Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Approx. 22 items: 6-pp., typed bio information and impressions of Trueblood given by co-workers, headed "Ralph Waldo Trueblood (m.e., 1926 - 1934) - [Managing Editor]; booklet, (ca. 1925), "Directions for sing the Telephotograver... News Pictures by Wire"; LAT and Among Ourselves articles by and about trueblood from 1920s - 1940s; article, Among Ourselves, 1/1945, "Editor Ralph Trueblood retires after 35 years"; two copies LAT obit, "Retired Times Editor Ralph Trueblood dies"; LAT editorial page article copy, 5/8/1954, "Passing of a great newspaperman"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 5/1949, "Men who made The Times," on Trueblood; etc.
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6 items: article/photo copy, Among Ourselves, 10/1941, 4 grafs on Richard Adams, attorney on LAT staff; article/photo, Among Ourselves, 5/1944, "One Man's Job - Dick Adams"; Adams' story updated in AO, same column, 10/1959; copy of LAT obit for Adams, 7/14/1989; memo following obit publication - provides corrected information for, as memo states, "obit contains incorrect information..."
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2 items: LAT obit copy, 6/28/1941, "S. Fred Hogue of 'Times' dies"; Among Ourselves article copy, 12/1948, "Men who made The Times," on S. Fred Hogue.
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8 items: photo & article copy, undated, "Handsome double dwelling (of) F.X. Pfaffinger at Nos. 219-221 North Hope St"; LAT article copy, 3/26/1927, "Forty years of service celebrated (Pfaffinger"; LAT article copy, 3/27/1937, Honor given Pfaffinger"; LAT obit copy, 2/5/1940, "Pfaffinger, treasurer of Times, dies"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 2/1940, "Frank Pfaffinger known as friend-in-need to coworkers"; article copies (2), Among Ourselves, 7/1948, "Men who made The Times," on Pfaffinger; "keepsake" book, "Perpetual Membership in the Marianist Spiritual Alliance," conferred on Pfaffinger, undated.
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Approx. 12 items: copies of cover and a single page from Elizabeth Taylor - a biography in photographs, with photo and text related to brief dating relationship between Taylor and Glenn Davis; article copy, Among Ourselves, 8/1954, "Glenn Davis has new role in gridiron classic"; various items of correspondence related to Davis' - incl. "Mayor's Certificate of Appreciation" signed by Mayor Yorty, 1964; various information sheets on Davis; tear sheet, Civic Center / Downtown News, 9/9/1980, "Bird's eye view of the Claremont Comet" (Glenn Davis); Metro. News section, LAT, 6/19/1960, "Schissler to resign as Times' events director - Glenn Davis, star of gridiron, will take over..."; article copy, Weekend Desert Post, 6/26/1987, "Mr. Outside (Glenn Davis) still known as one of Army's best"; LAT tear sheet, 11/20/1983, "The glory of yesterday," article on Glenn Davis and his teammate at West Point, Felix Blanchard.
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Approx. 12 items: two samples of Alma Whitaker's "Sugar and Spice" column, from 1931 and 1936; a 1941 sample of W's writing; LAT, 12/4/1941, "Feminine reporter takes baby along," memories of W's early days at LAT (original & copy in plastic sleeve); Among Ourselves, 2 copies, 6/1949, "Women who made The Times," about Whitaker; (orig. & copy in plastic sleeve) LAT obit, "Alma Whitaker, retired Times columnist, dies"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 1/1957, "Alma Whitaker lived by wit, good humor"; article tear sheet, date / publication unknown, "Veteran Newshens made history" (on Whitaker and other women journalists in L.A. during early decades of 20th century).
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