Manuscripts

"The Owens River Aqueduct and the Los Angeles Times," Anthony Cifarelli

Description: Photocopy of 148-pp. manuscript, "The Owens River Aqueduct and the Los Angeles Times - a study in early twentieth century business ethics and journalism" by Anthony Cifarelli, for University of California Los Angeles. (University Archives Thesis No. 2767). Also, handwritten notes.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1969
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Water - Los Angeles Aqueduct - Articles and Pamphlets

Manuscripts

approx. 20 items: collection of material on above topic including some major articles. Among the significant articles with sources and dates: Sunset, 12/1909, "Water for Millions--building the great aqueduct...to supply Los Angeles" ; personal account of Jack Heyser, 1939, "Los Angeles City Fathers go water hunting...the birth of the Owens River Aqueduct" ; American Heritage, 12/1961, "The Water War" ; Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, 3/1963, "Myth-making in the Los Angeles Area" ; California Historical Quarterly, "The politics of California water-- Owens Valley and the Los Angeles Aqueduct, 1900-1927" ; California History, 9/1986, "Picnic at Alabama Gates...the Owens Valley Rebellion, 1904-1927" ; Historical Society of Southern California, Fall 1988, "The Los Angeles Aqueduct -- 1913 -1988, A 75th Anniversary Tribute."

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The City of Los Angeles' Owens River Aqueduct

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The City of Los Angeles' Owens River Aqueduct in the Southern end of the Owens Valley, showing the tailrace from the Cottonwood Powerhouse.

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"The history of the Los Angeles Times from 1950 to 1970," David A. Gerken

Manuscripts

1 item: 96-pp. manuscript, bound with dark blue cove, The history of the Los Angeles Times from 1950 to 1970: the death of arch-conservatism and the corresponding surge of editorial excellence, by David A. Gerken, a senior thesis submitted to Princeton University.

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Water - Los Angeles Aqueduct - Clippings

Manuscripts

50+ items: material from across several decades, from LAT, memos, letters and two issues of Heritage (a publication of Southern California Library for Social Studies & Research) from 1991 and 1992, on the aqueduct from the Owens Valley along the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada to Los Angeles/San Fernando Valley. Includes some material on the film Chinatown, starring Jack Nicholson, the plot of which owed a great deal to actual events between 1905 and the 1920s. Some persons in The Times hierarchy stood to profit from the water plan and the newspaper pushed it strongly.

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Los Angeles Times Survey

Manuscripts

A three page photocopy of a Los Angeles Times Survey entitled "Woman's Questionnaire."

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"Otis and His Times," Richard Connelly Miller (1 of 2)

Manuscripts

10-pp. of typed notes on the dissertation. Photocopy of 545-pp. manuscript, Otis and His Times: The career of Harrison Gray Otis of Los Angeles, by Richard Connelly Miller, submitted to the University of California, Graduate Division. Split into two folders.

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"The Owens River Aqueduct and the Los Angeles Times," Anthony Cifarelli

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