Manuscripts

Newspapers - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner - Strikes

Description: 50+ items: selection of LAT news stories on strikes at the Herald-Examiner, the closing down of the Herald-Examiner, etc. ; tear sheet, Los Angeles (mag), 1/1968, "Where does the Herald-Examiner go from here?" ; article copy, Los Angeles (mag), ?/1977, "The Her-Ex...George Hearst's secret money-making machine? ; tear sheet, Downtown News, 11/18/1985, "Herald Examiner Building--Mr. Hearst's First Castle" ; multiple tear sheets, LAT, 11/2/1989, incl. pg. 1 story, "Herald Examiner will halt publishing today" and editorial headlined "End of the Herald-Examiner."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1962 - 1989
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.

Newspapers - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner

Manuscripts

30+ items: collection of news stories, commentary, bulletins, and other items related to the operations and finally, the closing of the Herald - Examiner in 1989. Notable: full page tear sheet, Her-Ex, 12/2/1972, "ON STRIKE" is the banner headline ; a number of items are duplicated in other files ; LAT Employee Bulletin, 11/2/1989, from David Laventhol, which reads in part, "the Herald - Examiner is being closed....This...can only bring sadness to all Southern Californians, and to all of us at The Times in particular."

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Newspapers - Los Angeles

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: a selection of lists and chronologies providing bits of history on newspapers in Los Angeles back to Los Angeles Star (1851). Notable items: LAT clip, 12/4/1886, "Directory of Southern California newspapers" ; tear sheet, LAT Sunday Magazine, 9/4/1932, "The Newspapers of Los Angeles--their trials and tragedies" ; article copy, Time (mag), 1/12/1962, "Death in Los Angeles [of two newspapers]" ; copies, pp. 435 - 458, Journal of the West, 10/1963, "Newspapers of Los Angeles...the first 50 years" ; article copy, Los Angeles (mag), "The city's changing newspaper world" ; 6-pp. of charts, headed "Los Angeles Metropolitan Newspapers Weekday Circulation History, 1914 - 1970," statistics for 7 Los Angeles newspapers - The Times, Examiner, Herald, Express, Daily News, Evening News, and Record ; tear sheet, (Santa Monica) Evening Outlook, 10/13/1975, "Evening Outlook is 100 today" ; complete issue, The Reader, 8/8/1980, "The story of Los Angeles's two daily newspapers--Inking Big" ; tear sheet, The Reader, 11/27/1981, "This Sentinel [Black-owned newspaper] does more than stand guard" ; LAT tear sheet, 7/1/1985, "It's the Law! Daily Journal checks the pulse of L.A.'s legal community," a story on a paper that began publishing in L.A. in 1888.

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Newspapers - Los Angeles Evening Herald Express

Manuscripts

8 items: news stories--both LAT and Herald Express copies--on issues related to the Herald Express, such as price increases, strikes, clashes with public officials, etc., over the time frame indicated. Also a couple of "history" columns from 1944 and 1945 - "Early Days in Los Angeles."

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Architecture and Historic Preservation - Los Angeles

Manuscripts

Approx. 40 items: article tear sheets and copies from LAT, Sunset, Westways, L.A. Herald-Examiner, Downtown News, Los Angeles (mag), and others. Material mostly written between 1960s and 1990s but examining the Los Angeles lifestyles of earlier decades. Highlights: original of house sales booklet, The New Spanish Bungalow, 1923; multi-page tear sheet, L.A. Herald-Examiner, 12/31/1967, "The Los Angeles that Was"; typed list (7-pp.) of 145 "Historic-Cultural Monuments" in City of Los Angeles, as of 1975; 2 copies of a postcard featuring Dominguez Adobe Rancho San Pedro labeled "Historic Preservation" postmarked "first day of issue Sep 16, 1984".

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Newspapers - Los Angeles Herald

Manuscripts

2 items: tear sheet (torn in half as well), The Rural Californian, ?/1891, "The Herald and its editors" ; 9-pp. including cover, Eight Ball Final, 1956, "The day the Herald moved."

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Newspapers - Daily News

Manuscripts

Approx. 45 items: selection of newspaper stories, from LAT and other area newspapers, as diverse as California Publisher and Temple City Times, on the history and final closing of the Daily News (L.A.) in 1954. Notable items: original letter, 7/18/1924, from Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. to Cordelia St. Clair of Hollywood, on subject of common stock in the newspaper ; article copy, Frontier (mag), 2/1955, "The Daily News and why it died" ; article copy, Journalism Quarterly, Winter 1970, "No news today...how Los Angeles lost a daily" ; original tear sheet and one copy, Westways, 12/1974, "Daily News folds! ; LAT tear sheet, 12/26/1984, featuring article on Daily News by Patt Morrison, "After 30 years, an EXTRA!" ; LAT tear sheet, 12/11/1985, "Jack Kent Cooke buys Daily News for $176 million" ; ?/1986 tear sheet, Los Angeles (mag), "The Return of Jack Kent Cooke" ; LAT clip, 8/21/1990, "Editorial employees picket Daily News."

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