Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
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. 25 items: LAT news tear sheet, 3/6/1933, "Roosevelt closes all banks...Congress meets Thursday" ; LAT editorial copy, 9/15/1940, "Are we still a democracy," LAT uses the word "dictatorship" in reference to FDR's seeking of a third term" ; LAT Page One copy, LAT editorial copy, 11/6/1940, "Mr. Roosevelt wins again" ; LAT Page One copy, 4/13/1945, "President Roosevelt dies...Harry S. Truman sworn in..." ; more.
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3 items. All three are LAT article copies, Page One news stories about the influenza epidemic of 1918: 10/11/1918, entire front page of newspaper is devoted to the influenza scare ; 11/4/1918, "Defy 'flu' rule...arrested" - some Christian Scientists refused to obey the City's order ; 12/2/1918, "Funless season ends today...influenza ban to be lifted" ;
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Approx. 12 items. Several news clippings on women in media jobs--hiring, promotions, salaries. Two copies--1 tear sheet, 1 photocopied--of long Wall St. Journal article, "Illusory Monopoly," on LAT. Clips on Times executives Norman Chandler, Tom Johnson, David Laventhol, Shelby Coffey. NY Times article, "Soul Searching at Los Angeles Times," 8/10, on LAT "killing" a negative story about Mayor Tom Bradley. Long article from L.A. Business, 4/1989, on L.A. Daily News "taking on" LAT. 7 items. Several news clips on LAT circulation and Times Mirror profits. Photocopied article from Smart (mag) on LAT Editor Shelby Coffey. Multi-page photocopy of article from New Yorker, "Letter from Los Angeles," on the history of the Los Angeles Times and the Chandler family. 4 items: long article from L.A. Weekly, 8/9, "Times A-Changing--veteran reporters sent down to the sticks"; article from California (mag), 5/1991, "L.A.'s Troubled Times--when a bad month happens to a good paper"; article from Time (mag), 4/15, "Hello, Sweetheart! Get Me Remake," on David Laventhol, Shelby Coffey and a "refurbished" LAT; Time article, 2/11, mentioning LAT. 2 items: Article tear sheet from Los Angeles Magazine (date ?), highly critical of LAT; article from USA Today Money section, 3/13, "Turbulent Times in L.A.--Suddenly, costs, morale are problems."
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Approx. 12 items. Materials include: memo, 3/25/1977, reading, in part, "Effective today, the name of the Data Processing Department has been changed to Information Systems Department"; two LAT brochures, "Information Systems," (3/1978); memo, 9/17/1975, "Organizational Changes" (on name changes w/i Systems & Programming department; tabloid-sized issue, 12/6/1975, The Pac-Times Presenter, a joint publication of Pacific Telephone and LAT, describing the development of "a complete telecommunications system" by PacTel for LAT; article, Among Ourselves, 12/1949 (copy), "Tabulating Department's Mechanical Brains know all the answers"; article copy, 10/1977, Among Ourselves, "New Computer Center in Service"; booklet, 24-pp., 11/1961, The Corner Cut, L.A. Chapter National Machine Accountants Association, lead article, "History in Headlines," on LAT; Information Systems bulletin, 3-pp., 6/13/1989, "Personal Computer Security," 10-pp. sheaf, "Information Systems Bulletin--In-house personal computer software training"; 2-pp. memo, "Communications Services," 9/11/1990; memo, 11/7/1990, "Special Services Mail."
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7 items: article, Among Ourselves, 10/1966, "James Bellows joins Times (as Associate Editor)"; 10/28/1966, Otis Chandler's memo on appointment of Bellows as LAT Associate Editor; article copy, New West, 1/16/1978, "What's black and blue...", on Jim Bellow's becoming editor of L.A. Herald-Examiner ; tear sheet, 8/1/1978, Esquire, "Can Jim Bellows Save...(Herald-Exam.)"; tear sheet, LAT, 11/20/1981, "Editor of Herald Examiner resigns..."; tear sheet, LAT, 7/13/1983, "Bellows will develop a TV magazine for ABC"; tear sheet, LAT, 10/13/1988, "USA Today TV sets different direction";
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5 items. LAT editorials and "op-ed" pieces: 2/6/1968, "Let's put local people to work"; 4/24/1970, "The 'wetback' problem has more than just one side"; 4/27/1970, "Correct the 'wetback' injustice"; 11/3/1971, "Penalty for hiring illegal aliens"; 5/4/1972, "The aliens...why are they illegal."
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