Manuscripts

Departments - Management Services

Description: 2 items: 1-pp. of background information (including names of dept. managers) on Management Services Dept, which existed from late 1950s to 1980s; business card for "H. Gene Mestel - Industrial Engineer - Management Services Department (LAT)."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: circa 1989
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Departments - Creative Services

Manuscripts

2 items: Management Bulletin, 4/17/1990, from Jim Boswell to Management Personnel, on "completion of the restructuring of the Creative Services Department" (promotions, etc.); 6-pp. tear sheet from Publish magazine, 5/1993, "Changing with The Times," by Gene Gable, on LAT Creative Services Dept.

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Management Services Reports

Manuscripts

Reports and related memos (most from Gene Mestel) during the period 1967 - 1979.

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Department Management - Administrative Services

Manuscripts

7 items: single typed sheet naming top administrative services managers; six b/w photocopies of head & shoulders photographs of Del C. Taylor, Louis Davis, Robert Hynes, Inez Stafford, Loren Hibler and Morgan Brassell.

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Departments - Circulation - California Circulation Managers Association

Manuscripts

3 items : 32-pp. booklet, "California Circulation Managers' Association, 23rd Annual Convention," Hotel Biltmore, Los Angeles, CA., 1941; 32-pp. booklet, "California Circulation Managers' Association, 24th Annual Convention," Hotel Mark Hopkins, San Francisco, CA, 1942; 7-pp. program, stapled to cardboard backing, "California Circulation Managers' Association, 27th Annual Convention, 1945.

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Departments - Editorial - Wire Services

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items. Materials include: 10-pp. "booklet" (w/ paper clip), "Directions for using the Telephotograver in sending and receiving news pictures by wire" [1920s?]; 1-pp. of info. headed "Wirephoto - modern miracle," 7/15/1943; various Among Ourselves articles, 1928 - 1931, on wirephotos and wire services; news clips, 1925 - 1939 , related to wirephotos; 6-pp. headed "History" [of LAT News Bureau], provides information on that activity from beginning in 1912 to 1942; 4-pp. "Examination of news agencies," an extended set of questions on history, organization, type of services, charges, etc., offered by news agencies (a template for analysis); clips on both AP and UPI having had offices inside LAT building at one time; LAT article, 4/3/1988, "The AP - it's everywhere and powerful," by David Shaw; LAT article by Nick B. Williams, 10/7/1962, "Birth of vital new wire service" (L.A. Times - Wash. Post); other related material.

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Departments - Display Advertising

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items. Materials include: articles from Among Ourselves; 4/28/1989 Management Bulletin on reorganization of Display Advertising; undated "Review of the (LAT) Selective Saturation Program"; (LAT) Display Advertising Dept. - "Functional" Organization Chart - 1958"; "Orange County 10 Year Forecast, 1970-1980"; LAT Display Ad Depth Chart, 2 cps. (1979); LAT Retail Display Rates...1973-1982; reports on ad linage; article, Los Angeles magazine, 3/1977, "Can the 'Times' ad censors cope with the new morality?"; 46-pp. "Guide to the (LAT) Display Advertising Department [w/ employee photos]." 3/22/1985; February 1989 edition of "Display Advertising Digest;" etc.

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