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Fire alarm - night watch (system) - phone alarm
Manuscripts
Approx. 25 items: letters, memos, handwritten notes, reports and proposals related to fire and security systems for Times building in the 1933 to 1935 time frame. Correspondence mostly involved Times-Mirror and American District Telegraph Co.
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Charles Owens original artwork for the Los Angeles Times
Manuscripts
20-plus items: Times staff artist Charles Owens illustrations, mostly maps, but also drawings of the Times building bombing of 1910, World War II maps, and other items. Includes newspaper pages, original drawings.
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Architecture and Historic Preservation - Los Angeles
Manuscripts
Approx. 40 items: article tear sheets and copies from LAT, Sunset, Westways, L.A. Herald-Examiner, Downtown News, Los Angeles (mag), and others. Material mostly written between 1960s and 1990s but examining the Los Angeles lifestyles of earlier decades. Highlights: original of house sales booklet, The New Spanish Bungalow, 1923; multi-page tear sheet, L.A. Herald-Examiner, 12/31/1967, "The Los Angeles that Was"; typed list (7-pp.) of 145 "Historic-Cultural Monuments" in City of Los Angeles, as of 1975; 2 copies of a postcard featuring Dominguez Adobe Rancho San Pedro labeled "Historic Preservation" postmarked "first day of issue Sep 16, 1984".
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Departments - Administrative Services
Manuscripts
Approx. 25 items. Most items are LAT "Management Bulletins" or "Employee Bulletins," 1983 - 1990. Also a 1958 Philip Chandler memo on LAT mail procedures and mail costs, and 1989 LAT flyer, "The Case of the Relocated Departments," to explain (with humor) how to find departments that had been relocated across Spring St. from Times Mirror Square (text, map and illustrations).
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Departments - Production - Composing Room Museum
Manuscripts
3 items. Materials include: 3-pp. list, "Composing Room Inventory, undated; 8-pp. handwritten list, headed "A corner of the composing room, 1884 - 1974," 7/25/1991; article copy, Among Ourselves, 7/1977, photo caption begins - "A corner of the Composing Room--about the way it looked from 1881 to 1974, when The Times converted to 100% photocomposition--is now open."
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Employees - Chapin, Will
Manuscripts
Approx. 15 items: LAT article (several copies) 5/26/1937, "Friends greet Will Chapin, cartoonist, on [80th] birthday"; a selection of undated copies of his illustrations; correspondence between Douglas Dodds of Walnut Creek, CA. and LAT writer Ruth Ryon, related to Chapin's works of sculpture; unbound proofs for Cartoons by Will E. Chapin, a collection of approx. 90 Chapin illustrations (published 1899); article copy, Among Ourselves, 5/1948, "personality sketch" on Chapin for the occasional column "The Men who made The Times."
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