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
5 items: letter (in plastic sleeve), 2/9/1962, from Allan Hancock to Ed Ainsworth, thanking him for a copy of The California I Love by Leo Carrillo (in collaboration with Ainsworth); article copy from "Keeping up with The Times," 6/2/1967, on Ed Ainsworth; copy of Ainsworth's final LAT column ("On the Move"), 6/6/1967, "Time arrives for farewell";copy of LAT obit, "Ed Ainsworth, retired Times columnist, dies in San Diego"; clip of Among Ourselves obit, 7/1968, "Death takes Ed Ainsworth, Timesman for 43 years."
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5 items: article copy, Among Ourselves, 12/1942, "Strictly Confidential" (thumbnail bios), incl. one on Owens; article copy, Among Ourselves, 12/1955, "Charlie Owens sees own work each day"; LAT obit copy, 3/4/1958, "Charles Owens, retired artist of Times, dies"; Among Ourselves article copy (3 or 4/1958), Artist Charles Owens ends sketching saga"; 2-pp. letter to Editor, 7/31/1989, from John Spriggs, with questions about Owens' pictorial map of the Panama Canal."
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15 items: a collection of LAT writings by and about Timothy Turner, 1930s - 1940s; extended excerpt copied from Turner's 1935 book, Bullets, Bottles and Gardenias: LAT tear sheet, Sunday Magazine, 3/15/1936, "Now, what about this--Mr. Turner?"; LAT article copy, 8/23/1948, "An 18th century liberal -- his profile," on Turner, written by L.D. Hotchkiss; LAT obit copy, 4/9/1961, "Tim Turner, former Times reporter, dies" (75).
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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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4 items: LAT article copy, 2/14/1938 [Valentine's Day], "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood" (1st-ever column for LAT); another 1938 column; LAT article copy, "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood," 12/28/1941; LAT obit, 2/2/1966, "Hedda Hopper dies at 75, ending movie era.
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5 items: LAT article copy, 3/31/1959, "Taylor Trumbo new managing Editor of Times"; 8-pp. letter from Trueblood to Robert Gottlieb (who was writing Thinking Big, the Story of the Los Angeles Times...) containing memories of his years with LAT; article copy, (Honolulu) Star-Bulletin & Advertiser, 6/20/1982, "Road to Siberia led to Paradise, warm memories" on Trueblood's life experiences; LAT obit clip, "Georgia Fifield, ex-radio actress" (T's wife); LAT obit copy, "Z.T. Trumbo, ex-managing Editor of The Times, dies at 85."
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