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    Los Angeles Times Centennial

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    Papers related to the Los Angeles Times Centennial: interoffice correspondence, list of anniversary plans, page from January 12, 1981 commemorative issue, and mentions of the Centennial in Among Ourselves.

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    Los Angeles Times Centennial Lobby Exhibit

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    A copy of the speech given for the Los Angeles Times Centennial Lobby Exhibit. (Speeches Produced By Caroline Hom)

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    Los Angeles Times Centennial

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    Approx. 35 items, including: memos, letters, reports and other material related to the planning of and celebration of the LAT Centennial. Material related to Councilman John Ferraro and his introduction of a City resolution "honoring the Los Angeles Times on the occasion of its 100th birthday."

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    Los Angeles Times Centennial special pages

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    Special commemorative newspaper pages from the Los Angeles Times Centennial celebration (originals plus 2 reduced-size photocopies), 1981.

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    Los Angeles - Name

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    2 items: cover letter, sent to Carolyn Strickler, LAT Archivist, from Jean Bruce Poole, Curator, El Pueblo de Los Angeles State Historic Park,12/31/1985 (referencing next entry) ; article copy, 7-pp., Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, Spring 1973, "Los Angeles, California...the question of the City's original Spanish name."

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    Newspapers - Los Angeles

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    Approx. 20 items: a selection of lists and chronologies providing bits of history on newspapers in Los Angeles back to Los Angeles Star (1851). Notable items: LAT clip, 12/4/1886, "Directory of Southern California newspapers" ; tear sheet, LAT Sunday Magazine, 9/4/1932, "The Newspapers of Los Angeles--their trials and tragedies" ; article copy, Time (mag), 1/12/1962, "Death in Los Angeles [of two newspapers]" ; copies, pp. 435 - 458, Journal of the West, 10/1963, "Newspapers of Los Angeles...the first 50 years" ; article copy, Los Angeles (mag), "The city's changing newspaper world" ; 6-pp. of charts, headed "Los Angeles Metropolitan Newspapers Weekday Circulation History, 1914 - 1970," statistics for 7 Los Angeles newspapers - The Times, Examiner, Herald, Express, Daily News, Evening News, and Record ; tear sheet, (Santa Monica) Evening Outlook, 10/13/1975, "Evening Outlook is 100 today" ; complete issue, The Reader, 8/8/1980, "The story of Los Angeles's two daily newspapers--Inking Big" ; tear sheet, The Reader, 11/27/1981, "This Sentinel [Black-owned newspaper] does more than stand guard" ; LAT tear sheet, 7/1/1985, "It's the Law! Daily Journal checks the pulse of L.A.'s legal community," a story on a paper that began publishing in L.A. in 1888.

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