Manuscripts

Dissertations and Papers

Description: The History Center provided research material for many academic works and the students would provide their paper in return. Some of the works are about the Times itself, others discuss the newspaper business or the history of Los Angeles and California. Date range is 1925, 1955, 1961, 1969, 1974, 1981, and 1987.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1925-1987
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.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.

History - Publications - "Profile Of A Newspaper"

Manuscripts

3 items. Three printings of "Los Angeles Times: Profile of a Newspaper." The content is duplicated in each, the printing runs were 8/1981, 12/1987 and 10/1988. Three main sections - "A History of The Times," "The Making of a Newspaper," and "Careers at The Times."

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Departments - Employee Relations - Service Awards

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items. Materials include: 6 Management Bulletins, 1987 - 1990, related to LAT service awards and service anniversaries; 22-pp. transcript of 1981 Service Award program remarks, 2/17/1981, by Tom Johnson (LAT Publisher), which take the form of a quick history of LAT and its previous publishers; 2 copies, (blue) program booklet for LAT Service Awards Presentation, 1981; LAT event name badge of "Carolyn Strickler - Archives - 5 Years"; copy of invitation and other items related to 1985 LAT Service Awards, held January 1986; 1989, 1990 LAT Service Awards folders, containing gift catalogs showing gifts available for various service anniversaries

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Departments - Circulation - Subscription receipts

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items: samples of subscription receipts from two centuries. Samples are dated 1887, 1891, 1893, 1895, 1896, 1898, 1903, 1976, 1981, 1987, 1989. One receipt is initialed by Harry Chandler.

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Transportation - Southern Pacific Railroad

Manuscripts

5 items: 105-pp. (clipped but appears incomplete) title - "Historical Outline - Southern Pacific Company" (3/1933, noted on p. 2) ; booklet, Seventy-Five years of Progress, by Erle Heath, 12/1945 ; tear sheet, Sunset, 8/1953, "The Main Line," (SP ad) ; complete issue, Southern Pacific Bulletin, 8/1955 ; brochure for "Railfair Sacramento 1981 - California State Railroad Museum, May 2 to 10, 1981.

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Departments - Circulation - Marketing Research Reports

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items: many loose, 1-pp. reports on circulation; 10-pp. report, "L.A. Times Net Paid Circulation, 1960-1989"; 10-pp. report, "L.A. Times Net Paid Circulation, 1955-1983"; 10-pp. report, "L.A. Times Net Paid Circulation"; 9-pp. report, "L.A. Times Net Paid Circulation, 1976-1980 and Jan. - Sept. 1981"; 9-pp. report, "(LAT) Net Paid Circulation, - 1981-1984 and Jan. - Sept. 1985"; 10-pp. report, "LAT) Net Paid Circulation, 1955-1984"; 10-pp. report, "LAT) Net Paid Circulation, 1959-1988"; (incomplete) "L.A. Times Net Paid Circulation," - 1955-1979 and Jan. - March 1980"; 5-pp. report, LAT, "Circulation and Classified,"Circulation Gains and Losses since 1931"; 10-pp. report, title handwritten at top of page 1 - "Street Sale Circe. Stats, selected months, 1990-94." Compiled by Marketing Research department.

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Best of The Times

Manuscripts

8 items: memos, a letter, a report. Notable subjects and items include: memos and other material on the start-up of a product called "Best of The Times," a free, weekly newspaper containing highlights of the daily version of The Times, which, it was hoped, would stimulate subscriptions ; 2-pp. memo, 9/28/1981, subject - "Pre-print revenue growth" ; 4-pp. financial report, "...Best of The TImes Operating Statement - Total...Final 1981."

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