Manuscripts

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Description: External awards are those received by the Times from external organizations, including the Pulitzer Prize from Columbia University. The series includes memoranda, applications, speeches, and articles. Date range is 1938-1991.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1938-1991
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.

Awards - Pulitzer Prizes

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items: original, Columbia Library Columns, 5/1957, with list of Pulitzer Prize winners; exchange of letters on LAT's John Birch Society series (1961), from John Hohenberg of the Pulitzer Prize Advisory Board, and response from the office of Norman Chandler; approx. 15-pp. stapled stack, "A complete record of Pulitzer Prize winners, 1917 - 1991"; LAT Fact Sheet, 4/18/1995, "Los Angeles Times Pulitzer Prizes"; related items.

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Awards

Manuscripts

Divided into awards given within the Times (internal) and awards given from outside (External). Date range is 1938-1991.

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Secretary's Report

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items: 5-pp. list of "Columbia Graduate School of Journalism Alumni working for Times Mirror Company" ; 28-pp. "Report of the Secretary of the Pulitzer Prize Board, 1989-1990" ; 4-pp. "Proposed Pulitzer Prize Nominating Jurors in Journalism for 1991" ; single sheet, "Agenda for the Annual Spring Meeting of the Pulitzer Prize Board" ; business card for Robert C. Christopher, Administrator, The Pulitzer Prizes ; 7-pp. "Annotated Agenda - 74th Annual Meeting..." 4/9/ & 4/10/1990 ; additional letters and related information.

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Correspondence

Manuscripts

6 items: program booklet, "The Pulitzer Prizes - 75th Anniversary Celebration (9/22/1991)...Columbia University..." ; stapled packet (approx. 35 sheets), headed "Category X Criticism," with article copies from various newspapers being submitted for Pulitzer consideration ; list of names, addresses and phone numbers of "The Pulitzer Prize Board" as of 3/19/1991 ; correspondence involving David Laventhol (Times Mirror), Russell Baker (N.Y. Times), Meg Greenfield (Washington Post) and others.

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Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1946 - Bruce Russell

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2 items: LAT article copy, 5/7/1946, "Pulitzer Prize Awarded to 'Times' cartoonist"; LAT article copy, 5/8/1946, "Bruce Russell wins the Pulitzer Prize."

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Awards - Pulitzer Prize, 1942

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: 35-pp. printout off Lexis-Nexis, material from US Supreme Court and California Supreme Court; 3-pp. descriptions of "Awards of the Pulitzer Prizes and Traveling Scholarships"; collection of LAT stories on the lead-up to the "Contempt Trial"; collection of LAT articles related to LAT receiving a Pulitzer Prize in 1942, including the headlines "Tribute Paid 'Times' by American Press...great newspapers, wire associations and men in public life send congratulatory messages" (5/7/1942) and "Prize emblem sent to 'Times' "; teletype printout, 5/4/1942, reading in part, that LAT had earlier "instituted litigation which produced a Supreme Court opinion last December upholding the right of newspapers to publish criticism of judicial opinion, even in cases still pending, unless the comment would cause 'extremely serious' evil"; The "Contempt Case" began in 1938, and lasted nearly four years.

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