Manuscripts

Acquisitions objectives

Description: Letter from Dan Strehl of the Los Angeles Public Library to Carolyn Strickler offering deaccessioned issues of the Times for sale to the archives with notes on what was purchased, 1986; sample note of file receipt acknowledgment, 1989; handwritten notes on acquisitions policy clipped to a letter from John Rothman of the new York Times archives to Carolyn concerning the policies of both companies, 1987.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1986-1989
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.

Regulations for use objectives

Manuscripts

Printed copy of an agreement letter template by Carolyn Strickler for use of the History Center archives; blank objectives chart.

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Departments - Circulation - Delivery wagons

Manuscripts

5 items: note from Robert Erburu to Carolyn Strickler (2/12/1990) asking to retrieve a "Times four-wheel wagon that...I kept in my office until it was remodeled in 1986...the wagon was sent to the Archives"; Carolyn Strickler reply to Mr. Erburu (2/21/1990), reading in part, "...we do indeed have it. Just let me know when you want us to bring it up"; copy of photo and article, "And we all ride," from Among Ourselves, 7/1927; additional photocopies of photos of LAT 4-wheeled wagons of the 1920s. The wagons are now a collector's item. The logo "Buy the Los Angeles Times from me" was painted on the side of the wagons.

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Inventory/ unaccessioned records - Wilcox building basement

Manuscripts

Memo to Otis Chandler from Carolyn Strickler regarding accounting records in the Wilcox building basement requesting to accession them into the archives; records survey of the Wilcox basement items.

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Otis Chandler memos and correspondence

Manuscripts

Incoming and outgoing correspondence primarily between Otis Chandler and Carolyn Strickler, mainly regarding the transfer of his files to the archives, and her research into Harry Chandler's association with the controversial Human Betterment Foundation.

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Special programs - Guided Tours of Times Past

Manuscripts

Map and guide for San Francisco Labor and History Tour; service request and article for Times ideas for participation in the Pasadena Children's Museum; project logs for Guided Tours of Times Past; note thanking Carolyn [Strickler] for the walking history tour she gave.

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Employees - Schultz, James Willard

Manuscripts

3 items: copies of cover and 6 pp. of text from The Life and Times of James Willard Schultz (Apikuni) by Warren L. Hanna; copy of entry on James Willard Schultz (1859 - 1947) from Who Was Who in America; LAT memo, 11/12/1987, to Carolyn Strickler (LAT archivist) from Jack Miles (Book Review Editor) explaining that Schultz was a Times staffer "from 1907 to about 1913," and providing other info.

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