Manuscripts

Parks - Southern California

Description: Approx. 18 items: a selection of clips and copies of articles from LAT and other publications on Barnsdall Park, Central Park (Pershing Square), Descanso Gardens, Exposition Park, Westlake Park, William S. Hart Park, etc. Also in folder are City of Los Angeles Recreation & Parks Annual Reports for 1964-65, 1966-1967, 1970, a Progress Report for 1959, a postcard featuring Mission Bay Park in San Diego, and a 39-pp. "Recommendation for 1970 Bond Program (stamped received 9/25/1969) and other material.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1905 - 1987
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.

Parks - Pershing Square

Manuscripts

2 items: tear sheet of two articles in Downtown News, 9/1/1986, "The bad boys arrive" (Pershing Square designers), "Democracy in Pershing Square" (editorial) ; LAT clip, Sam Hall Kaplan (architecture critic) column for 9/2/1986, "New hope for historic Pershing Square."

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Financial Condition - Clippings

Manuscripts

Approx. 65 items: LAT clips for decade of 1960s, most stories dealing with stock price gains.

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Departments - Circulation - ABC Southern California Newspaper Comparison

Manuscripts

Approx. 40 sheets of information, in various combinations of circulation information for all southern California newspaper, from very small ones (Tulare Advance-Register, circulation. 5,200, 3/31/'65) to LAT (circulation. 830,000, 3/31/'65). 1 other item in folder--LAT "Timely Bulletin: total circulation and subscription /copy cost of Southern California ABC newspapers," publication date 2/1977. All compiled by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

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Southern California - Tourism

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items: LAT clips and promotional materials--booklets, brochures, annual reports, charts, maps--all boosting tourism in Southern California. Notable items: booklet (in Spanish), "Revista Grafica - Condado de Los Angeles..." 1945 - inside is a sheaf of stapled papers with an English translation of the Spanish & Portugese material ; booklet w/ map, "Official All-Year Club Sight-seeing Map - Southern California," 1956 ; brochure, "15 Guide-Yourself Trips by Public Transportation," 1956.

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California - Northern vs. Southern

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: various chronologies recording dates of newspaper articles from both L.A. and San Francisco related to the often rocky relationship between the two cities and between northern and southern California; clips and copies from newspapers in both cities; 4-pp. reprint featuring stories from San Francisco, dated 4/19/1906, and headed "The Call=Chronicle=Examiner," all under the banner headline "Earthquake and fire...San Francisco in ruins"; transcription of S.F. Call editorial of 11/21/1908, "San Francisco does not forget," responding to alleged slurs by Harrison Gray Otis in LAT; 3-pp. chronology, headed "SO. CAL. vs. NO. CAL., 1881 - [1911] ; memo with attached clips, on LAT coverage of the point in the early 1960s when California became the most populous state in the union.

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Southern California Telephone companies

Manuscripts

Approx. 65 items: memos, letters and other other items, many involving Harrison Chandler and H.E. Downing. Also much correspondence with Southern California Telephone Co., much of this addressed to Harrison Chandler.

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