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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
Yearly review and reports on the editorial department dated 1949 - 1959, 1965; Bulletin from Richard G. Adams calling for annual reports; Report on news desk policies from 1962.
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Approx. 60 items: memos, letters and other materials related to operation of the Foreign Desk. Much of this material is correspondence attempting to gain accreditation for LAT journalists in the Soviet Union, eastern Europe, and elsewhere. Other items are related to personnel changes into and out of the Foreign Desk.
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Approx. 20 items. Material includes: tear sheet, 3/9/1937, 3 photos/captions allegedly showing that (L.A.) Examiner retouched and used LAT photo of wounded DA Fitts, "Here is a study of pictorial journalism"; stack of approx. 15 typed, photocopied sheets describing LAT's coverage of nation and world in editorials (1939-40); 13-pp. report, typed on yellow paper, gives headlines and summary of editorials, headed "Pre-WW2 (Asia, Europe) 1926-38 - HC-NC (& LEAGUE failures)"; single sheet, typed, "The Times' Creed," calls for "the loyalty of every Phalanx member [all staffers]"; copy of brief editorial, 6/23/1932, headline, "Things aren't so bad when...", opening with "Daily we see or hear about some kindly deed"; clips of editorials related to LAT policy toward Spanish-speaking Angelenos, tobacco--how harmful?, increase in crime, Gen. Otis' "carefully-wrought instructions" to "Mr. and Mrs. Harry Chandler" about how to conduct LAT operation "after his demise" (1917); a 1929 thesis presented at Claremont Colleges, "Los Angeles Times and Public Opinion," which points up the ultra-conservative viewpoint of LAT editorial policy; 3/24/1976 info sheet [LAT Editorial Policy] on LAT daily column, "Information," which appeared in the 1910s, and which was a mouthpiece for the anti-union stance of the paper; 28-pp. (yellow sheets) headed, "Times & opposition papers (SG chronology)," beginning in 1881, running to 1914; plastic bag containing several copies of editorials, 1919-1934, on the subjects "hard liquor advertising," the Lindbergh kidnapping," "the press and the public," and "yellow journalism."
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Approx. 20 items. Materials include: article copy, Among Ourselves, 4/1960, "Times, Mirror news libraries are key information centers"; 1-pp., copied from a history of LAT, the writer seems to be Harrison Gray Otis, because, in referring to the aftermath of the 1910 explosion and fire at LAT, the text reads, "I have been gradually collecting books...for a reference library, and...am keeping them at 'The Bivouac' [Otis's home on Wilshire Blvd.], (rather than) the temporary editorial rooms of The Times."; 3-pp. memo, 2/23/1954, "Defendant's pre-trial memorandum - The Times-Mirror Co. vs. U.S. of America"; 46-pp. spiral-bound report, "Editorial Library - User Survey," by Cecily J. Surace, 11/1980; 19-pp. report by graduate students in library / information science (Livia Di Mare/Glenn Johnson-Grau) on the Edit. Lib., 1992, recounting the history, services, resources, and research practices, and describing departments within the library; articles on the library from AO, 1927, 1976; info on LAT database's availability on Nexis; 11-pp. booklet, 12/1982, "Guide to the (LAT) Editorial Library"; article copy, CD-ROM Professional (mag), "Searching Los Angeles Times DIALOG OnDisc: The Times Editorial Library Experience," by Dorothy Ingebretsen and Steven Tice; plus assorted brief reports on aspects of the library.
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1 item: announcement, 6/15/1961, begins, "Effective Monday, June 19, the Readers Service department will be discontinued..."
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5 items. Materials include: LAT Part III, 10/21/1892, several pp. copied to show layout of text headlined "The Great Fair -- World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, October, 1892 - Views of the Principal Buildings," also the photos, which were the first halftone engravings {photos} ever in LAT; letter from Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, to a Colonel Esau, of US Army War College, dated 1/16/1980, explaining the circumstances surrounding the earliest photographs to appear in LAT; photo from Among Ourselves, 6/1964, caption, "Famous Photo - Times photog Bill Murphy shows (his 1958 photo) of the late President Kennedy" - photo selected to be on a commemorative stamp of JFK; Summer 1988 issue of Panorama (LAT retiree newsletter), lead story, "Veteran Photographer (Murphy) Remembers 'Working the Street'."
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