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
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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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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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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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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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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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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