Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
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
50+ items: selection of LAT news stories on strikes at the Herald-Examiner, the closing down of the Herald-Examiner, etc. ; tear sheet, Los Angeles (mag), 1/1968, "Where does the Herald-Examiner go from here?" ; article copy, Los Angeles (mag), ?/1977, "The Her-Ex...George Hearst's secret money-making machine? ; tear sheet, Downtown News, 11/18/1985, "Herald Examiner Building--Mr. Hearst's First Castle" ; multiple tear sheets, LAT, 11/2/1989, incl. pg. 1 story, "Herald Examiner will halt publishing today" and editorial headlined "End of the Herald-Examiner."
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2 items: tear sheet (torn in half as well), The Rural Californian, ?/1891, "The Herald and its editors" ; 9-pp. including cover, Eight Ball Final, 1956, "The day the Herald moved."
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Approx. 60 items: memos, letters, tear sheets, etc. related to persons and organizations starting with letter "H." Much of the material in this folder is related to the Herald-Examiner. Included is a 7-pp. profile of Mary Ann Dolan, Editor of the Herald-Examiner, from the 6/1982 issue of Washington Journalism Review. The article, written by Dallas writer Dennis Holder, is not totally friendly: "Dolan's philosophy...is to have her fingers in everything and her thumb on everybody."
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Eight items comprising fourteen pages pertaining to the Herald Examiner, containing memos, letters, newsletters, and both original and photocopies of clippings.
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Includes last edition of the Los Angeles Mirror, January 5, 1962, with "The Mirror consolidates with Times" banner headline. Other Los Angeles region newspapers include: L.A. Tribune, L.A. Nationalist, L.A. Record, The Evening Express, The Evening Republican, L.A. Daily Star, The New Italy (the L.A. immigrant's guide to homes in Southern California, 1875), South Los Angeles magazine, The Angelino, L.A. Herald, L.A. Express, L.A. Examiner, Daily Free Press (Ventura, California), Ventura Daily Post, Alhambra Post-Advocate, and others.
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8 items: news stories--both LAT and Herald Express copies--on issues related to the Herald Express, such as price increases, strikes, clashes with public officials, etc., over the time frame indicated. Also a couple of "history" columns from 1944 and 1945 - "Early Days in Los Angeles."
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