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Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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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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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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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).
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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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2 items: cover letter with autobiography, from Tennyson to Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, 12/14/1983; 83-pp. manuscript (plus 14-pp. Addendum), "An expose' of newspapering -- really a homespun autobiography..." titled, The Prevailing Spirit, by A. Tennyson.
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6 items: two copies of transcript headed "Story of the origin of the Xth Olympiad held in Los Angeles, California, in 1932, as written by William May Garland, one is 33 pp., the other ends with pp. 28, ; letter, 6/6/1983, to Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, from Lee Whitney, Editor of You (mag) ; LAT sports tear sheets for 12/10/1983, and misc. copies of same.
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