- WPA Maps
Collection Description
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted a land use survey from December 18, 1933 to May 8, 1939 for the city of Los Angeles, Department of City Planning. It covered approximately 460 square miles within the boundary of the City of Los Angeles and resulted in this series of 345 hand-colored land use survey maps. They are collected in 10 books (averaging 35 maps per book) each corresponding to a geographic region within the City's boundary. Each original map measures bout 2 ft. x 3.5 ft.
The books cover: 1. North Los Angeles District; 2. Tujunga; 3. San Fernando Valley from Canoga Park District to Van Nuys District; 4. Van Nuys District to Garvanza District; 5. Santa Monica Mountains from Girard to Van Nuys District; 6. Hollywood District to Boyle Heights District; 7. Topanga Canyon to Hollywood District; 8. Downtown Los Angeles and Hyde Park to Watts District; 9. Pacific Palisades Area to Mines Field (Municipal Airport); 10. Shoestring Addition to San Pedro District.
Each book includes: A title page with key, legend and list of symbols used; A composite index page of the entire city (which indicates on a city map which portion is included in a given book); An index, which indicates on a city section map, the specific coordinates and sheets of maps contained in a given book (book 4 and 7 are missing their indices).
The land uses tracked on each map include: 9 different types of farming (mixed, livestock, field crops, row crops, bush fruits, orchard, nursery, woodland, farming); Vacant; 16 residential classifications (broadly grouped as: single family residential; multiple residential (2 to 4 families); unlimited multiple residential (i.e. hotels, boarding houses, chicken or rabbit ranches, etc.)); Institutional; Commercial (31 classifications: i.e. undertakers, theaters, restaurants, etc.); Industry, utilities, recreational, agricultural, open uses, problem uses, combined uses, electric railway, steam railway; Manufacturing (30 classifications: i.e. cannery, oil well supply, ice manufacturing, motion picture studio, etc.); Height of buildings in stories.
CITE AS: Creator. Title. Date. From the WPA Land use survey maps for the City of Los Angeles, 1933-1939. Digitally reproduced by the University of Southern California Digital Archive. Available: URL. Access date.
EXAMPLE CITE AS: City of Los Angeles. Department of City Planning. WPA Land use survey map for the City of Los Angeles, book 10 (Shoestring Addition to San Pedro District), sheet 1. 1939. From the WPA Land use survey maps for the City of Los Angeles, 1933-1939. Digitally reproduced by the University of Southern California Digital Archive. Available: http://digarc.usc.edu. Accessed June 10, 2004.
PHYSICAL LOCATION: Then Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1511 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108
CONTACT: http://www.huntington.org
Title:
WPA Land use survey maps for the City of Los Angeles, 1933-1939
Alternate Title:
WPA maps
Record ID:
wpamaps-m346
Names & Dates
Issued:
1939
Creator:
City of Los Angeles. Department of City Planning
Contributor:
University of Southern California. Department of Geography
The Huntington Library
Publisher:
[host] University of Southern California. Libraries
Subject
Coverage:
1932/1938-11
Place:
[cities] Los Angeles
[counties] Los Angeles
[states/provinces] California
[countries] USA
Relationships
Physical
Type:
collections
maps
Format:
land surveys
land use maps
maps
345 maps bound in 10 volumes : color, ink ; ca. 25 x 34 in.
Access
Rights:
University of Southern California
Repository:
publicinformation@huntington.org
Ordering:
University of Southern California owns digital rights only. For personal, educational or research use contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu; phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343. Contact rights owner at repository e-mail (or phone (626) 405-2178 or fax (626) 449-5720) for access to physical maps. For permission to publish or republish material in any form -- print or electronic -- contact the Rights owner.
Identifiers
Record ID:
wpamaps-m346
Source:
The Huntington Library. WPA-M
Language:
en_us