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Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
4 items. Material includes: 2 photocopies, Page 1 of 1/8/1956 LAT Classified Diamond Jubilee Edition; photocopy of news brief, LAT 1/8/1956, "Largest classified section published in Times today"; photocopy of news brief, LAT 1/1957, "Big Jubilee classified pages today."
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Approx. 25 items: memos and other material related to LAT classified advertising.
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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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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. 40 items - notes, memos, reports and letters related to Classified Department of LAT. Notable names and subjects include: 30+ pp. slide show printouts and presentation text, "Report to Classified on 1989 budget," 11/25/1988, presenter was Jim Tarmann ; Classified staffing ; pricing ; budget meetings ; cost reduction ; special suburban sections ; more.
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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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