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
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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7 items: commemorative booklet, Corner-stone laying - Los Angeles City Hall, 6/22/1927 ; article copy, California History, 9/1987, "El Portugese...Don Antonio Rocha, California's first Portugese sailor ; white folder, with pocket containing booklets, brochures and other material relating to Project Restore (L.A.), 1990 ; tear sheet, Downtown News, 10/27/1986, "New clothes for City Hall"; etc.
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7 items: 3-pp. copied from a magazine (?), "Where the padres erred," 5/31/1936 ; 4 sheets torn from Museum Alliance Quarterly, Summer 1967, "Tracking the founders of Los Angeles" ; tear sheets, Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, Spring 1973, "Los Angeles, California... the question of the city's original Spanish name"; map of "The Old Spanish and Mexican Ranchos," copied from Los Angeles - the epic of a city, 1974 ; LAT clip, 9/4/1975, "L.A.'s founders should be honored for what they were--a racial mix"; tear sheets, Westways, 7/1976, "The Founding forty-four" (on the founders of L.A.) ; LAT clip, 9/16/1983, "Mexico's day little noticed."
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Approx. 12 items: LAT article copy, 6/10/1931, "Fifth official city flag proposed" ; LAT editorial, 9/14/1964, "Time for a charter change?" ; LAT edit., 10/25/1966, "Reforming Los Angeles' City Charter" ; LAT edit., 11/21/1969, "Charter reform debate" ; LAT edit., 2/23/1970, "Hollywood faces...harsh facts" ; a 1973 exchange of letters betw. Samuel Leask, ex-City Administrative Officer and James Bassett of LAT ; article copy, Los Angeles (mag), 12/1980, "His dishonor, the Mayor" (on A.C. Harper, L.A. mayor 1906 - 1909) ; LAT tear sheet, articles on new City Council District (1st), 1/18/1987 ; LAT article tear sheet, list & brief bio sketch of L.A. mayors, 1850 to 1988, 9/6/1988 ; article copy, Times Mirror (mag), Summer 1989, "A tale of two cities" (L.A. and N.Y.).
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Approx. 12 items: a selection of clips on the history, operation or restoration of classic theaters in Los Angeles. Notable items: small theater "programme," 7/1910, "Olympic Theatre - Main St. between 4th & 6th" ; booklet, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra - Symphony Magazine, 3/1962 ; tear sheet, Westways, 7/1961, "Theaters under the stars" ; reprint from Southern California Quarterly, 9/1965, "Requiem for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Auditorium" ; tear sheet, LAT?, 1967?, "Movie theaters seemed like palaces back in 1917" ; clip, Downtown News, 12/2/1985, "Some old Playbills, a few gags, the B&Ws" ; LAT reprint, from 5/14/1981 edition, "Theater in Los Angeles...the roots run deep" ; gold folder w/ sunburst on cover, contains promotional material and news clips on the refurbishment of the Mayan Theater and adjacent entertainment venues, 1991.
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Approx. 35 items: eclectic mix of LAT clip, magazine and journal article copies or tear sheets, plus a few promo. booklets. Of note: 5-pp. article, Sunset Magazine, 1/1910, "Los Angeles--a sketch," by Harrison Gray Otis ; article, Saturday Evening Post, 10/18/1950, "Los Angeles in fact and dream"; booklet, "Dynamic Los Angeles County," 1938, published by (L.A. County) Board of Supervisors ; approx. 20-pp. article, Life (mag), "Los Angeles is the damnedest place" ; pp. 124-135 from book, Fabulous Boulevard (Ralph Hancock), 1949 ; approx. 10-pp. from Holiday (mag), 1/1950, "Los Angeles--typically American and prodigiously proud" ; 3 sheets cpd. from Frontier (mag), "Los Angeles" ; original Fall 1955 issue, Los Angeles County Museum Quarterly ; approx. 20-pp. from U.S. News & World Report, 9/6/1955, "A city--200 miles long!" ; 7-pp.,Holiday (mag), 10/1965, "Mining-camp megalopolis" ; 9-pp. from Playboy, 5/1972, "In search of Los Angeles" ; article, Pacific Historical Review, 11/1975, on L.A.'s growth in the 1920s ; cover & article, Travel & Leisure, 10/1978, "L.A. through the Looking Glass" ; approx. 12-pp. from Atlantic Monthly, 1/1988, "Los Angeles comes of age" ; etc. Split into two folders.
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