Manuscripts

Overall Objectives

Description: Reports and interoffice correspondence from 1982-1983 regarding short and long term goals and objectives for the Archives, primarily from Lois Markwith to Jim Boswell. Also includes Data Processing Department organization papers from 1969.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1969, 1982-1983
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.

History Center Goals

Manuscripts

History Center 1995 goals and objectives in interoffice correspondence between Dan Lewis and Laura Morgan in various stages of revision; copies of History Center guides and newsletters outlining archival resources (reference materials, publishers' papers, business and editorial departments' records, and special materials), access, and characteristics for archival records.

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Facilities objectives

Manuscripts

Goals chart with Society of American Archivists' recommendations for business archives facilities listed with the short and long term goals of the History Center for facilities.

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Employees - Tennyson, Al -- Autobiography

Manuscripts

2 items: cover letter with autobiography, from Tennyson to Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, 12/14/1983; 83-pp. manuscript (plus 14-pp. Addendum), "An expose' of newspapering -- really a homespun autobiography..." titled, The Prevailing Spirit, by A. Tennyson.

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Editorial Objectives

Manuscripts

Approx. 40 items. Memos and other material related to changes, goals performance plans and objectives for Editorial. Guiding this process were Otis Chandler, Nick Williams, Frank Haven, Frank McCulloch, and others. Also included is the 1/15/1961 article written by Nick Williams on the new Times format.

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Garland, William May

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6 items: two copies of transcript headed "Story of the origin of the Xth Olympiad held in Los Angeles, California, in 1932, as written by William May Garland, one is 33 pp., the other ends with pp. 28, ; letter, 6/6/1983, to Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, from Lee Whitney, Editor of You (mag) ; LAT sports tear sheets for 12/10/1983, and misc. copies of same.

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Employees - Shaffer, James B

Manuscripts

3 items: 2-pp. professional resume for James B. Shaffer and cover note from S. to Lois Markwith (ca. 1982); Guest List for luncheon, 1/7/1983, Shaffer was guest of honor; Management Bulletin, 9/26/1989, opens - "Jim Shaffer, v.p., finance and planning, has announced that he will leave The Times to join Sun-Times Co. as v.p., effective October 16."

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