Manuscripts

The Mirror and other Los Angeles region newspapers

Description

Includes last edition of the Los Angeles Mirror, January 5, 1962, with "The Mirror consolidates with Times" banner headline.

Other Los Angeles region newspapers include: L.A. Tribune, L.A. Nationalist, L.A. Record, The Evening Express, The Evening Republican, L.A. Daily Star, The New Italy (the L.A. immigrant's guide to homes in Southern California, 1875), South Los Angeles magazine, The Angelino, L.A. Herald, L.A. Express, L.A. Examiner, Daily Free Press (Ventura, California), Ventura Daily Post, Alhambra Post-Advocate, and others.

Type

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Date

1851-1930s, 1962

Call number

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Creator

Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)

Newspapers - Los Angeles

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: a selection of lists and chronologies providing bits of history on newspapers in Los Angeles back to Los Angeles Star (1851). Notable items: LAT clip, 12/4/1886, "Directory of Southern California newspapers" ; tear sheet, LAT Sunday Magazine, 9/4/1932, "The Newspapers of Los Angeles--their trials and tragedies" ; article copy, Time (mag), 1/12/1962, "Death in Los Angeles [of two newspapers]" ; copies, pp. 435 - 458, Journal of the West, 10/1963, "Newspapers of Los Angeles...the first 50 years" ; article copy, Los Angeles (mag), "The city's changing newspaper world" ; 6-pp. of charts, headed "Los Angeles Metropolitan Newspapers Weekday Circulation History, 1914 - 1970," statistics for 7 Los Angeles newspapers - The Times, Examiner, Herald, Express, Daily News, Evening News, and Record ; tear sheet, (Santa Monica) Evening Outlook, 10/13/1975, "Evening Outlook is 100 today" ; complete issue, The Reader, 8/8/1980, "The story of Los Angeles's two daily newspapers--Inking Big" ; tear sheet, The Reader, 11/27/1981, "This Sentinel [Black-owned newspaper] does more than stand guard" ; LAT tear sheet, 7/1/1985, "It's the Law! Daily Journal checks the pulse of L.A.'s legal community," a story on a paper that began publishing in L.A. in 1888.

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Newspapers - Los Angeles Express

Manuscripts

7 items: most article and announcement copies deal with ownership transfers and other operating issues related to the Los Angeles Express, a very early L.A. newspaper (1871).

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Other newspapers, not in Los Angeles region

Manuscripts

Newspapers include: The U.S. Gazette (1812); The Daily Union, Washington (1853); Harper's Weekly (1861); and various others. Some are reprints. There are also some reprints of newspapers from the 1700s.

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The Mirror newspapers

Manuscripts

Includes first editions of the Los Angeles Mirror, vol. 1, no. 1, October 11, 1948, signed by staff, with typed note from Norman Chandler and Phillip Chandler.

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Newspapers - Los Angeles Examiner/ Mirror Closing

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items. Commentary and news from various sources on the 1962 closing of the Examiner and the Mirror. Sources include: Editor & Publisher, The Eight Ball, Clete Roberts Reports (KTLA-tv), Virgil Pinkley (KABC), The Quill, and The California Publisher..

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Reprints And Publications - Los Angeles Times The Mirror

Manuscripts

Los Angeles Times first and last issues of The Mirror dated October 11, 1948 and January 5, 1962 (multiple copies).

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The Mirror and other Los Angeles region newspapers

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