Manuscripts

Los Angeles - Tourism

Description: Approx. 20 items: copies of LAT clips--editorials, ads and promotions--1901 - 1919, related to tourism and real estate ; booklet, undated, "10 Fun auto trips with a day's drive of Los Angeles," prepared by American Petroleum Institute and presented by LAT ; copy LAT editorial, "The cliché that never dies," 1/2/1962 ; 1976 Art Seidenbaum column, "Tourist industry lacks industry."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1901 - 1976
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.

Politics - California State Legislature

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: staple-bound booklet with ten articles, both political commentary and editorials, on California State Legislature, pay raises and conflict of interest for lawmakers, all 1965 ; several editorials on updating the State Constitution, 1966 ; LAT editorial, "Ethics in the State Senate, 6/26/1969 ; other clips with commentary through 1976.

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Los Angeles Police Department

Manuscripts

9 items: two LAT clips from 10/1888 on police corruption ; 6-pp. POLICE DEPARTMENT...Annual report of W.A. Hammel, Chief of Police (1904) ; tear sheet from Daily Police Bulletin, 1/21/1929 ; copies of three 1960 LAT editorials, "Anarchy protects no one," 4/21, "Undermining the police force," 7/19, "The bright badge of the LAPD" ; LAT editorial, "Treading the volcano's crust," 7/23/1970 ; LAT editorial, "Who is betraying the students?", 12/13/1974.

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Employees - Hanson, Chester G. "Chick"

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items: 2-pp. "Memo to Hotchkiss...", undated, note written at top - "Personal & private," related to some complaints Hanson had with co-workers and itemizing his expanse account; copies of clips, 1949 - 1955, mentioning Hanson; letter to editor of LAT, 11/24/1962, written by Hanson; typed note to Jim Bassett at LAT, 1/31/1973; LAT clip, 12/14/1976, "Chester G. Hanson, 86, former newsman, dies."

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Employees - Seidenbaum, Art

Manuscripts

8 items: copy of 1964 LAT ad featuring photo of Seidenbaum, and caption "he offers you an aisle seat on the performance of tomorrow"; copy of NYT (?) review of Seidenbaum's book, "This is California - please keep out" (1975); article copy, Santa Barbara News Press, 5/3/1975, "Seidenbaum personifies 'California Runaways' "; single-sheet Biography from the Los Angeles Times, "Art Seidenbaum," 10/1976; ; LAT Biography, 2/ 1985 (plus another Biography version; LAT obit clip, 7/26/1990, "Art Seidenbaum - Times Columnist, writer and editor"; LAT clip, 7/26/1990, "An appreciation - Enduring memories of longtime colleague Art Seidenbaum" by Charles Champlin.

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Los Angeles - City Planning

Manuscripts

Approx. 45 items: clips and copies of LAT editorials and news stories on city planning and urban renewal, especially in the central city area, 1912 to the 1970s. Notable items: booklet, Annual Report - Board of City Planning Commissioners, Los Angeles, 1934-35 ; booklet, A Report to Honorable Fletcher Bowron, Mayor of Los Angeles (City Planning Commission), 12/4/1942 ; 48-pp. booklet, Accomplishments - City Planning Commission, 1957; 18-pp. booklet, City Charter - excerpts relating to City Planning, 1959 ; booklet of LAT reprints, originally published during 4/1966, "Urban renewal...salvation or new blight?"; undated brochure (ca. 1990), Central City West, produced by Center City West Associates.

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Eisenhower, Dwight D

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items. LAT news stories and many editorials, 1947 - 1969 and obituary, plus 2 legal-size sheets, dated 8/2/1976, comprised of a chronological listing of news stories and editorials about Eisenhower.

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