Manuscripts

Metal office furniture

Description: Approx. 25 items: letters, invoices, reports, and other materials related to obtaining metal office furniture for Times building. Major items: 13-pp. of completed "Inventory" forms (whose forms is not indicated) ; multi-page "Delivery Guarantee" from Metal Office Furniture Co. to TM ; complete 16-pp. issue of The News - GF, 2/1932, published by General Fireproofing Company.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1933 - 1935
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
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Metal counters

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8 items: letters, legal documents, forms and other material related to installation of metal counters at the new Times building in 1933. The contractor for the metal counters was Art Metal Construction Co.

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Metal toilet stalls and doors

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Approx. 15 items: letters, reports, legal documents related to installation of metal toilet stalls and doors by Albatross Steel Furniture Co.

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Dispatch conveyors

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items: letters, a memo, a telegram, forms, and other material related to obtaining and installing dispatch conveyors for new Times building in 1933 and 1934. Correspondence is mainly between TM and Cutler-Hammer Inc. Major items: 30" x 54" (approx.) "Second Floor Plan - Times Mirror Co.), Gordon B. Kaufmann (architect), 9/22/1933 ; bound booklet (with cover letter & Cutler-Hammer's Proposal to TM), "Cutler-Hammer Newspaper Conveyors."

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Sheet metal work

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Approx. 15 items: letters, legal documents, forms and other material related to sheet metal work during construction of new Times building in 1933 and 1934.

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Hollow metal work

Manuscripts

Approx. 40 items: letters, legal documents, forms and other materials related to the construction of the new Times building in 1933 and 1934. Contractor for the hollow metal work was A.J. Bayer Co.

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Departments - Accounting, Credit and Finance - Receipts

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Approx. 25 items. Materials include a stack of invoice forms from 1932 to Times-Mirror Co. and LAT from Steel Furniture Manufacturing Co. of Baldwin Park, CA; informal inventory of "Number of typewriters in Editorial Depts"; "Requisition...for Supplies" form (1962); blueprint (no date) "Front elevation of typewriter stand"; stack of correspondence from office furniture providers on topic of typewriter stands (1934); (2 copies) Times-Mirror Co. "Specifications for typewriter stands (1934); legal-sized sheet headed "Schedule 'A' - Office furniture and equipment...to be furnished...(by) Metal Office Furniture Company, Grand Rapids, Mich.," etc.

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