Finding Aid for the Personal Narrative by Dr. Leo Leonidas Stanley about the Los Angeles Steamship Company cruise to Central and South America, 1928
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Title: Personal Narrative by Dr. Leo Leonidas Stanley about the Los Angeles Steamship Company cruise to Central and South America
Date (inclusive): 1928 October 5 - 1928 December 9
Collection number: 1912
Creator:
Stanley, Leo L. (Leo Leonidas), b. 1886-
Extent:
1 box (.5 linear ft.)
Abstract: The Los Angeles Steamship Company (LASSCO) was a Los Angeles-based passenger and freight shipping company that operated a
Central and South American cruise in 1928. This collection consists of 3 bound volumes of a typescript manuscript and black
and white photographs assembled by the ship’s surgeon, Dr. Leo Leonidas Stanley, for his friend Joseph Mattingly, who was
the ship’s official photographer. Dr. Stanley describes the cruise, the ship’s staff and the passengers, as well as the locations
visited.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Language of the Material:
Materials are in English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
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Processed by Yasmin Damshenas with assistance from Lilace Hatayama, June 2012.
[Identification of item], Personal Narrative by Dr. Leo Leonidas Stanley about the Los Angeles Steamship Company cruise to
Central and South America (Collection 1912). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
7173957
The Los Angeles Steamship Company (LASSCO) was a Los Angeles-based passenger and freight shipping company formed in 1920 by
a group of Los Angeles business men. Initially, LASSCO offered passenger service between Los Angeles and San Francisco, but
expanded to include Hawaii by 1921. On October 5, 1928 one of their ships, the S.S. City of Los Angeles, departed San Pedro
for a 17,000 mile, 64-day cruise of Central and South America. Carrying approximately 250 passengers, the steamship stopped
at 20 ports in 11 countries. The passengers, consisting mostly of California business leaders and their families, constituted
an unofficial group of trade ambassadors. The ship's surgeon was Dr. Leo Leonidas Stanley who was the head physician at San
Quentin Prison from 1913-1951. The ship’s official photographer was Joseph Mattingly, an aviator, filmmaker and photographer
who filmed Alaska during the early 1920s.
This collection consists of 3 bound volumes of a typescript manuscript and black and white photographs created by the ship's
surgeon, Dr. Leo Leonidas Stanley, for his friend Joseph Mattingly, who was the ship’s official photographer. Dr. Stanley
describes the cruise, the ship’s staff and the passengers, as well as the locations visited, including: San Pedro; Callao
and Lima, Peru; Valparaiso and Santiago, Chile; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Montevideo, Uruguay; Santos, Sao Paulo and Rio De
Janeiro, Brazil; Port of Spain, Trinidad; La Guayra and Caracas, Venezuela; Panama Canal; Salvador; Guatemala; and Mazatlan,
Mexico.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Stanley, Leo L. (Leo Leonidas) --- Archives.
Los Angeles Steamship Company (LASSCO)
Photographs.
Box 1
Box 2