Walter H. Leimert Co.
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Del Amo Nurseries Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-1979-003
Abstract
Materials in this collection are from the San Pedro Rancho Nursery and Del Amo Nursery. They include ledges, tax documents, correspondence, contract information, catalogs, and artifacts on the subjects of growing and providing landscaping materials, daily business practices, contracts with cities and theme parks, and other topics.
Dates:
1922-1976
Rancho San Pedro Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-1970-002
Abstract
This collection contains legal and business papers related to the Rancho San Pedro and to its owners, the Dominguez family. The Spanish crown gave the Southern California lands of the Rancho San Pedro to Juan Jose Dominguez in 1784, and in 1858 the United States government granted a patent confirming Dominguez family ownership of the Rancho. A few items predate the 1858 patent, but the bulk of the collection is from 1900-1960. Some materials concern the Rancho San Pedro itself, including...
Dates:
1769-1972; Majority of material found within 1900-1960
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- Aeronautics -- Competitions 1
- Annexation (municipal government) 1
- Blueprints 1
- California -- History 1
- Central business districts -- California -- Los Angeles 1
- Compton (Calif.) 1
- Corporate governance 1
- Family-owned business enterprises 1
- Farms -- California 1
- Foreign workers 1
- Horticulture 1
- Housing development -- California 1
- Inheritance and transfer tax -- Law and legislation 1
- Japanese American evacuation and resettlement 1
- Japanese American farmers -- Los Angeles 1
- Land grants -- California 1
- Landscape gardening 1
- Landscape industry 1
- Landscape nurseries 1
- Long Beach (Calif.) 1
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History 1
- Maps 1
- Negatives 1
- Nursery -- Management 1
- Nursery and garden industry 1
- Nursery growers -- California 1
- Oil and gas leases -- California 1
- Oil wells -- California -- Los Angeles 1
- Ornamental plant industry 1
- Ornamental trees 1
- Partition of decedents’ estates 1
- Petroleum industry and trade -- California 1
- Photographic prints 1
- Photographs, original 1
- Planned communities -- California 1
- Price Lists 1
- Public utilities -- California -- Los Angeles 1
- Real estate business -- California -- Los Angeles County 1
- Real estate development -- California -- Los Angeles 1
- Real property -- Valuation 1
- Redondo Beach (Calif.) 1
- Sales Catalogs 1
- Stats 1
- Stock transfer -- Law and legislation 1
- Torrance (Calif.) 1
- Urban beautification -- Long Beach (Calif.) 1
- Water resources development -- California -- Los Angeles County 1
- Water supply -- California 1
- Water utilities -- California -- Los Angeles 1
- Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Law and legislation 1 ∧ less
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