Manuscripts
"The Owens River Aqueduct and the Los Angeles Times," Anthony Cifarelli
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Water - Los Angeles Aqueduct - Articles and Pamphlets
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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
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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
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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
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A three page photocopy of a Los Angeles Times Survey entitled "Woman's Questionnaire."
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Charles Owens original artwork for the Los Angeles Times
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20-plus items: Times staff artist Charles Owens illustrations, mostly maps, but also drawings of the Times building bombing of 1910, World War II maps, and other items. Includes newspaper pages, original drawings.
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