Loyola Marymount University Digital Collections

Thumbnail

Title

Subject

Description

Collection

Remarks Of Mayor Fletcher Bowron at Unveiling of Plaque at First Street Entrance to City Hall, Wednesday, November 5, 1941
Workman family; Rowland family;
A typed transcription of a speech commemorating the centennial anniversary of the arrival of the families in the Rowland and Workman Party in Los Angeles. The speech praises and thanks the original settlers and their descendents for their...
Catholicism in L.A.

J. D. Black scrapbook, 1930
Water-supply--California--Owens Valley; Los Angeles Aqueduct (Calif.); Dams; Bonds; Real property--Purchasing--United States; Population; Voting; Actions and defenses; Advertising; Newspapers--California--Los Angeles; Newspapers--California--Owens...
J. D. Black (1893-1960), also known as Jack, was a merchant of Big Pine and Bishop, California. He was a leader in the fight of Big Pine for reparations from the City of Los Angeles during the Owens Valley water controversy. In the 1920s, he served...
J. D. Black Papers

Salt Lake City, Utah. Group Portrait
Stains, W. C.; Ober, Edwin H. ; Cuddigan, Pat; Jones, John I.; Fox & Symons (Firm);
Group portrait taken at Salt Lake City, Utah.Top row: John I. Jones, left; E.H. Ober, right. Bottom row: Pat Cuddigan, left; W. C. Stains (sic), right. Inscribed on the front of the photograph is the date 1896. On the back of the cabinet card in...
America's West

Correspondence from Big Pine Town Property Owners and Taxpayers to the Los Angeles Record
Resolutions; Water rights--California--Owens Valley; Water rights--California--Los Angeles; Los Angeles Record; Los Angeles (Calif.) Board of Public Service Commissioners; Los Angeles Times (Firm)
To meet the need for water of its growing population, the City of Los Angeles began acquiring water rights in the Owens Valley in 1905. The Los Angeles Aqueduct was completed in 1913 to bring Owens Valley water to the city. During the 1920s, the...
J. D. Black Papers

Day Book of J. D. Black, 1929
Reparations; Claims; Actions and defenses; Meetings; Sales; Big Pine Reparations Association; Real property--Valuation; Real property--Purchasing--United States; Water rights--California--Owens Valley; Water rights--California--Los Angeles
J. D. Black (1893-1960), also known as Jack, was a merchant of Big Pine and Bishop, California. He was a leader in the fight of Big Pine for reparations from the City of Los Angeles during the Owens Valley water controversy. In the 1920s, he served...
J. D. Black Papers

George Bush, Donald P. Merrifield, S.J., and Steve Rhodes
Presidents--United States; College presidents--California--Los Angeles; Jesuits
Note on image: "To the reverend Donald Merrifield with best wishes, George Bush."
Loyola Marymount University Historical Photograph Collection

Donald P. Merrifield, S.J., and Pope John Paul II in Rome
Popes; Jesuits; College presidents--California--Los Angeles
Donald Merrifield, S.J. and John Paul II shaking hands.
Loyola Marymount University Historical Photograph Collection

Big Pine Reparations Association payment record
Payment; Membership; Contracts; Big Pine Reparations Association; Mendenhall, W. W.; Water rights--California--Owens Valley; Water rights--California--Los Angeles
After a reparations bill of California was passed in April 1925, the Big Pine Property Owners Association (BPPOA) formed the Big Pine Reparations Association (BPRA) on July 29, 1925 to establish reparations claims against the City of Los Angeles...
J. D. Black Papers

Letter from A. G. Barmore and J. D. Black to the Los Angeles Record
Newspapers--California--Los Angeles; Big Pine Property Owners Association; Water rights--California--Owens Valley; Water rights--California--Los Angeles
After a reparations bill of California was passed in April 1925, the Big Pine Property Owners Association (BPPOA) formed the Big Pine Reparations Association (BPRA) on July 29, 1925 to establish reparations claims against the City of Los Angeles...
J. D. Black Papers

Protest against the City of Los Angeles
Newspapers--California--Los Angeles; Barmore, A. G. (Albert); Joseph, Louis; Rossi, Rafael; Sanger, W. A.; Black, J. D. (John David), 1893-1960; McDonald, A. R.; Higgins, Ralph A.; Mendenhall, W. W.; Williams, H. R.; Water rights--California--Owens...
To meet the need for water of its growing population, the City of Los Angeles began acquiring water rights in the Owens Valley in 1905. The Los Angeles Aqueduct was completed in 1913 to bring Owens Valley water to the city. During the 1920s, the...
J. D. Black Papers

