Finding aid for the Geraldine Knatz papers 7160

Bo Doub

USC Libraries Special Collections

2024 November

Doheny Memorial Library 206

3550 Trousdale Parkway

Los Angeles, California 90089-0189

specol@usc.edu

URL: http://libraries.usc.edu/locations/special-collections

Contributing Institution: USC Libraries Special Collections

Title: Geraldine Knatz papers

Creator: Knatz, Geraldine

Identifier/Call Number: 7160

Physical Description: 17.98 Linear Feet 21 boxes

Physical Description: 90 Gigabytes 678 digital files organized in 15 digital folders

Date (inclusive): 1890-2024

Language of Material: English .

Biographical / Historical

Geraldine Knatz supplied the following biographical sketch to the USC Libraries at the time of USC's acquisition of the Geraldine Knatz papers.

Geraldine Knatz was born in New Jersey. She received a B.A. degree in zoology from Rutgers University in 1973, and an M.Sc. degree in environmental engineering in 1977 and Ph.D. degree in biological sciences in 1979, both from the University of Southern California. She completed the Global Logistics Professional (GLP) program at California State University, Long Beach at Long Beach in 2000.

Dr. Knatz is Professor of the Practice of Policy and Engineering, a joint appointment between the USC Price School of Public Policy and the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Previously, she served as the executive director of the Port of Los Angeles from 2006 to January 2014 and made a significant impact through the creation and implementation of the San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan, an aggressive plan that reduced air emissions by combined port operations of over 70 percent over five years. The Clean Air Action Plan is recognized around the world for its innovation and success. Prior to directing the Port of Los Angeles, Dr. Knatz was the managing director of the Port of Long Beach where she also led a number of environmental initiatives, including the Green Port Policy and Truck Trip Reduction Program.

Dr. Knatz is chairman of the board of trustees for Altasea at the Port of Los Angeles and is on the board of Dewberry Engineering. She is a past member of the Viterbi School of Engineering Board of Councilors, past president of the American Association of Port Authorities, past president of the International Association of Ports and Harbors and was founding Chairman of the World Port Climate Initiative. She served ten years as a gubernatorial appointee on the Ocean Protection Council. Internationally recognized for her accomplishments, Dr. Knatz has received numerous awards, including Outstanding Women in Transportation (Journal of Commerce, 2007), Woman Executive of the Year (Los Angeles Business Journal, 2007), Compass Award (Women's Leadership Exchange, 2008), honorary PhD, Maine Maritime Academy (2009), and the Peter Benchley Ocean Award (Blue Frontier Campaign, 2012). In 2016, she won the Bruckman Award for Excellence in a book about Los Angeles -- presented by the Los Angeles Public Library in recognition of Terminal Island: Lost Communities of Los Angeles Harbor, which Dr. Knatz co-authored. She received a grant from the Haynes Foundation to write the political history of the Port of Los Angeles, Port of Los Angeles: Conflict, Commerce, and the Fight for Control.

Dr. Knatz was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2014 for international leadership in the engineering and development of environmentally clean urban seaports. She served as a member of the NAE Section 12 Peer committee. She serves as a member of the National Academies' Marine Board, and Gibbs Brothers Medal Selection Committee. Previously, she has served as a member of the Committee on the Review of Effectiveness and Efficiency of Defense Environmental Cleanup Activities of the Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management, Committee on Transportation Resilience Metrics, TRB Executive Committee, A Symposium on Arctic Matters: Understanding How the Arctic is Changing and What It Means for People and Places around the Globe, Marine Board (chair; vice chair, member), Committee to Assess the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Methods of Analysis and Peer Review for Water Resources Project Planning, Committee for a Study of the Federal Role in the Marine Transportation System, and Committee for the Study on Landside Access to U.S. Ports.

She currently serves as an advisor to the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Port serves network headquartered in Bejing, China and is the Chairman of the Grand Jury to select the Antoine Rufenacht Prize, a global award sponsored by the Association of Port Cities, headquartered in Le Havre, France. She serves on several non-profit boards, including the Los Angeles City Historical Society, the General Phineas Banning Residence Museum, the Immigrant Genealogical Society, and is the chair of the Board of Trustees for Altasea at the Port of Los Angeles.

Knatz has authored three books and numerous publications including several focusing on early women marine scientists in Los Angeles Harbor. She co-authored an award-winning book Terminal Island, Lost Communities of Los Angeles Harbor (Reissued in 2024 under the title Terminal Island, Lost Communities on America's Edge). Her most recent award-winning book is a political history of the Port of Los Angeles, co-published by the Huntington Library's Institute for California and the West and Angel City Press, titled, Port of Los Angeles, Conflict, Commerce, and the Fight for Control.

