Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
If Jeffrey Dahmer had been a football hero [editorial cartoon]
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Manuscripts
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
8 items: letter, 9/19/1967, to Bassett from Walter Annenberg (publisher, ambassador) praising editorial cartoonist Paul Conrad ; 4/29/1969, Bassett to Douglas T. Moore, responding to complaint about a specific Conrad cartoon ; letter, 5/17/1969, to Bassett from Douglas T. Moore, critical of Conrad and LAT and attached handwritten letter, 4/21/1969, from Moore to Franklin Murphy (Chair, TM Board) ; letter, 6/2/1970, from Bassett to Allen Mansfield (Pacific Western Securities), responding to Mansfield's criticism of Conrad cartoons and attached letter from Mansfield to Frank Haven, Managing Editor, LAT, attached are two Conrad cartoons about Nixon.
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Approx. 12 items. Includes a "Confidential Questionnaire for Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Also in the file are some letters to the Editor. One handwritten letter is an angry response to Times' coverage of Governor Reagan, alleging it to be "totally unfair and unjustified," and referring to Publisher Otis Chandler as "the young character running the Times." (Mr. Chandler was 40 at the time) In the same time frame, 1967, Walter Annenberg sent a note to James Bassett calling cartoonist Conrad--the target of much controversy--"talented," and expressing "enthusiastic admiration" for him. Correspondence discussing editorial cartoons and readership in more general terms.
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Two cartoons by Paul Conrad and Bob Staake responding to Standard Oil of Ohio's (Sohio) controversial proposed oil terminal and pipeline project in the port of Long Beach in the 1970s: print of "'The time has come,' the walrus said. 'To talk of many things: of crude - and spills - and tanker ships - of oil cartels - and kings." by Paul Conrad, inscribed and signed, dated October 14, 1978; original cartoon "Guess what's coming to Long Beach?" by Bob Staake, signed, approximately 1978.
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1 item: cartoon, probably from 1911, captioned, "Oh well, there'll be enough votes to elect Alexander without mine." Presumably deals with the mayoral election pitting Socialist Job Harriman against LAT-backed George Alexander.
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A letter to Otis Chandler from F. Daniel Frost regarding a Paul Conrad cartoon. Attached to the letter is a note to Lois [Markwith] from Freddie Miller.
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