Los Angeles County Land Use Maps on Slides, 1927-1968

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Title:: Los Angeles County Land Use Maps on Slides
Dates:: 1927-1968
Creators:: Los Angeles County (Calif.). Regional Planning Commission.
Abstract:: This collection contains 2 x 2 in. color slides of various land-use maps dating from the late 1920s to the 1960s for areas in Los Angeles County, California, that were created and used by the Los Angeles Regional Planning Commission.
Extent:: 1696 slides in 6 boxes
Language:: English.
Preferred citation:: [Identification of item]. Los Angeles County Land Use Maps on Slides. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Scope and content:: This collection contains 2 x 2 in. color slides of various land-use maps dating from the late 1920s to the 1960s for areas in Los Angeles County, California, that were created and used by the Los Angeles Regional Planning Commission. The slides depict paper maps that were photographed by the Commission in segments (identified as "detail" slides), and as a whole (identified as an "index" slide). The maps are colored to reflect different classifications of land uses such as open land, farming, residence, commerce, industry, utility, institution, and recreation.
Biographical / historical:: The Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission was formed in 1922 to advise the Board of Supervisors on all planning issues.
Acquisition information:: Gift of George Marr in February 1990.
Arrangement:: The envelopes are arranged alphabetically according to the name of geographic region listed on the envelope. Because the alphabetizing reflects the name as it is written on the envelope some locations may be organized according to a geographic direction (such as East Pasadena under "E" or North Claremont under "N").
Rules or conventions:: Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Note:: Finding aid last updated on September 26, 2014.

Subjects:: Land use -- California -- Los Angeles County -- Maps.
Regional planning -- California -- Los Angeles County -- Maps.
Zoning -- California -- Los Angeles County -- Maps.
Maps.
Slides (photographs).

Collection Guide Author:: Finding aid prepared by Diann Benti.
Date Prepared:: © 2014
Date Encoded:: Machine readable finding aid encoded by Diann Benti in September 2014 .

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Preferred citation:: [Identification of item]. Los Angeles County Land Use Maps on Slides. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Location of this collection:: Huntington Library, Architecture Collections

1151 Oxford Road

San Marino, CA 91108, US