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Please join Photo Friends and the Los Angeles Public Library as
we begin to research the rich and visually exciting images of
the growth of industry in the greater Los Angeles area. The Library’s
Photograph Collection has thousands of photographs from retiring
industrial photographers over the last decade and needs your help
in investigating this little-known, but fascinating aspect of
Los Angeles's history.
What you can do to help:
- Your ideas, experience and imagination can help guide
us in our research and short-term planning.
- Help us create a bibliography of Los Angeles industrial
history and locate the early articles and newspaper stories
that documented the impressive and unprecedented growth
of Los Angeles into the industrial field.
- Help us research old city directories for addresses
of fabulous warehouses, small manufacturers, and one-owner
shops from the 1920s through 1970.
- Take on one of the big guys—choose one of the
major industries and unearth the people, events, and discoveries
that resulted in its distinguished longevity.
- Research the role of unions in Los Angeles—an
exciting history whose story is little known.
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Industrial Los Angeles :
Oil derrick equipment in Venice (1961) |
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Contact Carolyn Cole for more information at
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