William Cartwright
[Records]
Background
Information
Papers.
Pictures.
Office
Correspondence
M - Z.
To Mayor Norris Poulson.
To Councilman John Gibson.
To Los Angeles Board of Building & Safety Commissioners.
To Jack Linkletter, host of CBS - TV "On the Go."
To miscellaneous influential people.
Minutes, Proceedings, etc.
Legal documents.
Printed Material
Clippings, n.d.
Clippings, 1950-1959.
Clippings, 1960-1974.
Copies of publications.
Miscellaneous
Norma Ashley David
Records
History, etc.
Audio Record
Film Record
Bud Goldstone
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Records
History
Audio Recording
Interviews with Bob Goldstone et. al. I yrlsc_1388_005_001_001a 1961 October 17
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Interviews with Bob Goldstone et. al. I yrlsc_1388_005_001_001b 1961 October 17
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Interviews with Bob Goldstone et. al. II yrlsc_1388_005_001_002a 1961 October 17
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Interviews with Bob Goldstone et. al. II yrlsc_1388_005_001_002b 1961 October 17
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Interviews with Bob Goldstone et. al. III yrlsc_1388_005_001_003a 1963
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Interviews with Bob Goldstone et. al. III yrlsc_1388_005_001_003b 1963
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Interviews with Bob Goldstone et. al. IV yrlsc_1388_005_001_004a 1961 October 17
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Interviews with Bob Goldstone et. al. IV yrlsc_1388_005_001_004b 1961 October 17
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Interviews with Bob Goldstone et. al. V yrlsc_1388_005_001_005a undated
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Interviews with Bob Goldstone et. al. V yrlsc_1388_005_001_005b undated
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Photographic
Photo, 2 buttons, token, n.d.
Printed Material
Miscellaneous publications, manuscript, notes, newspaper articles. v.d.
Photographic
Photo of newspaper collage re Watts Towers, ca. 1959/n.d.
Slides, n.d.
Interviews
Typescript of interview with Simon Rodia and unidentified manuscript, n.d.
Video Record [VHS]
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Printed Material
Watts Towers pamphlet, n.d.
Herbert Kahn
Towers Committee Records
All Subjects
Chronological Files of Herbert Kahn
1959.
Towers structure. Notes by HK, 1959.
Chronological Files
Towers and Art Center
HK'S File
Various items, notes, plans, photograph of rendering, etc.
Office Files
HK's File Marked "Miscellaneous"
Los Angeles City parks items, etc.
Towers Cultural Center
Small photographs of renderings and models, etc.
Towers and Relationship to Neighborhood of Watts
Various lists, plans, etc.
Towers and Community
Towers Records
Curatorial
Photographic Material Kept / Taken by Herbert Kahn
Jeanne Morgan
Repair Crisis
Possible Article
Manuscript Material
Rodia Towers in Watts suffer savage restoration and neglect, etc. n.d.
Success And Far Distance In California
" New Yorker Magazine Visits Simon Rodia"
Manuscript Material By Jeanne Morgan
Confrontation
Manuscript Material, etc.
Various notes, drafts by JM. ca. 1976.
Possible Articles
Manuscript Material
Various notes, drafts by JM. ca. 1979.
[Articles]
Manuscript Material
Research Material[?]
Bibliographies. v.d.
Tiles. Notes and clippings, n.d.
Manuscript / Publication Material[?]
Victory
What it Took
Manuscript Material[?]
Notes. n.d.
To The Team That Prevailed
Distribution Material
Press release, list of names, etc. 1980 August 20.
Morgan Tapes
Interview Material
False Restoration Of Rodia's Towers
A Study in Art vs. Politics
Manuscript Material
Panel paper. 1984 March 13.
"What's Up With Watts?"
Publication Material
By JM. In: Bay Area Lawyers for the Arts, the Working Arts . 1980 Winter.
Research, Manuscript Material
Letters and Documents
File Material
Basic statement. Notes, preservation problems of publicly owned art. 1979.
1976-1977.
1978.
1979.
Chronology
File Material
Notes, lists, calendars, etc. 1978.
Press Releases
Release Material
Appeals for support, ca. 1979.
Information, 1965 (before).
In process. As given, notes, etc. ca. 1978[?].
Release Material, Notes
Also press conferences, 1978.
Press Material
Lists, contacts. 1980s-1990[?].
Press Files
Clippings
Various publications, 1960s forward.
Various publications, n.d.
Various publications, , etc. 1939
Free Press. 1965.
Various publications, 1965.
Trillin, Calvin. "I know I want to do something.." 1965 May 29.
Various publications, 1966.
Free Press, 1966.
Craven, John. "Towers of Watts." In: Connaissance des arts. 1966 April.
