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Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Approx. 10 items: audit reports for various L.A. newspapers--The Times, Daily News, Examiner, etc.--for 1943 - 1944 ; Publisher's Statement for L.A. newspapers, 1944.
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2 items: 2-pp. list of "Los Angeles Times Extra Editions" (Note included - "This is not necessarily a complete list), 2/1884 - 1/1986, with 31 "Extra" (banner) headlines over a period of 102 years, for example, December 8, 1941, "IT'S WAR!"; graphic example (2 cps), "L.A. AREA RAIDED!," 2/25/1942 - Jap Planes Peril Santa Monica, Seal Beach..."
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Approx. 15 items: memos and reports related to the transition from old Home magazine to new Los Angeles Times Magazine. Notable item: an approx. 50-pp. packet titled "Advertiser and Reader reactions to redisinged Sunday Magazine - (L.A.) Time Magazine prototype, Pleasrues prototype, presentation of study results, (6/18/1984), SRI international."
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Approx. 20 items. Material includes: tear sheet, 3/9/1937, 3 photos/captions allegedly showing that (L.A.) Examiner retouched and used LAT photo of wounded DA Fitts, "Here is a study of pictorial journalism"; stack of approx. 15 typed, photocopied sheets describing LAT's coverage of nation and world in editorials (1939-40); 13-pp. report, typed on yellow paper, gives headlines and summary of editorials, headed "Pre-WW2 (Asia, Europe) 1926-38 - HC-NC (& LEAGUE failures)"; single sheet, typed, "The Times' Creed," calls for "the loyalty of every Phalanx member [all staffers]"; copy of brief editorial, 6/23/1932, headline, "Things aren't so bad when...", opening with "Daily we see or hear about some kindly deed"; clips of editorials related to LAT policy toward Spanish-speaking Angelenos, tobacco--how harmful?, increase in crime, Gen. Otis' "carefully-wrought instructions" to "Mr. and Mrs. Harry Chandler" about how to conduct LAT operation "after his demise" (1917); a 1929 thesis presented at Claremont Colleges, "Los Angeles Times and Public Opinion," which points up the ultra-conservative viewpoint of LAT editorial policy; 3/24/1976 info sheet [LAT Editorial Policy] on LAT daily column, "Information," which appeared in the 1910s, and which was a mouthpiece for the anti-union stance of the paper; 28-pp. (yellow sheets) headed, "Times & opposition papers (SG chronology)," beginning in 1881, running to 1914; plastic bag containing several copies of editorials, 1919-1934, on the subjects "hard liquor advertising," the Lindbergh kidnapping," "the press and the public," and "yellow journalism."
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One item comprising of two pages pertaining to L.A. Press Club Awards.
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6 items. File contains 17 pp. report titled "Tomorrow's Editors: A report on the status of journalism education..." 2 pp. memo headed "Personnel" from Frank McCulloch to Williams (with margin notes) on topic of attracting and keeping talented staffers. A considerable amount of discussion concerning the role of editorial work and the value of staffers educates as journalists. Also a few other memos, including one headed "Ideas on Editorial Recruitment." Undated memo to Otis Chandler notes "Newspapers are now attracting by far the best all-around talent they ever attracted. This used to be a business for showoffs, crackpots and drunks, with an occasional brilliant reporter. It isn't that way now.
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