Los Angeles City Directory 1929 — 'Murphy Jas J (Agnes) slsmn J W Robinson Co h4339 Victoria av': from Bullock's to Robinson's

Los Angeles Directory Co.'s Los Angeles City Directory 1929 · Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California · 1929

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p. 1595: **Murphy Jas J (Agnes), slsmn J W Robinson Co, h4339 Victoria av.** The first entry to name his wife (in parentheses) and the first at J. W. Robinson Co., where he is listed as a salesman. The change from Bullock's therefore falls between the canvasses for the 1928 and 1929 editions.

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  • Murphy Jas J — slsmn J W Robinson Co, r h4339 Victoria av
    = James Joseph "James J." Murphy (b. 1883 Ardgroom; d. 1938 LA) · 100
  • (Agnes), r h4339 Victoria av
    = Agnes Kelly Murphy · 100

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  • role: directory entry · family confidence: 100 certain

    occupation: slsmn J W Robinson Co · residence: h4339 Victoria av

    Same house as 1928; wife Agnes named.

  • Agnes Kelly Murphy(as printed: (Agnes))
    role: spouse named in entry · family confidence: 100 certain

    residence: h4339 Victoria av

    Wife's name in parentheses in her husband's entry; 'Agnes R.', wife, in the 1930 census at this address.

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--- directory: Los Angeles Directory Co.'s Los Angeles City Directory 1929 publisher: The Los Angeles Directory Co. year: 1929 pages: ['1595'] repository: Los Angeles Public Library, ResCarta-Web read_from: LAPL 600-dpi page images, 28 Sept 2026 (see provenance.yaml) --- # Los Angeles Directory Co.'s Los Angeles City Directory 1929 — Murphy household entries Read line by line from the Los Angeles Public Library's 600-dpi page images; LAPL's own OCR text layer garbles several of these lines. A ditto mark (") at the start of a line repeats the surname above it, here MURPHY. Lines marked `=>` are the family's; the others are neighbouring entries, given for context. Every line is shown in `crops/` (a plain crop and a captioned copy). ## p. 1595 — LAPL image 1581 https://rescarta.lapl.org/ResCarta-Web/jsp/RcWebImageViewer.jsp?doc_id=040428be-8b21-4de1-9b1e-3421068c0f1c%2FLPU00000%2FLL000003%2F00000001&pg_seq=1581 ``` " Jas H (Bernice) cook h1426 De Long => " Jas J (Agnes) slsmn J W Robinson Co h4339 Victoria av " Jas L lab r664 E 45th ``` ## Abbreviations h householder (house) · r resides / rooms · av avenue · dr drive · blvd boulevard · W West · E East · S South · N North · dept mgr department manager · clk clerk · cashr cashier · slsmn salesman · slswn saleswoman · supvr supervisor · serv rep(r) service representative · staff asst staff assistant · sten stenographer · msngr messenger · Co Auditor County Auditor · SCTCo Southern California Telephone Co. · wid widow · jr junior · (name) wife's name · VE VErmont telephone exchange (Kelts).

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Source ID: 1929_los-angeles-city-directory_ladc-p1595-murphy-jas-j-slsmn-j-w-robinson-co-4339-victoria-av

Reference: p. 1595; LAPL ResCarta image 1581 of 2594

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