Manuscripts

Erotica

Description: 5 items: five booklets, printed ca. 1930 [?}, featuring mild (by 21st century standards) nude photos and text. Each item, in a plastic sleeve, has a note in the sleeve reading in part, "Purchased Jan. 1985." Among the titles, Pictorial French Follies (& Fiction), Scanty Washing and Nudisme et Paysages.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1929, 1930
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Los Angeles Times Magazine

Manuscripts

3 items: (in plastic sleeve) Los Angeles Times Magazine, 10/6/1985.

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1 item:(in plastic sleeve in folder) Modern Maturity, 10-11/1985 (includes advertisement for Los Angeles Times Magazine.

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Advertisement in TV Times

Manuscripts

1 item:(in plastic sleeve in folder) Television Times, Los Angeles Times weekly television listings, 9/22/1985. Includes advertisement for Los Angeles Times Magazine.

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Employees - Carr, Harry - Will Rogers Memorial Booklet

Manuscripts

4 items: (in plastic sleeve) cardboard box with label on top reading "To Will Rogers: Vaya Con Dios," by Harry Carr; (in plastic sleeve) a copy of To Will Rogers: Vaya Con Dios, with a interwoven twine binding; brief letter, addressed "Dear Myra," from Carolyn Strickler, 5/13/1987, thanking her for the donation of the Harry Carr tribute to Will Rogers; LAT Certificate of Gift, to Myra Sawyer, (for the Will Rogers Tribute book mentioned above), 5/16/1987.

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Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Promotional Items - Early

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items. Materials include: 2.5" x 3.5" booklet, "Who's Who and What's What in Sports (LAT); (in plastic sleeve) pink & blue satin cloth imprinted with H.G.O. picture and new building, dedicated 10-1-1912; (in plastic sleeve) envelope postmarked 1955, with note, "Enclosed badges for your historical collection," from Viola Hill of Claremont - two cloth badges reading, "The Times - San Joaquin Valley Homesteaders' Excursion, date ?; (in plastic sleeve) match book with logo "Times rental ads bring tenants quickly"; (in paper envelope) "The History of World War II as told in Headlines of The Times" - miniature versions of LAT page One through WW II; various other examples of LAT ephemera, "Bride's needle case, bookmark, napkins printed with words "The Times" or "The Mirror."

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Articles on, 1950 - 1959

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items. Magazine and newspaper clippings on various subjects: regular, same-day delivery of LAT to Sondrestrom Air Base, Greenland in 1958; LAT editorial titled, "...Innuendo Not News"; LAT report on "sane elder citizens" being committed to State mental hospitals; complete issue of Time (mag.) for 7/15/1957, featuring cover story on the history of Los Angeles and The Times; second copy of same cover story clipped out; issue of Los Angeles Underground, with cover story titled, "Bonelli's 'Billion Dollar Blackjack - The story of corruption and the Los Angeles Times'"; etc. Issue of The Southland Almanac ((2/1954) in plastic sleeve (with card reading, "Article[s] about L.A. Times - Pg. 2, 4 and 5. All material is negative towards LAT ).

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