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Title: Pacific National Fire Insurance Company Records of Orange County Buildings
Date (inclusive): 1942-1951
Collection number: MS-R041
Creator:
Pacific National Fire Insurance Company
Extent:
Number of containers: 1 document box
Linear feet: .2 linear foot
Linear feet: .2 linear foot
Repository:
University of California, Irvine. Library. Special Collections and Archives.
Irvine, California 92623-9557
Abstract: The collection consists of maps, photographs, and descriptive text on various buildings
in Orange County, California, primarily public institutions. The Pacific National Fire
Insurance Company in Santa Ana, California produced these records between 1942 and 1951
for insurance purposes. The photographs and maps provide visual documentation of the
buildings and their surroundings as they appeared in the 1940's and the accompanying text
provides detailed information on construction, location, size, and maintenance.
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by
the creators of the records and their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or to publish,
please contact the Head of Special Collections and University Archives.
Pacific National Fire Insurance Company Records of Orange County Buildings. MS-R 41.
Special Collections and Archives, The UCI Libraries, Irvine, California.
Gift of David A. Lewis in 1988.
Processed by Su Kim Chung in 1998.
The collection consists of maps, photographs, and descriptive text on various buildings
in Orange County, California, primarily public institutions. The Pacific National Fire
Insurance Company in Santa Ana, California produced these records between 1942 and 1951
for insurance purposes. The photographs and maps provide visual documentation of the
buildings and their surroundings as they appeared in the 1940's and the accompanying text
provides detailed information on construction, location, size, and maintenance.
Each group of maps, photos, and text documents a building or group of buildings. The
building types include fire station, hospital, airport, and court house. This arrangement
reflects the original order of the material, which was acquired in a binder labeled
"Facts and Comments Regarding Sound Insurance #2."
The collection is organized alphabetically by building type, and the container list
indicates the individual Orange County cities where the various buildings were located. A
miscellaneous category contains information on two buildings not integrated within the
other building groups. Although most of the building groups have complete documentation,
a few groups lack text, maps, or photographs. The following groups do not have text:
Buena Park's American Legion Hall, Agriculture, Airport, Detention Home, Fire Stations,
Radio and Miscellaneous. The Detention Home lacks photographs, and the Fire Stations lack
maps.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Pacific National Fire Insurance Company--Archival resources.
Insurance companies--California--Orange County--Archival resources.
Courthouses--California--Orange County--Archival resources.
Fire stations--California--Orange County--Archival resources.
Hospitals--California--Orange County--Archival resources.
Libraries--California--Orange County--Archival resources.
Parks--California--Orange County--Archival resources.
Water districts--California--Orange County--Archival resources.
Orange County (Calif.)--Archival resources.
Architectural photographs--California--Orange County.
Blueprints.
Photographic prints--California--Orange County.
Maps--California--Orange County.
Index Terms Related to this Collection
Lewis, David A., former owner.
Online Archive of California.