Manuscripts

Departments - Production - Automation

Description: Approx. 45 items. Materials include: various memos, employee bulletins, media articles, and Among Ourselves coverage of innovations in the production department of LAT, including high speed photo-composition equipment.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1964 - 1976
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Departments - Production - Automation - Articles

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items. Materials include: Among Ourselves article copies, 1960 - 1980, on various aspects of automating the Production Department; tear sheet, Editor & Publisher, 10/6/1973, "Recyclable plastic printing plate invented by L.A. Times."

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Departments - Production

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items. Materials include: 1-pp. (photos) illustrated instructions, "How to make a pressman's hat': several Among Ourselves articles(1927, 1928, 1967) on various aspects of Production; 12-pp. report, "(LAT) Production Department Information," (rev. 2/1972)8-pp. report, "(LAT) Orange County Facility Production Department Information," (rev. 2/1972); two Bulletins, 1985, 1990, on promotions and organizational changes; tear sheet, Editor & Publisher, 3/15/1980, "2nd Satellite Plant-Expansion at L.A. Times set at $215 million"; etc.

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Departments - Employee Relations - Company sponsored events

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items. Materials include: approx. 15 Employee Bulletins, 1983 - 1990, announcing fund-raising events, food drives, career fairs, etc.; 3 Management Bulletins, 1986 - 1990, announcing an employee appreciation day related to circulation gains, LAT Service Awards, etc.; info related to PLUS, LAT's substance abuse education program; LAT Employees Dugout Derby Contest, 1990

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Departments - Production - Production

Manuscripts

1 item: article copy, Among Ourselves, 1/1963, "Quality with speed keynote of engraving."

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Departments - Production - Pressroom

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: several copies of LAT articles on the presses themselves, from as early as 1888 and 1895, with others from early years of the 1900s; tear sheet, LAT, 4/20/1984, "Pressing on..."; text of Editor & Publisher article, 2/25/1961, "Press layout (at LAT / Mirror) has value of $15 million"; article, Civic Center News, 11/13/1979, "Collecting rare antique presses," other brief article on press innovations; 2 artist's renderings of new presses installed 1983 at "The Square"; Employee Bulletin, 9/30/1991, on "the older presses in Times Mirror Square will be dismantled..."; sheets recording "web breaks" for periods in 1989; 2-pp. obituary of Charles Potter, founder of the Potter Printing Press Co., Inland Printer, 1/1900; etc.

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Departments - Employee Relations - Employee Compensation

Manuscripts

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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