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Mrs. J.J. Woodworth Papers
GC 1250
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Title: Mrs. J.J. Woodworth Papers
Dates: 1840-1902
Collection Number: GC 1250
Creator/Collector:
Extent: (Boxes: 1 legal; ½ legal; 1 ov folder)
Repository:
Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Abstract: Bills on letterhead, bills without letterhead, receipts, railroad and steamship papers, Western Union telegrams, calling cards,
government and business papers, clippings, advertisements, correspondence of Wallace Woodworth and Perry-Woodworth and Co.
for the Southern California, Los Angeles and San Francisco locales. Also family papers, notably estate records for Antonio
Maria Lugo. Circa 1840-1902, undated. See also photographs in P-224
Language of Material: English
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Mrs. J.J. Woodworth Papers. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Biography/Administrative History
Woodworth settled in Los Angeles in the early 1850s; the Woodworth adobe at Second and San Pedro Streets was replaced with
a house. A receipt in the Seaver Center collections dates the operation of Perry-Woodworth and Company as early as 1865,
selling furniture, mattresses and woodworking. The company continued to operate selling lumber and window sash at 76 Commercial
Street until the death of Woodworth in 1882. His widow was Maria A. Foster (daughter of Merced Lugo and Stephen Foster; granddaughter
of Antonio Maria Lugo.)
Scope and Content of Collection
Bills on letterhead, bills without letterhead, receipts, railroad and steamship papers, Western Union telegrams, calling cards,
government and business papers, clippings, advertisements, correspondence of Wallace Woodworth and Perry-Woodworth and Co.
for the Southern California, Los Angeles and San Francisco locales. Also family papers, notably estate records for Antonio
Maria Lugo. Circa 1840-1902, undated. See also photographs in P-224
Business enterprises--California--Los Angeles.
Business enterprises--California--Los Angeles.
Business enterprises--California--Los Angeles.
Business enterprises--California--Los Angeles.
Lugo
Foster
Perry-Woodworth and Company