Manuscripts

Buildings - First

Description: 5 items. Several pages copied from "History of Los Angeles Times" (appears to be an in-house publication); 2 copies of an article titled "Our Original Home--the Cradle of The Times"; a reminiscence by an early LAT employee titled "Looking Backward" (previous two items from Among Ourselves); segment copied from William Andrew Spalding--Los Angeles Newspaperman, a book with material on the early history of LAT.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1928, 1929, 1961
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.

Buildings - History

Manuscripts

7 items: biographical info on Merrell Gage, sculptor, "north side of Times Building"; original and 1 copy of "Homes of the Times," 6 typed sheets; 1-sheet (half size) with info. about moving a plaque within the building, that showed "all the World [War] I names"; two Among Ourselves articles, "Our original home --the cradle of The Times" (6/1929) and "Looking Backward" (11/1928); "O/C notes on first four Times Mirror headquarters," 4-pp. on green paper.

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Lindsay, Ben

Manuscripts

8 items: LAT news stories and other items related to the controversial career of Judge Ben Lindsay. Notable items: 5-pp. copied from a 1929 thesis for Claremont Colleges, segment titled "Attitude on marriage," featuring material on Judge Lindsay ; LAT obit, 3/27/1943, "Ben Lindsay, jurist, dies" ; article torn from Southern California Quarterly, Winter 1973, "The story of Judge Ben Lindsay."

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Hearst, William Randolph

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items: LAT news stories and editorials, many bashing publishing competitor Hearst, in-house material ; 7-pp. transcript copied from LAT, 11/2/1906, on the occasion of a speech by Sec. of State Elihu Root (with the blessing of T. Roosevelt) denouncing Hearst's political ambitions ; segment, pp. 257 - 279, copied from Bring on the Empty Horses, a chapter titled "The Enchanted Hill," a memoir by David Niven involving friendship with Marion Davies and visits to San Simeon, Heart's "castle" on the central California coast.

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Buildings - Second

Manuscripts

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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Buildings - Third - Plaques

Manuscripts

1 item. Photocopied sheet, "from LAT Fact Book announcing the opening of the rebuilt and restored Times Bldg. (1911-12) 3rd 1938." The copied entry begins with the heading "The Tablets and Their Legends."

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Articles on, 1961 - 1965

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items. Two articles critical of LAT: "Fought Ceaselessly for Freedom," The Register, 12/8/1961; "Chandler's Los Angeles Times Publishes some Dirty Books," The Californian, 3/1961. Also clippings reflecting LAT's prominence in the newspaper field: several articles by Norman Chandler and Otis Chandler, including two copies (tear sheets) of "An Octogenarian and Still More Growth Ahead," by Otis Chandler, 12/3/1961. One clipping of Newsweek article, "Away with Trivia," (on LAT efforts to balance its political/social coverage) 10/30/1961. 1 item. Clipping from LAT of 4/14/1962, headlined "Corman Lauds Times' Fair Political Coverage: Van Nuys Democrat refutes charge that Republican news is frozen out of papers." 3 items. Clipping from Time (mag.), 11/29/1963, LAT quoted in article - "Covering the Tragedy" (Kennedy assassination); clipping from The California Publisher, 6/1963, article titled "Timesmen Travel Far to Get News"; clipping from The California Publisher, 12/1963, article titled "Safety Important at L.A. Times." 1 item. Clipping from Time (mag.), 1/10/1964, with segment about LAT in longer article with brief "biographies" of major papers across U.S. 6 items. Five tear sheet copies of Saturday Review article (6/12/1965), title "The New Look at The Times" (2 have mag. cover attached); one tear sheet copy of article from The Quill, 10/1965, title "L.A. Times -- A 'How' Story of Journalism."

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