Manuscripts

Foreign Countries - Panama (Panama Canal)

Description: 5 items: original booklet, undated, "Souvenir and log of my voyage," presented by Panama Mail S.S. Co. (ca. 1935); illustrated aerial view of Panama Canal by Charles H. Owens of the LAT Art Staff, undated; 10-pp. report on "Panama ... Crossroads of the Hemisphere," prepared by Middle America Information Bureau / United Fruit Co., 1/25/1946; original book, The Panama Canal - Fiftieth Anniversary, prepared by The Panama Canal Co., 1964; brochure, "Current Foreign Policy" (Dept. of State) , 10/1972.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: circa 1935 - 1972
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.

Foreign Countries - USSR

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items: (all LAT editorials) 2/7/1904, "A friend in need"; 3/13/1904, "[For Russia -- again, why?"; 5/10/1904, "Where the line is drawn"; 5/12/1904, "What a Japanese victory [in Russo-Japanese war] would mean"; 7/17/1904, "Russia our friend"; 3/5/1905, "Russia's faithless masters"; 6/14/1905, "Los Angeles the place (the Russian cause)"; 4/27/1907, "Experience vs. speculation," 7/31/1927, "Those Russian loans"; 11/18/1933, "Russia is recognized."

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Foreign Countries - China

Manuscripts

2 items: LAT editorial, 8/10/1930, "The sick man among nations"; LAT editorial, 11/23/1930, "A problem for civilization."

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Foreign Countries - Europe

Manuscripts

6 items. LAT editorials: 11/29/1925, "The United States of Europe"; 12/10/1925, "Mussolini our eulogist"; 12/24/1925, "Italy as an empire"; 3/30/1927, "Europe in the remaking"; 4/2/1927, "International spite fences." LAT interview, "A notable interview (of Englebert Dollfuss).

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Los Angeles - Tourism

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: copies of LAT clips--editorials, ads and promotions--1901 - 1919, related to tourism and real estate ; booklet, undated, "10 Fun auto trips with a day's drive of Los Angeles," prepared by American Petroleum Institute and presented by LAT ; copy LAT editorial, "The cliché that never dies," 1/2/1962 ; 1976 Art Seidenbaum column, "Tourist industry lacks industry."

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Foreign Countries - Mexico

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: LAT articles, features and editorials on the people, politics and lifestyles of Mexico; 3-pp. timeline, titled [on 3rd sheet] "Mexican Border War - 1916," mentioning Woodrow Wilson, Francisco "Pancho" Villa and Gen. John J. Pershing; 6-pp. (442 - 447) copied from book Yellowlegs, by Richard Wormser (1966).

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Foreign Countries - Vietnam

Manuscripts

Approx. 60 items: copies, tear sheets and reprints of LAT news stories and editorials on the Vietnam conflict. They trace the evolution of U.S. involvement from a scattering of advisors in the early 1960s, through the negotiations, to the pullout of the mid 1970s. A sampling of headlines: 12/18/1961, "The deepening war in Vietnam"; 2/20/1966, "Vietnam... a complicated crisis"; 6/7/1970, "Get out of Vietnam NOW."

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Foreign Countries - Panama (Panama Canal)

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