Manuscripts

Tennyson, Al Collection

Description: Al Tennyson likely worked in printing, as his collection consists of supplements, advertisements, employee newsletters, and other material printed by the Times. Most of the supplements were included in the Reprints & Publications series. The remainder of the collection is here. Date range is 1881-1968.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1881-1968
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.

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Manuscripts

Al Tennyson Collection oversized items including personal memorabilia, issues of LAT employee newsletter Among Ourselves, and other materials: 7 items: Among Ourselves for May, June, August and September 1930, December 1931 (2) and January 1933. NOTE: Sept. 1930 issue has a thumbnail ("Introducing!") of Norman Chandler on the back page. 1 item: (in plastic sleeve) 6 color ad showing pretty girl drinking "Cherry Blossoms" cola through a straw. 4 items: issues of Among Ourselves for Feb. 1940, Oct. 1948, Dec. 1963 and Jan. 1968. 7 items: all photographs (some mounted), only one of which has a clear connection to LAT. Approx. 10 items: news clippings, most related to aviator Charles Lindbergh, one on Harry Chandler. Approx. 15 items including: a document rendered in braille ; two watercolors approx. 10" x 12" ; booklet, 1903, "Savonarola," by Elbert Hubbard ; 55-pp. issue of Aero Digest, July 1925 ; other notes and memorabilia.

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Employees - Tennyson, Al -- Autobiography

Manuscripts

2 items: cover letter with autobiography, from Tennyson to Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, 12/14/1983; 83-pp. manuscript (plus 14-pp. Addendum), "An expose' of newspapering -- really a homespun autobiography..." titled, The Prevailing Spirit, by A. Tennyson.

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Employees - Tennyson, Alfred

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items: various pieces of correspondence betw. Tennyson and Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist; several copies of Al Tennyson articles from The Pacific Printer and Publisher, early 1950s; 3-pp. of informal memoirs signed "Al. Tennyson"; 2-pp. report, "Reasons for a new composing room," on oversized, sturdy paper, and signed "al tennyson"; multi-page, text & photo essay from Amer. Newspaper Publishers Assn., Mechanical Bulletin, 2/28/1950, "Composing Room short-cuts." Tennyson was clearly a vital cog in the smooth operation of the composing room. He retired 1/1/1968, after a 47-year association with LAT, and consulted for some time after that.

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Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson, collection

Manuscripts

A collection of poems and letters written by Alred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson. The autograph poems include Boadicea, The Captain, Idylls of the King, In Memoriam, Maud, and Milton. Some of the poems are window-mounted on paper and some include printed photographs and drawings; a few are incomplete. The collection also includes one forgery: Here on the Terrace. The letters are written to Frederick James Furnivall and James Bertrand Payne.

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Manuscripts

The Times History Center accepted collections from former Times staff members or subsidiaries of the Times. These were sometimes incorporated into existing series (such as the Al Tennyson Collection within the Reprints & Publications series) and sometimes were kept separate. Date range is 1881-1990.

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Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson, collection

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