and street car lines and sewer connections" "Index shows location of streets and shortest routes from centre of city" In lower left hand corner reads: "Compiled in office of Jas. T. Taylor"
Perspective map not drawn to scale. Relief shown pictorially. Includes an index of important sites in the area. Directly above and below the view are insets of prominent buildings.
"Construido segun las derretas, observaciones y trabajos de los mas celebres navegantes españoles y publicada por orden del Excmo. Sr. D. Guadalupe Victoria, primer presidente de la Repblica"
Relief shown by hachures. Shows drainage, township and section lines, land ownership, ranchos, settlements, railroads, etc. Los Angeles and San Pedro railroad shown as well as projected railroads from Los Angeles to San Berndardino, to Anaheim and from Compton to Anaheim.
"Comprising 25,000 acres. The 40 acre tracts are square of 1320x1320 f. The 5 acre lots are 330x660 feet. The block of town lots are 270x620 feet. The two centre streets are 100 feet and all other streets are 80 feet wide. 40 acres reserved for College & Farm School"
The collection consists of Wright's original drawings, renderings, blueprints, photographs, models and office files. Many of the photographs in the collection are by Will Connell.
The collection consists of materials related to Yoneda's involvement in the Japanese American left and labor movement, World War II internment, and the United States Military services. Includes original manuscripts, publications, correspondence, photographs, and photocopied testimonies and investigation case files.
Stuart Z. Perkoff (1930-1973) was a Beat era poet living in Venice, California. The collection consists of his manuscripts and 46 handwritten journals.
Preston Sturges (1898-1959) was a inventor, playwright and motion picture writer and director. He wrote the hit Broadway play, Strictly dishonorable (1929), and received a Academy Award for his screenplay, The great McGinty (1940). He lived in Europe for a period of time during the 1950s, and wrote and directed his last film in France in 1955. The collection consists of film scripts, production material, and correspondence related to Sturges' career.
Welton Davis Becket (1902- ) was a Los Angeles based architect with Becket, Wurdeman, and Plummer (later renamed Welton Becket and Associates) - one of the largest firms in Los Angeles with building credits throughout the world. He also served as the Master Planner and Supervising Architect for UCLA from 1949 to 1969. After Becket's death, the firm continued under the same name, directed by his nephew, MacDonald Becket. Around 1985, the firm was acquired by Ellerbe Incorporated to become Ellerbe Becket. The collection consists of photographs related to the work of the Welton Becket & Associates architectural firm. Most of the photographs represent projects in and around the Los Angeles area and include examples of both residential and commercial buildings with interior and exterior views.