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Daniel Freeman Family Papers. CSLA-21. Series 1, Subseries B


THE THOMAS AND DOROTHY LEAVEY CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LOS ANGELES RESEARCH COLLECTION


DANIEL FREEMAN FAMILY PAPERS (CSLA-21)


Series 1. Subseries B: Centinela-Inglewood Land Company

 

BOX

FOLDER

CONTENT

DATES


1

1-2

"Offer to Perform Agreements" between Daniel Freeman and purchasers of Inglewood property from Centinela-Inglewood Land Company. With promissory notes

1890-1891

1

3

Agreement between Daniel Freeman, and Charles Silent and Dan McFarland re sale of Rancho Sausal Redondo, Centinela Rancho, and Stuart Tract for subdivision and development of same property (carbon copy)

1887

1

4

Indentures of Daniel Freeman and Centinela-Inglewood Land Company re Inglewood property sales

1887-1890

1

5

Agreements between Centinela-Inglewood Land Company and partnership of Childs and Silent (carbon copies); O. W. Childs and Charles Silent statement in account with Centinela-Inglewood Land Company

1887

1

6

Miscellaneous agreements and contracts related to Centinela-Inglewood Land Company, including sale of Company property and rights to Sidney Brown, and memorandum re terms of payment and sales

1887-1889

1

7

Centinela-Inglewood Land Company contracts with agents Joseph Dabney and W. H. Hardy

1887

1

8

Joseph Dabney vouchers and statements of sales

1888

1

9

Correspondence, statements, bills re foreclosures and collection of accounts by Cochran and Williams law firm for Centinela-Inglewood Land Company/Daniel Freeman

1889-1893 (dates broken)

1

10

Memorandum of agreement between Daniel Freeman, Charles Silent and Dan McFarland, and the Centinela-Inglewood Land Company re transfer of land to the University of Southern California for building of "School of Practical Science"; indenture between Daniel Freeman and Centinela-Inglewood Land Company re endowment of Freeman College of Applied Sciences

1887

1

11

Minutes of the meeting of the Centinela-Inglewood Land Company (handwritten, in pencil)

1887

1

12

Daniel Freeman and Centinela-Inglewood Land indenture with Redondo Beach Railway Company

1888

2

1-3

Receipts and correspondence re business purchases and legal expenses. Originally in bundle entitled "Centinela and Inglewood Land Co (sic) Bills, Vouchers & C (sic) 1888 and 1889 a few 1890".

1888-1890

2

4

Lists of construction materials and shrubbery orders for Inglewood development; contract for street paving; final estimate of brick and concrete contract; list of general expenditures

1887-1888

2

5

Centinela-Inglewood Land company statements of account, sales memoranda, balance sheets, list of shareholders, statement of indebtedness

1888

2

6

Centinela-Inglewood Land Company receipts and vouchers re property sales, legal services

1888-1889

2

7

Charles Silent, N. R. Vail, and Dan McFarland statements of assets, including Centinela-Inglewood Land Company

n.d.

2

8

Centinela-Inglewood Land Company, Daniel Freeman agreements and deed with Thomas Doak re construction of warehouse. Cf. Box 8ov, Folder 1, this series

1889

2

9

Lists of notes collected by, and sales records for, Centinela-Inglewood Land Company land agents; statement re sales; Myron Cheesebrough list of clients and profits margins

1888-1889

2

10

Centinela-Inglewood Land Company payroll, statements of account, receipts

1888-1889

2

11

Invoices, bills for Centinela-Inglewood Land Company, Inglewood Land Company, and Inglewood Water Company

1888-1889

2

12

Centinela-Inglewood Land Company pay rolls, pay vouchers, loose sheet with computation of wages, small ledger with workers' names and weekly work hours

1888-1890

3

1-2

William H. Hall memoranda to Centinela Inglewood Land Company/Redondo Beach Company re construction plans, bids, and materials estimates for Inglewood Waterworks and pumping station; lithographing costs for maps; surveying work, engineers payroll (carbon copies)

1887

3

3

Centinela-Inglewood Land Company agreements with sales agent Wilbert H. Hardy re property sales; Wilbert H. Hardy and Centinela-Inglewood Land Company memoranda of agreement with purchasers of property

1888

3

4

Childs and Silent records re Centinela-Inglewood Land Company interests: statements of account, sales records, memoranda

1888

3

5

Centinela-Inglewood Land Company record of bills, notice for stockholders meeting, contracts and margins statements, engineers pay rolls, roster of street names and dimensions; schedule of prices for Inglewood property

1887-1889

3

6

Archer vs. Freeman & Centinela-Inglewood Land Co. brief, 1896. Other materials re Daniel Freeman settlement with "Archer" and "Thomson" (sic): resume of Inglewood development, including improvements, balance sheet and prices of land sales; list of witnesses; statement of account with Daniel Freeman; Daniel Freeman statements re case; anonymous statement re meeting with Archer.

