Manuscripts
Employees - Schultz, James Willard
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Stereotype Department - General Info
Manuscripts
1 item: report, approx. 40-pp., "General Information for Los Angeles Times Stereotype Department - 1951.Approx. 10 items: stack of bios for Transportation personnel ; several Among Ourselves articles on LAT Transportation, 1950s thru 1970s ; 3-pp. handwritten item, "Transportation Memories," received by LAT in 1982, written by John R. Shepherd, who started with LAT in 1926 ; several pieces of correspondence between LAT Archivist Carolyn Strickler and Robert McVay, who was working on an article about Pacific Electric's "Big Red Cars" (including the fact that LAT was, in part, delivered to other southern California cities via PE's trains ; other LAT materials related to Transportation.
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Subjects - Disney
Manuscripts
2 items: cover note from Boswell to archivist Carolyn (Strickler) mentioning "Conrad, Jack Smith...Jerry Hulse" ; letter, 3/24/1989, from Michael Eisner of Walt Disney Co. to Tom Johnson, LAT Publisher, requesting a donation to support Landmark West School, "Southern California's only nonprofit school specifically serving high potential dyslexic children."
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Employees - French, Oliver
Manuscripts
3 items: 2-pp. bio [1945], Oliver French - Editor, Sunday Art Dept.; Interoffice Correspondence, 6/7/1988; notes on the LAT career of French; covering note for previous, also dated 6/7/1988, from Robert Bills to Carolyn [Strickler].
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Los Angeles - Name
Manuscripts
2 items: cover letter, sent to Carolyn Strickler, LAT Archivist, from Jean Bruce Poole, Curator, El Pueblo de Los Angeles State Historic Park,12/31/1985 (referencing next entry) ; article copy, 7-pp., Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, Spring 1973, "Los Angeles, California...the question of the City's original Spanish name."
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Employees - Wright, Willard Huntington
Manuscripts
Approx. 15 items: article copy, Smart Set, 3/1913, "Los Angeles -- the chemically pure," by Willard Huntington Wright; a selection of Wright's writing for LAT circa 1910 (he began reviewing books in 1907); selection of writings about Wright and his pseudonym, "S.S. Van Dine" from the 1930s, when he was engaged in writing a series of popular mystery novels; LAT obit copy, 4/13/1939, "Death comes to Van Dine"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 4/1948, "Men who made The Times"; two copies, LAT article (West mag), "Los Angeles and the library hatchet men"; Jack Smith column, LAT, 11/4/1974, "Comeuppance for a critic"; a copy of a journal, Manuscripts, Spring 1983, containing the essay, "In search of S.S. Van Dine," pp. 89-100; cover note from author John Cornell attached to copy of 2-pp. article from The Lens, 10/1988, "Famous put-down of our area 75 years ago..."; 3-pp. of copies of index cards (LAT?) on "Wright, Willard Huntington"; related material.
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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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