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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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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Approx. 15 items: 7-pp. speech transcript, "...to the University of California, Berkeley," 3/14/1984, opens, "Who made Gary Hart?" ; 6-pp. speech text (and attached material), "...to the New Mexico Judicial Conclave," 6/15/1984 ; 12-pp. speech transcript, "Why Justice Black was right--an absolutist's view of the First Amendment," 6/7/1975 ; 8-pp. speech transcript, Pepperdine University--Los Angeles commencement, "remarks by Anthony Day," 4/12/1974 ; 9-pp. speech transcript, "American Jewish Committee, remarks by Anthony Day," 5/21/1975 ; 2-pp. speech text, "Remarks by Anthony Day at the dinner for Pepperdine Univ. Associates for Will and Ariel Durant," 11/8/1977 ; 9-pp. speech text, "Speech to the Caltech Y," n.d. ; 7-pp. speech text, "Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation Council," 1/299/1981 (two copies) ; 14-pp. speech transcript, "International Press Institute Symposium - Toronto, Canada," 11/23/1981 ; preview copy of John F. Kennedy's inauguration speech (1/20/1961), from Pierre Salinger of the Kennedy Press Office - someone (Day?) jotted stars on the sheets to "mark applause" at the time the speech was delivered.
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14 items. Materials include: 13-pp. chronology, headed "Editorial Changes," running from 4/24/1960, "Opinion Section stared...", to 5/1974, "News Bureau is established in Cairo...", and 6/1974, "Paul Steiger wins the ...Loeb Award" (Financial journalism); 6-pp. (stapled) headed, "Today's metropolitan newspaper must compete successfully with other media," followed by listing of "Editorial Improvements" running from 1960 to 1966, bureau openings, news additions to LAT editorial staff, innovations; 2-pp. with listing of "Sections of the Times," giving dates various sections started, and more in-depth info for Obituary Page, the Tuesday Business Section, and Focus; article, Among Ourselves, 1929, "How we have grown!"; two copies of 12-pp. booklet titled "Daily and Sunday Features published in the Los Angeles Times ("1959" added in pencil on the unbound copy), the spiral-bound copy (with cover) is dated 1/1/1962 (binding removed) ; 1-pp. chronology for "Los Angeles Times Illustrated Weekly Magazine," 1897 - 1934; 1-pp. chronology headed "Home Magazine started," running from 1940 - 1972; article, Among Ourselves, 5/1960, "Sunday Times Given Attractive New Look"; 3-pp. of material from Los Angeles Sunday Times of 12/5/1897, including the cover of the "Illustrated Magazine Section"; 2-pp. "Fact sheet" on Voices section (start-up was 9/1992) including bio info for editors Judy Dugan and Dean Wakefield, and description of features appearing in the section; 2-pp. "fact sheet" for City Times section (start-up 1992), including general description and brief professional bios on the entire staff of the section; 2-pp. chronology of "LAT Sunday Supplements," by Craig St. Clair (1991).
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Approx. 30 items: major item - pp. 6 - 68 of a monograph written at Whittier College by Dorothy Sheets, 7/1943, "Anti- Japanese agitation in California - studied at three periods of crisis" ; LAT clips & copies, articles on Japanese - Americans in the USA during the entire 20th century, plus World War II issues.
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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."
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Approx. 15 items: major item, pp. 189 - 259 copied from book, North from Mexico, by Carey McWilliams, 1961; LAT clips & copies (plus one from Wall St. J.) on Hispanics in southern Cal. and USA.
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