Knatz's career has been featured in several popular books, most notably in Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Edward Humes's Door to Door, Bill Sharpsteen's The Docks, David Helvarg's The Golden Shore and Kat Janowicz's Chasing Zero.

Scope and Contents

The Geraldine Knatz papers consist of material created or collected by Geraldine Knatz during or subsequent to her tenures as Executive Director of the Port of Los Angeles (2006-2014) and Managing Director of the Port of Long Beach (1999-2006). Included are weekly reports written by Knatz, management files, correspondence, memoranda, speeches, publications, photographs, posters, awards, press materials, and clippings. In addition, the papers include port-related ephemera and historical materials, minutes of the Board of Harbor Commissioner's meetings (1907-1980), and annual reports (1912-1990). Lastly, the collection includes digital files, accessible via the USC Digital Library, of port-related goals and strategic plans, videos of Knatz's presentations, digital photographs, and other content. Knatz served as the first female director of the Port of Los Angeles, the largest port in North America, and she implemented several groundbreaking environmental initiatives throughout her career, including the San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan and, as Managing Director of the Port of Long Beach, the Green Port Policy and Truck Trip Reduction Program.

Conditions Governing Access

Collection stored off-site. Advance notice required for access.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Rights Statement for Archival Description

Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Geraldine Knatz, March 19, 2024.

Existence and Location of Copies

The USC Libraries copied the digital files and folders from Geraldine Knatz's Seagate external hard drive to the USC Digital Library and the USC Digital Repository. Each folder- and file-level record under the series describing the external hard drive includes a publicly accessible link to the corresponding USC Digital Library asset. There are other digital media in the collection (e.g., assets stored on compact discs) that have not been copied to USC's digital asset management systems.

Preferred Citation

[Box/folder no. or item name], Geraldine Knatz papers, Collection no. 7160, Regional History Collection, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Processing Information

The intellectual arrangement of descriptive records in this finding aid follows Geraldine Knatz's original organization of the material prior to its acquisition by the USC Libraries. Along with the donation of the papers themselves, Knatz also provided multiple inventories with detailed descriptions of most of the material in the collection. The accessioning archivist re-used Knatz's descriptions for the majority of the records in this finding aid. Many item- and folder-level descriptive records in the finding aid include notes titled "Notes from Geraldine Knatz," which quote the inventories that Knatz provided. The finding aid's series correspond to the separate inventories that Knatz provided--saved as separate Word documents--with her donation. As these inventories were partly based on the collection's previous physical arrangement, there is some overlap of similar topics and formats across the finding aid's series.

Separated Materials

Some of the published materials donated with the Geraldine Knatz papers were separated from the archival collection and cataloged individually. The cataloged items are discoverable via the USC Libraries catalog search. The catalog records describing the separated materials include a local note: "Donated to USC Libraries as part of the Geraldine Knatz papers."

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Air quality management -- Archival resources

Environmental engineering -- California -- Archival resources

Environmental engineers -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources

Environmentalism -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources

Harbors -- California -- Los Angeles -- Photographs

Long Beach Harbor (Calif.) -- History -- Archival resources

Los Angeles Harbor (Calif.) -- Archival resources

Port districts -- California -- Archival resources

San Pedro Bay (Calif. : Bay) -- Photographs

San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History -- Archival resources

Women engineers -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources

Annual reports

clippings files

Correspondence

Digital media

Digital photographs

DVDs

Maps

Memorandums

Menus

Minutes (administrative records)

Photographs

Posters

Publications (documents)

Reports

Knatz, Geraldine -- Archives

Port of Long Beach -- Archives

Port of Los Angeles -- Archives

Chronological files 1967-2024

Scope and Contents

The chronological files include correspondence, project files, photographs, material relating to events, and other material.

Box 1

1967-2005

Box 2

2005-2007

Box 3

2007-2009

Box 4

2010-2012

Box 5

2013-2015

Box 6

2014-2024

Box 7, Box 8

Speeches, employment files, weekly reports, project files, and other material

Box 8

Knatz weekly reports 2006-2013

Box 8

Port Historical Film Inventory

Box 8

Blog posts for Port Archives

Box 8

Pietro Di Carlo, World Trade Center (Harbor Commission found dead in harbor)

Box 8

Ethics Violations and China Shipping

Box 8

Port of Los Angeles vs Union Pacific

Box 7

Speeches

Box 8

Direction on first EIR

Box 8

First Meeting with Board President

Box 7

Knatz employment file 1972-1999

Box 7

Knatz employment file, including memos from Antonio Villaraigosa and evaluations 2006-2014

Box 7

Application for Port of Los Angeles job

Box 7

Rejection Letter for Port of Los Angeles job

Box 7

City Dock No. 1 Project, later called Altasea

Box 11, Box 12, Box 13

Clippings binders

Photographs, maps, and Port of Long Beach material

Processing Information

All of the material described under this series had been stored and described together by Geraldine Knatz prior to USC's acquisition of the collection. Knatz grouped and described other photographs in the collection under other series, such as the series titled "chronological files" and "historical material."

