Manuscripts

Glendale

Description: 5 items: two sheets copied from Thomas Guide (street maps) showing portions of Glendale and focusing on Grand Central Air Terminal; 3 sheets copied from Los Angeles in 7 Days, by Lanier Bartlett & Virginia Stivers Bartlett, 1932; LAT article copy, "Postscript...famous no longer take wing from Grand Central Airport," 6/12/1978 ; 5 sheets copied from "A candidate looks at Glendale..." (1983), 4 pp. of history information and a "open letter" to Glendale citizens from "Sonny" Sardo, candidate for Glendale City Council.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1932 - 1983
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.

Shaw, Frank - Correspondence

Manuscripts

4 items: 4-pp. copied, apparently from longer work (pp. 130-133), headed "Angel City in turmoil," 1937 ; 5-pp. copied, headed (1937 Grand Jury) To the Superior Court of the County of Los Angeles" ; 42-pp. copies of report, (one on white paper, one on yellow sheets), "CONDENSED REPORT ON THE SHAW ADMINISTRATION - How it started, prospered, fell," 9/5/1974.

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Glendale

Manuscripts

5 items: pamphlets, two editions, 1924 and 1927, "First of the Ranchos - the story of Glendale" ; pamphlet, "Glendale - a calendar of events..." ; two pamphlets from Glendale Historical Society, "The Doctor's House" (n.d.) and "Historic sites in Glendale, California," 1989.

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Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Tours Of Los Angeles Times

Manuscripts

7 items: 2 sheet, article, "The Old Guard...the latest new printing press is viewed by throngs of invited guests," copied from Sunday Times, 7/14/1895; 2 sheets, article copied from LAT, 12/5/1912, "New Times building is happily dedicated"; 2-pp. article + photos copied from Among Ourselves, 4/1950; 2 copies of (LAT) "Lobby Exhibit & Tours," (ca. 1993); (in plastic sleeve) tear sheet, Downtown News, 5/25/1987, "The Downtown Lunchbox - the Belly of the Beast," by Riva Rothschild, a humorous spin on a tour of the LAT building.

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Departments - Editorial - Sports Section

Manuscripts

9 items. Materials include: AP story, 4/20/1939, "Daro's payoff to sports scribes bared"; copy of article, 8/1980, Los Angeles (mag), "Read all about 'em, sports fans -- inside the Times' highly touted sports section..."; Among Ourselves, 8/1974, "It no longer is just fun-and-games"; LAT clip, 2/12/1961, "Members of the All-Star team"; pg. 1 of the first ever separate LAT Sports section, 7/9/1956, two related copied sheets; LAT Sports-related briefs and memos.

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Los Angeles - History - 1781 - 1848

Manuscripts

7 items: 3-pp. copied from a magazine (?), "Where the padres erred," 5/31/1936 ; 4 sheets torn from Museum Alliance Quarterly, Summer 1967, "Tracking the founders of Los Angeles" ; tear sheets, Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, Spring 1973, "Los Angeles, California... the question of the city's original Spanish name"; map of "The Old Spanish and Mexican Ranchos," copied from Los Angeles - the epic of a city, 1974 ; LAT clip, 9/4/1975, "L.A.'s founders should be honored for what they were--a racial mix"; tear sheets, Westways, 7/1976, "The Founding forty-four" (on the founders of L.A.) ; LAT clip, 9/16/1983, "Mexico's day little noticed."

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San Fernando Valley

Manuscripts

50+ items: large collection of LAT articles and material from books and magazines including Travel & Leisure, Westways, California Historical Society Quarterly, etc., on the history of San Fernando Valley, land and water deals, etc. Notable items: 25-pp. copied from book, History of the San Fernando Valley, Frank Keffer, 1934 ; tear sheet, Westways, 4/1963, "Wheat ruled the Valley" ; tear sheet, Westways, 5/1963, "The Men who opened the Valley" ; 24-pp. copied from The California Historical Society Quarterly, 3/1968, incl. article, "Pioneering land development in the Californias..." with material on Harrison Gray Otis and Harry Chandler ; tear sheets from Westways, 4/1974, "A. Workman's Ranch," includes information of early Valley pioneers including Isaac Lankershim and Isaac Van Nuys ; tear sheet, Travel & Leisure, 8/1976, "The Valley" ; 14-pp. sheets copied from The San Fernando Valley, book, ca. 1976.

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