Bryan, Robert S. "Sam Rodia and the children of Watts." In: Westways. 1997 August.
Clippings
Various publications, 1968.
Publication, Copy
Trillin, Calvin. "U.S. Journal: Watts." In: The New Yorker. 1971 December 4.
Clippings and Copies
Clipping
Billiter, Bill. "Simon Rodia's incredible towers." In: Art news. 1979 April.
Clippings and Copies
Manuscript and clipping, etc.
Los Angeles Times, also letter from JM. 1983 October.
Clipping
Los Angeles Times editorial. 1984 September 4.
Clippings
JM letter to the Times. 1984 September 24.
Various publications, 1985.
Publications - Various
1950s-1960s.
1979.
Legal Files
Case Files - Center for Law in the Public Interest
Correspondence, etc. 1985.
Further correspondence, etc. 1985.
Durfee Award, 1982.
Legal Files / Ralph Vaughn
Case Files
Hornsberger legal counsel. 1978.
E.S. Feldman legal counsel. 1978.
Miscellaneous. , etc. 1978
Agreement and conveyances, city and committee. , etc. 1978
Center for Law in the Public Interest. 1979.
Operating agreement or development agreement between city and state, ca. 1976[?].
Legal briefs, late 1970s.
Welfare of Towers and Security
Office Files
Watts effect on Towers, Towers neighbors. 1978.
Bailey property. 1978.
Welfare of the Towers, ca. 1978.
Monitor the Towers logs. ca. 1978.
Security, ca. 1978.
Security log, ca. 1978.
Preservation Expertise
Office Files
Ehrenkrzntz Group reports. 1983.
The state's repair and conservation plans and specifications. 1979.
CSRTS standards file. 1978.
Cover the Towers. 1979.
HABS file. 1979.
Materials and methods, Vaughn period. 1978.
Preservation expertise educational. 1979.
Artisans for actual work. 1978.
Conservation publications, ca. 1978.
Chartres preservation article, ca. 1978.
Cases of savage preservation, ca. 1978[?].
New Yorker cartoon on restoration, ca. 1978[?].
Flow Charts - Authorities
Office Files
Notes and copies, ca. 1978[?].
Federal Authorities
Office Files
National Advisory Board on Historic Preservation correspondence, 1978.
National Register, 1978.
State Authorities
Office Files
Steade Craigo, State Department of Parks and Recreation. 1984.
Senator S.I. Hayakawa. 1978-1979.
Russell Cahill State Department of Parks and Recreation correspondence. 1978.
John Merritt State Office of Historic Preservation correspondence. 1978.
State Office of Historic Preservation correspondence. 1977-1978.
Department of Parks and Recreation general correspondence. 1978.
Senator Alan Sieroty correspondence. 1978.
State Department of Parks and Recreation Hollier - Cottingham negotiations. 1979.
State Department of Parks and Recreation Earl Carlson correspondence. 1978-1979.
City Authorities
Office Files
Vaughn documents, reports, contracts. 1978.
Office of Legislative Analyst. 1979.
City Hall meetings. 1978.
Department of Public Works. 1978.
Mayor Tom Bradley. 1976-1978.
Municipal Arts Commission. 1978.
Municipal Arts Department, 1978.
City Attorney Bert Pines. 1978.
City Controller Ira Reiner. 1978.
Bureau of Public Buildings reports. 1978.
Eugene Birnbaum, engineer. 1978.
Environmental review. 1977.
City Council. 1975-1979.
Funding history and detail. 1978-1979.
City Administrative Officer (CAO). 1974.
Vaughn - unlicensed contractor, work performance. 1978.
Consultants and Authorities
Office Files
CSRTW standards for conservation. 1978[?].
N.J. Bud Goldstone reports. 1978.
Mel Green and Associates conservation consultants. 1978.
Crafts and Folk Arts Museum. 1978-1979.
Firschein, Bill, board representative, preservation. 1979.
Bernard Judge, AIA preservation chairman. 1978-1979.
Myrna Saxe, consultants and authorities. 1978-1979[?].
Dr. Tomay – Ybly. 1978.
Getty Museum. 1978-1979.
National Trust for Historic Preservation. 1978.
Williams Waterproofing Company. 1978.
Friends
Office Files
Members, friends, helpers correspondence. ca. 1978-1979.
Possible help and support. ca. 1978-1979.
Addresses. ca. 1978-1979.
A.B. Arnold. ca. 1978-1979.
J.J. Beljon. ca. 1978-1979.
Johan Van Geluwe. 1980.
Ruth Bowman. 1978-1980.
Harvey Mudd. 1979.
June Wayne. 1979.
Mary Ewalt. 1984.
William Emboden. 1978-1979.
