The Library of Congress maintains a set of digitized, online-accessible collections under the mastiff of the American Memory collection — web site at loc.gov.

A quick search on the phrase “Los Angeles” yields quite a number of hits in their database. I haven’t tried a search on “Hollywood” or any other names of any other local burghs, nor personalities, and not either any local buildings, but such as those and more specific queries would no doubt be feasible onto their database.

Now, I wonder if Maynard James Keenan is mentioned in there…