Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
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. 15 items: 2 LAT article copies related to LAT train / Pan-American Exposition train travel promo (1901); copy of ad headed "The Times and Sunset Magazine," (early 1900s issue); clippings on LAT involvement in Red Cross drives, war bond sales, etc.; 3-pp. report, "(LAT) civic activities and history since 1900," ca. 1960; info (on tiny slip of brown paper) on "Premiums with The Times included shotguns (1891)...copies of the poems of Eliza A. Otis...a sewing machine (1886)...The Times Almanac"; 2-pp. copies of Times-Mirror Co. "Promotion Department Expense[s] for...1920"; copies of Among Ourselves articles related to Promotion / Public Relations departments from 1930, 1956 and 1958; 2-pp. report, 4/29/1959, "Survey of Times-Mirror Company Public Service Activities," added in handwritten note - "Charities - Public Service."
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Approx. 45 items. Materials include: copy of Among Ourselves article, 11/1928, "Looking Backward," by Claude Luce, in which he reports that as a 16-year-old, he "drew down" $4 per week: various Employee and Management Bulletins on subjects such as company (pay) rate increases, tax issues, sick days, 4 copies of "Job Evaluation Plan - Technical and Office Occupations," (T-M Co.) 1953; ditto, 1945; 15-pp. booklet (green), "Your rate of pay," (T-M Co.); LAT National Survey of Management and Supervisory Compensation, Newspaper Industry, 9/1989; 10-pp. report, "Guide and Procedures for the Administration of Executive Base Salaries - The Times-Mirror Company, August 1958; chart, ca. 1989, "Los Angeles Times Company Rate Increase vs. Consumer Price Index.
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3 items: 1-pp., bar chart, "Times-Mirror Company Personnel Growth -- showing number of Potential Cafeteria Users, 1950 - 1966"; article clipping, LAT, 7/31/1988, "Firms ask that workers waive job security"; Employee Bulletin, 5/2/1990, subject is availability of registration forms and absentee ballots for June 1990 Primary Election at Employee Center or Employee Relations Depts. at Orange County and San Fernando plant.
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Approx. 23 items. Materials include: 7-pp. report, "Time line and description of past and current ethnic-related projects, The Los Angeles Times," (time line covers 1922 - 1988); 2 versions of 1-pp. "Marketing Research Report Summary"; 30-pp. Los Angeles Times Marketing Research Department Employee Handbook," 4/1973; 2-pp. report, "The Many Faces of Marketing Research," (1973); 3-pp. memo/report, "Readership of Free Newspapers," 8/8/1962; 13-pp. report, "Profile of Readers," (Newspaper Audience Characteristics), 4/1964; 5-pp. "October 1965 TV Report"; 1/31/1950 LAT clipping, "Times-Mirror research work told to planners"; 13-pp. Los Angeles Times Marketing Research" (history, leadership, organization, etc.), 1/1982; 26-pp. booklet, Los Angeles Media Facts, 1986"; 10-pp. segment of employee handbook on "Marketing Research Department," 4/1973; 11/1987 questionnaire to LAT readers regarding their opinion of LAT Magazine; booklet, 3/1977, "Dynamic / Diverse - Los Angeles and Orange County Market"; 13-pp. booklet, "1977 Report to Times Classified Advertisers"; (10/1976) 17-pp. "Los Angeles Recruitment Guide"; full-color cover, HOME (mag) - 13-pp., 10/1976; 10-pp. spiral-bound booklet, "Los Angeles Times Net Paid Circulation," 1988; 2 copies, The Market and the Media, 1987; 10-pp. info packet, titled "1995 Gallup Los Angeles Media Study"; related marketing research materials. Binding removed. Split into two folders.
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Approx. 23 items. Materials include: 7-pp. report, "Time line and description of past and current ethnic-related projects, The Los Angeles Times," (time line covers 1922 - 1988); 2 versions of 1-pp. "Marketing Research Report Summary"; 30-pp. Los Angeles Times Marketing Research Department Employee Handbook," 4/1973; 2-pp. report, "The Many Faces of Marketing Research," (1973); 3-pp. memo/report, "Readership of Free Newspapers," 8/8/1962; 13-pp. report, "Profile of Readers," (Newspaper Audience Characteristics), 4/1964; 5-pp. "October 1965 TV Report"; 1/31/1950 LAT clipping, "Times-Mirror research work told to planners"; 13-pp. Los Angeles Times Marketing Research" (history, leadership, organization, etc.), 1/1982; 26-pp. booklet, Los Angeles Media Facts, 1986"; 10-pp. segment of employee handbook on "Marketing Research Department," 4/1973; 11/1987 questionnaire to LAT readers regarding their opinion of LAT Magazine; booklet, 3/1977, "Dynamic / Diverse - Los Angeles and Orange County Market"; 13-pp. booklet, "1977 Report to Times Classified Advertisers"; (10/1976) 17-pp. "Los Angeles Recruitment Guide"; full-color cover, HOME (mag) - 13-pp., 10/1976; 10-pp. spiral-bound booklet, "Los Angeles Times Net Paid Circulation," 1988; 2 copies, The Market and the Media, 1987; 10-pp. info packet, titled "1995 Gallup Los Angeles Media Study"; related marketing research materials. Binding removed. Split into two folders.
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Approx. 10 items. Materials include: form letter, 8//1/1956, "To all Times-Mirror stereotype employees and their families," urging these employees to vote "No" on joining a union; letter 8/2/1956, to "All division and department heads" (attached to previous letter) providing information about the polling of LAT employees; article copy, LAT, 8/4/1956, "Stereotypers at Times-Mirror turn down union in election"; letter, 8/21/1956, by Norman Chandler, "To all Times-Mirror stereotypers and members of their families," thanking them for rejecting the union; related items.
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