Manuscripts

Employees - Schultz, James Willard

Description: 3 items: copies of cover and 6 pp. of text from The Life and Times of James Willard Schultz (Apikuni) by Warren L. Hanna; copy of entry on James Willard Schultz (1859 - 1947) from Who Was Who in America; LAT memo, 11/12/1987, to Carolyn Strickler (LAT archivist) from Jack Miles (Book Review Editor) explaining that Schultz was a Times staffer "from 1907 to about 1913," and providing other info.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 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.

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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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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Departments - Circulation - Delivery wagons

Manuscripts

5 items: note from Robert Erburu to Carolyn Strickler (2/12/1990) asking to retrieve a "Times four-wheel wagon that...I kept in my office until it was remodeled in 1986...the wagon was sent to the Archives"; Carolyn Strickler reply to Mr. Erburu (2/21/1990), reading in part, "...we do indeed have it. Just let me know when you want us to bring it up"; copy of photo and article, "And we all ride," from Among Ourselves, 7/1927; additional photocopies of photos of LAT 4-wheeled wagons of the 1920s. The wagons are now a collector's item. The logo "Buy the Los Angeles Times from me" was painted on the side of the wagons.

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Foundation

Manuscripts

4 items: LAT clip, 6/10/1975, "Chandlers, Foundation set up Stanford professorship"; Bill of Rights in Action, Fall 1987 (complete issue), plus cover note on "mentions" of LAT in the publication from Juli Kinrich to Craig [St. Clair]; brief clip, Downtown News, 12/12/1988, "Times Mirror drops dance gallery"; article copy, Woodbury University Continuum, Summer 1990, with cover note to Carolyn Strickler from Michele Biagioni, title, "Times Library dedication reflects longtime relationship."

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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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