Los Angeles Evening Record
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The Los Angeles Record was a daily newspaper of the Greater Los Angeles area of California, United States in the first half of the 20th century. Associated with the Scripps chain of newspapers, it was
Los Angeles Record office in 1902 at 622 South Broadway; on the left is Arthur L. Mackaye, the courts reporter, and on the right is likely Walter Syverston, the circulation manager
Late 1930s photograph of "Old Post-Record Building," almost certainly the office at 612 Wall Street
Los Angeles Record exposés of the 1920s, like this one on the Julian Pete scandal, were often marked with an ink splot labeled "The Truth!"
William Mulholland
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William Mulholland was an Irish American self-taught civil engineer who was responsible for building the infrastructure to provide a water supply that allowed Los Angeles to grow into the largest city
Los Angeles Evening Record
…forced employees to operate the trolleys at excessive speed and were interested primarily in profits instead of human lives." The paper also opposed William Mulholland's planned Los Angeles Aqueduct as exploitative of Owens Valley. It was the Record that published the so-called "haybag letters" that mayor Charles E…
Mulholland in 1924
The second Los Angeles Aqueduct Cascades near Sylmar, Los Angeles
Portrait of William Mulholland with a surveyor's level, c. 1908-1913
William Mulholland Memorial Fountain in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, on the site where Mulholland once lived