Manuscripts

Museums - Southern California

Description: 6 items: booklet, Guide to the Exhibit of Fossil Animals from Rancho La Brea, L.A. County Museum of History, Science & Art, 4/1915 ; booklet, Notes on the Pleistocene fossils obtained from Rancho La Brea asphalt pits, L.A. Museum of History, Science and Art, 11/1926 ; booklet, History of Puppetry, Los Angeles County Museum, 1959 ; booklet, Los Angeles County Museum - 50th Anniversary, 1910 - 1960 ; tear sheet, Los Angeles Free Press, 4/18/1975, "Freedom to ignore vs. responsibility" ; tear sheet, LAT, 3/27/1987, "Money shortage closes Southwest Museum library"; 4 postcards featuring the First Interstate Bank Athletic Foundation Sports Museum, 1985; postcard featuring Kimberly Crest House and Gardens in Redlands, CA.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1915 - 1987
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
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Architecture and Historic Preservation - Los Angeles

Manuscripts

Approx. 40 items: article tear sheets and copies from LAT, Sunset, Westways, L.A. Herald-Examiner, Downtown News, Los Angeles (mag), and others. Material mostly written between 1960s and 1990s but examining the Los Angeles lifestyles of earlier decades. Highlights: original of house sales booklet, The New Spanish Bungalow, 1923; multi-page tear sheet, L.A. Herald-Examiner, 12/31/1967, "The Los Angeles that Was"; typed list (7-pp.) of 145 "Historic-Cultural Monuments" in City of Los Angeles, as of 1975; 2 copies of a postcard featuring Dominguez Adobe Rancho San Pedro labeled "Historic Preservation" postmarked "first day of issue Sep 16, 1984".

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Ethnic Groups - Chinese

Manuscripts

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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Transportation - Southern Pacific Railroad

Manuscripts

5 items: 105-pp. (clipped but appears incomplete) title - "Historical Outline - Southern Pacific Company" (3/1933, noted on p. 2) ; booklet, Seventy-Five years of Progress, by Erle Heath, 12/1945 ; tear sheet, Sunset, 8/1953, "The Main Line," (SP ad) ; complete issue, Southern Pacific Bulletin, 8/1955 ; brochure for "Railfair Sacramento 1981 - California State Railroad Museum, May 2 to 10, 1981.

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Orange County (California)

Manuscripts

Approx. 22 items: collection of news, historical and promotional material on Orange County's history, the Irvine Ranch and on the county's centennial in 1989. Notable items: reprint, (L.A. Times) West Magazine, 12/31/1967, "Color the California revolution Orange" ; tear sheet, LAT "Outlook" section, 8/4/1968, pp. 1 story, "83,000-acre Irvine Ranch comes into the 20th century" ; four complete issues of Sherman Library & Gardens Newsletter, dated between 1980 and 1986 ; three 1988 brochures produced by County of Orange, "Heritage Hill Historical Park," "Historic George Key Ranch," and "Ramon Peralta Adobe - 1871" ; brochure, "Orange County Centennial, 1889-1989."

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Los Angeles - City Halls

Manuscripts

7 items: commemorative booklet, Corner-stone laying - Los Angeles City Hall, 6/22/1927 ; article copy, California History, 9/1987, "El Portugese...Don Antonio Rocha, California's first Portugese sailor ; white folder, with pocket containing booklets, brochures and other material relating to Project Restore (L.A.), 1990 ; tear sheet, Downtown News, 10/27/1986, "New clothes for City Hall"; etc.

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Articles

Manuscripts

6 items: tear sheet, Newsweek, 5/25/1970, "Newsday notice"; article, Highway News Bulletin, June-July 1970, "On its way...beautiful Downtown L.A."; LAT article copy, 7/2/1970, "Times Mirror completes Dallas merger"; tear sheet, California Business, 8/4/1970, "The new Times Mirror layout (p. 12); tear sheet, Editor & Publisher, 10/17/1970, "Newsday has plans only for Long Island"; cover + tear sheet, Business Week, 12/26/1970, on Times Mirror, "They found newspapers best after all."

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