Manuscripts

Transportation - Automobiles

Description: Approx. 45 items: a collection of text and photo material, most of it from American Automobile Association and LAT, related to the early decades of automobile travel in Southern California. Notable items: LAT article copy, 4/25/1899, "A horseless carriage...the first automobile arrives in Los Angeles..." ; 18-pp. manuscript, headed "Ocean to ocean highway trip" ("1912" added later) ; complete issue of Westways - 12/1950, "in observance of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Automobile Club of Southern California" ; article tear sheet, Terra (mag), Summer 1973, "The Memorial Day run in Los Angeles," on the appearance of the first automobile in this City and its inventor, James P. Erie ; article tear sheet, Westways, 6/1975, "The first 75 years...a photographic essay...featuring the auto" ; LAT article tear sheet, ?/?/1986, "Autos...100 year-old love affair rolls on," by Steve Harvey.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1899 - 1986
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)

San Fernando Valley

Manuscripts

50+ items: large collection of LAT articles and material from books and magazines including Travel & Leisure, Westways, California Historical Society Quarterly, etc., on the history of San Fernando Valley, land and water deals, etc. Notable items: 25-pp. copied from book, History of the San Fernando Valley, Frank Keffer, 1934 ; tear sheet, Westways, 4/1963, "Wheat ruled the Valley" ; tear sheet, Westways, 5/1963, "The Men who opened the Valley" ; 24-pp. copied from The California Historical Society Quarterly, 3/1968, incl. article, "Pioneering land development in the Californias..." with material on Harrison Gray Otis and Harry Chandler ; tear sheets from Westways, 4/1974, "A. Workman's Ranch," includes information of early Valley pioneers including Isaac Lankershim and Isaac Van Nuys ; tear sheet, Travel & Leisure, 8/1976, "The Valley" ; 14-pp. sheets copied from The San Fernando Valley, book, ca. 1976.

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Newspapers - Daily News

Manuscripts

Approx. 45 items: selection of newspaper stories, from LAT and other area newspapers, as diverse as California Publisher and Temple City Times, on the history and final closing of the Daily News (L.A.) in 1954. Notable items: original letter, 7/18/1924, from Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. to Cordelia St. Clair of Hollywood, on subject of common stock in the newspaper ; article copy, Frontier (mag), 2/1955, "The Daily News and why it died" ; article copy, Journalism Quarterly, Winter 1970, "No news today...how Los Angeles lost a daily" ; original tear sheet and one copy, Westways, 12/1974, "Daily News folds! ; LAT tear sheet, 12/26/1984, featuring article on Daily News by Patt Morrison, "After 30 years, an EXTRA!" ; LAT tear sheet, 12/11/1985, "Jack Kent Cooke buys Daily News for $176 million" ; ?/1986 tear sheet, Los Angeles (mag), "The Return of Jack Kent Cooke" ; LAT clip, 8/21/1990, "Editorial employees picket Daily News."

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Water - Clippings

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items. LAT features, news stories and editorials on water, irrigation, water bonds, etc., from 1880s to 1970s. Notable items: brochure, "Water from the North," prepared by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California," 8/1972 ; 6-pp. article tear sheet, Westways, 7/1974, "Driving down the River," by Jack Smith.

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Crime - Assassinations

Manuscripts

3 items: LAT article, 3/31/1981, "10 of nation's presidents targets of assassination attempts," (one tear sheet, one copy); LAT article tear sheet, 4/17/1981, "The shootings of the presidents...history's footnotes detail changes in medical technology."

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Ethnic Groups - Blacks

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items: collection of LAT editorial copies, and additional citations for material on Blacks in American society relating to civil rights, incl. voting rights, and other issues, 1890 - 1987; complete issue of Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Quarterly, Winter 1969 - 70, includes article "Los Angeles Black Heritage"; tear sheet, Westways, 5/1975, "Ralph Bunche...the early years"; article copy, L.A. Historical Society Newsletter, 7/1988, "Black Angelenos...the Afro-American in Los Angeles, 1850 - 1950."

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Architecture and Historic Preservation - Los Angeles

Manuscripts

Approx. 40 items: article tear sheets and copies from LAT, Sunset, Westways, L.A. Herald-Examiner, Downtown News, Los Angeles (mag), and others. Material mostly written between 1960s and 1990s but examining the Los Angeles lifestyles of earlier decades. Highlights: original of house sales booklet, The New Spanish Bungalow, 1923; multi-page tear sheet, L.A. Herald-Examiner, 12/31/1967, "The Los Angeles that Was"; typed list (7-pp.) of 145 "Historic-Cultural Monuments" in City of Los Angeles, as of 1975; 2 copies of a postcard featuring Dominguez Adobe Rancho San Pedro labeled "Historic Preservation" postmarked "first day of issue Sep 16, 1984".

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