Post-1891

3

7

Centinela-Inglewood Land Company agreements and assignments

1889

3

8

Daniel Freeman/Centinela-Inglewood Land Company leases with Continuous Brick Kiln Company

1888

3

9

Daniel Freeman/Centinela-Inglewood Land Company sale indenture with Alexander Seeberger; notarized statement from latter re fraudulent survey by agents of company; correspondence from Seeberger threatening suit over sale

1888-1889

3

10

Daniel Freeman/Centinela-Inglewood Land Company deed with Grace Howland re Rancho Centinela property; "Release from all Demands" document from J. H. W. Bowen to Daniel Freeman and Centinela Inglewood Land Company

1888, 1890

4

1

Centinela-Inglewood Land Company and Daniel Freeman incoming business correspondence re Inglewood development

1888-1890

4

2-3

Centinela-Inglewood Land Company incoming business correspondence; alphabetical filing arrangement A-Y

1888-1890

4

4

Centinela-Inglewood Land Company agents' (Childs and Silent, Dabney and Johnston, Hardy, and Browne and Rogers) invoices, vouchers, and statements of account. Separated from binder

1888

4

5-6

Redondo Beach Company, Centinela-Inglewood Land Company incoming business correspondence. Separated from original binder

1888

5

1-2

Centinela-Inglewood Land Company, Redondo Beach Company incoming business correspondence. Includes statements of account and accounts of note collections. Original filing order preserved. Separated from binder

1887-1888

5

3-4

Redondo Beach Company incoming business correspondence, including letter re absorption by Centinela-Inglewood Land Company. Original filing order preserved. Separated from binder

1887-1888

5

5-6

Centinela-Inglewood Land Company incoming business correspondence. Original filing order preserved. Separated from binder

1887-1888

5

7

Centinela-Inglewood Land Company incoming correspondence re Hotel Inglewood, including Redondo Beach Company proposition for Hotel Inglewood; O. W. Childs and Charles Silent letter to L. A. Sheldon, president of Centinela-Inglewood Land Company, re Hotel Inglewood opening

1888

5

8

Supplementary statement re cost of Hotel Inglewood, from O. W. Childs and Charles Silent

n.d.

6

1-5

Centinela-Inglewood Land Company bills, vouchers, receipts, payrolls. Originally bound in ledger; removed by unknown party.

1888

6

6

County and state tax receipts for payments on Inglewood property

1888-1889

6

7

Centinela-Inglewood Land Company Board of Directors and stockholders meetings: meeting notices; handwritten notes re meeting minutes; handwritten drafts of resolutions (photocopies)

1888

6

8

Cancelled checks and money orders drawn on account of Redondo Hotel Company for shipment of bricks from Inglewood

1889

6

9

Centinela-Inglewood Land Company and Lionel A. Sheldon lease with A. B. Kennedy, of large office in Land Company building; handwritten list of stock shares; statement of indebtedness on loose leaf of ledger

1888

7

1-2

Certificates of title issued for Centinela Inglewood Land Company and Daniel Freeman

1881-1903 (dates broken)

7

3

Daniel Freeman "Offer to Perform Agreements" re Inglewood property; with Centinela Inglewood Land Company promissory notes transferred to Daniel Freeman

1891

7

4

Centinela-Inglewood Land Company promissory notes; some transferred to Daniel Freeman

1887-1888

7

5-6

Daniel Freeman and Centinela-Inglewood Land Company incoming business correspondence

1888-1890

7

7

Newspaper clipping re court case of Girard Stoesak vs. Daniel Freeman and Centinela-Inglewood Land Company over breach of promise; document of "execution" re judgement against Centinela-Inglewood Land Company

1892

7

8

Handwritten notes re lots and owners; record of lumber shipped to Inglewood; price lists for lumber; advertising flyer re lumber for building of homes in Inglewood (photocopy)

n.d.

7

9

Statements rendered, Joseph Dabney, and Joseph Dabney and W. B. Johnson; sales records; Centinela-Inglewood Land Company receipts

1887-1888

7

10

Centinela-Inglewood Land Company sales records

1888

7

11

Single leaf of ledger with names of property holders and acreage and payments; single leaf of ledger re notes cancelled; list of deeded lots

n.d.

7

12

Centinela-Inglewood Land Company and Redondo Beach Company statements re expenditures, income, agents' property sales

1888

7

13

Judicial judgement re damages; O. W. Childs's and Charles Silent's rough note re margins; list of Daniel Freeman payments to Centinela-Inglewood Land Company; Centinela-Inglewood Land Company card

1887

8

 

Sales book, 1887; Inglewood lots ledger, 1888; Ledger (alphabetical), n.d.; Letter press book, 1886-1890

1886-1890

9

 

Letter press book, 1887-1890; Applications for water, 1889

1887-1890

10

 

Freeman College ledger, 1888-1889; Freeman College ledger, 1888-1890

1888-1890

11

 

Riecker & Huber Inglewood survey field books 1-4

1887

12

 

Field books 2-9 including Inglewood Water Works and Redondo Beach Railroad. "Centinela-Inglewood Land Company" inscribed on paste-down end page

1888, n.d.

