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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
Approx. 30 items: major item - pp. 6 - 68 of a monograph written at Whittier College by Dorothy Sheets, 7/1943, "Anti- Japanese agitation in California - studied at three periods of crisis" ; LAT clips & copies, articles on Japanese - Americans in the USA during the entire 20th century, plus World War II issues.
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Approx. 20 items: LAT copies, news clips, feature stories and editorials, on the Chinese community and their interaction with other citizens of Los Angeles; complete issue, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Quarterly, Fall 1967, including article, "The Chinese in Los Angeles"; 2-pp. copied from L.A. City Historical Society Newsletter, 3/1988, "Bing cherries, Pebble Beach and Lotus"; tear sheet, (L.A.) Downtown News, 6/6/1988, cover story on Chinatown.
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Approx. 15 items: a collection of LAT article clips and copies on various aspects of American Indians. The earliest examples are from 1886, 1888, and 1889, exhibiting a wide range of attitudes towards "the indian problem." Also a 1973 "rereading" and fresh review, by Robert Kirsch, of the novel Ramona (1885) and a 6-pp. excerpt copied from West of the West, by Robert Kirsch and William S. Murphy.
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6 items: undated note (no year), from Harry Carr to Carey McWilliams on a writings about L.A. ; letter copy, 6/6/1931, from Carr to McWilliams related to Mc writing for LAT ; letter copy, 6/29/1931, same writers, same subject ; letter copy, 10/20/1931, same writers, same subject ; 3-pp. letter, 9/8/1975, from Carey McWilliams to James Bassett of LAT, relating some of M's experiences working for LAT in the 1920s ; LAT brief copy, "Newsmakers...Carey McWilliams has resigned as editor of The Nation (after 20 years)..."
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Approx. 15 items: LAT clips and copies, 1893 - 1985, news stories, columns and editorials on the Jewish community in Los Angeles; brochure, "The Jews of Los Angeles," 1981, the main section of the brochure is "Los Angeles Jewry - a chronology" [1840 - 1981] ; pp. 1 - 38 of March / April 1986 issue of The Californians - the Magazine of California History [ pp. 1-38 featured articles on the history of California Jewry.
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Correspondence regarding African Americans, including a proposed American Press Institute seminar for editors and publishers of African American newspapers. Includes correspondence to/from Harry Chandler and L. D. Hotchkiss. File of L. D. Hotchkiss.
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