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The Title Insurance and Trust Company was a
title insurance Title insurance is a form of indemnity insurance, predominantly found in the United States and Canada, that insures against financial loss from defects in title to real property and from the invalidity or unenforceability of mortgage loans. Unlik ...
company based in
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. The company was known for accumulating a notable collection of historic photographs (now in the collection of the
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) and commissioning writers, such as W. W. Robinson, to write a series of pamphlets about the history of regions and neighborhoods in
Southern California Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and Cultural area, cultural List of regions of California, region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Its densely populated coastal reg ...
. The Title Insurance and Trust Company building at 433 S. Spring Street, its third sequential headquarters building, was used by the company from 1928 to 1977. It is recognized as an architecturally significant building of
downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) is the central business district of the city of Los Angeles. It is part of the Central Los Angeles region and covers a area. As of 2020, it contains over 500,000 jobs and has a population of roughly 85,000 residents ...
. Prior to 1928, the company had offices at 401–11 and at the northwest corner of 8th and Hill, now the site of the Garfield Building (Los Angeles)Garfield Building, and at the northeast corner of 8th and Hope and Eighth.


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