Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Approx. 55 items: memos on various subjects, many addresses to "All staff," or "Staff memo." Subjects include: hiring and development ; retraction demands ; political coverage ; etc.
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Approx. 20 items. Subjects include: the Editorial telephone switchboard operations; Employee Opinion Survey & reaction to it (1958); Times pay rates compared to other major newspapers; Editorial budget (for 1969); gifts to Editorial staffers; etc.
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6 items: six examples of LAT Hiring & Development Newsletter, "Mirror." Headlines/subjects: 8/1994, "The Voices of Unity '94," on diversity in the newsroom and coverage of people of color; 11/1994, "A challenge for news editors," pagination; 1/1995, "A Team Effort," on coverage of the Orange County fiscal crisis; 3/1995, "Foreign put to test by quake," on earthquake in Japan; 4/1995, "The MetPro Experience; 5/1995, "Loosening Lips - the art of the interview."
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Approx. 25 items: collection of letters protesting a specific Jules Feiffer cartoon implying that returning POWs during the Vietnam war were being coached regarding what to say to the press. A copy of the cartoon itself is included. The standard response letter over Bellows signature began, "Thanks for sounding off on the Feiffer cartoon...(he) exceeded the bounds of good taste in that cartoon."
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Approx. 35 items: org charts, dated 3/1979 through 8/1979, of LAT overall, Pressroom, Platemaking, Finance, Transportation, Information Systems, Marketing, Operations, Personnel, Promotions & Public Relations, Purchasing, Syndicate, Production, Composing Room, Dispatch, Orange County Facility, Accounting, Administrative Services, Circulation, Classified Advertising and Display Advertising.
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Materials include: 6-pp., in list form, headed "Staff - 1944," giving section names, personnel names and area of responsibility/job name; memo, 3/30/1959, from Nick Williams, being a general announcement of Taylor Trumbo's promotion to Managing Editor, and Chester Hale's promotion to City Editor; typed note--unsigned and unadressed--gives "ethnic breakdown of the editorial staffers," 5/12/1977. Management Bulletins, News Releases dated between 1983 and 1990; two copies of a 1995 LAT clip headlined "Clayton, Del Olmo, Plate get new Times assignments." (Janet Clayton, Frank Del Olmo, Thomas Plate); cover letter from "No Greater Love," an organization "providing...care for children of Americans who have given their lives in service to our country or in the pursuit of peace." The bulletins are announcements of promotions, appointments and organizational changes.
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