Working Files
Board
Office Files
CSRTW Board membership mailings. 1982, 1984.
Jeanne Morgan letters to Board of Directors, CSRTW. 1983.
CSRTW archive data. 1983.
Board assets, notes and reports, ca. 1980.
CAC grant. 1979.
Watts Towers Art Center. 1978.
Grant deeds. 1978.
Treasurers. 1978-1979.
Office space. ca.1978.
History of Committee, roster of those shown film by Jeanne Morgan. 1959.
Membership mailings, increase of membership. ca. 1978.
Correspondence board members. 1979.
Document. 1974.
Conveyance of Towers to city. 1977.
Towers Committee. 1978.
Letters, inner organization. ca. 1978.
By-laws, v.d., including 1979.
CSRTW letterhead and envelopes, ca. 1978[?]
Executive Committee minutes, 1979 April 11.
Annual membership meeting, 1979 April 22.
Board meeting, 1979 May 2.
Executive committee meeting, 1979 May 25.
Board meeting minutes, 1979 June-August.
Executive committee meeting, 1979 August 8.
Board finances, 1977-1978.
Board crisis, 1979-1980.
Board meeting minutes, 1980 January 8.
Board meeting minutes after Jeanne Morgan resignation, 1980.
Board meeting mailing, 1981.
Unfinished business, 1978.
Towers Records
Promotional
Research and Final Material
Notes, press kit, etc. 1960s[?].
Publication Material
Simon Rodia History
Interview Material
Production Notes, etc.
Ray Wisniewski's and Bill Male's notes for a film, 1953.
Interview Notes, etc.
Morgan / Babitz visit. Babitz report, 1960.
Morgan / Babitz visit. Morgan report, 1960.
Jody Farrell. An account of a visit to Simon Rodia, 1961 October.
Rodia contact. Claudio Segre, 1962 January 25.
Rodia contact. Jeanne Morgan, 1964 Summer.
Rodia contact. New Yorker visit, Morgan report. Title: "Success and far distance in California: New Yorker visits Simon Rodia." 1964 August 30.
Rodia contact. New Yorker visit, original Morgan report. 1964 August 30.
Rodia contact. Morgan article. Title: "Sam Rodia and City Hall." 1964 September 20.
Rodia contact. Morgan final visit, 1964 December 22.
Rodia contact. Miscellaneous, 1980s.
Nick King. Rodia portraits, 1960s.
Rodia Museum
Research Material
Rodia museum and museum contacts. Notes and working paper, 1979.
Other works of Rodia, n.d.
Curatorial
Research Material
File Materials
Condition report, broken column, 1984 April.
Curator. Letter to JS responding to her proposal. 1984 April.
Rodia and art community / June Wayne, 1984.
Things / searching for, 1980s.
Current and Trust
File Materials
Curatorial
Research / File Material
Research sources. Notes, 1980s.
Manual sculpture. Notes, 1980s.
The grave of Sam Rodia. Notes, sketch. 1980s[?].
Towers safety test. , etc. 1959
Armature technology: Goldstone: Rodia joint, etc. Notes, etc. (assembled). 1980s
History of file (clipping). 1983.
Editorial corrections LACMA catalog. 1960s[?].
Columbia Encyclopedia entries. 1970s[?].
Documents Sabatino Rodia. Notes, photocopies. v.d.
Babitz research. v.d.
Personal contacts, potential oral histories. v.d.
The Committee for Simon Rodia's Towers in Watts. Newsletters, 1960s.
Bibliography. Notes and copies, some of work by Kate Steinetz. v.d.
Rodia chronology. Notes, typescripts. 1980s[?].
Article about Towers. 1983.
Night lighting plans and photograph. 1960s.
Research / File Material - Related Work By Others
Outsider and folk art. Clipping, 1984.
Grotto in Hauterive (near Lyon). v.d.
L'art brut. v.d.
Nek Chand's constructions in India. Clipping, 1984.
Films, Television, Radio
Films available. Notes, catalog, etc. 1970s-1980s.
Radio tape (reel to reel), VHS tape. n.d.
Television. Notes, n.d.
Bill Hale film. Notes, correspondence, etc. , etc. 1983
African Americans and Watts City in Relation to Towers
John Outterbridge. Clippings, 1980s.
Watts Art Center. Notes and clippings, 1980s.
Early Watts, jazz. Notes and clippings, 1980s.
Committee on Simon Rodia's Towers in Watts
Research and Office Material
Ann Luke, chair CSRTW. 1987.
Museum methods, popular culture. AASLH. 1986.
Architecture for museums. Clipping, 1985.
Rodia Museum of Popular Culture. Notes by JM, etc. 1985.
Spinoffs / projects. Notes, etc. 1985.
ABC - KCET. Notes by JM, 1985.
