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• Adobe Days, by Sarah Bixby Smith (HTML at LOC)
• Los Angeles in the Sunny Seventies, by Archduke Ludwig Salvator, trans. by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur (HTML at LOC)

• Water and Los Angeles: A Tale of Three Rivers, 1900-1941 (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2016), by William Deverell and Tom Sitton (multiple formats with commentary at Luminos)

• Meeting the Challenge of Charter Reform, by Kevin F. McCarthy, Steven P. Erie, and Robert E. Reichardt (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913, by Harris Newmark (HTML at LOC)

• Twice Tempted (ca. 1996), by William Manchee (HTML at williammanchee.com)
• The Big Sleep (c1939), by Raymond Chandler (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• It's a Shame to Be a Negro, by Hans Lindor (HTML with commentary at publicbookshelf.com)

• The Loved One (c1948; this edition 1965), by Evelyn Waugh (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Girl From Hollywood, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
• The Girl From Hollywood (New York: Macaulay, c1923), by Edgar Rice Burroughs, illust. by P. J. Monahan
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML, and Librivox audio
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Real Life, Into Which Miss Leda Swan of Hollywood Makes an Adventurous Excursion (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1921), by Henry Kitchell Webster, illust. by Everett Shinn (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Day of the Locust (c1939), by Nathanael West (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Cutting Room, by Robert Rosenberg (zipped HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)

• Los Angeles Herald (partial serial archives)
• B'nai B'rith Messenger (partial serial archives)

• Meeting the Challenge of Charter Reform, by Kevin F. McCarthy, Steven P. Erie, and Robert E. Reichardt (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)

• Jim Crow in Los Angeles (Los Angeles: Workers Party, 1946), by Hal Draper (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Sleepy Lagoon Case (Los Angeles: Citizen's Committee for the Defense of Mexican-American Youth, 1942), by S. Guy Endore, contrib. by Orson Welles (page images at HathiTrust)

• Violence in the City: An End or a Beginning? (1965), by California Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats with rotated pages at archive.org
  • HTML at Wayback Machine

• Stories as Equipment for Living: Last Talks and Tales of Barbara Myerhoff (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Barbara G. Myerhoff, ed. by Marc Kaminsky, Mark Weiss, and Deena Metzger, contrib. by Thomas R. Cole (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hollywood as a World Center (Hollywood, CA: Hollywood Citizen Press, c1924), by Perley Poore Sheehan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hollywood Undressed: Observations of Sylvia as Noted by Her Secretary (New York: Brentano's, 1931), contrib. by Sylvia of Hollywood (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Shtetl to Stardom: Jews and Hollywood (Jewish Role in American Life v14; c2017), ed. by Michael Renov, Vincent Brook, Lisa Ansell, and Steven Joseph Ross (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• Turned on to Jesus (1971), by Arthur Blessitt and Walter Wagner (HTML at blessitt.com)

• It's a Shame to Be a Negro, by Hans Lindor (HTML with commentary at publicbookshelf.com)

• Violence in the City: An End or a Beginning? (1965), by California Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats with rotated pages at archive.org
  • HTML at Wayback Machine
• Jim Crow in Los Angeles (Los Angeles: Workers Party, 1946), by Hal Draper (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Catholic Agitator (partial serial archives)

• Twice Tempted (ca. 1996), by William Manchee (HTML at williammanchee.com)

• Rebuilding a City: A Study of Redevelopment Problems in Los Angeles (Los Angeles: Haynes Foundation, 1951), by Robert E. Alexander and Drayton S. Bryant (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Relation Of Wages To The Cost Of Living In Los Angeles, 1915 to 1920 (Los Angeles: Southern California Sociological Society, University of Southern California, 1921), by Hazal M. Liggett (page images at Harvard)

• Turned on to Jesus (1971), by Arthur Blessitt and Walter Wagner (HTML at blessitt.com)

• How Youthful Offenders Perceive Gun Violence, by Julie H. Goldberg and William Schwabe (PDF at rand.org)

• Adobe Days, by Sarah Bixby Smith (HTML at LOC)

• Stories as Equipment for Living: Last Talks and Tales of Barbara Myerhoff (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Barbara G. Myerhoff, ed. by Marc Kaminsky, Mark Weiss, and Deena Metzger, contrib. by Thomas R. Cole (page images at HathiTrust)

• Stories as Equipment for Living: Last Talks and Tales of Barbara Myerhoff (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Barbara G. Myerhoff, ed. by Marc Kaminsky, Mark Weiss, and Deena Metzger, contrib. by Thomas R. Cole (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Getty Murúa: Essays on the Making of Martín de Murúa's Historia General del Piru, J. Paul Getty Museum Ms. Ludwig XIII 16 (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, c2008), ed. by Tom Cummins and Barbara Anderson (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• The Sleepy Lagoon Case (Los Angeles: Citizen's Committee for the Defense of Mexican-American Youth, 1942), by S. Guy Endore, contrib. by Orson Welles (page images at HathiTrust)

• Justice for Salcido (Los Angeles: Civil Rights Congress of Los Angeles, 1948), by S. Guy Endore, contrib. by Carey McWilliams, illust. by Edmond Kohn (page images at HathiTrust)

• What's Really Going On in Hollywood!, by John W. Cones (HTML at homevideo.net)

• In Other Los Angeleses: Multicentric Performance Art (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Meiling Cheng (frame-dependent illustrated HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Justice for Salcido (Los Angeles: Civil Rights Congress of Los Angeles, 1948), by S. Guy Endore, contrib. by Carey McWilliams, illust. by Edmond Kohn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jim Crow in Los Angeles (Los Angeles: Workers Party, 1946), by Hal Draper (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Stories as Equipment for Living: Last Talks and Tales of Barbara Myerhoff (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Barbara G. Myerhoff, ed. by Marc Kaminsky, Mark Weiss, and Deena Metzger, contrib. by Thomas R. Cole (page images at HathiTrust)

• Justice for Salcido (Los Angeles: Civil Rights Congress of Los Angeles, 1948), by S. Guy Endore, contrib. by Carey McWilliams, illust. by Edmond Kohn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rebuilding a City: A Study of Redevelopment Problems in Los Angeles (Los Angeles: Haynes Foundation, 1951), by Robert E. Alexander and Drayton S. Bryant (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Relation Of Wages To The Cost Of Living In Los Angeles, 1915 to 1920 (Los Angeles: Southern California Sociological Society, University of Southern California, 1921), by Hazal M. Liggett (page images at Harvard)

• Storm Over Mono: The Mono Lake Battle and the California Water Future (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), by John Hart (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• How Youthful Offenders Perceive Gun Violence, by Julie H. Goldberg and William Schwabe (PDF at rand.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.