Manuscripts

Sawtelle

Description: 1 item: LAT article copy, "Police seizure of City Hall starts Sawtelle on exit path," the article describes the 1918 takeover of small town of Sawtelle by "imperial" Los Angeles.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1963
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.

Harris, Emil

Manuscripts

1 item: tear sheets of article from Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, Summer 1973, "Emil Harris - Los Angeles Jewish Police Chief."

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9 items: LAT article, 4/17/1901, "Salton Desert soon to be converted into fertile farms"; LAT article copy, 12/21/1905, "The clouds over Imperial," on the canal ruptures that led to the creation of the Salton Sea; copies of selected pages of A History of Imperial Valley, by Otto ?, no date seen; 2-pp. citations from LAT for Niland, CA., 1914 - 1921; LAT article copy, 5/21/1940, "Imperial's courage" ; LAT brief copy, 3/28/1941, "First cantaloupes sell for $1 each."

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Kynette, Earle

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items: LAT article copies following the indictment and conviction of Earle Kynette, an L.A. Police Department captain for the killing of private detective Harry Raymond by bombing.

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Los Angeles - Health

Manuscripts

3 items. All three are LAT article copies, Page One news stories about the influenza epidemic of 1918: 10/11/1918, entire front page of newspaper is devoted to the influenza scare ; 11/4/1918, "Defy 'flu' rule...arrested" - some Christian Scientists refused to obey the City's order ; 12/2/1918, "Funless season ends today...influenza ban to be lifted" ;

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Putnam, George

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items. Includes: Transcripts of some of Putnam's KTTV newscasts; KABC-TV (as well as Putnam of KTTV) takes exception to an article in LAT-published newsletter, Student Outlook, titled "What to do When Stopped by Police." alleging it depicts police in a negative role; related material. Also in the folder are a large number of clippings from area newspapers.

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Prisons - Los Angeles

Manuscripts

1 item: LAT article copy, 7/4/1907, "Horribly foul are jail pens...prisoners tortured by heat and noxious odors," on findings of a tour of City Jail by "Police Surgeon Quint."

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