Manuscripts

Newspapers - Los Angeles Express

Description: 7 items: most article and announcement copies deal with ownership transfers and other operating issues related to the Los Angeles Express, a very early L.A. newspaper (1871).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1922 - 1931
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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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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The Mirror and other Los Angeles region newspapers

Manuscripts

Includes last edition of the Los Angeles Mirror, January 5, 1962, with "The Mirror consolidates with Times" banner headline. Other Los Angeles region newspapers include: L.A. Tribune, L.A. Nationalist, L.A. Record, The Evening Express, The Evening Republican, L.A. Daily Star, The New Italy (the L.A. immigrant's guide to homes in Southern California, 1875), South Los Angeles magazine, The Angelino, L.A. Herald, L.A. Express, L.A. Examiner, Daily Free Press (Ventura, California), Ventura Daily Post, Alhambra Post-Advocate, and others.

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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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Newspapers - Los Angeles Tribune

Manuscripts

4 items: three article copies, The Pacific Printer, 7/1911, "Los Angeles newspaper warfare results in new morning paper," 8/1911, "The Los Angeles Tribune, Independent, Progressive," 9/1911, column, "With the Editors and Publishers," on the newspaper "wars" in Los Angeles ; article copy, Los Angeles Tribune, 12/18/1914, "Article in Times act of cruelty, court says."

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Politics - Los Angeles County

Manuscripts

4 items: clip, 1932 LAT article, "(Eugene) Biscailuz swamps five opponents" ; copy LAT editorial, 7/17/1934, "Beauties of the recall" ; LAT letter-to-editor clip, "A fine series of articles" ; LAT article clip, 12/3/1972, "Committee of 25--L.A.'s super government?"

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Los Angeles Plaza and Olvera Street

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items: 8-pp. (stapled) on L.A. history which begins, "Our city's beginnings go back to 1769," which was the year explorer Portola and his expedition camped on the river very near present-day downtown ; newspapers and magazine article copies, brochures, maps and other ephemera ; original issue of Terra, Natural History Magazine of the West, Winter 1981, featuring article, "Los Angeles Plaza--living symbol of our past" (pp. 14) ; etc.

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Newspapers - Los Angeles Express

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