Manuscripts

Aerospace

Description: Approx. 12 items: LAT clips, 1945 - 1970, on aerospace endeavors, including articles on Robert Goddard and Charles A. Lindbergh; reprint of LAT article, 3/19/1970, "Aerospace cuts...new jobless - the highly paid out on streets."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1945 - 1970
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Depression

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items: LAT article copies - one packet in plastic sleeve focuses on "Stock Market Crash, 1929," another on "Depression, 1931 - 1933," with subjects such as "jobless wanderers," camps for transients, "bonus" armies, etc. Other clips are from as late as 1936.

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Theaters - Los Angeles

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items: a selection of clips on the history, operation or restoration of classic theaters in Los Angeles. Notable items: small theater "programme," 7/1910, "Olympic Theatre - Main St. between 4th & 6th" ; booklet, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra - Symphony Magazine, 3/1962 ; tear sheet, Westways, 7/1961, "Theaters under the stars" ; reprint from Southern California Quarterly, 9/1965, "Requiem for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Auditorium" ; tear sheet, LAT?, 1967?, "Movie theaters seemed like palaces back in 1917" ; clip, Downtown News, 12/2/1985, "Some old Playbills, a few gags, the B&Ws" ; LAT reprint, from 5/14/1981 edition, "Theater in Los Angeles...the roots run deep" ; gold folder w/ sunburst on cover, contains promotional material and news clips on the refurbishment of the Mayan Theater and adjacent entertainment venues, 1991.

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Press - Freedom of - Clippings

Manuscripts

Approx. 50 items: LAT clips and reprints plus tear sheets from Time and Wall St. Journal on press freedom. Notable items: complete issue, The Review of Southern California Journalism, 12/1972, lead story - "It can happen here - ask Bill Farr" (the LAT reporter jailed for refusing to reveal a source to a judge) ; reprint, Time, 7/8/1974, "The Press..fair of foul" ; LAT, bound reprints, 4/1976, series title, "Free trial and free press...on a collision course."

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Commerce and Industry (1 of 2)

Manuscripts

Approx. 35 items: article clips and copies from LAT, Downtown News, informal multi-page reports, some undated and with no attribution, ephemera related to commerce and industry in greater Los Angeles; (in plastic sleeve) very early LAT clips on the subjects, 1913 - 1932; investment letter (ad) for James R. Miller & Company, 1934; complete issue, Pacific Business, 3-4/1975; complete issue, Counter Talk (May Co.), 6/4/1976; booklet, Pacific Lighting Corp. - A Century of Commitment, 1886 - 1986; booklet, From Agriculture to Aerospace (L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce), 1988. Split into two folders.

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Commerce and Industry (2 of 2)

Manuscripts

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Los Angeles Police Department

Manuscripts

9 items: two LAT clips from 10/1888 on police corruption ; 6-pp. POLICE DEPARTMENT...Annual report of W.A. Hammel, Chief of Police (1904) ; tear sheet from Daily Police Bulletin, 1/21/1929 ; copies of three 1960 LAT editorials, "Anarchy protects no one," 4/21, "Undermining the police force," 7/19, "The bright badge of the LAPD" ; LAT editorial, "Treading the volcano's crust," 7/23/1970 ; LAT editorial, "Who is betraying the students?", 12/13/1974.

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