Los Angeles County Incorporation Records (Second Series)
Finding aid created by Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County staff using
RecordEXPRESS
Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
2022
900 Exposition Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90007-4057
(213) 763-3359
seavercenter@nhm.org
https://nhm.org/research-collections/departments/history/seaver-center-western-history-research
Title: Los Angeles County Incorporation Records (Second Series)
Dates: 1903-1939
Collection Number: GC 1145.1
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 1093 Legal Boxes
Repository:
Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles, California 90007-4057
Abstract: Articles of incorporation, including records for businesses, organizations and churches incorporated in Los Angeles County.
This second series, covering the 1920s and 1930s, will fill in the gaps of the first series collection of bulk dates ranging
1854-1938.
Language of Material: English
Research is by appointment only
Permission to publish, quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder
[Identification of item]. Los Angeles County Incorporation Records (Second Series). Collection Number: GC 1145.1. Seaver Center
for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Scope and Content of Collection
Articles of incorporation include records for businesses, organizations and churches incorporated in Los Angeles County. Businesses
include oil, investment and construction companies; automobile and motion picture enterprises. Social organizations, to name
a few, include Culver City Woman’s Club; Downey Athletic Club; South Gate Social Club; Maywood Methodist Episcopal Church;
The Midnight Mission; Buffalo Club of Long Beach, California; and Greek Political Club of America. Records may include dissolutions
and name changes. Street addresses are not provided in the records. Incorporators’ names are listed; many, but not all documents
have original signatures.
This second series, covering the 1920s and 1930s, will fill in the gaps of the first series collection: General Collection
1145 (Los Angeles Incorporation Records (First Series), containing records from 1854 to 1922; 1930 to 1933; and 1935 to 1938.
1903-1939 (bulk is 1922-1939)
Public records -- California -- Los Angeles County -- Records and correspondence