Photographs

Box 19

Two large format prints of offloading an elephant off of a ship

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"This is the photo I picked for the cover of the Port of Los Angeles' Centennial book, title Port of Los Angeles, An Illustrated History from 1850 to 1945 by Ernest Marquez and Veronique de Turenne with forward by Geraldine Knatz."

Box 15

Women in the French Sardine Factory 1926

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"This photo came from a port employee's (Ralph Appy) mother's photo album (Giacalone family). It was published on page 120 in the first edition of the Port Centennial Book). Ralph Appy took on the effort to try and identify the women in the photo. Most of the women were identified by Ralph going door to door in San Pedro and taking the photo to Slav Hall. The names of the women cannery workers were included in the caption of the photo in the second edition of the book. When the book came out, John Olguin came to my office, somewhat overcome and telling me there was a picture of his mother in that photo he had never seen before. A thrilling moment!"

Box 19

Large photo of Brighton Beach on Terminal Island circa 1890s

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"This was given to me by Jim Craig, a descendant of the Craig family that started the Craig Shipyard in 1906 in the Port of Long Beach when he learned I was doing a book on Terminal Island. Date likely 1890s."

Box 18

Poster of photos taken when Knatz donated a Morton Salt sweater to the Morton Salt Terminal at the Port of Long Beach 2012

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"They framed my sweater and included it with the historical display in their offices at the port terminal. After it was framed, they invited me to view their historical display and see the sweater. Dated 2012."

Box 15

Aerial view of Los Angeles Harbor Main Channel with Turning Basin

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"Undated but before Vincent Thomas Bridge was built and when slips still existed on the east side of the channel where the Evergreen Terminal is now."

Box 15

Two photos of the USS Constitution during its 1933 visit to the Port of Los Angeles

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"Photos were taken by a city sanitation worker and were found in the Sherman Library by Anna Sklar who had a grant to document city photographs."

Box 15

Red car No 498 on Sampson Way along Port of Los Angeles waterfront

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"Sent to me by John Smatlak, Orange Empire Museum. Car 498 survives today at the museum."

Box 15

Photographs and letter sent to Knatz in 2013 by Alvin Hobard Jacobsen, a trainman for the Port of Los Angeles Harbor Belt Line Railroad 1976

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"Photo taken 4 July 1976 in front of the billboard at the foot of Avalon Blvd. In 1976, the USC biology lab was located wthin one of the warehouses at the Catalina Dock in Wilmington. This was also where the USC research vessel Valero IV was docked. USC eventually built the laboratory in Fish Harbor on Terminal Island and left this warehouse. This Catalina dock was where freight was shipped over to Catalina (eg Vons groceries). In Feb 2024 the Port of Los Angeles opened up the Wilmington waterfront promenade for the public at this site. USC graduate students are identified in this photo. Alvin also included a photo of himself as a trainman assigned to the Harbor Belt Line RR which had a yard in this area. He is the man with the cowboy hat. Clipped to this is his address from the envelope he used to send material to me."

Box 15

Japanese homes next to lumber yard on Terminal Island

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"Probably given to me while working on the Terminal Island book. Does not appear to be in Port of LA photo collection."

Box 15

Captain Robert Dollar and his wife arriving for Foreign Trade Week 1930

Box 15

Elio J. Amar, President of the Los Angeles Harbor Commission, with story on verso about his arrest

Box 15

Harry Bridges on the stand during his deportation trial

Box 15

Harry Bridges speaking to union officials and interested spectators during the warehouse lock out in San Francisco

Box 15

Seaman leaving hiring hall at Port of Los Angeles at end of 98-day strike 1937-02-05

Box 15

U.S. Battle Fleet at anchor in Los Angels Harbor 1938

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"Battleships in the first two rows, next row is Cruiser's and last row is destroyers."

Box 15

Announcement of the establishment of the Allan Hancock Foundation at the start of a cruise to Galapagos on the bridge of the Velero III 1938-01

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"Names included on back. Included in photo is Dr. Hubert L. Clark, Harvard, Dr. Edwin Palmer, Dr. George S. Myers, Stanford; John S. Garth, USC. John Garth who taught a class I took as a graduate student on the Voyages of Captain Cook."

Box 15, Folder 1

35 mm slide of Lion's Dragstrip 1966-03

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"Taken by my husband John Mulvey and used in Port of Los Angeles, Conflict, Commerce and the Fight for Control. Lion's Dragstip was located on Port of Los Angeles property."

