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
Presses for the Los Angeles Times Fourth Building, includes Harry Chandler memoranda, correspondence, production analysis, proposal, blue prints, advertisements
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rental of 188 South Broadway Building; payment of legislative service fees; includes Harry Chandler memoranda
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1 item: 20-pp. transcript of interview by Marshall Berges with Stanley Gordon, 11/17/1979. Gordon, at the time of this interview was a former Sunday Editor of Los Angeles Times and had done much research on the history of Los Angeles Times in addition to being an employee. Subjects include: Los Angeles Times begins publishing and Harrison Gray Otis is hired almost immediately ; tales of the early days of Los Angeles Times ; memories of "Buff" (Dorothy) and Norman Chandler, Kyle Palmer, Otis Chandler's youth ; ...Hollywood publicist Harry Brand ; ...Jack Smith ; more.
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includes Harry Chandler correspondence, memoranda
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Correspondence, including to/from Harry Chandler, Norman Chandler, and Herbert Hoover, regarding Herbert Hoover. File of L. D. Hotchkiss.
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1 item: 25-pp. typed and annotated transcript of interview with Norman Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler, 12/13/1972 and photocopy of the annotated transcript. Subjects include: on Harry Chandler, Norman Chandler says, "he liked (people) and he had a soft heart," Dorothy Buffum Chandler said of him, "He was not a generous man to his family, nor to people close to him" (pp. 1 - 2) ; Dorothy Buffum Chandler says that Harry Chandler upheld rigid discipline for Norman Chandler but that Harrison Chandler and Philip "were not in any way disciplined" (pp. 3) ; Harry Chandler's personality quirks (pp.-4) ; more on Harry Chandler personality (pp.-5) ; Harry Chandler's political views (pp.-7) ; DC offers that Harry Chandler would talk of business and politics but never anything philosophical (pp. 7) ; on how Norman Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler lived "very economically...scratch(ing) to make ends meet" (pp. 10) ; William Randolph Hearst (pp. 11 - 12) ; Harry Chandler's travel across USA in 1880s (pp. 17 - 18) ; Los Angeles Times was "the first newspaper in the country to set up a personnel department" (pp. 22) ; Harry Chandler and Norman Chandler on running for public office (pp. 24 - 25).
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