Manuscripts

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Contests

Description: Approx. 10 items. Materials include: copies of LAT clips, 1922, 1926 - "New 'idea contest' for motion picture subjects started by De Mille and The Times," ""Winners in Times-De Mille film contest are announced"; 4-pp. News Release, 11/12/1987, "Times sponsors 'Write Stuff' contest at Dorothy Kirby Center"; photo & caption, ca. 1920, "Hoisting the prize autos to (2nd fl.) of The Times building"; article copy, "Start today in great popularity campaign," ca. 1920; tear sheet for 1989 "Tangle Towns" contest; clips of other contests, 1904, 1926.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1922 - 1987
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.

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Oratorical Contest

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items. Materials include: 4 booklets for the National Oratorical Contest (the 3rd, 5th, 7th & 9th) and the International Oratorical Contest (the 1st, 3rd, 5th & 7th), held concurrently in 1926, 1928, 1930 and 1932; single sheets of empty stationary with logos and mastheads for Los Angeles Newsboys' Club , (City of Los Angeles) Department of Playground and Recreation, and Los Angeles Times Playground Aircraft League; map of USA with oratorical contest finalists names and hometown, titled "National Final Meeting"; article copied, LAT 2/3/1924, "National Oratorical Contest on the Federal Constitution"; complete issue, The National Oratorical Contest News, 1/9/1928.

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Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Los Angeles Times Charities

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items. Materials include: memos, Employee Bulletins, clips from LAT and Among Ourselves, etc., on Rams Charity Games, Camp Funds, support of Boy's Clubs, Times Programs in general, 1940s - 1980s; 9-pp. report, including history and operations, of "Los Angeles Times Boys' Club"; 6-pp. stapled, 9/24/1958, info on Times Charities; several "Balance Sheet" reports for the late 1950s, into the 1960s; clipping of LAT promo on Boys' Club as it appeared in Western Advertising, 8/1954, "Eddie Garcia is learning to swim"; an original issue, and a photocopy of "Souvenir Program - GOLDEN GLOVES Amateur Boxing Tournament" (2/9-11/1949), proceeds to LAT Charities, sponsors of Times' Boys Clubs.

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Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Special Events

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items. Materials include: LAT clips, 7/1958, on U.S. Grand Prix, Management Bulletins and Employee Bulletins, 1983 - 1989, on LAT sponsored events, the Times/Nissan Grand Prix, the LAT/Budweiser 500, Times/TAC International Summer Games, LAT/Datsun Grand Prix of EnduranceCountryFest '88 and Times Ram Charity Game; brochure for Times/Eagle Indoor Games, 1990; 3-pp. "Tentative 1991 Special Events Calendar."

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Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - History

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: 2 LAT article copies related to LAT train / Pan-American Exposition train travel promo (1901); copy of ad headed "The Times and Sunset Magazine," (early 1900s issue); clippings on LAT involvement in Red Cross drives, war bond sales, etc.; 3-pp. report, "(LAT) civic activities and history since 1900," ca. 1960; info (on tiny slip of brown paper) on "Premiums with The Times included shotguns (1891)...copies of the poems of Eliza A. Otis...a sewing machine (1886)...The Times Almanac"; 2-pp. copies of Times-Mirror Co. "Promotion Department Expense[s] for...1920"; copies of Among Ourselves articles related to Promotion / Public Relations departments from 1930, 1956 and 1958; 2-pp. report, 4/29/1959, "Survey of Times-Mirror Company Public Service Activities," added in handwritten note - "Charities - Public Service."

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Departments - Promotion and Public Relations

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items: clipping, LAT, 1/17/1926, "Words of fire blaze in skies...Read The Times appears in huge electric letters"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 5/1964, "Promotion, research win 3 E&P awards"; clip, 1/14/1980, M.A.C. Western Advertising News, "L.A. Times uncorks consumer effort"; dupe of previous article in ADWEEK / West; copy of ad from Advertising Age, 8/16/1984, "Which newspaper provided...the best coverage of the Democratic Nat. Convention? - The L.A. Times..."; packet of AIDS coverage material in plastic sleeve - form letter signed by Tom Johnson, 2/17/1987, reprint from Among Ourselves - "Misconceptions about AIDS...", 8-pp. reprint of The Surgeon General's Report on (AIDS) 12/7/1986; Management Bulletin, 11/2/1988 memo on changes in various departments, including JoEllen Kitchen appointment as Director of Public Relations; 2 copies of brochure, "How to get your press release into the right hands at the Los Angeles Times," 3/1990.

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Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Among Ourselves

Manuscripts

3 items: multi-page packet, "Summary of [answers to] questions on Among Ourselves." which analyses responses to an employee questionnaire (150 participants) on in-house newsletter, ca. 1929; article copy, Among Ourselves, 7/1940, "Picnic voted best ever -- [LAT] barbecue attendance, fun, food stupendous"; LAT article copy, 4/26/1950, "Prize awarded Times-Mirror employee paper."

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