Manuscripts

Los Angeles - History - General

Description: 25 + items: pp. 32 - 45 of (an unidentified) book, several pages headed, "History -- a brief summary of Los Angeles," followed by "Chronological Review," a fact-filled timeline of the L.A. area 1542 - 1938; a collection of William S. Murphy columns, "Then....and Now," written on local history in 1972-73 ; tear sheet of Los Angeles (mag) article, ?/1990, "My, how we've changed"; a map with differently shaded areas shows "How the City grew," 1989 ; 11-pp. cover and article, copied from Mankind - the Magazine of Popular History, date unknown, more timelines, profiles of long-time residents, multi-page Life Magazine article, "Los Angeles is the damnedest place..." ; related material.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1932 - 1989
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,

Los Angeles - Overviews (1 of 2)

Manuscripts

Approx. 35 items: eclectic mix of LAT clip, magazine and journal article copies or tear sheets, plus a few promo. booklets. Of note: 5-pp. article, Sunset Magazine, 1/1910, "Los Angeles--a sketch," by Harrison Gray Otis ; article, Saturday Evening Post, 10/18/1950, "Los Angeles in fact and dream"; booklet, "Dynamic Los Angeles County," 1938, published by (L.A. County) Board of Supervisors ; approx. 20-pp. article, Life (mag), "Los Angeles is the damnedest place" ; pp. 124-135 from book, Fabulous Boulevard (Ralph Hancock), 1949 ; approx. 10-pp. from Holiday (mag), 1/1950, "Los Angeles--typically American and prodigiously proud" ; 3 sheets cpd. from Frontier (mag), "Los Angeles" ; original Fall 1955 issue, Los Angeles County Museum Quarterly ; approx. 20-pp. from U.S. News & World Report, 9/6/1955, "A city--200 miles long!" ; 7-pp.,Holiday (mag), 10/1965, "Mining-camp megalopolis" ; 9-pp. from Playboy, 5/1972, "In search of Los Angeles" ; article, Pacific Historical Review, 11/1975, on L.A.'s growth in the 1920s ; cover & article, Travel & Leisure, 10/1978, "L.A. through the Looking Glass" ; approx. 12-pp. from Atlantic Monthly, 1/1988, "Los Angeles comes of age" ; etc. Split into two folders.

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Los Angeles - Overviews (2 of 2)

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Los Angeles Plaza and Olvera Street

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items: 8-pp. (stapled) on L.A. history which begins, "Our city's beginnings go back to 1769," which was the year explorer Portola and his expedition camped on the river very near present-day downtown ; newspapers and magazine article copies, brochures, maps and other ephemera ; original issue of Terra, Natural History Magazine of the West, Winter 1981, featuring article, "Los Angeles Plaza--living symbol of our past" (pp. 14) ; etc.

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History

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items - letters, memos, reports, article copies and other material. Notable names and items include: 4-pp. letter to James Bassett (LAT) from J. Edward Murray (Daily Camera, Boulder, CO, newspaper) giving Murray's memories of "how and why The Mirror [was] started" ; various reports with titles such as "Saga of the Los Angeles Mirror," "Pioneering a metropolitan daily," "approx. 10-pp. report on the cornerstone ceremony 10/11/1948, which opens "Guests of honor began arriving..." ; 15-pp. report (blue binder) titled "A history of changes in The Mirror as announced in Among Ourselves or indicated on personnel records" ; more.

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Newspapers - Los Angeles

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Approx. 20 items: a selection of lists and chronologies providing bits of history on newspapers in Los Angeles back to Los Angeles Star (1851). Notable items: LAT clip, 12/4/1886, "Directory of Southern California newspapers" ; tear sheet, LAT Sunday Magazine, 9/4/1932, "The Newspapers of Los Angeles--their trials and tragedies" ; article copy, Time (mag), 1/12/1962, "Death in Los Angeles [of two newspapers]" ; copies, pp. 435 - 458, Journal of the West, 10/1963, "Newspapers of Los Angeles...the first 50 years" ; article copy, Los Angeles (mag), "The city's changing newspaper world" ; 6-pp. of charts, headed "Los Angeles Metropolitan Newspapers Weekday Circulation History, 1914 - 1970," statistics for 7 Los Angeles newspapers - The Times, Examiner, Herald, Express, Daily News, Evening News, and Record ; tear sheet, (Santa Monica) Evening Outlook, 10/13/1975, "Evening Outlook is 100 today" ; complete issue, The Reader, 8/8/1980, "The story of Los Angeles's two daily newspapers--Inking Big" ; tear sheet, The Reader, 11/27/1981, "This Sentinel [Black-owned newspaper] does more than stand guard" ; LAT tear sheet, 7/1/1985, "It's the Law! Daily Journal checks the pulse of L.A.'s legal community," a story on a paper that began publishing in L.A. in 1888.

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Los Angeles - History - 1870 - 1899

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Approx. 20 items: material copied from various sources, Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, books, LAT, Civic Center News, etc., from the 1880s until 1970s, on the history of the 1870 - 1899 time frame. Notable items: 8-pp. packet, articles on L.A. history presented by the "Amelia Street School Pals," who attended the school in the 1890s, first page is headed, "Do you remember..."; 21-pp. copied from (see last sheet) History and Reminiscences - Los Angeles City and County, California, 1929 ; 24-pp. (yellow sheets) of comments and quotes from LAT and book sources, with sketchy citations ; a copy of an 1878 "Distance Table" showing the Southern Pacific rail routes in the Los Angeles region ; etc.

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