Manuscripts

Department mandate by Otis Chandler

Description: Handwritten statement of purpose; copies of Otis Chandler's Times Mirror management bulletin announcing the appointment of Lois Markwith as Archivist for the Times (and thus the establishment of the Times Archives).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1978
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Job descriptions

Manuscripts

"Job descriptions for the Los Angeles Times positions of Historian and Archivist. Personnel papers for LA Times archivists Lois Markwith and Craig St. Clair removed 11/19/12 in accordance with personnel privacy policies - CMD. "

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Departments - Editorial - Spanish Language Column

Manuscripts

4 items. Examples of Spanish-language material in LAT - 1922, 1932,1933. Alternately titled "The World's News in Spanish" and "Noticias en Espanol." Notes by Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, attached to two of the copies.

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Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Junior Club

Manuscripts

3 items: page copied from Among Ourselves, ca. 1929, featuring article, "Times Junior Club"; examples of LAT Junior Club membership cards, filled out in 1929 and 1930; 2-pp. handwritten letter, 11/1983, to Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, from Jonathan Raymond Bishop (the 1929 cardholder), related to being a member of Junior club, saving the membership card, a brief sketch of his life and experiences, etc.

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Employees - Hutchinson, Glen R

Manuscripts

3 items: one T-M business card for "Glen R. Hutchinson, Production Manager, Newspaper Division..."; tear sheet of photo & caption for "Times old timers," LAT, 5/6/1934; 2-pp. handwritten letter from Mrs. Glen R. Hutchinson to Lois Markwith (LAT Archivist), 9/4/1978.

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Manuscripts

Approx. 90 items: letters, memos, clips, and material related to correspondence with readers with names starting with R. Includes a wide range of subjects: pitches for (amateurish) comic strips ; complaints about allegedly left-leaning columnists ; letter from an activist inmate at Oregon State Penitentiary (7/14/1980) ; letter (9/1/2/1978) from LAT Archivist Lois Markwith mentioning that "most of Harry Chandler's correspondence was destroyed after his death" ; more.

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Departments - Editorial - Photography

Manuscripts

5 items. Materials include: LAT Part III, 10/21/1892, several pp. copied to show layout of text headlined "The Great Fair -- World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, October, 1892 - Views of the Principal Buildings," also the photos, which were the first halftone engravings {photos} ever in LAT; letter from Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, to a Colonel Esau, of US Army War College, dated 1/16/1980, explaining the circumstances surrounding the earliest photographs to appear in LAT; photo from Among Ourselves, 6/1964, caption, "Famous Photo - Times photog Bill Murphy shows (his 1958 photo) of the late President Kennedy" - photo selected to be on a commemorative stamp of JFK; Summer 1988 issue of Panorama (LAT retiree newsletter), lead story, "Veteran Photographer (Murphy) Remembers 'Working the Street'."

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Department mandate by Otis Chandler

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