Manuscripts

Water - Fallbrook

Description: Approx. 15 items: LAT clips and copies over a ten year period recording the legal battle between the San Diego County town of Fallbrook and the U.S. government over water rights - LAT originally broke the story.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1951 - 1961
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.

Fallbrook Case

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items: correspondence related to the so-called "Fallbrook Case," involving water rights ; Fallbrook Utility District ; Goodwin J. Knight (Lt. Gov., CA) ; correspondence between William F. Knowland (U.S. Senate) and Norman Chandler on water issues ; Richard Nixon (U.S. Senate) ; more.

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Water - Miscellaneous

Manuscripts

Approx. 50 items - letters, newsletters, clippings, a press release and one article tear sheet. Notable names and items include: Harold Kennedy (County Counsel) ; letters on salt water conversion ; materials labeled "Fallbrook Water" (1956) that reflect "feud" between LAT and Claremont Men's College history prof. W. Henry Cooke, including his article in Pacific Historical Review (2/1956), "The controversy over water rights in the Santa Marguerita River" (pp. 1 - 28 ; Arthur Breed (CA Senate) ; reprint from Congressional Record, 8/2/1955 ; Soil Conservation Society of America ; CA Atty. Gen. Edmund G. Brown ; complete issues of District News - Imperial Irrigation District, 3/1967 - 4/1967 ; Gov. Goodwin J. Knight ; more.

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Politics - California State Legislature

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: staple-bound booklet with ten articles, both political commentary and editorials, on California State Legislature, pay raises and conflict of interest for lawmakers, all 1965 ; several editorials on updating the State Constitution, 1966 ; LAT editorial, "Ethics in the State Senate, 6/26/1969 ; other clips with commentary through 1976.

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Clippings

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items: clippings, tear sheets and promotional items about LAT writers and their accomplishments. Many of the clips are original newsprint clips mounted on sheets of paper (and "yellowing").

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California - Northern vs. Southern

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: various chronologies recording dates of newspaper articles from both L.A. and San Francisco related to the often rocky relationship between the two cities and between northern and southern California; clips and copies from newspapers in both cities; 4-pp. reprint featuring stories from San Francisco, dated 4/19/1906, and headed "The Call=Chronicle=Examiner," all under the banner headline "Earthquake and fire...San Francisco in ruins"; transcription of S.F. Call editorial of 11/21/1908, "San Francisco does not forget," responding to alleged slurs by Harrison Gray Otis in LAT; 3-pp. chronology, headed "SO. CAL. vs. NO. CAL., 1881 - [1911] ; memo with attached clips, on LAT coverage of the point in the early 1960s when California became the most populous state in the union.

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Financial Condition - Clippings

Manuscripts

Approx. 65 items: LAT clips for decade of 1960s, most stories dealing with stock price gains.

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