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: multi-page packet, "Summary of [answers to] questions on Among Ourselves." which analyses responses to an employee questionnaire (150 participants) on in-house newsletter, ca. 1929; article copy, Among Ourselves, 7/1940, "Picnic voted best ever -- [LAT] barbecue attendance, fun, food stupendous"; LAT article copy, 4/26/1950, "Prize awarded Times-Mirror employee paper."
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7 items: 3-pp. (Times-Mirror Company) "Executive Position Description - Public Relations Director," 3/1958; five Management Bulletins, 1985 - 1990, on hirings, promotions and other organizational changes in Promotion and Public Relations Department; 1-pp. map/chart of seating and office assignments for Promotion-Public Relations, 11/19/1986.
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Approx. 10 items: clipping, LAT, 1/17/1926, "Words of fire blaze in skies...Read The Times appears in huge electric letters"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 5/1964, "Promotion, research win 3 E&P awards"; clip, 1/14/1980, M.A.C. Western Advertising News, "L.A. Times uncorks consumer effort"; dupe of previous article in ADWEEK / West; copy of ad from Advertising Age, 8/16/1984, "Which newspaper provided...the best coverage of the Democratic Nat. Convention? - The L.A. Times..."; packet of AIDS coverage material in plastic sleeve - form letter signed by Tom Johnson, 2/17/1987, reprint from Among Ourselves - "Misconceptions about AIDS...", 8-pp. reprint of The Surgeon General's Report on (AIDS) 12/7/1986; Management Bulletin, 11/2/1988 memo on changes in various departments, including JoEllen Kitchen appointment as Director of Public Relations; 2 copies of brochure, "How to get your press release into the right hands at the Los Angeles Times," 3/1990.
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Approx. 15 items: 2 LAT article copies related to LAT train / Pan-American Exposition train travel promo (1901); copy of ad headed "The Times and Sunset Magazine," (early 1900s issue); clippings on LAT involvement in Red Cross drives, war bond sales, etc.; 3-pp. report, "(LAT) civic activities and history since 1900," ca. 1960; info (on tiny slip of brown paper) on "Premiums with The Times included shotguns (1891)...copies of the poems of Eliza A. Otis...a sewing machine (1886)...The Times Almanac"; 2-pp. copies of Times-Mirror Co. "Promotion Department Expense[s] for...1920"; copies of Among Ourselves articles related to Promotion / Public Relations departments from 1930, 1956 and 1958; 2-pp. report, 4/29/1959, "Survey of Times-Mirror Company Public Service Activities," added in handwritten note - "Charities - Public Service."
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2 items: stapled 11-pp. packet with job description forms, questionnaires, other material related to position of Public Relations Coordinator ; "Normal Job Description."
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Approx. 12 items. Collection of LAT article copies related to TM public relations activities: 1951, "Bloodmobile unit visits Times-Mirror"; 1955, Times-Mirror Co. among donors of scholarships";: 1955, "...cancer parley series set..."; 1956, "Drive seeks $36,000 for diabetes aid"; 1957, "...Oxy students win Times-Mirror grants"; 1959, "$400,000 fund given to Caltech"; 1960, "Times-Mirror Co. gives $25,000..."; 1961, "Fund aids faculty salaries"; 1962, "Heirs of Harry Chandler give Stanford $100,000"; 1962, "Private gifts to pay for art museum galleries"; 1968, "10 outstanding youths will get awards May 18"; 1970, clip on art student scholarships from TM and others.
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