Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park records 1965-2008

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Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park records 1965-2008

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The Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park was founded in 1965 to organize public and official awareness and to raise support to preserve the park land as public open space, and to develop it for recreational activities. The mission and efforts of this vibrant "grass roots" organization are ongoing, and the Committee will continue to add materials which document its activities. The collection consists of nine boxes of records dating back to the Committee's early history in the 1960s. It was donated by the 2004 Board of Directors of the Committee.

11.0 linear ft.; 11 boxes

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USC Libraries Special Collections

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Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park (Los Angeles, Calif.).

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Elysian Park is Los Angeles's first and oldest park. It was part of the original 1781 land grant to the pueblo of Los Angeles from King Carlos III from Spain. The initial 550 acres of Elysian Park were, "...forever dedicated to the public..." in 1886, and by 1937 had grown to a little over 600 acres. The park is the site of the first Botanical Garden in Southern California. In the 1880s about 37,000 eucalyptus trees were planted on park land, and in the 1890s the Los Angeles Horticu...

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Neubauer, Sallie

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Yorty, Sam, 1909-1998

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Simons, Grace E.

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