Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
1 item: 3-pp. "Biography from the Los Angeles Times, Henry J. Seldis...Art Editor." Bio is dated 2/1975. Seldis joined LAT in 1958.
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6 items. Memos and one LAT form (Change of Status and Termination Voucher). Subjects include: memos outlining plans for Seldis's coverage of art events in L.A. area; Black Art controversy, LACMA; plans for Italy trip to review art events; material related to a leave of absence when Seldis cared for his ailing father and his father's affairs; etc.
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A letter from Otis Chandler to Mark Seldis, the son of Henry J. Seldis, an art critic for the Los Angeles Times from 1960-1978.
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Approx. 11 items. Subjects include: LAT opening a San Diego bureau; LAT's new fashion section, "Fashion '78"; KNBC-tv reporter Kelly Lange, LAT staffer Barry Siegel, and Dr. Neil Sandberg discuss the policies of private clubs in L.A. area, "who gets in and who doesn't and why," and the relatively positive record of Riviera Country Club; KNXT-tv's Connie Chung and Bill Stout comment on "The David Begelman Financial Affair"; KNX-radio brief on death of LAT art critic Henry Seldis, of an apparent overdose of prescription drugs; etc.
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Approx. 12 items. LAT news stories - headlines and dates include: "Actress defends migrants before Congressional hearing," 9/25/1940 ; Mrs. Douglas' view on Reds challenged," 8/30/1950 ; "Nixon gave her pink tint, Mrs. Douglas says," 9/21/1956 ; "Old Nixon foe (Douglas) still works against him," 10/19/1970. Also in the file is the original of a 10/25/1950 letter from Henry Rich of David S. Hillman Advertising, who had Douglas as a client, to the Advertising Dept. of LAT, indicating his appreciation for the "wonderful cooperation...in placing advertising, in spite of the fact that, editorially, LAT opposed her election.
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Approx. 25 items: LAT news tear sheet, 3/6/1933, "Roosevelt closes all banks...Congress meets Thursday" ; LAT editorial copy, 9/15/1940, "Are we still a democracy," LAT uses the word "dictatorship" in reference to FDR's seeking of a third term" ; LAT Page One copy, LAT editorial copy, 11/6/1940, "Mr. Roosevelt wins again" ; LAT Page One copy, 4/13/1945, "President Roosevelt dies...Harry S. Truman sworn in..." ; more.
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