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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. 12 items. Materials include: LAT clip, 9/10/1989, to give example of "Home Price Guide" feature; LAT clip, 2/26/1989, "Expanded section, new editor (Dick Barnes) to debut"; packet (clipped) of several items related to the "doodles" President Franklin Roosevelt did during his presidency that decades later were used as a "guide" to the design of a Naval Medical Center in Maryland (includes 4 glossy photos of Roosevelt), received from Dick Turpin of Real Estate Section in 1975; several LAT articles on re-vamp of Real Estate section, 1989-1990; 10-pp. booklet, (LAT 23rd) Annual Survey of Residential Builders in Southern California (1994). copy of 1st Real Estate Section (Pt. 2, Pg. 1), 6/23/1901, "House and Lot - The Times Weekly Review of Real Estate and Building."
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Seventy-five items comprising one hundred forty-nine pages pertaining to Dick Turpin, containing memos, letters, both original and photocopies of clippings, a brochure, an envelope, and a resume.
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8 items: photo & article copy, undated, "Handsome double dwelling (of) F.X. Pfaffinger at Nos. 219-221 North Hope St"; LAT article copy, 3/26/1927, "Forty years of service celebrated (Pfaffinger"; LAT article copy, 3/27/1937, Honor given Pfaffinger"; LAT obit copy, 2/5/1940, "Pfaffinger, treasurer of Times, dies"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 2/1940, "Frank Pfaffinger known as friend-in-need to coworkers"; article copies (2), Among Ourselves, 7/1948, "Men who made The Times," on Pfaffinger; "keepsake" book, "Perpetual Membership in the Marianist Spiritual Alliance," conferred on Pfaffinger, undated.
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6 items: article/photo copy, Among Ourselves, 10/1941, 4 grafs on Richard Adams, attorney on LAT staff; article/photo, Among Ourselves, 5/1944, "One Man's Job - Dick Adams"; Adams' story updated in AO, same column, 10/1959; copy of LAT obit for Adams, 7/14/1989; memo following obit publication - provides corrected information for, as memo states, "obit contains incorrect information..."
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2 items: LAT article copy, 6/26/1937, "Oldtimers gather," reading in part, "Cora Williams, former society editor of The Times...married into 'Who's Who' "; LAT obit copy, 11/1/1950, "Cora Young Williams rites set tomorrow."
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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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