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[Client Card: Architectual and Mechanical Products, Co.] (open access)

[Client Card: Architectual and Mechanical Products, Co.]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for the Architectural and Mechanical Products Co., including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Piece included: Angel Moroni (aluminum cast statue).
Date: September 1954
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Bank of America] (open access)

[Client Card: Bank of America]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Bank of America (Frank Risso), including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces included: portrait heads of Gianninni with varied marble bases.
Date: 1956-12-14/1976-12-31
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Carl Byoir & Associates] (open access)

[Client Card: Carl Byoir & Associates]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Carl Byoir & Associates, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Piece included: '"Bust of Francis P. Cutting" (21" x 22").
Date: 1958-06/1959-05
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Dr. Arthur B. Cecil] (open access)

[Client Card: Dr. Arthur B. Cecil]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Dr. Arthur B. Cecil, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Piece included: Dancer by Troubtezkoy.
Date: March 1935
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Miss Marian Brackenridge] (open access)

[Client Card: Miss Marian Brackenridge]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Miss Marian Brackenridge, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces include "Portrait Relief of Francis Scott Key" (23.75" x 19.25") and "Portrait Bust" (18.75" x 13" at the shoulders).
Date: 1962-08/1962-10
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Miss Mary R. Birch] (open access)

[Client Card: Miss Mary R. Birch]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Miss Mary R. Birch, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces include "Head" (4 copies, chrome plate, 5"), "Horses Head" (7 copies, 6 bronze casts, 1 plaster cast).
Date: 1948-08/1950-08
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mr. B. G. Cantoir] (open access)

[Client Card: Mr. B. G. Cantoir]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. B. G. Cantoir, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces included: Sculpture (repair and repatina)
Date: February 1976
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mr. Benimino Bufano] (open access)

[Client Card: Mr. Benimino Bufano]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. Benimino Bufano, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces included: "Group of Mother and Children" (47" x 20.5" x 8"), and "Portrait Head" (2 copies, 10.5" x 9" x 9").
Date: 1958-01/1961-04
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mr. Earl Adams] (open access)

[Client Card: Mr. Earl Adams]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. Earl Adams, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces included: "Texas Steer" (4 copies), "Bear and Jug" (4 copies), "Secrets of Night" (3 copies), "Lone Buffalo" (4 copies), "Buffalo Family" (2 copies), "Last Laugh" (3 copies), "Weapons of Weak" (3 copies), "Oh Mother, What Is It? (2 copies), "Bluffers" (3 copies), "Night Herders" (5 copies), "Buffalo Rubbing Rock" (Pair of Bookends; 4 copies), "Bear" (2"), "Enemy that Warns", "Stagecoach" (7 copies), "Ashtray" (Repair), "Ashtray" (5 copies), "Bronco" (3 copies), "Bucker and Buckeroo", "Russell Bronze" (Repair), "Cowboy and Chinaman" (3 copies), "Jim Bridger on Horse" (4 copies), "Scalp Dancer" (3 copies), "Sleeping Thunder" (4 copies), "Pigeon Squaw" (4 copies), "Challenge", "Monarch of the Plains", "His Winter's Store", "An Awkward Situation", "Disputed Trail", "Longhorn", "Quarterhorse", "Grey Eagle", "Range Father", "Mountain Mother", "Horse's Head" (2 copies), "Steer Head" (2 copies), "Bookends" (3 copies), "Last Laugh" (Repair), "Range Father", "Mountain Mother", "Mountain Mother" (2 copies), "Enemy Tracks" (Repatine), "Grey Eagle" (Rodriguez; Repair), "In the White Man's World", "Offering to the Sun God", "Lunch Hour", "Horse Head" (2 copies), "Steer Head" (2 copies), "Bookends" …
Date: 1951-06-26/1974-10-15
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mr. James Austin] (open access)

[Client Card: Mr. James Austin]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. James Austin, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Piece included: "Portrait Head".
Date: September 1934
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mr. Joseph Bolker] (open access)

[Client Card: Mr. Joseph Bolker]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. Joseph Bolker, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces included: "Woman with Four Children" (large figure 72", 2 figures 42", 2 figures 36"; base 72" x 29" x 3"), "Woman with Four Children" (2 copies; 24" x 26" x 9"), "Small Orpheus and the Muse" (2 copies), and "Large Orpheus and the Muse".
Date: 1962-02/1963-08
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mrs. Jean Archbold] (open access)

[Client Card: Mrs. Jean Archbold]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mrs. Jean Archbold, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. The item included in this order is a "Head of Paul Revere."
Date: September 1961
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mrs. Rose Berch] (open access)

[Client Card: Mrs. Rose Berch]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mrs. Rose Berch, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. This order includes a bronze cast of a female figure.
Date: June 1955
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Congressional Record Page, Sixty-Third Congress, Third Session] (open access)

[Congressional Record Page, Sixty-Third Congress, Third Session]

Congressional Record page from the 63rd Congress, 3rd session. The page includes a speech by Hon. William Kettner of California in the House of Representatives, a letter written by W. R. Hervy, and another letter written by Motley, Hewes Flint, Dana Reid Weller, William Rhodes Hervey, and Samuel E. Burke, all past Grand Masters of Masons. The speech and letters are related to the Los Angeles investigation into "The Alleged Oath or Obligation of the Knights of Columbus."
Date: January 29, 1915
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Fire Chief's Newsletter, Volume 19, Number 4, April 1955 (open access)

The Fire Chief's Newsletter, Volume 19, Number 4, April 1955

Monthly magazine issued by fire chiefs across the United States and Canada, including excerpts from the Los Angeles Times, letters from fire chiefs, progress reports, and advertisements.
Date: April 1955
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of San Pedro Harbor Sunset]

Photograph of the sun setting over San Pedro harbor, with U.S.S. Texas in the foreground and other ships behind it.
Date: 1929
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of U.S.S. Texas]

Photograph of U.S.S. Texas in the port of Los Angeles.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of U.S.S. Texas]

Photograph of an aerial view of U.S.S. Texas with its crew visible standing in rows on the deck. A handwritten note on the back of the photo says "Taken when we was coming into San Pedro."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of U.S.S. Texas and Airplanes]

Photograph of U.S.S. Texas in the ocean with airplanes flying in formation in the sky above it. A handwritten note on the photo says "San Diego Calif. Sept. 1935. President review of the fleet during exposition."
Date: September 1935
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of U.S.S. Texas at Christmas]

Photograph of U.S.S. Texas seen in silhouette on the water, with a handwritten note on the back of the photo that indicates it was taken on Christmas day in San Pedro, California.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History