Finding Aid for the Henry Workman Keller Papers, 1907-1950
Finding Aid for the Henry Workman Keller Papers, 1907-1950
Collection number: 782
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
- Gift of John Keller, 1962.
- Gift of Fred M. Keller, 1962.
- Keller trusteeship for grant deeds and title transfers (Boxes 1-4).
- Correspondence (Boxes 5-19, 65-67, 75-79).
- Receipts and invoices (Boxes 19-20).
- Rancho Los Alamitos (Box 21).
- Alphabetical files (Boxes 22-63).
- Miscellaneous material (Boxes 64, 104-05).
- Datebooks (Boxes 68-69).
- Notebooks (Box 70).
- Books (Box 71).
- Ledgers and journals (Boxes 72-74).
- Business papers and correspondence (Boxes 80-93).
- Cashbooks (Boxes 94-102).
- Trial balance (Boxes 99, 103).
Papers
Material Relating to H.W. Keller as a Trustee - Grant Deeds and Title Transfers
A - E.
F - K.
L - P.
Q - Z.
Correspondence - (March 15, 1907-August 15, 1914).
Correspondence - Riverside, Portland Cement Company (April 14, 1910-February 28, 1912).
Correspondence from Ed Fletcher, re Del Mar Property (May 19, 1910-January 26, 1912).
Receipts and invoices, re Southern California Cement Company.
Receipts and Invoices (1906-1908).
Rancho Los Alamitos, January 1, 1942.
Alamitos Rancho - Miscellaneous.
Appraisements by HWK (various).
Auto Club - International Pacific Highway, Current File.
Auto Club of Southern California, Smog abatement, 1945.
Automobile Club - Roads & Highways (1947-1948).
Automobile Club of Southern California, January 1, 1942 to.....(1959).
Babbitt lands: papers relating to trustor and beneficial reserved oil interests (1945-1948), land purchase, sale of Keck interest in Montebello Syndicate; H.W. Keller acting as trustee.
Bank statements, 1932-1942.
Bolsa Land Company. Bolsa Chica Gun Club.
Bryant, Mrs. Susanna Bixby.
California, State Chamber of Commerce.
California Home Developers, Incorporated, San Fernando Valley Lands.
Carter, Charles W. Company.
Cass & Johansing (Pico and West Blvd., Merced County Ranch, San Fernando Valley Property, Miscellaneous.
El Cazadero Ranch: Applications for jobs, etc. 1948-49; correspondence re sale; miscellaneous correspondence, 1947; maps, photographs; Minta Martindale (Beginning June 1947).
El Casadero Ranch: New road, 1948-49; re purchase from F & M Bank in 1947; re/sale of lumber or timber, 1941-47.
El Cazadero Ranch: re sale of timber, 1948-50; Cazadero sales; U.S. Department of Agriculture, Mendocino National Forest.
Central valleys water project.
Chavez ravine, Boshop's road.
Eli P. Clark Company - Hill street property.
Colusa county bank.
Community Chest, Los Angeles.
Conejo: Leases expired, Fukushima lease-suit.
S.M. Ehrman - Golden Ave. property.
Ehrman-Smith proposed parking lot lease (825 and 831 Golden Ave.) February 1954 --.
Del Mar residence and lots.
Diamond T. Truck Company (Chapman - Tilt).
Doane Valley property.
Downtown corners.
Eighth Street tract and vicinity -- Sales.
David R. Faries.
Farmers & Merchants National Bank.
Figueroa lot, purchase, etc.
O. Nicholas Gabriel.
Golden Avenue Lots, S.M. Ehrman.
Golden State Citrus Products, Incorporated
Accounting papers.
Tax records.
Dissolution of Golden State Citrus Products, Incorporated (Year 1957).
Scope and Content Note
Stock Certificates.
Minutes of Directors' meeting.
Hancock's Survey.
Harbor. 1942, 1943.
Harden -- Palos Verdes property.
Clara H. Heller -- Values and descriptions, June 1939.
Hellman Papers: (1937 Appraisal Work Sheets and Maps)
Repetto ranch.
San Pedro ranch.
Olympia tract.
Washington and Figueroa.
Miscellaneous lots.
Whittier lands.
Los Alamitos ranch.
Second and Broadway.
I.W. Hellman Building.
