Manuscripts
Printing - History of
You might also be interested in
Image not available
Ethnic Groups - Chinese
Manuscripts
Approx. 20 items: LAT copies, news clips, feature stories and editorials, on the Chinese community and their interaction with other citizens of Los Angeles; complete issue, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Quarterly, Fall 1967, including article, "The Chinese in Los Angeles"; 2-pp. copied from L.A. City Historical Society Newsletter, 3/1988, "Bing cherries, Pebble Beach and Lotus"; tear sheet, (L.A.) Downtown News, 6/6/1988, cover story on Chinatown.
mssLAT
Image not available
Los Angeles - City Government
Manuscripts
Approx. 12 items: LAT article copy, 6/10/1931, "Fifth official city flag proposed" ; LAT editorial, 9/14/1964, "Time for a charter change?" ; LAT edit., 10/25/1966, "Reforming Los Angeles' City Charter" ; LAT edit., 11/21/1969, "Charter reform debate" ; LAT edit., 2/23/1970, "Hollywood faces...harsh facts" ; a 1973 exchange of letters betw. Samuel Leask, ex-City Administrative Officer and James Bassett of LAT ; article copy, Los Angeles (mag), 12/1980, "His dishonor, the Mayor" (on A.C. Harper, L.A. mayor 1906 - 1909) ; LAT tear sheet, articles on new City Council District (1st), 1/18/1987 ; LAT article tear sheet, list & brief bio sketch of L.A. mayors, 1850 to 1988, 9/6/1988 ; article copy, Times Mirror (mag), Summer 1989, "A tale of two cities" (L.A. and N.Y.).
mssLAT
Image not available
Commerce and Industry (1 of 2)
Manuscripts
Approx. 35 items: article clips and copies from LAT, Downtown News, informal multi-page reports, some undated and with no attribution, ephemera related to commerce and industry in greater Los Angeles; (in plastic sleeve) very early LAT clips on the subjects, 1913 - 1932; investment letter (ad) for James R. Miller & Company, 1934; complete issue, Pacific Business, 3-4/1975; complete issue, Counter Talk (May Co.), 6/4/1976; booklet, Pacific Lighting Corp. - A Century of Commitment, 1886 - 1986; booklet, From Agriculture to Aerospace (L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce), 1988. Split into two folders.
mssLAT
Image not available
Commerce and Industry (2 of 2)
Manuscripts
Approx. 35 items: article clips and copies from LAT, Downtown News, informal multi-page reports, some undated and with no attribution, ephemera related to commerce and industry in greater Los Angeles; (in plastic sleeve) very early LAT clips on the subjects, 1913 - 1932; investment letter (ad) for James R. Miller & Company, 1934; complete issue, Pacific Business, 3-4/1975; complete issue, Counter Talk (May Co.), 6/4/1976; booklet, Pacific Lighting Corp. - A Century of Commitment, 1886 - 1986; booklet, From Agriculture to Aerospace (L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce), 1988. Split into two folders.
mssLAT
Image not available
Departments - History Center
Manuscripts
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.
mssLAT
Image not available
Colleges - Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design
Manuscripts
5 items: transcribed article from San Francisco Chronicle, 12/24/1916, "Harrison Gray Otis gives home to Los Angeles County as art gallery"; catalog for Otis Art Institute, 1940 - 1941; LAT tear sheet, 4/19/1981, "Otis / Parsons...color it solvent"; LAT tear sheet, 11/5/1987, "The big picture improves at Otis / Parsons art school"; LAT article copy, 9/11/1988, "First expansion in 30 years under way at art institute"; postcard featuring an illustration of the Bivouac labeled, "Residence of Genl. Otis, Los Angeles, Cal."
mssLAT