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
Approx. 20 items: several copies of LAT articles on the presses themselves, from as early as 1888 and 1895, with others from early years of the 1900s; tear sheet, LAT, 4/20/1984, "Pressing on..."; text of Editor & Publisher article, 2/25/1961, "Press layout (at LAT / Mirror) has value of $15 million"; article, Civic Center News, 11/13/1979, "Collecting rare antique presses," other brief article on press innovations; 2 artist's renderings of new presses installed 1983 at "The Square"; Employee Bulletin, 9/30/1991, on "the older presses in Times Mirror Square will be dismantled..."; sheets recording "web breaks" for periods in 1989; 2-pp. obituary of Charles Potter, founder of the Potter Printing Press Co., Inland Printer, 1/1900; etc.
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3 items: LAT obit copy, 6/17/1994, "Franklin D. Murphy dies...L.A. civic, business leader"; LAT article copy (2), 6/17/1994, "Franklin D. Murphy...a civilizing force for the city."
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Approx. 15 items: selected Jack Smith columns (1970s), and other LAT materials on the lifestyles of Los Angeles ; a 1974 New Yorker review of "Earthquake," a film in which L.A. is destroyed ; 2-pp.(yellow sheets) about L.A. transcribed from Alistair Cooke's book, America, 1973 ; 2 copies of article from Smart Set (mag), 3/1913, "Los Angeles -- the chemically pure, by Willard Huntington Wright (S.S. Van Dine) ; related material.
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Approx. 15 items. Articles on the new Times building constructed in 1887. Articles have been copied from LAT and Among Ourselves. One additional article is from Civic Center News (11/13/1979), and is an interview with Ernest Lindner, "descended from a family closely identified with the history of printing and typesetting in Los Angeles."
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Approx. 60 items. Letters, memos. Partial list of addressees and subjects: S. George Little, Chairman-General Features; planning for multi-part series on L.A. Central City--Civic Center [of the Future]; discussion on West magazine; etc.
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8 items, some duplicates. Material includes: 1944 LAT article (2 copies) "Employee of 63 years ago tells of early Times' days; Among Ourselves article (1/1929), 2 copies, "We are mellowing"; other Among Ourselves articles from 1928 and 1931; original and 1 copy of; etc. 11/30/1937 column, "What Goes On?" by Chapin Hall; etc.
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