Manuscripts

Buffum Family

Description: Approx. 10 items: 1-pp. bio info, 7/10/1947, on Mrs. Charles Abel (Fern) Buffum, mother of Dorothy Buffum Chandler; 6-pp. article copy, Orange County Illustrated, 10/1967, "The exciting story of Buffum's"; assorted news clips on members of the Buffum family and on the Buffum department store chain, 1935 - 1968.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1935 - 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.

Biographical Material

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items: 1-pp. "Career Data - Dorothy Buffum Chandler"; 6/1972; 10-pp. stapled packet of correspondence, first sheet being a letter to Mrs. Chandler from Hardy Martel of the California Institute of Technology, with info on Mrs. Chandler and on Caltech included, all dated 1974; more bio sheets dated between 1975 and 1981; two undated bio sheets.

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Chandler, Dorothy Buffum

Manuscripts

8 items: Collection of transcripts of interviews with Dorothy Buffum Chandler. Some of these transcripts have been trimmed at the left and have been stapled illogically with missing pages, etc. The only identifying material at top of first sheet - pp. 15 - is "15 (#1)."

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"An oral history of Dorothy Buffum Chandler," Anita J. Klaz

Manuscripts

1 item: 220-pp. manuscript, An oral history of Dorothy Buffum Chandler, submitted by Anita J. Klaz to California State University, Northridge.

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Employees - Schallert, Edwin

Manuscripts

3 items: single-sheet LAT bio headed "Edwin Schallert - Editor, Drama Dept."; 5-pp. collection of bio info. incl. photo, more LAT bio material and a segment headed, "Color biography for KTTV"; LAT obit, 9/29/1968, "Ex-Times drama critic Edwin Schallert dies."

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Chandler, Otis - Tape # 1

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items: 18-pp. transcript of Bassett interview of Otis Chandler, 7/29/1975, wide range of subjects - youth, Stanford, his personality, social & political opinions of his wife, "Missy," The Mirror, etc ; 2-pp. bio on Otis Chandler ; 5-pp. "Add Tape 1, 8/18/1975 ; 35-pp. interview transcript sent by Jack Hart of Cal State Northridge, 7/1/1973 - subjects are handwritten on cover sheet ; 3-pp. transcript of interview on KNXT (TV), 10/13/1975, of Otis Chandler by newsman Joseph Benti on Chandler's feelings about power vs. opportunity, about his leadership style, women in journalism, etc ; several more installments of the Benti interview ; 26-pp. transcript of interview (prob. KABC radio) with Michael Jackson as host (no date, no other info on transcript).

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Chandler, Dorothy Buffum - Tapes #1 and 2

Manuscripts

Typed and annotated transcript of James Bassett's interview with Dorothy Buffum Chandler on July 19, 1973. Photocopy of the same transcript with some of the same handwritten notation. Typed and annotated transcript of James Bassett's interview with Dorothy Buffum Chandler on January 30, 1974.

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