Manuscripts

New Hampshire - Landaff and Lisbon

Description: 6 items: letters between Norman Chandler and Harold Pickwick and Harry Titus of Lisbon, New Hampshire. Because that area of New Hampshire was the birthplace of Harry Chandler (in Landaff, near Lisbon), members of the Chandler family to attend a bicentennial fete in Lisbon.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1963 - 1964
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Los Angeles Bicentennial

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: memos, letters and other material related to the Bicentennial of the City of Los Angeles. Includes: letter from New York Public Library requesting a special City Centennial Edition of LAT ; a multi-page "Bicentennial Community Calendar" ; material on planning for LAT book and other publications related to the Bicentennial ; more.

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Bicentennial Minute

Manuscripts

A memo from Robert L. Flannes to all Times Employees, informing them that Otis Chandler will be featured on "Bicentennial Minute" on the CBS Television network.

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Chandler, Harry

Manuscripts

Harry Chandler (1864-1944) was born in New Hampshire and moved permanently to Los Angeles in 1885. He worked as a clerk in the circulation department of the Los Angeles Times, as well as delivering papers. He married Ruth Chandler in 1894, two years after his first wife died. Chandler continued to advance at the newspaper and in 1914, Harrison Gray Otis declared his plan to give Chandler and his wife full control fo the Los Angeles Times upon his death. Chandler was publisher of the Los Angeles times from 1917-1944. Intensely protective of his legacy, Chandler had much of his material destroyed upon his death. Series includes reference files, arranged alphabetically by author/subject. Facsimiles may not be copied or published. Date range is 1894-1979.

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Books - Bicentennial Book

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items: correspondence related to Los Angeles 200 - a Bicentennial Celebration. Persons and entities represented in the correspondence includes Harry N. Abrams, Inc., the LAT Syndicate, Art Seidenbaum, etc. Book was authored by Seidenbaum and John Malmin.

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DOMEI Radio News Service, Japan

Manuscripts

Correspondence regarding the DOMEI Radio news service out of Japan. Includes Harry Chandler correspondence. File of L. D. Hotchkiss and R. W. Trueblood.

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Johnson, Lyndon B

Manuscripts

2 items: a 1964 invitation for Mr. & Mrs. Norman Chandler to attend a White House dinner "on the occasion of the visit of His Excellency The President of the Philippines" (Diosdado Macapagal).

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