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Description: 3 items: brief article copied from Among Ourselves, 4/1951, "Mirror again garners award as top tabloid" ; two versions of a "City of Los Angeles Resolution," 10/31/1957, showing the City's appreciation for the role The Mirror-News and Sports Editor Sid Ziff played in the successful campaign to relocate The Dodgers professional baseball team to Los Angeles from Brooklyn.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1951, 1957
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
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The Mirror

Manuscripts

The Times launched the afternoon tabloid Los Angeles Mirror in 1948 to compete with other afternoon papers. It was published until 1962. Collection consists of multiple copies of the first and late issue. Date range is 1948, 1962.

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Los Angeles Times records

Manuscripts

Illustrated and sealed City of Los Angeles Resolution in honor of the 6th annual United States and United States of Soviet Russia Dual Track and Field Meet (1964) ; Rack cards (1978, 1980, 1990) ; Newspaper wrappers for 104th annual American Newspaper Publishers Association convention (1990) ; Promotional folder for "The Music Center Story" sent to Vance Stickell by Dorothy Chandler, including signed personal note from Chandler to Stickell (1974) ; Photocopies of Newsday advertisements (1984) ; Times-Mirror Company advertisements (1970, 1974) ; Early drawings used for advertisements (circa 1940) ; Map of "Los Angeles Civic Center, presented by the Los Angeles Times" (1980) ; "The Continuing Study of Newspaper Reading Study No. 32 - The Sacramento Bee, Issue of November 19, 1940," with hand inscription from Norman Chandler to L. D. Hotchkiss (1941) ; "The Continuing Study of Newspaper Reading Study No. 33 - Los Angeles Times, Issue of November 26, 1940," with hand inscription from Norman Chandler to L. D. Hotchkiss (1941) [REMOVED FOR CONSERVATION] ; "The Continuing Study of Newspaper Reading Study No. 70 - Daily News, Los Angeles, Issue of April 12, 1944" (1944) ; Sealed City of Los Angeles resolution commending the Los Angeles Times' AIDS education, signed by Tom Bradley (1987) ; Advertisement for Summer Times (1993) ; Sheet music and lyrics for Los Angeles Times promotional spots (circa 1984) ; Photo collage of bus advertisements (circa 1985) ; Illustrated and sealed City of Los Angeles resolution in honor of the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Mirror News participating in the Los Angeles Beautiful program (1958) ; Los Angeles Times/Times Mirror Promotional Booklet paste-up (circa 1961) ; Newspaper wrapper advertising the Sunday Times (circa 1979) ; Advertisement letter from Otis Chandler (1979) ; Folder of ephemera for the campaign "When You Pick Up the World You Pick Up the Times" (1979) [REMOVED FOR CONSERVATION] ; City of Los Angeles Certificate of Appreciation signed by Gilbert W. Lindsay and packet of materials related to the dedication of Para Los Ninos school-are child care center (1980) ; Calendar of Home Magazine advertising deadlines and themes (1982).

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Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1984 - Paul Conrad and Latino series

Manuscripts

4 items: paperbound book - 9" x 12", Southern California's Latino Community, a series of articles reprinted from LAT, 1983;, LAT article copy, 5/1984, "Times wins 2 Pulitzers...public service, Conrad"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 5/1984, "Times wins two Pulitzers"; full-page ad from LAT, 6/10/1984, headed "The Pulitzers are the Gold Medals of our business -- Times Mirror."

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Buildings - Orange County Facility

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items. Materials include: 2 copies of a tabloid-sized newsprint section (undated) titled "The New Orange County Home of The Los Angeles Times; management bulletins; reports and memos about the (Orange County) Satellite Plant; two photocopied Editor & Publisher articles on LAT Orange County plant (3/1/1969 & 6/6/1970) - headlines "New concept in expansion..." and "How Los Angeles Times produces satellite paper"; article from Printing Production magazine, 8/1968, "Satellite plant pioneers"; other magazine clippings, including LAT and Among Ourselves; Management Conference Bulletin about a tour and barbecue dinner at the Orange County Satellite Facility; etc.

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A Times Mirror Management Bulletin addressed to Corporate Employees, announcing that Otis Chandler will permanently relocate his office from Times Mirror Square to Oxnard.

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History

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items - letters, memos, reports, article copies and other material. Notable names and items include: 4-pp. letter to James Bassett (LAT) from J. Edward Murray (Daily Camera, Boulder, CO, newspaper) giving Murray's memories of "how and why The Mirror [was] started" ; various reports with titles such as "Saga of the Los Angeles Mirror," "Pioneering a metropolitan daily," "approx. 10-pp. report on the cornerstone ceremony 10/11/1948, which opens "Guests of honor began arriving..." ; 15-pp. report (blue binder) titled "A history of changes in The Mirror as announced in Among Ourselves or indicated on personnel records" ; more.

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