Manuscripts

Los Angeles - City Halls

Description: 7 items: commemorative booklet, Corner-stone laying - Los Angeles City Hall, 6/22/1927 ; article copy, California History, 9/1987, "El Portugese...Don Antonio Rocha, California's first Portugese sailor ; white folder, with pocket containing booklets, brochures and other material relating to Project Restore (L.A.), 1990 ; tear sheet, Downtown News, 10/27/1986, "New clothes for City Hall"; etc.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1924 - 1986
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.

Los Angeles - City Government

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items: LAT article copy, 6/10/1931, "Fifth official city flag proposed" ; LAT editorial, 9/14/1964, "Time for a charter change?" ; LAT edit., 10/25/1966, "Reforming Los Angeles' City Charter" ; LAT edit., 11/21/1969, "Charter reform debate" ; LAT edit., 2/23/1970, "Hollywood faces...harsh facts" ; a 1973 exchange of letters betw. Samuel Leask, ex-City Administrative Officer and James Bassett of LAT ; article copy, Los Angeles (mag), 12/1980, "His dishonor, the Mayor" (on A.C. Harper, L.A. mayor 1906 - 1909) ; LAT tear sheet, articles on new City Council District (1st), 1/18/1987 ; LAT article tear sheet, list & brief bio sketch of L.A. mayors, 1850 to 1988, 9/6/1988 ; article copy, Times Mirror (mag), Summer 1989, "A tale of two cities" (L.A. and N.Y.).

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Los Angeles Conservancy

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: four original examples of the Los Angeles Conservancy newsletter (1987 - 1990); brochure, "Streamline Los Angeles," photos of Streamline Modern architecture ; tabloid size newspaper, "Palaces of Finance - A walking tour of the Spring Street Historic District (L.A. Conservancy & Spring Street Assn.) various Conservancy walking tour brochures, undated, for "Broadway Historic Theater District," "Seventh Street - Mecca for Merchants," "Pershing Square Landmarks," "The Miracle Mile," Hollywood Boulevard, etc.

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Los Angeles Civic Center

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items: a collection of clips and copies from LAT, Downtown News and Civic Center News, on the selection of sites, planning, construction and usage of buildings, parking structures and surrounding landscaping in the civic center area; complete issue of Civic Center News, 11/14/1972, front page stories include (Hall of) "Records to be razed," and "Criminal Courts building dedicated"; tear sheet, Civic Center News, 3/12/1974, "Civic Center Exhibit opens this week"; more tear sheets, Downtown News, 1987, on civic centers changes.

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Los Angeles - History - General

Manuscripts

25 + items: pp. 32 - 45 of (an unidentified) book, several pages headed, "History -- a brief summary of Los Angeles," followed by "Chronological Review," a fact-filled timeline of the L.A. area 1542 - 1938; a collection of William S. Murphy columns, "Then....and Now," written on local history in 1972-73 ; tear sheet of Los Angeles (mag) article, ?/1990, "My, how we've changed"; a map with differently shaded areas shows "How the City grew," 1989 ; 11-pp. cover and article, copied from Mankind - the Magazine of Popular History, date unknown, more timelines, profiles of long-time residents, multi-page Life Magazine article, "Los Angeles is the damnedest place..." ; related material.

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Articles

Manuscripts

5 items: LAT clip, 2/12/1987, "Times Mirror profit rises..."; two tear sheets, Los Angeles (mag), 7/1987 showing TM as #2 on Fortune's "15 richest publishing companies in the US" and 8/1987 showing TM at #1 on list of the "12 biggest stockholders in the city (L.A.)"; LAT copy, 7/23/1987, "Times Mirror operating profit up 20% in quarter"; LAT copy, 7/24/1987, Times Mirror operating income jumps,,"

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Events - Town Hall

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items: 6-pp. of speech notes for Tom Johnson (plus "stage" directions) to introduce Jean Sharley Taylor at the Town Hall ; multipage list of "Table Assignments" for the Town Hall dinner ; related correspondence. 1990 dinner theme - "Town Hall salutes family literacy" ; packet of information, including booklet, "Voices," which documented and described the first fifty years (1938-1987) of Town Hall of California.

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