Martin Krieger Collection 
Martin Krieger Collection
About this collection
In the first decade of the 21st century, the Haynes Foundation supported Martin Krieger and his collaborators’ photographic and aural documentation of Los Angeles in a series of grants. A portion of that digitized photographic material is included in this collection documenting 800 storefront houses of worship, 225 industrial neighborhoods, and people at work at industrial sites in Los Angeles (including the Port, LAC-USC General Hospital, and many small firms). On his own, Krieger has extensively documented housing, infrastructure (including about 150 Los Angeles Department of Water and Power electrical stations), Boyle Heights, traffic and street life, commercial strips and ethnic markets, and people on transit and bus.
Krieger has categorized most of these materials in the hierarchical topics below.
| Major topics | Subtopic headings | Subtopics |
| Aural Public Life -- on the bus, worship, the streets, in commerce, etc. | -- | Transit |
| Events (auto accident, movies?) | Events (auto accident, movies?) | |
| Immigration Rally | ||
| Transit | Bus | |
| Built Environment -- Housing, Neighborhoods (e.g. Boyle Heights; Goodyear Tract for industry) | -- | Pico-Robertson |
| Boyle Heights | Boyle Heights | |
| Buildings | ICREDCO | |
| Houses | Houses and Corners | |
| MDUs and PUDs | ||
| Palaces (Beverly Hills and elsewhere teardowns and mansionettes), Pickups and Tercels outside for construction folks | ||
| Residential/Industrial | ||
| Tented, Wrapped Houses and Buildings | ||
| Commerce | Commercial strip (everyday strips, sometimes only a block long) | Markets (lots more earlier -- Stores?) |
| Stores | ||
| Stores, Santee | ||
| Commerce -- districts, ethnic, bazaars, shopping areas/streets | Commercial Strip (e.g. Melrose, Sunset Plaza, and more everyday strips, sometimes only a block long) | Commercial Strips |
| Eateries (lots more earlier…) | ||
| Ethnically Marked Commercial Districts or Businesses (nails, kids clothes, …) | ||
| Shopping (including Super 8 films) | ||
| Streets and behind streets | Alameda (and Alameda Corridor) -- including going down Alameda and blocks to the West of it | |
| Exposition Blvd. | ||
| Freeway, edges of | ||
| Lots, empty | ||
| Mattress cars | ||
| Street and Home Sound | ||
| Streets | ||
| Trees (along Burton Way…) | ||
| Urban Botany | ||
| Infrastructure -- DWP, utility corridors, the City Inscribed by USA markers, surey benchmarks… | DWP | DWP |
| Infrastructure (telephone and utility poles, etc.) | Antenna farms | |
| Helicopter | ||
| Utility Markings | ||
| People at work: Manufacturing, industry, the Port, County General Hospital | -- | Nodding Donkeys -- Oil |
| -- | Ports | |
| Infrastructure (telephone and utility poles, etc.) | Remediation Machinery at Gas Stations | |
| Inside Industry | Auto Glass | |
| Automobile Body Shops | ||
| Construction | ||
| Furniture Manufacturing | ||
| Hospital | ||
| Huntington Tract | ||
| Industrial Sites | ||
| Industrial Streets | ||
| Metal Plating Places | ||
| Swapmeet | ||
| Quiet and Ambience | -- | Quiet |
| -- | Sound Sites | |
| Streets -- Traffic, along a street (Alameda, Broadway), Street Life | -- | Boston |
| -- | NY Streets | |
| -- | Paris | |
| -- | Tijuana | |
| Traffic (includes Super 8 movies) | Traffic | |
| Worship, and Storefront Houses of Worship | Churches, SHOWLA | SHOW |
| -- | Exhibits in Lewis Hall Gallery | Exhibits |
The physical material is housed in the Regional History Archives of the University of Southern California and numbers tens of thousands of images as well as hundreds of aural recordings.
Martin H. Krieger is Professor of Planning at the University of Southern California's School of Policy, Planning, and Development. He is the author of several books, including Urban Tomographies (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) and What's Wrong with Plastic Trees? Artifice and Authenticity in Design (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2000).
