Manuscripts

White, Stephen M

Description: Approx. 20 items: collection of LAT news stories and editorial copies on the career of U.S. Senator Stephen M. White, born in San Francisco, 1853, died in Los Angeles, 1901. Notable items: excerpt copied from book, Take the Witness, by Alfred Cohn & Joe Chisholm, 1943 ; a selection of tributes to White from 2/1901 ; LAT obit, 2/22/1901, "Senator White's career closed...death claims the distinguished lawyer and statesman--tributes of respect from all sections."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1893 - 1943
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,

White, Stephen M. to Harrison Gray Otis

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Four letters from Senator Stephen M. White to Otis.

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Photocopies - White, Stephen M. to Harrison Gray Otis

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Photocopies of letters from Senator Stephen M. White to Otis. MAY NOT BE COPIED OR PUBLISHED.

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White, Stephen M. Monument

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Photocopy of letter from Harry Chandler to L. D. Hotchkiss and memo to Harry Chandler from Bill Moon. Both regarding the statue of Stephen M. White in the court house. File of L. D. Hotchkiss.

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Olson, Culbert

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2 items: internal LAT note on "Olson Editorials - Nov. 1938" ; pp. 1, 4 and 5 of "Radio Broadcast by Senator Culbert L. Olson," on KOB, San Diego, 10/27/1938.

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Approx. 25 items: LAT articles and other material related to William F. Knowland, U.S. Senator, one-time gubernatorial candidate, later Oakland Tribune publisher. Notable items: LAT editorial copy, 8/15/1945, "The naming of Sen. Knowland" ; article tear sheet, California - the Magazine of the Pacific, 12/1950, "The shifting sands of American foreign policy" by William F. Knowland ; 22-pp. copy of manuscript of speech delivered 10/17/1961, to Freedom Club of Los Angeles, title "1961 - the Year of Decision" (on "China/Russia") ; 20-pp. transcript of "Taping with Senator William F. Knowland on June 12, 1973" ; LAT article 2/24/1974, on "William F. Knowland...ex-Senator," which opens with "William Fife Knowland...killed himself Saturday with a single bullet wound in the temple, authorities said..."

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Imperial Valley

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9 items: LAT article, 4/17/1901, "Salton Desert soon to be converted into fertile farms"; LAT article copy, 12/21/1905, "The clouds over Imperial," on the canal ruptures that led to the creation of the Salton Sea; copies of selected pages of A History of Imperial Valley, by Otto ?, no date seen; 2-pp. citations from LAT for Niland, CA., 1914 - 1921; LAT article copy, 5/21/1940, "Imperial's courage" ; LAT brief copy, 3/28/1941, "First cantaloupes sell for $1 each."

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White, Stephen M

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