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
3 items, each stapled. Material includes: 7-pp. essay headed "Frank Lester," with "Classified Advertising, ca. 1950s" penciled in; 7-pp. slide show script, headed "Keeping abreast of The Times.... for sales success"; 13-pp. essay, "Hiring and Training," by Mildred Renstrom, "rec'd from John Archer, Class. Adv. Telephone Sales" penciled in" - date penciled in looks like "3/23/'87," but the sheaf looks older.
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Approx. 45 items. Material includes: 3 copies organizational chart of dept.; list of personnel names, job titles, with phone extension, and extensions of other dept. activities; historical material on LAT; policy statements; stats on telephone sales and total class. ad. linage for 1940s, 1950s, 1960s; standards of excellence; classified copy regulations; etc.
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Approx. 20 items: article copy, Among Ourselves, 11/1963, "Classified computer system gets under way"; tear sheet article, The Reader, 6/4/1982, :Lost--Million Lines from Times Class."; various memos dealing with classifieds; personnel policies; rate guidelines; more material on automation of classified dept., 12/1978; 4-pp. script for slide show--headed "FYI"--on the history of classified advertising in general, and specifically the history of ads in LAT; 12-sheet issue of Ad Notes, published "by and for" the (LAT) Classified Ad staff, 5/19/1983; invitations to - 1974 Classified Christmas & Awards Breakfast, 1977 Classified Christmas & Awards Program, Classified's Christmas and Awards Program
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4 items: 16-pp. report, "What a new salesperson should know about classified advertising: A. History B. Readership C. Ready-made market"; 5-pp. of questions, "Interview for applicant," prepared by KLEIN INSTITUTE FOR APTITUDE TESTING (2 copies); 7-pp. script, "Keeping abreast of The Times....for sales success".
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3 items. Three oversized sheets showing the entries that won 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Prizes and Honorable Mention in "Times Classified Dept. Ad-writing Contest, 6/1942.
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3 plastic sleeves, 4 items. Material includes: example of "Adv. Form 1," dated 8/31/1917; tear sheet of ad for "A 5-way service for placing classified ads" (ca. 1932); computer data card as invoice (1980?); LAT memo from Judy Anderson to Lois Markwith, 10/27/1980.
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