Manuscripts

Depression

Description: Approx. 25 items: LAT article copies - one packet in plastic sleeve focuses on "Stock Market Crash, 1929," another on "Depression, 1931 - 1933," with subjects such as "jobless wanderers," camps for transients, "bonus" armies, etc. Other clips are from as late as 1936.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1931 - 1936
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Employees - Drake, Waldo

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: LAT clips from 1940s and 1950s on Drake's exploits both in the Navy and as a correspondent for LAT (in plastic sleeve); multi-page packet, red paper clip, article, "The War Correspondent," being pitched to LAT in 1991 by "writer-photographer" Jack Birns; two versions of a Waldo Drake LAT bio (1962); article copy, Among Ourselves, 8/1962, "Waldo Drake, man of many parts, gets ready for leisure viewing."

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Bridges, Harry

Manuscripts

2 items: LAT clip, 2/6/1986, "Labor chief Bridges will be feted" ; LAT clip, 2/11/1986, "A legend of the sea" (labor pioneer Harry Bridges). Both clips in plastic sleeve.

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Labor Clippings

Manuscripts

3 items inb plastic sleeve. LAT clips: two columns by Harry Bernstein, 9/24/1986, " 'Right to work" and 11/24/1987, "Union-bashing is a bad habit that smart executives quit"; clip, letters page, 5/2/1988, "Workers and capitalism."

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Ford, Gerald R

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items: collection of LAT clips (in plastic sleeve) on Nixon resignation, Ford's presidency and events within that time frame. Also in the file is a tear sheet of Time (mag) article, 11/4/1974, "The Pendulum Problem" on analysis of the "honeymoon" period of Ford's tenure, especially a major Page One article by David Shaw of LAT.

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Aerospace

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items: LAT clips, 1945 - 1970, on aerospace endeavors, including articles on Robert Goddard and Charles A. Lindbergh; reprint of LAT article, 3/19/1970, "Aerospace cuts...new jobless - the highly paid out on streets."

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Commerce and Industry (1 of 2)

Manuscripts

Approx. 35 items: article clips and copies from LAT, Downtown News, informal multi-page reports, some undated and with no attribution, ephemera related to commerce and industry in greater Los Angeles; (in plastic sleeve) very early LAT clips on the subjects, 1913 - 1932; investment letter (ad) for James R. Miller & Company, 1934; complete issue, Pacific Business, 3-4/1975; complete issue, Counter Talk (May Co.), 6/4/1976; booklet, Pacific Lighting Corp. - A Century of Commitment, 1886 - 1986; booklet, From Agriculture to Aerospace (L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce), 1988. Split into two folders.

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