Manuscripts
McGroarty, John Steven
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Departments - Employee Relations - Affirmative Action
Manuscripts
Approx. 10 items. LAT Management Bulletins from Otis Chandler (1973), and Tom Johnson (1987); 4-pp. "Affirmative Action Plan" (1973); copy of "Newspeak" column, L.A. Weekly, 8/1987, alleging that LAT was "male-dominated" and that the female staffers were unhappy; copy of editorial, 2/3/1977, L.A. Sentinel, "A time to fight," implying that LAT (unnamed) had too few black staffers and management people; 3-pp. report, "Affirmative Action Activities"; etc.
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Libraries - Los Angeles (2 of 2)
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Approx. 10 items: copy of LAT editorial, 8/3/1921, "The New Library" ; 49-pp. booklet, "Los Angeles Public Library - Central Building," 1927 ; 64-pp. booklet, "Los Angeles Public Library Branches," 1928 ; 78-pp. booklet, "Los Angeles Public Library - 1936" ; 9-pp. transcript of "Broadcast by Mayor Fletcher Bowron and Harold L. Hamill, City Librarian, Station KMPC," 10/12/1947 ; 108-pp. (plus Appendix) booklet, "Organization, Administration, and Management of the Los Angeles Public Library - Volume (3), Central Library," 1/1950 ; two 1986 newsletters with articles on the fires ; brochure, "Building, Art and Text - the Los Angeles Central Library," 9/1993 ; postcard sending holiday greetings from the Security Pacific Photograph Collection postmarked 1985; related materials. Split into two folders.
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Mulholland, William
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9 items: 1-pp. transcript, letter from Moses H. Sherman to William Mulholland, 2/16/(19)14, related to M. accepting a smaller salary than the one offered ; 8 sheets, copied from Public Service (L.A. City bulletin), 6/1920, "A brief historical sketch of the growth of the Los Angeles City Water Department by Wm. Mulholland" ; 2-pp. report copy, undated, by Mulholland, relating to a electric power bond issue (ca. 1910) ; 6-pp. copy of report signed by Mulholland, addressed to the Public Service Board, 8/1/1924 ; copy, info. sheet headed "Mr. Voter - do you know..." (ca. 1920) ; LAT editorial copy, 2/15/1927, "William Mulholland," in praise of the then 71 year-old Mulholland ; 3-pp. biography of M., dated 11/21/1934 ; original booklet, "William Mulholland - Father of the Los Angeles Municipal Water System (1939) ; LAT brief copy, 11/11/1992, "Holland's design not to blame in dam collapse."
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Employees - Spaulding, W. A
Manuscripts
8 items: 10-pp. memoir by Spaulding, "How the trouble commenced," on "the rupture between The Times and the Typographical Union..."; article copy, Among Ourselves, 2/1949, "Men who made The Times," on Spaulding; related info on Spaulding with LAT and as local historian.
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Miller, Freddie
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1 item: 31-pp. transcript of interview with "Freddie" Miller, long-time administrative aide to Otis Chandler . Notable names and subjects include: her childhood and youth (pp. 2 - 8) ; she started at LAT in 1960 when Otis Chandler became publisher ; feedback from the John Birch Society series was one of her first big assignments - draft replies for Otis Chandler (pp. 14 - 15) ; her recollections of the day Norman Chandler died and she aided the family (pp. 19) ; daily activities (pp. 20 - 23) ; OC elected to Board of Associated Press (pp. 29 - 30).
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Employees - Booth, Franklin Otis
Manuscripts
3 items: LAT clipping, 2/29/1968, "Otis Booth Jr. Named VP of Times Mirror" (mounted on sheet of paper); clipping, 8/1968, Western Printer & Lithographer, "Otis Booth, Jr., named"; 2-pp. "Biographical Data" for Franklin Otis Booth, Jr. - personal and professional information, dated 5/1972.
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