Box 15, Folder 2

23 original photos of soldiers returning from WWII coming into Port of Los Angeles by ship circa 1945

Box 15

Aerial photograph of a Cruise terminal area of Port of Los Angeles showing the original building that was the Seman's Church Institute at 1st Street and Harbor Blvd

Box 19

Photo with Margaret Thatcher, taken at Keesal Young and Logan law offices in downtown Long Beach circa 1995

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"Undated but likely around 1995 because I had major hair loss after giving birth to my son Patrick March 17, 1995."

Box 16, Folder 1

Wood-covered autograph album 1938-06

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"Cover made using wood burning kit. Terminal School June 1938. Burned into the inside cover is 'Norm's Graduation from Terminal, June 1938 To 'Nan.' There is a page with a name of each student and a page identifying the Principal Miss Frances Dastarac and Teacher Miss Emma Boyd. Room Mothers were Mrs. K. Furutani and Mrs. Gertrude E. Taylor. The boys are Ernest Andrade, Leonard Esparza, Hughes Dunn, Hiroshi Furutani, Manuel Carrera, Charlie Carreon, Jesse Munoz, Jimmy Foreman, George Ishuin, Hiromu Kitagawa, Kenneth Stone, and Norman Taylor. The girls are Mary Yamashita, Chiyoko Maida, Midori Wada, Yoshiko Kikuchi and Carmen Gonzales. Then pictures of the graduating students, the dinner celebtration. Then there is a picture of Hiroshi Furutani and his 12th birthday cake which is shaped like a ship and called the S.S. Hiroshi. The last photo of School Mother Mrs. Furutani and her son Hiroshi. Note this is the family of former CA Assemblyman Warren Furutani."

Box 17

Photo album sent by Ministry of Communications, China in 1986 about the East-West Center project at Qinhuangdao Port Terminal China 1984-1986

Box 20

Photo album given to G. Knatz upon her retirement titled "Making a Difference in San Pedro Bay Ports for 37 Years"

Port of Long Beach

Box 15

1986 Harbor Highlights (Port of Long Beach magazine) 1986

Box 15

The Port of Long Beach Economic Impacts Brochure 2001 DATA

Box 15

Port of Long Beach Annual Report 2004

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"First recognition of the Green Port Policy which I developed at the request of Commissioner Mario Cordero."

Box 15

Gensler Architects Renderings of a new port administration building

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"A project I worked on that was never built. Instead the Port moved out of the Port of LB jurisdiction into downtown Long Beach."

Box 15

Port of Long Beach Organizational Assessment Final Report- prepared by Blue Consulting 2005

Box 15

Green Port Policy Brochure

Box 15

Queen Mary 2 Port of Los Angeles Maiden Call 2006-02

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"This ship swung by the Queen Mary I berthed in Long Beach on its way into the harbor."

Box 15

Protecting the Environment (Keywords Newport Bay Mitigation Project, Mitigation credits, Anaheim May Project, 2020 Plan)

Box 15

From Sea Resort to Sea Port: The Triumph, Tragedy and Salvation of the Port of Long Beach by Dr. Julian J. Del Gaudio

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"A critique of the Long Beach harbor history book "Port Town: How the People of Long Beach Built, Defended and Profited from their Harbor, August 2015." Book was controversial and Dr. Del Gaudio died before this was published. Mentioned Geraldine Knatz and other harbor officials."

Maps

Box 15

Los Angeles Sister City Map

Box 15

Port of Los Angeles Tidelands location map in LA Harbor

Box 15

Plat of Tideland Locations, compiled by C. T. Healy, additions and revisions from State Lands Commission, Redrawn with additions for clarity by Geraldine Knatz 2018

Box 15

1960s-70s visitors map, Port of Los Angeles

Box 15

Terminal Island Plan, an alternative to the controversial Southern California Gateway Project (SCIG) proposed by Burlington Northern Railway 2008

Box 15

Security-First National Bank Map of Los Angeles and adjacent cities circa 1920s-1930s

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"Every street index. Must be late 1920s to 30s since LAX site is identified as Mines Field."

