Manuscripts

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Public Information Bureau

Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1912, 1990, 1991
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
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Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - History

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: 2 LAT article copies related to LAT train / Pan-American Exposition train travel promo (1901); copy of ad headed "The Times and Sunset Magazine," (early 1900s issue); clippings on LAT involvement in Red Cross drives, war bond sales, etc.; 3-pp. report, "(LAT) civic activities and history since 1900," ca. 1960; info (on tiny slip of brown paper) on "Premiums with The Times included shotguns (1891)...copies of the poems of Eliza A. Otis...a sewing machine (1886)...The Times Almanac"; 2-pp. copies of Times-Mirror Co. "Promotion Department Expense[s] for...1920"; copies of Among Ourselves articles related to Promotion / Public Relations departments from 1930, 1956 and 1958; 2-pp. report, 4/29/1959, "Survey of Times-Mirror Company Public Service Activities," added in handwritten note - "Charities - Public Service."

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Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Speakers Bureau

Manuscripts

4 items: memo, 8/5/1960, from Norman Chandler to "Department Heads," on the scope and operations of the LAT Speakers' Bureau; memo, 8/1960, from Ed Reap to "Department Heads," citing the earlier Chandler memo, and describing the general policies of the bureau; two forms used by the Speakers' Bureau ca. 1960.

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Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Classified Advertising Promotion

Manuscripts

2 items: glossy black LAT logo folder containing example of LAT "Timely Bulletin," several sheets with copies of LAT classified ads of various kinds, sample of Sunday comics pages headed with ad for Times Classifieds, etc. (all 1980); single page flyer, headed "Announce your good news today!" - providing info for LAT employees who wish to use free LAT classified space to announce births, engagements, weddings, anniversaries, reunions, etc. (1987-1988)

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Promotion/Public Relations

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: memos, notes and reports related to LAT promotion and public relations. Items: 13-pp. booklet, "Los Angeles Times in Education [1987] ; material on the 1986 Times Mirror Annual Report ; multi-page packet on "Public Relations Information Desk" ; etc.

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Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Personnel

Manuscripts

7 items: 3-pp. (Times-Mirror Company) "Executive Position Description - Public Relations Director," 3/1958; five Management Bulletins, 1985 - 1990, on hirings, promotions and other organizational changes in Promotion and Public Relations Department; 1-pp. map/chart of seating and office assignments for Promotion-Public Relations, 11/19/1986.

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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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