Visual Materials
Laying gas lines, Southern California Gas Company, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles. 1924
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Road construction, Riverside Drive, Los Angeles(?). 1936
Visual Materials
A group of men spread asphalt from the back of a truck onto Riverside Drive in Los Angeles(?). The workmen have pitchforks, shovels and rakes, and there is a steamroller on the left. The house along the street behind them is under construction as well.
PhotCL Whitt 1983 ; Whitt neg. 0887
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Los Angeles Paving Company to: Southern California Gas Company
Manuscripts
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 material includes invoices, receipts, bills of lading, purchase orders, bid requests, bids, statements, and other general account and job information including handwritten notes, drawings, construction plans and diagrams. The Correspondence series contains 768 items. Most of the correspondence is also business-related. The Photographs and Negatives series contains 1,110 items. The photographs (and negatives) include views of jobs (at various stages of completion), plants, machinery, as well as a few aerial views of the company's jobs. The Ephemera series contains 124 items. The series includes: business-related newsletters and bulletins, brochures and publications, newspaper clippings; tax forms, several LA Paving Company related artifacts, a copy of the 1926 Who's who in Los Angeles and a copy of Scratches: a volume of cartoons and caricatures of Los Angeles citizens, 1911 (Ernest R. Werdin is in both volumes). There is also one folder related to E. Russell Werdin's involvement in the USC Alumni Association. The 38 volumes include bid requests, daily job reports, invoices, journals, one photograph album, a plant and shop register, and stock certificates.
mssLA Paving Co records
Southern Pacific Railroad lines and Alameda St., Los Angeles. 1930
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A freight train of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company travels down tracks next to Alameda Street in Los Angeles. Automobiles going in both directions past businesses, such as the California Milling Corporation.
photCL Whitt 1516 ; Whitt neg. 0465
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Los Angeles Paving Company to: Southern California Freight Lines
Manuscripts
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 material includes invoices, receipts, bills of lading, purchase orders, bid requests, bids, statements, and other general account and job information including handwritten notes, drawings, construction plans and diagrams. The Correspondence series contains 768 items. Most of the correspondence is also business-related. The Photographs and Negatives series contains 1,110 items. The photographs (and negatives) include views of jobs (at various stages of completion), plants, machinery, as well as a few aerial views of the company's jobs. The Ephemera series contains 124 items. The series includes: business-related newsletters and bulletins, brochures and publications, newspaper clippings; tax forms, several LA Paving Company related artifacts, a copy of the 1926 Who's who in Los Angeles and a copy of Scratches: a volume of cartoons and caricatures of Los Angeles citizens, 1911 (Ernest R. Werdin is in both volumes). There is also one folder related to E. Russell Werdin's involvement in the USC Alumni Association. The 38 volumes include bid requests, daily job reports, invoices, journals, one photograph album, a plant and shop register, and stock certificates.
mssLA Paving Co records
Don Lee TV Station, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles. 1941
Visual Materials
A woman in a bikini stands on the ladder of a pool being filmed by a man with a camera that has "Don Lee Television System" on the side. Another man in front of a standing microphone is looking at papers he is holding. The area around the pool lacks any grass or landscaping.
photCL Whitt 1411 ; Whitt neg. 2301
Southern Pacific Railroad freight yard, Los Angeles. 1930
Visual Materials
An elevated view of the freight yard of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company in Los Angeles. There are over a dozen lines of tracks, some with freight or passenger cars on them. A round building on the left bears signs for Zerolene, "The Standard Oil For Motor Cars".
photCL Whitt 1514 ; Whitt neg. 0466