Manuscripts

Ethnic Groups - Blacks

Description: Approx. 25 items: collection of LAT editorial copies, and additional citations for material on Blacks in American society relating to civil rights, incl. voting rights, and other issues, 1890 - 1987; complete issue of Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Quarterly, Winter 1969 - 70, includes article "Los Angeles Black Heritage"; tear sheet, Westways, 5/1975, "Ralph Bunche...the early years"; article copy, L.A. Historical Society Newsletter, 7/1988, "Black Angelenos...the Afro-American in Los Angeles, 1850 - 1950."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1890 - 1988
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Ethnic Groups - Chinese

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: LAT copies, news clips, feature stories and editorials, on the Chinese community and their interaction with other citizens of Los Angeles; complete issue, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Quarterly, Fall 1967, including article, "The Chinese in Los Angeles"; 2-pp. copied from L.A. City Historical Society Newsletter, 3/1988, "Bing cherries, Pebble Beach and Lotus"; tear sheet, (L.A.) Downtown News, 6/6/1988, cover story on Chinatown.

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California - History

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: miscellaneous historical articles, reproductions of early maps, lists of state governors, various events, a glossary of California (place) names, related items; multiple pages copied from California - a remarkable state's life history by John W. Caughey, 1970; copy of multi-page article, American Heritage, 6-7-/1979, pp. 63 - 77, "To a distant and perilous service"; complete issue of Westways, 7/1976, w/ notecard, "Westways issue entirely dedicated to California...(incl.) early California...early Los Angeles"; 9 black and white postcards featuring historic images of the city of Corona, California circa 1890-1930.

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Ethnic Groups -- Blacks

Manuscripts

Correspondence regarding African Americans, including a proposed American Press Institute seminar for editors and publishers of African American newspapers. Includes correspondence to/from Harry Chandler and L. D. Hotchkiss. File of L. D. Hotchkiss.

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Ethnic Groups - American Indians

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: a collection of LAT article clips and copies on various aspects of American Indians. The earliest examples are from 1886, 1888, and 1889, exhibiting a wide range of attitudes towards "the indian problem." Also a 1973 "rereading" and fresh review, by Robert Kirsch, of the novel Ramona (1885) and a 6-pp. excerpt copied from West of the West, by Robert Kirsch and William S. Murphy.

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Ethnic Groups - Jews

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: LAT clips and copies, 1893 - 1985, news stories, columns and editorials on the Jewish community in Los Angeles; brochure, "The Jews of Los Angeles," 1981, the main section of the brochure is "Los Angeles Jewry - a chronology" [1840 - 1981] ; pp. 1 - 38 of March / April 1986 issue of The Californians - the Magazine of California History [ pp. 1-38 featured articles on the history of California Jewry.

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Los Angeles Fire Department

Manuscripts

4 items: undated brochure, produced by El Pueblo de los Angeles State Historic Park, with information about the early days of the Los Angeles Fire Dept., and especially Fire House No. 1, built at the Plaza in 1884; article copy, Westways, 3/1964, "The company that went to blazes"; article copy, Westways, 10/1974, "The hottest club in town"; LAT clip, 8/21/1986, "Fire Dept. steams into its 100th year."

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