Box 19

Wilmington & Adjacent Tidelands map 1890-1891

Box 15

Port of Los Angeles 1915-09

Box 19

CA's major seaports, NOAA 1807-2007

Box 19

Map of Southern Pacific Railroad from Wilmington to San Pedro. Shows lands owned by Southern Pacific and Los Angeles Terminal Land Co. circa 1890s

Box 15

Copy of 1923 Map of Harbor Bond Measure improvements, original held by Jeff Asay, formerly of the Union Pacific Railroad

Box 15

Map of Los Angeles harbor and Surrounding Territory, City Engineer Homer Hamlin. Bureau of Harbor Improvement. 1911

Box 15

1913 Amendment of 1911 Map of Los Angeles Harbor and Surrounding Territory, City Engineer Homer Hamlin. Bureau of Harbor Improvement

Box 15

1947 map excerpt showing Mormon Island

Box 15

1941 map excerpt showing Mormon Island and Banning family land

Box 15

Summer 2013 Channel Crossings publication featuring harbor maps

Box 15

San Pedro Bay complex Overweight Container Corridor

Historical material and menus

Processing Information

All of the material described under this series had been stored and described together by Geraldine Knatz prior to USC's acquisition of the collection.

Historical material

Box 16

Port of Los Angeles Annual Reports for 1913-1915 - inside this report is a folded large map that identifies all the facilities in the port during that period 1913-1915

Box 16

Various annual reports 1929-1939

Box 16

Port of Los Angeles Annual Report 1977

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"My first year working at the Port of Los Angeles, mentions the kelp transplant projects I worked on and also the explosion of the SS Sansinena while a berth in San Pedro. One year later I was part of a dive team to measure oil that sunk to the bottom of the Bay."

Box 15

Harper's Weekly - includes a description of San Pedro Harbor and East San Pedro on Terminal Island 1904-04-02

Box 19

Los Angeles The Metropolis of the West, A Vista of the Past, A View of the Present, A Vision of the Future

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"This is a large format publication in a beautiful cover in an envelope with no label but on the back states "Return to Third Floor 706 South Hill Street, Los Angeles, California. Possible a limited set as the envelope is stamped inside with the number 723. I purchased this at an antiquarian book show (for $50) after I learned I got the Port of LA Director job. Produced by the Frank Meline Company. Includes great graphics of the harbor growth from 1917 to 1927 and beatiful color maps of the Los Angeles basin. Port of Los Angeles staff were able to make note cards from some of these images. I recall sending a set to Mayor V. Some samples are likely in my chron files. Frank Meline was an architect and served on the Los Angeles Harbor Commission from August 27, 1924 through July 5, 1927."

Box 20

Special Publication section of the News-Pilot Newspaper titled San Pedro, the First 100 Years, dated 24 March 1988.

Box 16

Brochure "The Vincent Thomas Bridge" possibly for the ceremony for opening of the bridge in 1963 (two copies)

Box 16

Brochure for the Maritime Industry Roast for Charles P. Slocombe, 3 October 1986

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"Slocombe was somewhat of an institution around the harbor and the brochure alludes to his intelligence gathering during WWII. See my port history book page 186 for information on his career as a spy working on behalf of Jewish resistance to Nazi infiltration into Los Angeles."

Box 16

Harbor Protection Conservation and Flood Control by John J. Hamilton, Los Angeles Board of Supervisors 1917-01

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"Was privately distributed to support passage of a bond measure for harbor improvements in Los Angeles."

Box 16

Brochure Port of Los Angeles Latitude North 34 Longitude West 118. There is a historical port 1954 video of this same title in the collection.

Box 16

Information for Ships in Los Angeles-Long Beach San Pedro Harbor Area, Fourth Edition. Issued by the Naval Operating Base, Terminal Island (San Pedro), California August 1944. A Restricted publication used during WWII. Includes a fold-out map of all Naval Facilities in San Pedro Bay.

Box 16

Scan of Los Angeles Times page from 1926 with a political cartoon depicting the controversy over the conflict of interest of Harbor Commissioner Walter B. Allen. Given to Knatz by Walter B. Allen grandchildren.

Box 16

Land of Sunshine Magazine 1897-08

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"Includes a photograph on page 122 "About Terminal Island and San Pedro" which illustrates the squatter shacks in East San Pedro and Deadman's Island in the background."

Box 16

Brochure University of Southern California, Proceedings of the Launching of the Velero IV, 11 April 1948, National Iron Works, San Pedro

Box 16

Pacific Electric time table from 1941, Los Angeles to Long Beach, Los Angeles to San Pedro, Long Beach to San Pedro.

Box 16

Publication Port of Los Angeles by Clarence H. Matson, second Secretary to the Port of Los Angeles Harbor Commission first appointed 18 June 1912.

Box 19

Special Section of the New-Pilot/The Daily Breeze Newspaper "San Pedro, About the Prople of San Pedro, Written by the People of San Pedro" 1989-03-30

Box 20

Fortune Magazine 1945-02

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"Lengthy article on the condition of the Ports of the Pacific. Some original artwork was produced for this publication. Included critical comments about Los Angeles by former Los Angeles Harbor Commission President Eloi Amar who became the General Manager of the Port of Long Beach at the start of what would become a decades long camplaint by Los Angeles officials about Long Beach oil money and the impact on the competitive positions of the two ports."

