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. 15 items: four original examples of the Los Angeles Conservancy newsletter (1987 - 1990); brochure, "Streamline Los Angeles," photos of Streamline Modern architecture ; tabloid size newspaper, "Palaces of Finance - A walking tour of the Spring Street Historic District (L.A. Conservancy & Spring Street Assn.) various Conservancy walking tour brochures, undated, for "Broadway Historic Theater District," "Seventh Street - Mecca for Merchants," "Pershing Square Landmarks," "The Miracle Mile," Hollywood Boulevard, etc.
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Approx. 20 items: LAT article copies, 1900 - 1919, on such subjects as retail prices--using ads to record them--real estate, crime, culture and tamale vendors.
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Approx. 15 items: selected Jack Smith columns (1970s), and other LAT materials on the lifestyles of Los Angeles ; a 1974 New Yorker review of "Earthquake," a film in which L.A. is destroyed ; 2-pp.(yellow sheets) about L.A. transcribed from Alistair Cooke's book, America, 1973 ; 2 copies of article from Smart Set (mag), 3/1913, "Los Angeles -- the chemically pure, by Willard Huntington Wright (S.S. Van Dine) ; related material.
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8 items: typed single sheet with introduction for Carolyn Murray, attached to 9-pp. speech transcript which begins, "People are always asking me..." (both undated) ; 15-pp. (76 - 90) copied from "The Sunday Supplement in transition," by Glen W. Peters (USC School of Journalism, Master of Arts Thesis, 1969) ; clip copy, 6/15/1975, "It's our birthday," article about Home magazine ; 11-pp. transcript of "Taping with Carolyn Murray, Editor of Home magazine," 10/15/1975 ; tear sheet of article, "50 Great Americans [wines]" by Robert Lawrence Balzer, Home, 10/12/1975 ; 8-pp. issue of Times Mirror Progress, Vol. 14, 1976, on pp. 5 is an article on Carolyn Murray.
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Approx. 20 items. Brochures, booklets and articles on the history and architecture of various neighborhoods. Designated neighborhoods and year of publication, if found: "New arrivals upgrade....Fremont Place, Hancock Park, Windsor Square...", 3/9/1980 ; Windsor Square - Hancock Park Historical Society, 1981 ; Greater Rancho La Brea (booklets - green), 1984 ; "The Miracle Mile - an historical tour" (L.A. Conservancy), 1984 ; "Lafayette Square ," historical / architectural information undated) ; "The Better City and its finer suburbs" - title of 1909 publ. used as front page for "Alvarado Terrace House Tour," L.A. Conservancy, 1982 ; "Now & Then in Historic West Adams, 1987 ; related materials.
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6 items. The file includes: a long letter from Williams to Robert T. Hood, Editor of The Bulletin (of the L.A. County Med. Assn.) reacting to an article in The Bulletin (1/18/1968) criticizing the American press in general; a tear sheet of the article, actually the text of a speech by Dr. Jean Crum; LAT memo to Williams indicating that Hood was "an extreme right winger"; a Williams letter to Hood; a contrite response to Williams' letter to Hood; a "reply" by Dr. Crum which ran in The Bulletin (2/15/1968).
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