Union Oil Building (Figures collected, no report).
Nacimiento ranch.
Miscellaneous Work Sheets.
Repetto Work Sheets.
Hellman Estate - Properties:
Appraisal and proposed division of properties.
Appraisal maps.
Appraisal data.
Appraisal -- S.M. Ehrman (1941)
Los Alamitos ranch.
Repetto ranch.
Tract 9710.
Azusa.
Watts.
Howard townsite.
Union Oil Building (January 1938 --).
I.W. Hellman, Jr. Loan.
Hellman Heirs
Miscellaneous (Beginning November 1933).
Miscellaneous Correspondence since resignation.
Heney Judgment.
Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
Insurance, Life, Accident (H.W. Keller).
K & K Brick Company.
Keller - Wattles Company.
F.M. Keller (up to 1940).
Keller Family (1936-1949).
Lacy - Rancho Laguna.
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, 1942.
Los Angeles - City and County of.
Los Angeles Permanent Trade Fair, Incorporated.
M Correspondence, miscellaneous.
Mexican Syndicate - papers and gen ledger.
Mines, miscellaneous data (1932-1935).
Musick Elvon, law firm.
Olympia Tract (Tract 12084).
Oak Knoll Park (Tract 6661)
Purchase and development.
Plaskett Lands:
Purchase and exchange.
Bank of Willows.
Arthur Carpenter.
Ellis J. Levy.
Miscellaneous, from purchase to end of 1946.
Plaskett meadows - Miscellaneous and C.G. Fitzgerald.
Polk Process Papers:
I.H. Polk.
General File.
H.W.K's Personal File.
New Process - Miscellaneous.
Patents, Domestic and Foreign.
Rail Rapid Transit (1948-1949).
Repetto Rancho - Sales of acreage beginning 1945. Parcel no.4.
San Marino Lot.
San Pedro Ranch - Compton School Site.
Security-First National Bank (1924-1946 inc.).
Soston Canyon.
South Bay Shooting Club.
Southern California Telephone Company.
State Department of Real Estate.
Sunset Packing Corporation
Stockholders, Miscellaneous.
Stock Certificate books (2).
Bank Statements.
Bound volume relating to papers of incorporation.
Balance Sheet Examination.
Other papers of Sunset Packing Corporation.
Taxes:
Capital Stock Tax.
Miscellaneous.
Income Taxes Computed.
Twenty-third & Main Street Property.
Union Oil Building (Washington & Figueroa)
Maps and blueprints.
Rental statements.
University of California.
Waters, H.W.
Trade Fair & Miscellaneous Correspondence 1943-....
Yucaipa Ranch
M.E. Bise.
Yucaipa Ranch
Burns (Charles) property.
Water development.
Additional material.
Miscellaneous material (including Miscellaneous open file).
Correspondence, Old file. (A - N).
Correspondence, Old file (O - Z)
Miscellaneous Correspondence to be filed.
Correspondence, Tissue copies, January 1, 1954- ....
Date books (1931-1940).
Date books (1941-1951).
Notebooks on:
Building leases.
Ground leases.
Maps and Index of:
California by counties.
Downtown Los Angeles.
Wilshire Boulevard.
Books:
Lake's monthly installment and interest tables.
Long and Short Term Leaseholds.
Los Angeles Blue Book of Land Values (1932 edition).
Ledgers and Journals
Correspondence, Tissue Copies, HWK to Various Persons
November 1, 1946-August 29, 1947.
September 1, 1947-June 30, 1948.
July 1, 1948-May 31, 1949.
June 1, 1949-November 30, 1950.
December 1, 1950-December 31, 1953.
Business Papers and Correspondence:
Clark, E. -- Hill Street property.
The Crusaders.
Associated Investors of California, George Wigmore, Incorporated.
Crutcher, John P.
Catholic Cemetery property.
1900.1 -- Air Terminal.
Pacific Clay Products -- Advertising matter, etc.
Brogdex Company.
Palms property.
Bixby, Fred H.
[Bicknell Syndicate].
Bradbury Estate Company.
Conejo Ranch -- oil.
Lands. Mountain and recreational.
Pacific Clay Products.
Austin Securities Company.
Clark Properties.
First Industrial Loan Company [Board of Directors].
Pacific Clay Products -- Sale to Justinian-Caire.