13

 

Property sales ledger for Inglewood--D. Freeman. Majority of entries for Centinela-Inglewood Land Company agents' sales

1875-1889
(dates broken)

14

 

Invoices

1887-1888

15

 

Invoices

1887-1888

16

 

Invoices

1888

17

 

Bills receivable, 1887-1891; Financial ledger, 1888-1890

1887-1891

18

 

Supply ledger

1887-1888

19

 

Record of tax sales, 1888-1893; Centinela-Inglewood Land Co. vs. Mrs. Allie Keifer special issues submitted to jury, 1892; Deed records, 1875-1904

1875-1904

20

 

Sales book

1888-1889

21

 

Agents/Margins ledger

1887-1906

1ov

1-5

Centinela-Inglewood Land Company deeds of sale re property in "Stuart Tract" and Ranchos Centinela, Sausal Redondo

1887-1888

1ov

6

Plat map, Inglewood subdivision; tax receipt, Centinela-Inglewood Land Company

1888, 1889

2ov

1-5

Centinela-Inglewood Land Company deeds of sale re property in "Stuart Tract" and Ranchos Centinela, Sausal Redondo

1887-1890

2ov

6

FRAGILE. Centinela-Inglewood Land Company deeds of sale re property in "Stuart Tract" and Ranchos Centinela, Sausal Redondo

1888

3ov

1

FRAGILE: Centinela-Inglewood Land Company deeds of sale re property in "Stuart Tract" and Ranchos Centinela, Sausal Redondo

1887-1893

3ov

 

2-7

Centinela-Inglewood Land Company deeds of sale re property in "Stuart Tract" and Ranchos Centinela, Sausal Redondo; some with notation "deeds cancelled" and with title confirmation and transfer of title to Daniel Freeman

1887-1888

4ov

1-7

Centinela-Inglewood Land Company deeds of sale re property in "Stuart Tract" and Ranchos Centinela, Sausal Redondo; some with notation "deeds cancelled" and with title confirmation and transfer of title to Daniel Freeman

1887-1888

5ov

1-6

Centinela-Inglewood Land Company deeds of sale re property in "Stuart Tract" and Ranchos Centinela, Sausal Redondo; some with notation "deeds cancelled", and with title confirmation and transfer of title to Daniel Freeman

1887-1888

5ov

7

Indentures re property transfers from trustees of Freeman College of Centinela-Inglewood Land Company

1888

5ov

8

Centinela-Inglewood Land Company and Daniel Freeman deed of sale

1889

6ov

1-7

Centinela-Inglewood Land Company deeds of sale re property in "Stuart Tract" and Ranchos Centinela, Sausal Redondo; some with notation "deeds cancelled" and with documentation re transfer of title to Daniel Freeman and title confirmation

1887-1890

7ov

1-5

Certificates of sale for Centinela Inglewood Land Company, Charles Silent delinquent taxes; Daniel Freeman and George Cochran purchasers

1890, 1892

7ov

6

"Release of all Demands" document from Redondo Beach Company to Centinela-Inglewood Land Company

1888

7ov

7

Centinela-Inglewood Land Company trial balance ledger sheets; records of agents' sales and sales of lots

1888-1889

8ov

1

Indenture between Centinela-Inglewood Land Company and Thomas Doak re warehouse. Cf. Box 2, Folder 8, this series

1889

8ov

2

Wilbert H. Hardy list of subdivisions; commissions on sales; advances on sales

1888-1889

8ov

3

Statements of sales, Joseph Dabney

1888

8ov

4

Statements of lot sales: Centinela-Inglewood Land Company(?)

n.d.

8ov

5

Statement of collections; statement of land sales; incoming correspondence re position at Freeman College of Applied Sciences

1888

8ov

6

Drawings and calculations re Inglewood property divisions

n.d.

9ov

1-8

Certificates of sale for delinquent taxes

1889-1890

10ov

 

Assessment book and misc. notes

1888-1900

11ov

 

Accounts receivable journal

1887-1890

12ov

 

General accounting ledger

1887-1888

13ov

 

Land sales ledger

1887-1889

14ov

 

Cash ledger

1887-1888

15ov

 

Agreements

1887-1888

16ov

 

Agreements

1888-1889

17ov

 

2 ledgers of invoices

1887-1889

18ov

 

Bills receivable ledger

1887-1888

19ov

 

Sales book, 1889 (?)

1889

20ov

 

Tickler/Sales ledger, 1887-1888

1887-1888

flat file

 

Four copies of promotional map of town of Inglewood, featuring proposed Hotel Inglewood and Freeman College of Applied Sciences

n.d.


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