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Description: One oversize scrapbook containing many clippings, photographs, and inserts compiled by Mildred Renstrom of the Classified department. Items regarding Harry Chandler, Mrs. Marian Otis Chandler, Norman Chandler, and Mrs. Dorothy B. Chandler are followed by a significant amount of material chronicling staff events and happenings at the LAT, primarily in the Classified department.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1950s
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Renstrom, Mildred Collection

Manuscripts

Mildred Renstrom worked in the Classified department, at one time holding the position of Assistant Manager. During this time, she created this scrapbook of clippings, photographs, and ephemera related to the Chandlers and the Times. Date range is 1950-1959.

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Other Collections - Mildred Renstrom Collection oversize

Manuscripts

Originally maintained as the Los Angeles Times History Center, the Los Angeles Times Records contains materials related to the business life of the Los Angeles Times and its owners - both corporate and personal. The business material is roughly organized by Times department; research material collected by the History Center to document the Times and materials related to the Otis/Chandler families are organized by subject. The records include accounting papers, legal documents, correspondence, directories, memoranda, reprints of articles, supplements to the newspaper, manuscripts, oral history transcripts, ephemera, newspapers, newspaper clippings, and objects. The collection includes a significant amount of audiovisual material, including photographs, film, and audio tapes. There are also several samples of printed newspapers that were collected by the Times History Center.

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Other Collections

Manuscripts

One oversize scrapbook containing many clippings and inserts compiled by Ted Weegar on the landmark court battle between LAT and Los Angeles County Superior Court leading to Pulitzer Prize.

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Guzy, Bob

Manuscripts

Two letters of correspondence between Otis Chandler and Bob Guzy in the Classified Office Services department.

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Otis/Chandler Family

Manuscripts

Various objects from the Wetherby, Otis, and Chandler families:Bible of Emma Marian Otis, inscribed 1875. Ambrotype with lace background of Nancy Hyde Wetherby, circa 1865. Photograph of Moses Knight Chandler (1836 - 1930), father of Harry Chandler, in silver frame, undated. Pince-nez of Ruth Chandler, in case, undated. Marian Otis Chandler autograph album, 1880 - 1885. Bible of Edwin Wetherby, brother of Eliza Wetherby Otis, inscribed but undated. Ambrotype of Stephen Otis, circa 1865. Copy of letter from Carolyn Strickler to Mrs. Robert Dulin, 1989.

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"The Ancestry of Marian Otis Chandler," Gwendolyn Garland Babcock

Manuscripts

1 item: ring-bound book, approx. 70-pp., self-published by a relative of Marian Otis Chandler, titled "The Ancestry of Marian Otis Chandler."

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