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Paul Conrad drawings
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Approx. 200 items: (grouped in plastic sleeves) prints of Paul Conrad Los Angeles Times editorial cartoons from the period 1986 - 1992. Also in this box is a memo from Janet Nippell (Conrad's administrative aide) to Craig St. Clair (Los Angeles Times History Center) in 1991 when the bulk of these items were sent to the History Center.
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Organizational Charts
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Approx. 20 items: 7-pp. report, 1959, "The Times Mirror Company Top Management Organizational Chart and Position Description Summaries," Vance Stickell's name is written in on title page; 20+-pp. report, 1960, "Organization of Executive Functions - The Times Mirror Company," with several organizational charts; various lists of committees, officers and directors, early 1960s; 4-pp. report, "Observations concerning management changes," ca. 1980; collection of organizational charts, 1960 - 1964; single-sheet, "Chronology of Times Mirror Chairmen of the Board" (ca. 1997), ending with "Mark Willes...1996 - "; assorted related material.
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Histories
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Approx. 12 items: a collection of operational (and some financial) historical information on LAT and TM. Many items are a portion of one sheet, odds and ends cobbled together over the decades, but several are more substantial. Among these: two speech transcripts, one from 1953, the other from 1954; 10-pp. "History...("approx. 1957" is written in at top) - may have been given as slide show, i.e. "Here is a blown-up photo of the first issue of The Times"; two-sheet copy of handwritten note from Otis Chandler to Robert ("Bob") Erburu, stapled on top of 16-pp. speech transcript that Mr. Erburu delivered in 1976 before the Assn of American Publishers, "Why diversify - a retrospective"; 29-pp. video script, "Welcome to Times Mirror," dated 1/28/1988; flyer, 1991, for "Robert F. Erburu's 30th Anniversary with Times Mirror -- August 21, 1991," with facts and figures related to the 30 yr. period; 15-pp. "Times Mirror - Chronology: 1959 - 1992."
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Departments - Editorial - Sections and Features
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14 items. Materials include: 13-pp. chronology, headed "Editorial Changes," running from 4/24/1960, "Opinion Section stared...", to 5/1974, "News Bureau is established in Cairo...", and 6/1974, "Paul Steiger wins the ...Loeb Award" (Financial journalism); 6-pp. (stapled) headed, "Today's metropolitan newspaper must compete successfully with other media," followed by listing of "Editorial Improvements" running from 1960 to 1966, bureau openings, news additions to LAT editorial staff, innovations; 2-pp. with listing of "Sections of the Times," giving dates various sections started, and more in-depth info for Obituary Page, the Tuesday Business Section, and Focus; article, Among Ourselves, 1929, "How we have grown!"; two copies of 12-pp. booklet titled "Daily and Sunday Features published in the Los Angeles Times ("1959" added in pencil on the unbound copy), the spiral-bound copy (with cover) is dated 1/1/1962 (binding removed) ; 1-pp. chronology for "Los Angeles Times Illustrated Weekly Magazine," 1897 - 1934; 1-pp. chronology headed "Home Magazine started," running from 1940 - 1972; article, Among Ourselves, 5/1960, "Sunday Times Given Attractive New Look"; 3-pp. of material from Los Angeles Sunday Times of 12/5/1897, including the cover of the "Illustrated Magazine Section"; 2-pp. "Fact sheet" on Voices section (start-up was 9/1992) including bio info for editors Judy Dugan and Dean Wakefield, and description of features appearing in the section; 2-pp. "fact sheet" for City Times section (start-up 1992), including general description and brief professional bios on the entire staff of the section; 2-pp. chronology of "LAT Sunday Supplements," by Craig St. Clair (1991).
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Times Mirror Company reports
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"Times Mirror 1991 Interim Report and Annual Meeting of Shareholders First Quarter Ended March 31, 1991" (3 copies); "Times Mirror 1991 Interim Report Second Quarter Ended June 30, 1991" (3 copies); "Times Mirror 1991 Interim Report Third Quarter Ended September 29, 1991" (3 copies); glossy color "About Times Mirror" 1985-1989 summary brochure (3 copies); glossy color "About Times Mirror" 1988-1990 summary brochure (3 copies).
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Labor Stability Reports
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7 items: six single-sheet Monthly Labor Stability Reports - Times-Mirror Co., Newspaper Divisions Production Departments, Newspaper Divisions Administrative and Financial Sections, The Times, The Mirror and Times-Mirror Press ; 2-pp. memo/report, on these reports.
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