Bud Goldstone. Notes from 1986.
Towers in process. Correspondence, 1984.
Dave Johnstone, Los Angeles Times. Notes from his statement, 1985.
Watts Festival "failure" [after action report by JM], 1985.
Curatorial services. Notes by JM, 1985.
Restoration confusion. Letters to Times, etc. 1985.
Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department. Letter to them from JM, 1985.
John Outterbridge. Notes about by JM, 1985.
Los Angeles art powers [public art]. Clippings about the Getty, etc. 1985.
Ed Goff, architect. Notes, clippings by and about, etc. v.d., 1969.
Video. Notes for, how to brochure, etc. 1985[?].
Office Materials - Art Organizations, etc.
Correspondence with trust: Pittas, Wheaton, Bowman. 1986.
USC international conference on the future of the Towers. JM's verbatim notes, 1985 June 13-15.
California Confederation of the Arts. Clipping, 1984.
Saving and preserving Arts and cultural Environments. Letter, mailing, notes. 1970s.
Copies of Publications [Duplicate of Special Collections]
Ray, Mary Ellen Bell
"City of Watts 1907-1926." 1985.
Copies of Publications [Removed for Cataloging]
Ward, Daniel Franklin, ed.
Boring, Mel
Ward, Daniel Franklin
Copies of Publications / Related Material
Enclosures, Correspondence
Ward, Daniel Franklin
Curatorial
Graphic and Photographic Materials
Images of Rodia, Towers motifs, etc. 1960s.
Towers full profile (more or less), late 1970s[?].
Interior / floor. Photographs by Bob Willoughby, 1985.
Kids and bikes at front wall, ca. 1984.
Towers full profile with figure. Photographs by Harvey Mudd, 1978.
Photographs probably by Marvin Rand, n.d.
Photograph by Bruce Boehner, n.d.
Miscellaneous Towers photographs from various sources, n.d.
List of photographers of Towers. Notes by JM, 1978-1980s[?].
Dome structure. Photographs by JM to show cracking of underside, n.d.
Large spires and overlaps. Photographs by JM, n.d.
"The new genitalia." Photographs by JM. Refers to City architect's false restoration ...., 1979.
Broken pieces. Photograph by JM, 1979.
Vaughn equipment. Photograph by JM, 1978.
Center tower. Photographs by JM, 1979.
Signs. Photographs by B. Miller, 1979.
South wall sets. Notes, n.d.
Walls. Color photocopies of photographs elsewhere in records[?], n.d.
People. Photographs by Barret Miller, 1979.
Rodia and influences [photograph inside San Francisco apartment building with random ceramic tile], n.d.
Towers, labeled "Find these locations." Photographs, n.d.
Damage and deterioration. Photographs, notes. 1979[?].
Fireplace and no. gate area. Photograph by JM, 1979.
Design possibilities. Photocopies of motifs, etc. n.d.
Reproduction originals. Graphic mockups, images mounted on boards, etc. n.d.
Miscellaneous Views and Details of Towers Motifs, n.d.
Mounted (on individual thick boards). n.d.
n.d.
Towers Construction
Decorative Device
Committee Fundraisers[?]
Events About the Towers
Items Collected
Memorial Collage to Rodia
Curatorial
Towers Criticism
Graphic and Photographic Material
Photographic Material By Jeanne Morgan
Prints, 1978 November 11.
Negatives, 1979 June 10.
Prints, 1979 June 10.
Negatives, 1979 June 11.
Prints, 1979 June 11.
Rodia Towers. Negatives, 1978 July 2.
Rodia Towers. Prints, 1978 July 2.
Wall. Negatives, 1979 June 28.
Wall. Prints, 1979 June 28.
Negatives, 1978 May 7.
Prints, 1978 May 7.
Nuestro Pueblo [signed by Rodia]. Negatives, 1978 June 18.
Nuestro Pueblo [signed by Rodia]. Prints, 1978 June 18.
Towers at time closed for false restoration. Negatives, 1978 March 2.
Towers at time closed for false restoration. Prints, 1978 March 2.
Negatives, 1978 June 20.
Prints, 1978 June 20.
Photographic Material
By Dorothy Westwick. Negatives, 1980 August 2.
Towers Committee Records
Curatorial
Simon Rodia's Techniques, etc.
Towers Records
Curatorial
Photographic Material - Slides by Jeanne Morgan, ca.1978
Tool panels (continued from previous folder), Tool impressions and composites, Nuestro pueblo and stained glass, north wall castings.
Brochures, Posters, etc.
Poster
Bravo Rodia, 1984.
Images of Towers
File Material
Publication
Curatorial
Office Materials - Art Organizations, etc.
Poster for USC international conference on the future of the Towers, 1985.
Images