Box 16

Original Customs receipt from the Office of the Assistant Treasurer U.S. at San Francisco for duty on imports for the Port of Wilmington, CA. Dated 31 October 1890. John Stow was collector of customers.

Box 16

Salt Lake Railroad Route Brochure, shaped as an orange 1908

Box 16

Ordinance No. 68 County of Los Angeles to H. E. Huntington, Trustee 1903-02-09

Box 16

The Puss n Boots Book. Printed and Distributed by the Coast Fishing Company, Wilmington, CA 1949. Used to promote Puss' n Boots cat food.

Box 16

Address to the Voters of the 6th Congressional District of California on the Ownership of the Pacific Railroads by the Government and the Location of a Deep Sea Harbor at San Pedro by George S. Patton, democratic Nominee for Congress, Sixth District

Box 16

World Ports Volume XX, Number 3 1932-01

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"This copy has the owner's name written on it: E. C. Earle. He was the Chief Harbor Engineer for the Port of Los Angeles. There is also Earle Street on Terminal Island."

Box 16

Port of Los Angeles Reporter 1980

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"This was a newsletter produced by the Harbor Department that went to Harbor Employees. One issue includes a picture of Knatz as an Asst. Environmental Scientist. Another issue includes a picture of the entire Environmental Analysis office and my first boss at the Port of Los Angeles, W. Calvin Hurst."

Box 16

Los Angeles County brochure, 52 pages. Issued by the Chamber of Commerce, 1925. Compiled and written by Howard S. Nichols.

Box 16

Channel Crossing Issue no. 23 Summer 2013, Newsletter of the Los Angeles Maritime Museum - issue devoted to historical harbor maps.

Box 16

Julian Thieves in Politics by Robert P. (Bob) Shuler. A copy of brochure that identified men in government involved in the Julian Petroleum Scandal. This report identified Walter B. Allen.

Box 20

Angel's Gate - published by the Port of Los Angeles Spring 1980, Vol 10, No.1

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"This edition includes an article about the Commercial Diving Center in Wilmington including the testing of the underwater one-man submersible known as "Jim" being tested by Dr. Sylvia Earle. Knatz also was in the suit and is pictured there. Note profile here of Chuck Slocombe (mentioned above)."

Box 16

"San Pedro and Wilmington, A Calendar of Events in the Making of Two Cities and the Los Angeles Harbor" Produced by Title Guarantee and Trust Company 1937

Box 16

"The Story of The Twin Harbors of Los Angeles and Long Beach" report, Issued by the Department of Foreign Commerce and Shipping, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce 1938-04-30

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"Note this copy was owned by John F. Craig, the founder of Craig Shipbuilding in Long Beach in 1908."

Box 16

A scan of a private diary called Peacock Blue written by Irene Giles, age 16, about her two-month road trip from Hartington Nebraska to California 1929

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"The diary was borrowed from the owner Kathy Walsh by my friend Lisa Campbell so I could copy it. The diary begins on 1 May 1929 at 9:45 am in the morning. It's a good description of the hazard of driving cross country in those days including numerous flat tires. Kathy Walsh is Irene Giles' granddaughter. Kathy gave me a Port of Los Angeles key-shaped souvenir that her grandmother purchased on her trip. In her diary, Irene mentioned purchasing souvenirs in two places. Included are two photos, one of Irene Giles and another of a beached whale that became a tourist attraction in the harbor area."

Menus

Box 16, Folder 2

Blue Brochure World Trade Week 1963 Golden Century Luncheon, Menu and list of attendees and roster of 1963 World Trade Week Committee

Box 19

SS Princess Louise Menu with pictorial history of the ship on the back side

Box 16, Folder 2

Los Angeles Steamship Association World Trade Week Dinner Dance Menu, 1963, includes list of officers of the Los Angeles Steamship Association, menu, and program. Beverly Hilton Hotel

Box 16, Folder 2

Los Angeles Stock Exchange World Trade Week special menu 1963-05-15

Box 16, Folder 2

Ollie Hammond's Steak House, World Trade Week menu

Box 16, Folder 2

Los Angeles Steamship Association 22nd Annual World Trade Week Dinner Dance, Program, officers and Dinner Dance Committee. Los Angeles Century Plaza Hotel 1971 1971

Box 9, Box 10

Books, dissertations, and other published writings authored by Geraldine Knatz circa 1979-2020

Publications authored by others, ephemera, and other material

Scope and Contents

All of the material described under this series had been stored and described together by Geraldine Knatz prior to USC's acquisition of the collection.

