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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. 90 items: letters, memos, clips, and material related to correspondence with readers with names starting with R. Includes a wide range of subjects: pitches for (amateurish) comic strips ; complaints about allegedly left-leaning columnists ; letter from an activist inmate at Oregon State Penitentiary (7/14/1980) ; letter (9/1/2/1978) from LAT Archivist Lois Markwith mentioning that "most of Harry Chandler's correspondence was destroyed after his death" ; more.
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2 items: cover letter with autobiography, from Tennyson to Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, 12/14/1983; 83-pp. manuscript (plus 14-pp. Addendum), "An expose' of newspapering -- really a homespun autobiography..." titled, The Prevailing Spirit, by A. Tennyson.
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6 items: two copies of transcript headed "Story of the origin of the Xth Olympiad held in Los Angeles, California, in 1932, as written by William May Garland, one is 33 pp., the other ends with pp. 28, ; letter, 6/6/1983, to Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, from Lee Whitney, Editor of You (mag) ; LAT sports tear sheets for 12/10/1983, and misc. copies of same.
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Approx. 10 items: single sheet of copies of clips on Walt Lee from the 1940s and 1950s; 3-pp. (cover & article), Western Treasures, 4/1973, "Walt Lee - dean of ghost town painters"; tear sheet, Antelope Valley Press, 3/20/1979, "Recorder of desert's many moods turns 91"; several 1980 clippings, Daily Ledger-Gazette (Lancaster), 3/1980, incl. an obit and a tribute to artist Walt Lee; 1-pp. "Notification of Death" (LAT form), 3/13/1980, for Walt Lee (Start date - 11/16/1942, Retirement date - 3/21/1953, d.o.d. 3/12/1980, age - 91; copy of undated photo; note, 1982, written to Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, from Phyllis Hicks, - "came across these articles on Walt Lee...of any use to you [?]
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4 items. Examples of Spanish-language material in LAT - 1922, 1932,1933. Alternately titled "The World's News in Spanish" and "Noticias en Espanol." Notes by Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, attached to two of the copies.
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Approx. 30 items: various pieces of correspondence betw. Tennyson and Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist; several copies of Al Tennyson articles from The Pacific Printer and Publisher, early 1950s; 3-pp. of informal memoirs signed "Al. Tennyson"; 2-pp. report, "Reasons for a new composing room," on oversized, sturdy paper, and signed "al tennyson"; multi-page, text & photo essay from Amer. Newspaper Publishers Assn., Mechanical Bulletin, 2/28/1950, "Composing Room short-cuts." Tennyson was clearly a vital cog in the smooth operation of the composing room. He retired 1/1/1968, after a 47-year association with LAT, and consulted for some time after that.
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