Manuscripts

Periodicals

Description: Monthly magazines and newsletters for newsboys, Times Dealers, and staff of the Circulation Department. Titles include Young Timers, Circulation News, Activity Sheet, Our Times, Around the Dial, and Circulation Times. Each includes profiles of employees, promotions information, personal news, and photographs. Date range is 1952-1993.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1952-1993
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Young Timers

Manuscripts

4 items: four issues of Young Timers, a magazine/newsletter for LAT newsboys - Nov. - Dec. 1952, Sept. - Oct. 1955, Jan. - Feb. 1956, July - August 1957.

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Departments - Employee Relations - Employee Clubs and Organizations

Manuscripts

9 items: 3 programs for LAT Bowling League banquets, 17th (1944), 26th (1953) and 27th (1954); LAT tear sheet, 5/6/1934, "Times old timers," with group photo and name list of long-time employees; "1958 Times-Mirror Softball League Circulation Statistics"; description of three 1958 TM Softball League Playoff games; one Management Bulletin, 10/30/1989.

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Our Times / Circulation Times

Manuscripts

12 items: twelve issues of the monthly Subscriber Service Center newsletter, named Our Times from January through September, Circulation Times from October through December 1980.

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Our Times

Manuscripts

13 items: monthly issues of Our Times, January through December, 1979, plus a directory with photos, names and job titles - "Who's Who in the Circulation Subscriber Service Center" [ca. 1979].

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Departments - Circulation - Incentive programs

Manuscripts

Thin, black, 3-hole binder containing a number of responses to requests for description and explanation of circulation sales incentive plans used by other major newspapers around the United States. Responses were received from Dallas Morning News, Gannett Newspapers, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Des Moines Register. Information packet (stapled), 12-pp., "Pick up the world-Travel Adventures." Page 1 reads, in part, "Get ready for the time of your life... by participating in the L.A. Times Circulation Department's 1979 travel incentive program, you could soon be enjoying eight fabulous days in lively Mexico, unspoiled Maui or aboard a (cruise) to the Mexican Riviera. (This is) the finest travel package The Times has ever offered to its home delivery agents and dealers." [The remaining pages describe an ideal vacation for each of the three options.] Binding on 1959 publication removed.

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Departments - Circulation - Miscellaneous Sources

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items. Material includes: small booklet, staple-bound, "What has happened to Times circulation during the last five years?" - aimed at advertisers; photo-text essay from Among Ourselves, 11/1951, "Handling largest daily, Sunday circulation in the West"; AO article, 7/1960, "Circulation of Times 'Way Out Front"; various in-house reports on LAT circulation compared to Herald, Examiner, Daily News, Mirror, etc.; 1/1/1910 LAT ad touting circulation achievements 1900-1910, "Largest daily and Sunday newspaper published in California," "Independent, progressive, trustworthy, fearless"; LAT article, 10/30/1984, "Daily News, La Opinion lead area papers in circulation growth..."; (LAT) Circulation History, Daily 1887-1993, Sunday 1895-1993; 4 "Employee Bulletin(s)" 1990-91, all about circulation gains.

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