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1781 Los Angeles 1981 : bicentennial salute
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Los Angeles Bicentennial
Manuscripts
Approx. 20 items: memos, letters and other material related to the Bicentennial of the City of Los Angeles. Includes: letter from New York Public Library requesting a special City Centennial Edition of LAT ; a multi-page "Bicentennial Community Calendar" ; material on planning for LAT book and other publications related to the Bicentennial ; more.
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Los Angeles - Anniversaries - Bicentennial
Manuscripts
Approx. 20 items: L.A.'s the Place Master Calendar, 9/1980 - 9/1981 ; several issues of the Los Angeles Bicentennial Bulletins, from Publications Dept. of Auto Club of Southern California ; large stapled stack of legal size sheets, with info and dates, top sheet headed "LA 200 Bicentennial Committee...ACKNOWLEGEMENTS" ; folder of promo. material for LA / ACCESS, The Official Los Angeles Guidebook, published in 1980 in preparation for the 200th ; related materials.
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Los Angeles - Anniversaries - Bicentennial - Clippings
Manuscripts
Approx. 20 items: collection of LAT clips ; complete issue, Civic Center News, 9/2/1980 ; complete issue, California Historical Courier, 10/1980 ; complete issue, Southern California Business, 12/17/1980 ; complete issue, Civic Center News, 9/1/1981 ; Section One of Reader, 9/4/1981 ; booklet from Auto. Club of Southern California, 200 Treasures of Metropolitan Los Angeles, 1980 ; related material.
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Los Angeles - History - 1781 - 1848
Manuscripts
7 items: 3-pp. copied from a magazine (?), "Where the padres erred," 5/31/1936 ; 4 sheets torn from Museum Alliance Quarterly, Summer 1967, "Tracking the founders of Los Angeles" ; tear sheets, Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, Spring 1973, "Los Angeles, California... the question of the city's original Spanish name"; map of "The Old Spanish and Mexican Ranchos," copied from Los Angeles - the epic of a city, 1974 ; LAT clip, 9/4/1975, "L.A.'s founders should be honored for what they were--a racial mix"; tear sheets, Westways, 7/1976, "The Founding forty-four" (on the founders of L.A.) ; LAT clip, 9/16/1983, "Mexico's day little noticed."
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Bicentennial '81: Bicentennial Season
Manuscripts
The collection consists of copies of scripts for plays performed at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, Calif., and at its other theaters, including The Improvisational Theatre, New Theatre for Now, and The Lab. New scripts are added to the collection at the conclusion of each season.
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