Box 17

The Alameda Corridor Story by the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority 2013

Box 17

Unpublished manuscript relating to the Alameda Corridor history titled "The Alameda Corridor Story: A Project of National Significance" written by Renee Simon

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"Simon was contracted to write this history but it did not satisfy the agency and the document in No. 3 above was produced and published. Simon's version was never published. Simon was the first female elected to the Long Beach City Council. Simon was a member of the Southern California Association of Governments Ports Advisory Committee in 1981 which was created to examine the issues of rail traffic from port activities."

Box 17

Building a World Gateway by Clarence Matson, with inserted memorandum 1945

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

"This book is inscribed 'To Jimmy Ingebretsen from Stanley Ofalson, July 1945.' Stanley T. Olafson worked for the Chamber of Commerce and founded Foreign Trade Week which is not called World Trade Week. An award is given in his name every year by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. Jimmy Ingebretson was the Chambers pick to fill a vacant seat on the harbor commission in 1945 while the unions and local communities around the port supported boatbuilder John Rados. The LA Chamber was successful in its campaign to have Ingebretsen appointed to the Harbor Commission. During this period, a 10 page memo titled "On the Situation in the Los Angeles Harbor Department and the bearing thereon of the pending appointment of a fifth member of the Board of Harbor Commissioners" was prepared by an unknown author and circulated. This memo describes the fight over the appointment of a harbor commissioner circa 1945, with the Los Angeles Chamber supporting Jimmy Ingretbretsen and the local communities and labor supporting John Rados of San Pedro. Includes mention of City Councilman George H. Moore, Emil Menveg of Wilmington, Robert Sampson of San Pedro, Los Angeles Mayor Bowron, Harbor Commissioners Burt Heinly, Eugene Overton, and Morgan Adams, Harbor General Manager Arthur Eldridge and allegations of scandal, graft and corruption. The memo was tucked inside this book when I purchased it online. This is the only copy of this memo I have ever came across in my research and to preserve its existence, a transcript was made and published as an appendix in my book Port of Los Angeles, Conflict, Commerce and the Fight for Control. This likely was Jimmy's copy of the memo."

Processing Information

The accessioning archivist removed the inserted memorandum from the book and rehoused it into an archival folder arranged next to the book.

Box 17

Building a World Gateway by Clarence Matson, second secretary to the Board of Harbor Commissioners, Pacific Era Publishers 1945

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

Processing Information

The accessioning archivist removed the inserted memorandum from the book and rehoused it into an archival folder arranged next to the book.

Box 17

On the Situation in the Los Angeles Harbor Department and the bearing thereon of the pending appointment of a fifth member of the Board of Harbor Commissioners [memorandum] 1945

Notes from Geraldine Knatz

Processing Information

The accessioning archivist removed the inserted memorandum from the book and rehoused it into an archival folder arranged next to the book.

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LA Waterfront brochure- San Pedro Peninsula Chamber of Commerce

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An Up Close Look At Marine Life in San Pedro Bay Ports, undated

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Brochure Greeting from Cabrillo Boathouse, A vision for the Cabrillo Boathouse

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Straight from the heart of LA "The Villaraigosa Years 2005-2013."

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Promoting Civil, Social, and Economic Progress for Los Angeles, 2015-16 Annual Report from the John Randolph Haynes Foundation – features Port of LA.

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Elephant photo holiday card

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"A Big Difference on the Big Issues" by Dave Freemen, Former DWP General Manager, Port of Los Angeles Harbor Commissioner, Pamphlet about Freeman's life working for John F. Kennedy, Johnson, the Tennessee Valley Authority, LA Dept. of Water & Power, self-published.

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Cabrillo's Legacy

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Pamphlet Banning Wrigley Historic District

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Port of Los Angeles red car ticket

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Historic San Pedro, LA Conservancy Walking Tour Program

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Channel Crossing Issue no. 22 Winter 2013 Los Angeles Maritime Museum

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Centennial 100th Anniversary Brochure of the American Association of Port Authorities

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The Topsail Sheet, Nov 2013

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San Pedro Business Journal, June-July 2008, San Pedro Waterfront project EIR reviewed

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San Pedro Waterfront Project, Final Proposed Project Summary, Sept 2009

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Request for Qualifications, Retail and Commercial Redevelopment Opportunity on the Los Angeles Waterfront

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The LA Advantage (sailing frequencies, transit times, infrastructure, rail, 2013

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The Port of Los Angeles Jobs Portfolio 2008

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Los Angeles & Long Beach Harbor Habitat- Our Biological Treasures, 2013

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Workforce Development at the Port of Los Angeles, 2010

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City Dock No 1, A Proposal to Develop a World Class Marine Research Center at the Port of Los Angeles, 2010.

