Los Angeles Public Library - Frances Howard Goldwyn - Hollywood Regional Branch

History

Hollywood, the community is also represented in Special Collections. The Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Library is the archival repository for the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce's Hollywood Christmas Parade material from 1928 to the present. There are scripts, photos, clippings, slides and in recent years, videos documenting the history of this Hollywood tradition. Archives also contain working papers, correspondence, scrapbooks and photos of local Hollywood artist and advocate, Frances William Vreeland, 1879-1954. The family of Gladys Littell, 1893-1977, Hollywood music teacher, founder of the Hollywood Conservatory of Music and Arts and chair of the Hollywood Bowl Sunrise Service Committee in the 1940s donated a collection of her working papers, music programs, correspondence and photographs. A rare set of Holly Leaves, an early Hollywood newspaper is in the collection, as well as materials documenting the Hollywood Library, from its founding in 1906 as part of the new City of Hollywood, through its merger with the City of Los Angeles, to the construction of the new library building, designed by architect Frank Gehry.