Los Angeles : manuscript, before 1933.

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Los Angeles : manuscript, before 1933.

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Typed manuscript of Morrow Mayo's 1933 book Los Angeles, which includes handwritten editing notations. The manuscript opens with the founding of Los Angeles and its Spanish and missionary origins, and topics covered include the development of railroads, agriculture, social history, real estate, population growth, labor conflicts, the role of newspapers, and the development of local areas such as Pasadena, the Owens Valley, and Hollywood. Various extended anecdotes include those on the 1910 bombing of the L.A. Times building and subsequent trial of J.B. and J.J. McNamara and the arrest of William Edward Hickman for the murder of Marion Parker, as well as biographies of Times publisher Harrison Gray Otis, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, and physicist Robert A. Millikan.

1 typewritten manuscript, 337 pages.

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McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944

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Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953

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Mayo, Morrow.

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Journalist and poet George Morrow Mayo was born in Kentucky in 1896 or 1897. He worked as a railway clerk and was a parter in the Hy Art Master Plays Co. of Washington, D.C., served in the Navy during World War I, and wrote the poem "Sons of the Flag" before arriving in Los Angeles in the 1920s. From 1925 to 1931 Mayo worked for the Pasadena Star-News and also wrote for the Los Angeles Times. His iconoclastic history Los Angeles was published in 1933. From the description of Los Ange...