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Altasea, a Sea of Opportunity

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On the LA Waterfront, Summer 2013

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Port of Los Angeles Strategic Plan 2012-2017

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Port of Los Angeles Strategic Plan 2010-2011

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Containerization International, The Geraldine Knatz interview

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Marine Board Annual Report 2005, chairwoman Geraldine Knatz

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Hard copy of a hard to find paper "From Here to Eternity—Were They Trespassing," California and the World Ocean '97: Taking a Look at California's Ocean Resources: An Agenda for the Future: Conference Proceedings, San Diego, Calif., March 24–27, 1997, edited by Orville T. Magoon, 1186–99. Reston, Va., American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997.

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Printed scans of photograph of the San Pedro Bogdanovich family provided by descendant Deborah Hicks. Family founded the French Sardine Company which became Starkist Tuna in 1942. Individual in the photos are identified.

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Port of Los Angeles Reporter- No. 1 1963.

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Port of Los Angeles Reporter- No. 2 1983

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Port of Los Angeles Reporter- No. 3 1983

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Printed commemorative for the 50th Anniversary of downtown Los Angeles bookstore Caravan Books. With note from its owner Leonard Bernstein

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Centennial Publication, the Port of Los Angeles, 2007

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Centennial Publication, 100 Years at the Port of Los Angeles (newpaper insert, 2007)

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Centennial portfolio with marketing materials used in 2007

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Steppin' back in Time, A guide to historical site in the harbor area, produced by Port of Los Angeles, 2011

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Los Angeles Harbor Department Historical Archives brochure of holdings( now closed)

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Los Angeles Fire Department Historical Society, "125 Years of Service and Protection" The Los Angeles Fire Department.

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Program Celebrating 100 Years of Flight, June 12, 2010. This program was signed by one of the last remaining Tuskegee airman, Otis Cowley and Louis Zamperini, Olympian in Track in 1936

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Olympics in Germany and former POW and Bob Gilliland, test pilot, first to fly the SR-71 Blackbird.

Posters, certificates, and awards

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Certificates/awards given to G. Knatz

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Architects rendering of the Tidal Gardens done for Urban Marine Research Center at Port of Los Angeles. (This is the site that later became known as Altasea)

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Cars and Stripes Poster, Port of Los Angeles, 2009. The pink thunderbird coming over the bridge from the Long Beach side of the harbor is my 1957 T-Bird. This was the first July 4 holiday auto show along the LA Waterfront which continues to this day.

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Cars and Stripes Poster, Port of Los Angeles 2011

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Cars & Stripes Poster, Port of Los Angeles 2013

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In Conversation with Geraldine Knatz Poster for book talk at Huntington Library

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Fullsize copy of pages of Sketches of California and Hawaii by William H. Meyers, Gunner, U.S.N. Aboard the United States Sloop of War 1842-1843. Book Club of California re-issue in 1970. Three sheets including one early illustration of San Pedro Harbor.

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Movie Poster- "Mrs Knatz goes to Los Angeles, staring Geraldine Knatz and Antonio Villagairosa (Made by the Port of Long Beach executive team when I announced I was leaving Long Beach for LA. I believe they intentionally spelled Antonio's last name incorrectly)

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Movie Poster- "Chasing Desmond" starring Geraldine Knatz. Another spoof poster done by the Port of Long Beach staff when I was working on the Gerald Desmond Bridge replacement project and they thought it should be called the Geraldine Desmond Bridge and I replied, I would have to find a Desmond to marry- thus the poster.

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"See you Navey at the Harbor" Pacific Electric Promotion

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Centennial poster of all harbor department employees in year 2007, the hundred anniversary of the creation of the Los Angeles Harbor Commission.

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Business cards [housed in binders]

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Contact directory [spiral-bound]

Digital photographs, video recordings, and Board of Harbor Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles meeting minutes on CDs and DVDs

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Press recordings, digital photographs, event videos, and other digital media sleeved in CD binder labeled "Geraldine Knatz's Port DVDs"

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Board of Harbor Commissioners (BHC) of the City of Los Angeles meeting minutes, Vol. 1-519 [on CDs] 1907-1980

Existence and Location of Copies

Prior to the USC Libraries' acquisition of the Geraldine Knatz papers, Knatz had copied the files stored on these CDs to an external hard drive, which is also included in the collection. The accessioning archivist copied the files from the external hard drive to the USC Digital Library (see series titled "Digital files saved on Seagate external hard drive"). The copies of the same minutes saved on the CDs have not been copied to the USC Digital Library.

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Steppin' Back in Time: Historical Videos - DVDs produced by the Port of Los Angeles circa 2007

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Port of Los Angeles Oral History Project Episodes 1-4 circa 2007

Scope and Contents

DVDs produced by the Port of Los Angeles.

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Digital files saved on Seagate external hard drive

Geraldine Knatz papers - digital files in the USC Digital Library