Manuscripts

Departments - History Center

Description: Approx. 12 items. Materials include: 3 Management Bulletins, 1978 - 1990, on Lois Markwith's appointment as LAT Archivist, 12/1986 memo on name change from Archives Department to LAT History Center (effective (1/1987), organizational changes involving many departments including History Center; one copy of 16-pp., Times Mirror (mag.), Spring 1988; 2 copies of LAT History Center holiday greeting card (1984) by So. Calif. artist Ben Abril; one complete issue of Among Ourselves, 6/1984; one copy, "Guide to the Los Angeles Times History Center" (no date), other ephemera related to History Center.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1978 - 1990
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Articles

Manuscripts

4 items: original and one copy, New York Times, 2/19/1984, "A Times Mirror headache"; clip, LAT, 3/28/1984, "Times Mirror loses cross-ownership issue"; tear sheet, Dun's Business Monthly, 12/1984, "Times Mirror's media blitz."

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Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1984 - Paul Conrad and Latino series

Manuscripts

4 items: paperbound book - 9" x 12", Southern California's Latino Community, a series of articles reprinted from LAT, 1983;, LAT article copy, 5/1984, "Times wins 2 Pulitzers...public service, Conrad"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 5/1984, "Times wins two Pulitzers"; full-page ad from LAT, 6/10/1984, headed "The Pulitzers are the Gold Medals of our business -- Times Mirror."

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Departments - Information Systems

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items. Materials include: memo, 3/25/1977, reading, in part, "Effective today, the name of the Data Processing Department has been changed to Information Systems Department"; two LAT brochures, "Information Systems," (3/1978); memo, 9/17/1975, "Organizational Changes" (on name changes w/i Systems & Programming department; tabloid-sized issue, 12/6/1975, The Pac-Times Presenter, a joint publication of Pacific Telephone and LAT, describing the development of "a complete telecommunications system" by PacTel for LAT; article, Among Ourselves, 12/1949 (copy), "Tabulating Department's Mechanical Brains know all the answers"; article copy, 10/1977, Among Ourselves, "New Computer Center in Service"; booklet, 24-pp., 11/1961, The Corner Cut, L.A. Chapter National Machine Accountants Association, lead article, "History in Headlines," on LAT; Information Systems bulletin, 3-pp., 6/13/1989, "Personal Computer Security," 10-pp. sheaf, "Information Systems Bulletin--In-house personal computer software training"; 2-pp. memo, "Communications Services," 9/11/1990; memo, 11/7/1990, "Special Services Mail."

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Departments - Display Advertising - Promotion

Manuscripts

6 items. Materials include: 20-pp. promotional booklet on LAT Home Magazine (1982); promo flyer (1984) for Home magazine reprints on '84 Olympics; 5 sheets (stapled) with financial figures - "Home Magazine offers national advertisers a better advertising value than California Magazine"; promotional packet in folder, "International Opportunities in the Los Angeles Times" (1984); info packet in folder, "(LAT) Television Times," 1981; ad for "Nuestro Tiempo" clipped from 9/12/1988 LAT.

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Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - History

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: 2 LAT article copies related to LAT train / Pan-American Exposition train travel promo (1901); copy of ad headed "The Times and Sunset Magazine," (early 1900s issue); clippings on LAT involvement in Red Cross drives, war bond sales, etc.; 3-pp. report, "(LAT) civic activities and history since 1900," ca. 1960; info (on tiny slip of brown paper) on "Premiums with The Times included shotguns (1891)...copies of the poems of Eliza A. Otis...a sewing machine (1886)...The Times Almanac"; 2-pp. copies of Times-Mirror Co. "Promotion Department Expense[s] for...1920"; copies of Among Ourselves articles related to Promotion / Public Relations departments from 1930, 1956 and 1958; 2-pp. report, 4/29/1959, "Survey of Times-Mirror Company Public Service Activities," added in handwritten note - "Charities - Public Service."

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Theaters - Music Center of Los Angeles County

Manuscripts

Approx. 40 items: selected clips from LAT, Downtown News, Time (magazine), various brochures and booklets. Notable items: 10-pp. report from (LAT staffer) Ed Ainsworth to "Mrs. [Dorothy] Chandler," 12/9/1957, "Civic Auditorium Memorandum" ; brochure, (8/1963?) "An invitation to become a founder of The Music Center - a living memorial to peace" ; brochure, "Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra - The Music Center...1964-1965 Inaugural Season" ; cover & article tear sheets, Time, 12/18/1964, story on The Music Center and Dorothy Chandler ; souvenir booklet, The Music Center, 1968 ; 2 copies of booklet, LA Edition - Fall/Winter 1984, with articles on The Music Center and on Dorothy Chandler ; LAT tear sheets, 5/10/1987, Calendar cover story, "The Music Center - What lies ahead?"

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