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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. 70 items. Letters, memos. Partial list of addressees and subjects: college board meeting; outside writing and television appearances by staffers; Mervin Field, Field Research; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Memphis riot; Panama reportage of Ruben Salazar; Vietnam war; to Walter Annenberg on Joyce Haber; Al Neuharth (Gannett Newspapers); John J. Goldman, LAT NY Bureau; MLK assassination; etc.
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Approx. 25 items. Subject include: copies of Economic Digest, a quarterly publication of Marketing Research of TM Company; "Opinion Setters Survey"; various surveys and reports out of Marketing Research Dept--"Southern Californians spend summer away from TV," "Flourishing sales reflect Los Angeles prosperity," etc.;
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Approx. 20 items: memos and letters on subjects such as: a (very) brief history of LAT advertising; Editor & Publisher article, 2/6/1971, "(LAT) news staff doubled... in 10 years" ; flurry of communications relating to controversial "Doonesbury" comic strip ; opinion writers ; more.
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Approx. 5 items. Multi-page transcriptions of college students' comments of the news and Opinion-Perspective sections of LAT. Another package of comments from six students ("two girls and four boys") on the layout and content of LAT. Along with these items are related memos.
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Approx. 75 items: collected correspondence between representatives of IBM and Harry Bowers, H.E. Downing and other LAT executives. Also some in-house LAT memos on IBM equipment and billing.
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Manuscripts
Approx. 70 items: memos and bulletins related to planning, procedures and operations at LAT in the 1932 - 1937 time frame. H.E. Downing originated many of these items.
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