Manuscripts

Excavation

Description: Approx. 20 items: letters, reports, forms and blueprints related to excavation work prior to construction of new Times building, 1932 - 1933. Major item: blueprint (with attached paperwork), 7/31/1933, titled "Plot plan -- newspaper plant for the Times-Mirror Co."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1932 - 1933
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Reference Files - Oversized

Manuscripts

4" x 7" 3-ring notebook with title page reading, "Los Angeles Times: Dominating newspaper in America's 4th largest market," 1933; oversize pencil and pen drawing of Editorial page eagle logo; reprints of "Editor and Publisher" article about LAT building, 1935; blueprint copy, "Details Main Lobby Plans & Elevations & Miscellaneous Scale Details," (9/22/1933); blueprint, "Main Lobby Remodeling, Times Mirror Company (4/25/1961); Los Angeles Times - The First 100 Years - A Special Edition of Among Ourselves (2 copies), December 1981. Also a spiral bound book: Times Mirror Planning and Development, master plan, March 1968, by architect William L. Pereira.

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Rubber rollers for Scott Color Press

Manuscripts

Approx. 55 items: letters, financial statements, handwritten notes, a blueprint and a proposal related to purchase and installation of rubber rollers for one or more presses at Times building in the 1933 - 1934 time frame. Companies mostly involved were Times-Mirror Co., Walter Scott & Co. and Niles & Nelson, Inc.

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Miscellaneous - Times Mirror Suggestion Plan

Manuscripts

3 items: two copies of brochure "Times-Mirror Suggestion Plan" (ca. 1950s), "Getting ahead with ideas," Times Mirror Suggestion Plan (ca. 1960s).

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Dispatch conveyors

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items: letters, a memo, a telegram, forms, and other material related to obtaining and installing dispatch conveyors for new Times building in 1933 and 1934. Correspondence is mainly between TM and Cutler-Hammer Inc. Major items: 30" x 54" (approx.) "Second Floor Plan - Times Mirror Co.), Gordon B. Kaufmann (architect), 9/22/1933 ; bound booklet (with cover letter & Cutler-Hammer's Proposal to TM), "Cutler-Hammer Newspaper Conveyors."

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Pressroom - 1959 Campaign letters

Manuscripts

6 items. Form letters from Times-Mirror Company to "...all Times-Mirror pressroom employees and their families." Several letters (over Norman Chandler's signature) were sent in the weeks prior to the 4/16/1959 election in which pressroom employees would vote for or against union representation. On 4/1/1959, a letter went out with an attached sheet titled "Here are the facts," laying out in columns the "Local Union Shop" and "Times-Mirror Co." benefits. The vote went against the union, and on 4/24/1959 another letter was sent thanking the voters for the "strong endorsement of our policies and practices."

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Laventhol, David

Manuscripts

David Laventhol (1933 - ) attended Yale and the University of Minnesota. Prior to joining Times Mirror, he was an editor at the New York Herald Tribune, the Washington Post, and Newsday. Laventhol was President of Times Mirror from 1987-1993, Publisher & CEO from 1989-1993, and Editor-at-Large from 1994-1998. Series include correspondence, reports, and other material related to the Pulitzer Prize Committee, on which Laventhol sat, arranged chronologically. Date range is 1972-1993.

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