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
Correspondence from Dan Lewis regarding past newspapers in Los Angeles with list, 1995; article "Newspapers of Los Angeles: The First Fifty Years 1851-1900" by Henry Winfred Splitter, 1963; book Untapped Sources America's Newspaper Archives and Histories by Jon Vanden Heuvel, 1991.
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7 items: most article and announcement copies deal with ownership transfers and other operating issues related to the Los Angeles Express, a very early L.A. newspaper (1871).
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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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6 items, including: 3-pp. (undated report or transcript of article? - on green paper) headed "The Harry Chandler - Joseph R. Knowland loan" ; LAT article copy ?, 4/23/1951, "U.S. business good, publishers report...MacArthur [firing by Truman] is biggest story, say newspaper executives in N.Y." ; LAT ? article copy, 2/2/1966, "Death takes Joseph R. Knowland."
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Includes last edition of the Los Angeles Mirror, January 5, 1962, with "The Mirror consolidates with Times" banner headline. Other Los Angeles region newspapers include: L.A. Tribune, L.A. Nationalist, L.A. Record, The Evening Express, The Evening Republican, L.A. Daily Star, The New Italy (the L.A. immigrant's guide to homes in Southern California, 1875), South Los Angeles magazine, The Angelino, L.A. Herald, L.A. Express, L.A. Examiner, Daily Free Press (Ventura, California), Ventura Daily Post, Alhambra Post-Advocate, and others.
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2 items: article copy (1936?), Post-Record, editorial by "Manchester Boddy, Publisher," "Pos-Record moves forward" ; editorial copy, LAT?, 10/11/1936, "It was not always thus," on newspapers and politics in Los Angeles at that time.
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