Palific Clay Products -- Sale to Ray F. Tissue.
Sunjuis -- Liquid Gold Transfer.
California Consolidated Water Company, January 22-September 30, 1934.
Graves, Banning and Company.
Hotchkis, Preston.
Automobile Club -- Land and buildings, F.M.K. File.
Pacific Molasses Company.
Miscellaneous -- International Business Machines Corporation -- Remington-Rand, Incorporated.
Koepfli, J. Blake.
Lands. Mexico.
Lands. Lower California.
Bowron, Fletcher (Mayor).
Koepfli, J. Blake -- appraisal.
Keller, F.M. -- open file.
Coldwell, Corawell and Baker.
Cass and Johansing -- leasing and rentals.
Sunjuis -- trademark file 1934, transfer.
Sunjuis File no.1 -- California -- Consumers.
Keller, Henry Workman - Trujuis, correspondence, 1934.
California Consumers Corporation -- royalties.
California Consumers Corporation -- correspondence, 1935-1936.
Consolidated Water Company.
Trujuis -- Miscellaneous.
Sunset Packing Corporation (H.W. Keller File).
Sunset Packing -- financial reports, 1933-1934, transfer.
California Consolidated Water Company.
California Consumers Corporation.
Brown Machinery -- equipment rental agreemant.
Sunset Packing Corporation -- organization and formation.
Patent File -- Polk Process -- 1935.
Audits -- Oceanic Oil Company (Financial statements, 1947- ).
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company.
Accounting analysis -- Haskins and Sells -- August 15, 1955.
Annual Meetings, Oceanic Oil Company -- shareholders, 1951.
Miscellaneous [Personal income tax from Frederick M. Keller].
Los Angeles By-Product Company.
Haskell, Arnold.
Hervey, Edward -- Partitian of Lot 30, E1 Carmel tract.
Harold W. Herlihy.
Huntington Syndicate.
1 large envelope of Pease & Dolley, Attorneys at Law.
1 map of Los Angeles, California.
Property holdings, Inprovements and Utilazation Survey of the Metropolitan Area of Los Angeles, California.
John L. Garner, Jr.
D'Oyly Ranch Property.
Bradbury File - (I.H. Polk).
H.W. Keller Trust.
Securities purchased Year 1958.
H.W. Keller (U.S. Treasury Bills 90 day) from February 1956 to May 1958 & R.H. Moulton file on Municipal Bonds.
Lands (city) 1940- .
Birkbeck, Vincent.
Scope and Content Note
F.M.K.. 1958.
Harvard School.
Graves, (J.A.) Property. 1240 South Figueroa.
Ferguson Property. (Siskiyou County).
Eckert Brewing Company (Stewart McKee).
Eli P. Clark
Hill Street Property.
Proposed deal with Woolworth Company.
Los Angeles Rock and Gravel Colmpany.
East Los Angeles Development Association.
First Industrial Loan Company
(William Workman).
(New Location - Huntington Park).
Fifth Street Property.
Figueroa Street Properties.
J. Blake Koepfli - International Business Machines -- Miscellaneous File.
August Luer Property.
Industrial Properties.
Ranch Properties - (Koepfle, --- ).
Kegley - Property, Purchases, etc.
Howard B. Lawson.
[Bank statements, bank book, etc.].
Duque, Henry.
Brogdex Company of California - Pomona, California (F.M. Keller).
Sunset Packing Corporation F.M.K.
Correspondence, 1956 and 1957.
Ctf. no.16 for 6 shares in folder. Ctf. is dated May 7, 1925.
H.W. Keller, Trustee, vs. Gabriel, et al.
H.W. Keller, Trustee - Richfield Oil Corporation. Lease September 1945.
B.F. Porter Estate (Porter Sesnon).
Pacific Clay Products
Reports, Statements, maps, etc.
Pold, I.H.
University Club of Los Angeles.
State of California -- Real Estate Department
Insurance Commissioner.
Taxes.
Taxes - Refund Year, 1933-34.
Pacific Clay Products.
Appraisals -- Miscellaneous.
Appraisal -- Hellman Estate, Seal Beach Property.
Apparaisals -- Andrews & Andrews (George E. Cryer Property). (Condemnation Suit, County of Los Angeles vs. East Naples Land Company).
