Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
2 items: cover letter, sent to Carolyn Strickler, LAT Archivist, from Jean Bruce Poole, Curator, El Pueblo de Los Angeles State Historic Park,12/31/1985 (referencing next entry) ; article copy, 7-pp., Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, Spring 1973, "Los Angeles, California...the question of the City's original Spanish name."
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8 items: seven sets of copied material, Los Angeles Herald stories from first week of 9/1881 (three months prior to the L.A. Times' debut) noting the city's centennial ; copy of Lee Shippey's LAT column of 6/10/1931, on upcoming "La Fiesta de Los Angeles."
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40-plus items: collection of clips, tear sheets and copies of material from LAT, Downtown News, and other sources on many aspects of the city's growth from its founding in 1781 into the 1980s. The materials range from population charts, to historical information and discussions of city planning to straight promotion of L.A.. Split into two folders.
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40-plus items: collection of clips, tear sheets and copies of material from LAT, Downtown News, and other sources on many aspects of the city's growth from its founding in 1781 into the 1980s. The materials range from population charts, to historical information and discussions of city planning to straight promotion of L.A. Split into two folders.
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Approx. 20 items: a selection of lists and chronologies providing bits of history on newspapers in Los Angeles back to Los Angeles Star (1851). Notable items: LAT clip, 12/4/1886, "Directory of Southern California newspapers" ; tear sheet, LAT Sunday Magazine, 9/4/1932, "The Newspapers of Los Angeles--their trials and tragedies" ; article copy, Time (mag), 1/12/1962, "Death in Los Angeles [of two newspapers]" ; copies, pp. 435 - 458, Journal of the West, 10/1963, "Newspapers of Los Angeles...the first 50 years" ; article copy, Los Angeles (mag), "The city's changing newspaper world" ; 6-pp. of charts, headed "Los Angeles Metropolitan Newspapers Weekday Circulation History, 1914 - 1970," statistics for 7 Los Angeles newspapers - The Times, Examiner, Herald, Express, Daily News, Evening News, and Record ; tear sheet, (Santa Monica) Evening Outlook, 10/13/1975, "Evening Outlook is 100 today" ; complete issue, The Reader, 8/8/1980, "The story of Los Angeles's two daily newspapers--Inking Big" ; tear sheet, The Reader, 11/27/1981, "This Sentinel [Black-owned newspaper] does more than stand guard" ; LAT tear sheet, 7/1/1985, "It's the Law! Daily Journal checks the pulse of L.A.'s legal community," a story on a paper that began publishing in L.A. in 1888.
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Approx. 25 items: 8-pp. (stapled) on L.A. history which begins, "Our city's beginnings go back to 1769," which was the year explorer Portola and his expedition camped on the river very near present-day downtown ; newspapers and magazine article copies, brochures, maps and other ephemera ; original issue of Terra, Natural History Magazine of the West, Winter 1981, featuring article, "Los Angeles Plaza--living symbol of our past" (pp. 14) ; etc.
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