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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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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. 35 items: memos, letters and other material related to the Pulitzer Prizes. Items include: lists of recommendations and winners for Pulitzer Prizes ; 1985 Pulitzer entries list for LAT ; 1984 Pulitzer entries list for LAT ; etc.
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Approx. 60 items: memos, letters and other material related to the Pulitzer Prizes. Items include: letters, memos, news clips, lists of recommendations, entrants and winners of the Pulitzer Prizes.
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7 items: two photocopies (in two sizes) of the certificate for John Gaunt's Pulitzer Prize for News Photography; three LAT article copies--4/4/, 5/3, 5/10/1955--on various prizes Gaunt won for "Tragedy in the Surf (a.k.a. "Tragedy in the Sea"); two copies, Among Ourselves article, 6/1955, "Gaunt wins third Pulitzer for Times";
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Approx. 15 items: 35-pp. printout off Lexis-Nexis, material from US Supreme Court and California Supreme Court; 3-pp. descriptions of "Awards of the Pulitzer Prizes and Traveling Scholarships"; collection of LAT stories on the lead-up to the "Contempt Trial"; collection of LAT articles related to LAT receiving a Pulitzer Prize in 1942, including the headlines "Tribute Paid 'Times' by American Press...great newspapers, wire associations and men in public life send congratulatory messages" (5/7/1942) and "Prize emblem sent to 'Times' "; teletype printout, 5/4/1942, reading in part, that LAT had earlier "instituted litigation which produced a Supreme Court opinion last December upholding the right of newspapers to publish criticism of judicial opinion, even in cases still pending, unless the comment would cause 'extremely serious' evil"; The "Contempt Case" began in 1938, and lasted nearly four years.
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Approx. 10 items: LAT clips and copies, Among Ourselves article on Howard Rosenberg's winning of the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism; list, headed "Pulitzer entries...Criticism...Howard Rosenberg"; full-page from LAT (purchased by the Orange County Register) congratulating Rosenberg on his award; a follow-up column by Rosenberg a few days later describing the experience of winning the Pulitzer Prize and his reactions; related material.
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Approx. 35 items. Memos, letters, telegrams, postcards acknowledging nominations. Subjects include: telegram to Norman Chandler from Grayson Kirk, Pres. Columbia Univ.; news releases from Columbia Univ. (Journalism School there awards the prizes); material related to LAT winning the Public Service Award for Gene Sherman's series on narcotics smuggling; letters of congratulations from Sen. Thomas Kuchel, Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk, UC Pres. Clark Kerr, etc. Also in the folder is the Pulitzer Prize Certificate (original) and other related items.
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