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San Fernando Valley
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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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Murray, Carolyn
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8 items: typed single sheet with introduction for Carolyn Murray, attached to 9-pp. speech transcript which begins, "People are always asking me..." (both undated) ; 15-pp. (76 - 90) copied from "The Sunday Supplement in transition," by Glen W. Peters (USC School of Journalism, Master of Arts Thesis, 1969) ; clip copy, 6/15/1975, "It's our birthday," article about Home magazine ; 11-pp. transcript of "Taping with Carolyn Murray, Editor of Home magazine," 10/15/1975 ; tear sheet of article, "50 Great Americans [wines]" by Robert Lawrence Balzer, Home, 10/12/1975 ; 8-pp. issue of Times Mirror Progress, Vol. 14, 1976, on pp. 5 is an article on Carolyn Murray.
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Los Angeles - History - 1781 - 1848
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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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Articles
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7 items: LAT clip, 4/7/1976, "Times Mirror ad revenue up..."; LAT clip, 8/11/1976, "Earnings jump 94% in quarter at Times Mirror"; tear sheet, Time, 9/27/1976, "Dixie's best dailies," segment on Dallas Times Herald ; (in plastic sleeve) series of clippings, LAT and Wall St. Journal, late Oct. 1976, ending with "Booth (Newspapers) decides to accept Newhouse's offer" over Times Mirror's; tear sheet, Newsweek, 11/8/1976, "Newhouse marches on."
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Newspapers - Miscellaneous
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Approx. 30 items: selected clips, copies, etc, from LAT, from magazines and from other newspapers on the newspaper "scene" in Los Angeles. Notable items: chapter copied from book, Jazz Journalism...story of the tabloid newspapers, 1938 ; 17-pp. report (plus charts) from Princeton U. (in green folder), The Public appraises the newspaper [1958] ; article copied from Saturday Review, 5/13/1961, "Rating the American newspaper" ; reprint from Journalism Quarterly, Summer 1961, "The changing Sunday U.S. newspaper" ; 16-pp. report, William Hachten, U. of Wisconsin, 8/1961, "The future of Sunday newspapers" ; tear sheet, Newsweek, 11/29/1965, "What's wrong with newspapers?" ; complete issue, Rand Research Review, Spring 1985, cover story, "High technology and the newspaper industry" ; tear sheet, Forbes, 2/20/1989, "Are newspapers losing their audience? / Citizen Kane meets Adam Smith" ; tear sheet, Wall Street Journal, 6/23/1989, major article on that newspaper's Centennial, "One newspaper's century ...the inside story"; postcard of the Newsboy Fountain in Great Barrington, MA erected by William L. Brown (held controlling interest in the New York Daily News), 1985.
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Articles
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4 items: copy of brief in Los Angeles Daily Times, 12/21/1884, (near bottom of sheet, marked with yellow lines - "Articles of incorporation have been filed by the Times-Mirror Company dated October 6, 1884..."; clips copied, including "Long Beach shows gains," dates not included; Newsweek article tear sheet, 4/30/1956, "Those tireless Chandlers"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 12/1956, "A look at the company's future."
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