Gentle reader, We’ve got a sickness we just can’t (and don’t want to) shake: a pathological obsession with Los Angeles history. Since 2005, when Kim started blogging a crime a day on the original 1947project, we’ve dedicated ourselves to digging out the unexpected scraps of local lore with which to stitch a different L.A. story, one that could only exist as the sum of our research, our friendships with fellow Angeles-o-philes, and the weird coincidences that sometimes send us right down the rabbit hole and up again with a treasure to share.
Nov 2, 2023Liked by Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles
I am a professor in the history department at Cal Poly Pomona. I have put in a bid on this item with the intent of donating it to my university's Archives and Special Collections Department, where it will be accessible to researchers and students. It will take the last of my research funds for the year (the CSU is super stingy about funding research, sadly) but hopefully the plea I sent to the seller will work and I'll be able to aquire this. Fingers crossed!
Thank you for your interest and being able to move quickly, which we know is hard for institutions. We hope you're able to pull this off for your university library. Please keep us posted!
So far I keep getting outbid, and I don't have the funds to go much higher than $500:( But I'll give it my best shot. Hopefully if someone else wins, whoever gets it will see it gets to an archive
Nov 2, 2023Liked by Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles
Yes, they liked the idea of it being in an archive, so they took my lower bid and ended the auction early. I am working now to arrange to get it to my office at CPP, and with our head of Archives and Special Collections to, hopefully, then find it a permanent home in their stacks (so long as the dean signs off on it). Cheers, and thanks for being on top of stories like this!
How wonderful that the seller was moved to ensure it ended up in local and public hands. Please see if they are able to share anything about how it ended up on eBay, and keep us posted about the accession process. It's such a curious volume, and a great case for digitizing, since it would be some production to call this monster from the stacks!
I am a professor in the history department at Cal Poly Pomona. I have put in a bid on this item with the intent of donating it to my university's Archives and Special Collections Department, where it will be accessible to researchers and students. It will take the last of my research funds for the year (the CSU is super stingy about funding research, sadly) but hopefully the plea I sent to the seller will work and I'll be able to aquire this. Fingers crossed!
Thank you for your interest and being able to move quickly, which we know is hard for institutions. We hope you're able to pull this off for your university library. Please keep us posted!
So far I keep getting outbid, and I don't have the funds to go much higher than $500:( But I'll give it my best shot. Hopefully if someone else wins, whoever gets it will see it gets to an archive
Now we see the seller has ended the auction early. We hope you were able to acquire it for the library.
Yes, they liked the idea of it being in an archive, so they took my lower bid and ended the auction early. I am working now to arrange to get it to my office at CPP, and with our head of Archives and Special Collections to, hopefully, then find it a permanent home in their stacks (so long as the dean signs off on it). Cheers, and thanks for being on top of stories like this!
How wonderful that the seller was moved to ensure it ended up in local and public hands. Please see if they are able to share anything about how it ended up on eBay, and keep us posted about the accession process. It's such a curious volume, and a great case for digitizing, since it would be some production to call this monster from the stacks!
We're rooting for you--and for public access!
It is astonishing that that so little value is given to our history in Los Angeles. History
Is our identity and must be preserved .
babs
Wow what an informative and important blog. I appreciate your work. Babs