Manuscripts

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Oratorical Contest

Description: Approx. 10 items. Materials include: 4 booklets for the National Oratorical Contest (the 3rd, 5th, 7th & 9th) and the International Oratorical Contest (the 1st, 3rd, 5th & 7th), held concurrently in 1926, 1928, 1930 and 1932; single sheets of empty stationary with logos and mastheads for Los Angeles Newsboys' Club , (City of Los Angeles) Department of Playground and Recreation, and Los Angeles Times Playground Aircraft League; map of USA with oratorical contest finalists names and hometown, titled "National Final Meeting"; article copied, LAT 2/3/1924, "National Oratorical Contest on the Federal Constitution"; complete issue, The National Oratorical Contest News, 1/9/1928.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1924 - 1932
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Contests

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items. Materials include: copies of LAT clips, 1922, 1926 - "New 'idea contest' for motion picture subjects started by De Mille and The Times," ""Winners in Times-De Mille film contest are announced"; 4-pp. News Release, 11/12/1987, "Times sponsors 'Write Stuff' contest at Dorothy Kirby Center"; photo & caption, ca. 1920, "Hoisting the prize autos to (2nd fl.) of The Times building"; article copy, "Start today in great popularity campaign," ca. 1920; tear sheet for 1989 "Tangle Towns" contest; clips of other contests, 1904, 1926.

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Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Junior Olympics

Manuscripts

2 items: official LAT certificate, to John F. Ness, "cited...for meritorious service in the promotion and conduct of the 1931 Junior Olympic Games of Southern California"; 23-pp.booklet, "1934 Training Tips, Seventh Annual Junior Pentathlon - sponsored since 1928 in...Southern California by the Los Angeles Times."

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Departments - Classified Advertising - Writing contest

Manuscripts

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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Departments - Promotion and Public Relations

Manuscripts

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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Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Demonstration House

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items. Materials include: items related to commemoration of the life and career of Lion Feuchtwanger, a "German-Jewish writer" - article copy, Toronto Globe & Mail, 6/2/1988, "Second coming of a literary lion," UCLA newsletter (ca. 1977); 1990 letter and invitation related to California Institute for European-American Relations, maps to Institute location; USC News and Features, 12/17/1987, "USC receives grant from Weingart Foundation for new teaching library"; several LAT article copies from 1927 - 1928 on "Demonstration House"; items on Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades home of Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger, incl. 12/28/1987 LAT tear sheet, "Germans push for preservation of Villa Aurora"; clippings from 1980s on the elderly Marta Feuchtwanger, who died in 1987 at age 96; related material.

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Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Public Information Bureau

Manuscripts

Photocopy of newspaper advertisement for "Free Information Bureau" ; Sheet of statistics from the public information service ; text of recorded message for the Los Angeles Times Public Information Service after it switched to a 900 telephone service ; Form letter in response to a written inquiry after the Public Information Service switched from free to a paying service.

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