Appraisal -- Automobile Club of Southern California -- (Inter-Insurance Exchange).
Appraisal -- Lewis W. Andrews, Jr. (Edna May Fuller - San Gabriel Property).
Appraisal -- Bradbury Estate Company (32 1/2 lots Tract 7573 Mrs. Isabelle M. Bliss).
Appraisals - Cass & Johansing.
Appraisal -- Eugene Clark. (Tract 7690, near Arcadia, Los Angeles County) & lots 1, 2, 5, & 6 - Tract 8598.
Appraisal -- Sidney M. Ehrman (127 No. Brand Blvd., Glendale).
Appraisal -- David R. Faries (Supervisor Underwriters, Incorporated - Various properties.
Appraisal -- Farmer & Merchants National Bank (Stowell Hotel & Bank premises).
Appraisal -- I.W. Hellman (NE corner Vine & Yucca).
Appraisal -- Hill & Morgan (Blk. 19, Range 5 Wilmington).
Appraisal -- Mortimer A. Kline (NW corner 6th & Rampart Blvd.).
Appraisal -- Lacy Estate (Welfare Investment Company Properties).
Appraisals - William Lacy Estate.
Appraisals - Frank C. Mortimer
(Kern County Property).
(Lot 893, Tr. 1000, San Fernando Valley).
Appraisal -- O'Melveny, Tuller & Myers
(Beebe).
(City vs. Dominguez Heirs).
Appraisal -- Edgar Estate Property (243-47 South Broadway).
Appraisals - Pacific Indemnity Company
(Martin Iron Works property).
(Martin - Manhattan Beach Property).
Pacific Clay Products - Plant no.5, Property Tract no.9063.
Pacific Clay Products - Sale to Knute R. Sjogren.
Pacific Clay Products - Sale to Foodcraft Products Company.
Appraisal -- Wells Fargo Bank & Union Trust Company.
Appraisal -- Union Oil Company (Lot 26, Arthur Tract).
(El Segundo Property).
Appraisal -- Thompson Corporation (Lot 8, Block D, Tract 8361).
Shell Oil Company - Appraisals - Various Properties.
Appraisal -- Albert Parker (Airport - Title Insurance & Tract Company vs. Fisher).
Appraisals - Palos Verdes Estates.
Lacy - Welfare Investment Company Properties, etc.
Burkhard, J.F.
Ledgers & Journals
Cash Books
W.H. Keller. September 1, 1912-July 24, 1914.
W.H. Keller. July 24, 1914-July 1, 1916.
W.H. Keller. July 2, 1916-January 31, 1918.
W.H. Keller. February 1, 1918-July 31, 1921.
W.H. Keller. August 1, 1921-July 31, 1924.
W.H. Keller. August 1, 1924-April 12, 1926.
W.H. Keller. April 13, 1926-December 9, 1927.
W.H. Keller. December 10, 1927-March 31, 1929.
W.H. Keller. April 1, 1929-May 1, 1930.
W.H. Keller. April 1, 1930-July 31, 1931.
W.H. Keller. August 1, 1931-February 28, 1933.
W.H. Keller. March 1, 1933-July 31, 1934.
W.H. Keller. July 31, 1934-July 31, 1936.
W.H. Keller. August 1, 1936-June 15, 1939.
W.H. Keller. June 15, 1939-February 1944.
W.H. Keller, Trustee. August 1917-January 1920.
W.H. Keller, Trustee. February 1920-October 1922.
W.H. Keller, Trustee. November 1922-September 1925.
Keller Produce Company. July 1927-May 1928.
Keller Produce Company. May 1928-December 1928.
Mexican Syndicate.
Oak Knoll. December 1923-May 1928.
Oak Knoll. June 1928-August 1934.
Oak Knoll. September 1934-December 1940.
Trial Balance
W.H. Keller. June 1910-December 1916.
W.H. Keller. February 1917-December 1919.
W.H. Keller. March 1920-February 1925.
W.H. Keller. March 1925-December 1932.
W.H. Keller. January 1933-December 1940.
W.H. Keller, Trustee. April 1918-October 1925.
Mexican Syndicate.
Oak Knoll. November 1923-December 1940.
Miscellaneous
Gillette Contracts.
Property Book of Los Angeles City (carton).
Topographical and Survey Maps of Southern California.