Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Approx. 20 items. Material includes: copies of articles from Among Ourselves (various years) relating to motion picture news; excerpts from books, Thinking Big and Hedda and Loulla; 2 memos from 1990 (to Ron Iori) with LAT Calendar section history info.; etc.
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Approx. 20 items. Materials include: article copy, Among Ourselves, 4/1960, "Times, Mirror news libraries are key information centers"; 1-pp., copied from a history of LAT, the writer seems to be Harrison Gray Otis, because, in referring to the aftermath of the 1910 explosion and fire at LAT, the text reads, "I have been gradually collecting books...for a reference library, and...am keeping them at 'The Bivouac' [Otis's home on Wilshire Blvd.], (rather than) the temporary editorial rooms of The Times."; 3-pp. memo, 2/23/1954, "Defendant's pre-trial memorandum - The Times-Mirror Co. vs. U.S. of America"; 46-pp. spiral-bound report, "Editorial Library - User Survey," by Cecily J. Surace, 11/1980; 19-pp. report by graduate students in library / information science (Livia Di Mare/Glenn Johnson-Grau) on the Edit. Lib., 1992, recounting the history, services, resources, and research practices, and describing departments within the library; articles on the library from AO, 1927, 1976; info on LAT database's availability on Nexis; 11-pp. booklet, 12/1982, "Guide to the (LAT) Editorial Library"; article copy, CD-ROM Professional (mag), "Searching Los Angeles Times DIALOG OnDisc: The Times Editorial Library Experience," by Dorothy Ingebretsen and Steven Tice; plus assorted brief reports on aspects of the library.
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Approx. 12 items. Material includes: various chronological listings of LAT Editors; tear sheet of Among Ourselves, 6/1974, with photo essay, "The Senior Editors"; "Newspeak" column from L.A. Weekly (sarcastic coverage of other L.A. publications), 8/7-13/1987; 2-pp. (yellow) sheets with info on editor chrono., plus additional info on Harry Andrews, Leroy Mosher and Charles Lummis; dupes of some of above items; article, Time (mag), 6/28/1971, "Chandler's Change of Heart," on last minute switch by Otis Chandler in placing William F. Thomas into top Editor position instead of an earlier choice, Robert J. Donovan; article, Newsweek, 9/6/1971 (same topic as Time article; LAT article, undated, "Cotliar to replace Haven as Times Managing Editor."
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Approx. 30 items. Materials include: approx. 15 Employee Bulletins, 1983 - 1990, announcing fund-raising events, food drives, career fairs, etc.; 3 Management Bulletins, 1986 - 1990, announcing an employee appreciation day related to circulation gains, LAT Service Awards, etc.; info related to PLUS, LAT's substance abuse education program; LAT Employees Dugout Derby Contest, 1990
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Approx. 20 items. Materials include: 10-pp. "booklet" (w/ paper clip), "Directions for using the Telephotograver in sending and receiving news pictures by wire" [1920s?]; 1-pp. of info. headed "Wirephoto - modern miracle," 7/15/1943; various Among Ourselves articles, 1928 - 1931, on wirephotos and wire services; news clips, 1925 - 1939 , related to wirephotos; 6-pp. headed "History" [of LAT News Bureau], provides information on that activity from beginning in 1912 to 1942; 4-pp. "Examination of news agencies," an extended set of questions on history, organization, type of services, charges, etc., offered by news agencies (a template for analysis); clips on both AP and UPI having had offices inside LAT building at one time; LAT article, 4/3/1988, "The AP - it's everywhere and powerful," by David Shaw; LAT article by Nick B. Williams, 10/7/1962, "Birth of vital new wire service" (L.A. Times - Wash. Post); other related material.
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Approx. 20 items. Material includes: tear sheet, 3/9/1937, 3 photos/captions allegedly showing that (L.A.) Examiner retouched and used LAT photo of wounded DA Fitts, "Here is a study of pictorial journalism"; stack of approx. 15 typed, photocopied sheets describing LAT's coverage of nation and world in editorials (1939-40); 13-pp. report, typed on yellow paper, gives headlines and summary of editorials, headed "Pre-WW2 (Asia, Europe) 1926-38 - HC-NC (& LEAGUE failures)"; single sheet, typed, "The Times' Creed," calls for "the loyalty of every Phalanx member [all staffers]"; copy of brief editorial, 6/23/1932, headline, "Things aren't so bad when...", opening with "Daily we see or hear about some kindly deed"; clips of editorials related to LAT policy toward Spanish-speaking Angelenos, tobacco--how harmful?, increase in crime, Gen. Otis' "carefully-wrought instructions" to "Mr. and Mrs. Harry Chandler" about how to conduct LAT operation "after his demise" (1917); a 1929 thesis presented at Claremont Colleges, "Los Angeles Times and Public Opinion," which points up the ultra-conservative viewpoint of LAT editorial policy; 3/24/1976 info sheet [LAT Editorial Policy] on LAT daily column, "Information," which appeared in the 1910s, and which was a mouthpiece for the anti-union stance of the paper; 28-pp. (yellow sheets) headed, "Times & opposition papers (SG chronology)," beginning in 1881, running to 1914; plastic bag containing several copies of editorials, 1919-1934, on the subjects "hard liquor advertising," the Lindbergh kidnapping," "the press and the public," and "yellow journalism."
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