Manuscripts

Composing Room Museum

Description: Time schedule and project log for the Composing Room Museum project.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1990
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Departments - Production - Composing Room Museum

Manuscripts

3 items. Materials include: 3-pp. list, "Composing Room Inventory, undated; 8-pp. handwritten list, headed "A corner of the composing room, 1884 - 1974," 7/25/1991; article copy, Among Ourselves, 7/1977, photo caption begins - "A corner of the Composing Room--about the way it looked from 1881 to 1974, when The Times converted to 100% photocomposition--is now open."

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Composing room fixtures

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items: two estimate packages (tan folders), financial reports and a diagram related to installation of fixtures for the composing room at Times building.

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Composing room - Bonus plan

Manuscripts

Several related items under the overall title "Productivity Bonus Plan for Composing Room Employees," produced for The Times-Mirror Company, 3/1952. The package begins with a 4-pp. cover letter from McKinsey & Company (management consultants) addressed to "Phillip [sic] Chandler, Vice-President, The Times Mirror Company," etc. Also included are the 12-pp. report, and "Exhibits," which refers to the series of financial charts that supplement the report.

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Employees - Tennyson, Alfred

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items: various pieces of correspondence betw. Tennyson and Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist; several copies of Al Tennyson articles from The Pacific Printer and Publisher, early 1950s; 3-pp. of informal memoirs signed "Al. Tennyson"; 2-pp. report, "Reasons for a new composing room," on oversized, sturdy paper, and signed "al tennyson"; multi-page, text & photo essay from Amer. Newspaper Publishers Assn., Mechanical Bulletin, 2/28/1950, "Composing Room short-cuts." Tennyson was clearly a vital cog in the smooth operation of the composing room. He retired 1/1/1968, after a 47-year association with LAT, and consulted for some time after that.

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Composing room research

Manuscripts

Interoffice correspondence regarding photographs requested by Jim Angius (in TRG) for a training room display; black and white photocopies of the 19 images requested.

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Departments - Production - Composing

Manuscripts

7 items: 2 brief, handwritten notes on slips of paper; 2 copies of single sheet headed "Stars & Daggers," explaining the meanings of icons used as designators for various LAT editions--a second copy has some notations; 20-pp.report titled "A multiprogrammed teleprocessing system for computer typesetting," with several attached flowcharts, lists and tables (ca. 1967); 2-pp. copied pages, headed "Reasons for a new composing room," the date 5/26/1945 and the typed name (?) "al tennyson" are at the bottom; single sheet with both typed and handwritten material, 12/7/1983, headed "Press --- C --- West Line."

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