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Elevators
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Approx. 40 items: letters, reports, legal documents, invoices related to elevator installation in new Times building, 1933 to 1936. Major item: 5-pp. proposal from Consolidated Steel Corp. to P.J. Walker Co. relating to elevator installation.
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Rubber rollers for Scott Color Press
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Approx. 55 items: letters, financial statements, handwritten notes, a blueprint and a proposal related to purchase and installation of rubber rollers for one or more presses at Times building in the 1933 - 1934 time frame. Companies mostly involved were Times-Mirror Co., Walter Scott & Co. and Niles & Nelson, Inc.
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Steam engines - Engine generators
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Approx. 35 items: letters, reports, memos, legal documents, handwritten notes and other material related to purchase and installation of steam engines and engine generators at the Times building, 1933 - 1935. Major items: multi-page (in tan binder) 6/26/1933, "Proposal from Skinner Engine Co." ; cover letter and multi-page report, "Study of cost of generated power & light versus cost of purchased power & light for proposed Los Angeles Times building," 4/21/1930 ; 32-pp. booklet, "Skinner guaranteed saving contract" (1928) ; etc.
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Wood Newspaper Machinery Corporation
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Presses for the Los Angeles Times Fourth Building, includes Harry Chandler memoranda, correspondence, production analysis, proposal, blue prints, advertisements
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International Business Machines Corporation - Hollerith Tabulating Installation
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Approx. 12 items: bound report (blue covers), "International Business Machines - Proposal from the Tabulating Machine Division...submitted to The TImes MIrror Company," 8/24/1937 ; bound report (blue covers), "International Business Machines - "Tabulating Procedure - Times Mirror Co., for Mr. H.E. Downing ; ads, booklets and spreadsheets related to installation of tabulating equipment at TM businesses.
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Telephone booths
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3 items: letters related to the purchase and installation of telephone booths (incl. metal work, finish hardware, painting and glazing) in Times building by P.J. Walker Co. and Gordon Kaufmann architects in 1934.
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