John McAlpin
McAlpin, John; Black, John; Oriental Photographic Parlors (San Francisco, Calif.); Oriental Photographic Gallery (Ferndale, Calif.);
Portrait of John McAlpin, possible resident of Bodie, California. Inscription on accompanying grocer's ticket in handwriting of J. D. Black: "John McAlpin Bodie FATHERS (sic) PARTNER Bodie." Title supplied by cataloger.
America's West

Big Pine Citizen, March 26, 1927
Los Angeles Record; Water-supply--California--Management; Owens Valley (Calif.)--Social conditions; Advertising; Big Pine (Calif.)--History; Water rights--California--Owens Valley; Water rights--California--Los Angeles; Newspapers--California--Big...
The Big Pine Citizen was the weekly newspaper of Big Pine, a town in the northern Owens Valley of the California Sierras. The newspaper expressed the viewpoint of Big Pine residents on Los Angeles' control of the Owens Valley water supply during...
Big Pine Citizen Newspaper Collection

Occupation of the Alabama Gates, Los Angeles Aqueduct, Owens Valley, California
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power;
Owens Valley residents, including men and women, eating during their occupation of the Alabama Gates, of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. This photograph may record either the barbecue held the final day of the occupation (20 November 1924) or else the...
America's West

Occupation of the Alabama Gates, Los Angeles Aqueduct, Owens Valley, California
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power;
Owens Valley residents eating at the Alabama Gates of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. This photograph may record either the barbecue held the final day of the occupation (20 November 1924) or else the meals that wives of the occupiers served. The low...
America's West

First Annual Catalogue of Los Angeles College, 1911-1912
Los Angeles College (Los Angeles, Calif.); St. Vincent College (Los Angeles, Calif.)--History; Loyola Marymount University--History; Jesuits--California--Los Angeles;
A 63-page published booklet commemorating the first year of Los Angeles College. The catalog is divided into several chapters that cover the history of the school's founding, the development of the school curriculum, the rules and regulations for...
Catholicism in L.A.

Expense account record of W. P. Hunt interview
Lawyers; Hunt, George W. P. (George Wylie Paul), 1859-1934; McIntosh, J. O. (James); Black, J. D. (John David), 1893-1960; Water rights--California--Owens Valley; Water rights--California--Los Angeles
After a reparations bill of California was passed in April 1925, the Big Pine Property Owners Association (BPPOA) formed the Big Pine Reparations Association (BPRA) on July 29, 1925 to establish reparations claims against the City of Los Angeles...
J. D. Black Papers

J. D. Black scrapbook, 1927-1928
Inyo County Bank; Banks and banking; Los Angeles Aqueduct (Calif.); Bombings; Dynamite; Saint Francis Dam (Calif.); Floods--California--Santa Clara River; Dam failures--California--Los Angeles County; Water-supply--California--Owens Valley; Actions...
J. D. Black (1893-1960), also known as Jack, was a merchant of Big Pine and Bishop, California. He was a leader in the fight of Big Pine for reparations from the City of Los Angeles during the Owens Valley water controversy. In the 1920s, he served...
J. D. Black Papers

Gilmore Stadium map
A black-and-white map giving the location of Gilmore Stadium at Beverly Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles, California. The map gives the names of the surrounding streets, parking areas for the stadium, and two entrances. The compass...
Loyola Marymount University Historical Photograph Collection

Alpha Delta Gamma fraternity members smashing a piano
Fraternities & sororities--California--Los Angeles; Greek letter societies--California--Los Angeles; Pianos
Three students in Alpha Delta Gamma fraternity t-shirts using sledgehammers to smash a piano to pieces outdoors in front of the Foley Building. A fourth student in fraternity t-shirt holds pieces of the debris. Loyola Marymount's Lambda chapter...
Loyola Marymount University Historical Photograph Collection

Lion mascot, Mary Howe, John Lehne, and Bob McGuire at homecoming
Football--Social aspects; Homecomings--California--Los Angeles
A black-and-white photograph of (left to right): a person in Loyola lion mascot costume, Mary Howe holding a ukulele, John Lehne, holding a sheet of paper, and Bob McGuire wearing a straw boater hat and a fur coat. All four are looking at the...
Loyola Marymount University Historical Photograph Collection

Find results with:

Searching collections:

Add or remove other collections to your search:

Narrow your search by:

Creator

Date

Subject

Format

You've searched:

Thumbnail

Title

Subject

Description

Collection

QuickView

Layout options:

		Thumbnail with title
		Grid with smaller thumbnails and more detail

Find results with:

Searching collections:

Add or remove other collections to your search:

Narrow your search by:

Creator

Date

Subject

Format

You've searched:

Thumbnail Title Subject Description Collection

QuickView

Layout options:

Thumbnail

Title

Subject

Description

Collection