Manuscripts

Buildings - Fourth - Earlier Buildings on Property

Description: 2 items: 6-pp. photocopied from Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853 - 1913, by Harris Newmark; 3-pp. from The City That Grew, Boyle Workman, as told to Caroline Walker. Both works contain information on history of the downtown Los Angeles area, specifically the blocks around 1st and Spring.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1935, 1970
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Buildings - Fourth - Globe

Manuscripts

6 items. Materials include: 1-pp. report, "The Globe," with detailed description of the construction and design of the globe, including the metals, paints, and lacquers used in the project; 1-pp. report (dated 5/29/1980) based on information provided by Mary Sheridan of Los Angeles, who had been in charge of a "rejuvenation" done on the glove in the early 1960s; 1-pp. report titled "Facts about the Los Angeles Times Globe (no date); "Among Ourselves" clip, 5/1981, on LAT "Superwalk" fundraiser for March of Dimes; 1-pp. photocopy from Editor & Publisher, 8/10/1935, describing new LAT building (poorly cropped - no title or author seen); booklet, "The Murals of The Times," with illustrations of the Globe in the lobby, the south and north sections of mural, eight paragraphs of text.

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Buildings - Fourth

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items. Materials include: 5 copies in plastic sleeves, Editor & Publisher article reprint, 8/10/1935, "Los Angeles Times New $4,000,000 Home Combines Beauty and Efficiency"; photocopy of article from Advertising Age, 1/30/1984, "By their buildings shall ye know them: behind every newspaper home office is a bit of history"; 1-pp. report, "The Globe," with detailed description of the construction and design of the globe, including the metals, paints, and lacquers used in the project; 1-pp. report (dated 5/29/1980) based on information provided by Mary Sheridan of Los Angeles, who had been in charge of a "rejuvenation" done on the glove in the early 1960s; brief booklet, "The Murals of The Times," w/ illustrations of two sections of Lobby mural, 8 graphs of text; various "Among Ourselves" articles on Globe Lobby (various years); artist's rendering of 1935 LAT building; 2 copies of a 2-pp. description of the 1934 laying of the cornerstone for the building; various text items related to cornerstone laying; material related to selection of items to place in the cornerstone; 2 copies of illustrated cross-section/chart of departments and activities in various sections of building; 2-pp. "Transcription of a record[ing] made at the laying of the cornerstone of the Los Angeles Times [building] in 1934"; etc. Reprints of "Editor and Publisher" article moved to Reference File - Oversize.

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Fourth Los Angeles Times Building Construction

Manuscripts

Construction files for the fourth Los Angeles Times building. This sub-series has been divided into two parts: The first is financial statements and construction vouchers from contractor P.J. Walker and architect Gordon P. Kaufmann. The second part is bid and contract files which detail the costs and specifications for every component of the building's construction. The bid and contract files, which include a substantial amount of correspondence and memoranda from H.E. Downing and Jacob Baum, were numbered and indexed at the time they were created. The numbering system is maintained in the current arrangement. Date range is 1928-1951.

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Steel reinforcing

Manuscripts

3 items: 2-pp. letter, 5/25/1933, to Jacob Baum, T-M, from P.J. Walker Co. on Job #436 ; letter, 5/25/1933, from Walker Co. to Soule Steel Co. on reinforcing steel ; 3-pp. letter, 9/16/1933, from Soule Steel Co. to P.J. Walker Co.

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Buildings - Fourth - Mural Restoration - Reception

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: several versions of guest list for mural reception - "a celebration of rediscovery," according to the invitation ; 5-pp. text of "David Laventhol remarks" for delivery at the reception ; memos and other material related to the planning for the reception of 5/30/1990.

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Times Mirror Company Annual Shareholder Meeting

Manuscripts

1 item: 14-pp. Norman Chandler speech, titled "Sixty-Second Annual Report - Year 1948 - The Times Mirror Company." The speech was delivered at the Annual Stockholders Meeting, 1/21/ 1949. 1 item: 10-pp. text, Norman Chandler "Sixty-Third Annual Report - Year 1949 - The Times Mirror Company." Norman Chandler delivered the speech at the Annual Stockholders Meeting, 4/4/1950."

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