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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
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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7 items: 2 brief, handwritten notes on slips of paper; 2 copies of single sheet headed "Stars & Daggers," explaining the meanings of icons used as designators for various LAT editions--a second copy has some notations; 20-pp.report titled "A multiprogrammed teleprocessing system for computer typesetting," with several attached flowcharts, lists and tables (ca. 1967); 2-pp. copied pages, headed "Reasons for a new composing room," the date 5/26/1945 and the typed name (?) "al tennyson" are at the bottom; single sheet with both typed and handwritten material, 12/7/1983, headed "Press --- C --- West Line."
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Al Tennyson Collection oversized items including personal memorabilia, issues of LAT employee newsletter Among Ourselves, and other materials: 7 items: Among Ourselves for May, June, August and September 1930, December 1931 (2) and January 1933. NOTE: Sept. 1930 issue has a thumbnail ("Introducing!") of Norman Chandler on the back page. 1 item: (in plastic sleeve) 6 color ad showing pretty girl drinking "Cherry Blossoms" cola through a straw. 4 items: issues of Among Ourselves for Feb. 1940, Oct. 1948, Dec. 1963 and Jan. 1968. 7 items: all photographs (some mounted), only one of which has a clear connection to LAT. Approx. 10 items: news clippings, most related to aviator Charles Lindbergh, one on Harry Chandler. Approx. 15 items including: a document rendered in braille ; two watercolors approx. 10" x 12" ; booklet, 1903, "Savonarola," by Elbert Hubbard ; 55-pp. issue of Aero Digest, July 1925 ; other notes and memorabilia.
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3 items. Materials include: 3-pp. list, "Composing Room Inventory, undated; 8-pp. handwritten list, headed "A corner of the composing room, 1884 - 1974," 7/25/1991; article copy, Among Ourselves, 7/1977, photo caption begins - "A corner of the Composing Room--about the way it looked from 1881 to 1974, when The Times converted to 100% photocomposition--is now open."
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Approx. 30 items: org charts dated 3/1977 through 6/1977, for LAT overall, for Editorial, Accounting, the Orange County facility, Information Systems, Promotion & Public Relations, LAT Syndicate, Classified Advertising, Display Advertising, Marketing Research, Production, Composing Room, the Garage, Mailroom, Platemaking, Pressroom, Production Service and Transportation; original pp. from Among Ourselves, 9/1977, a full-page "Los Angeles Times Organization Chart."
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Approx. 20 items. Materials include: examples of letters of invitation / solicitation of donation for annual dinners of "Quarter Century Club," 1963 - 1977 (most held at "Hill's Code 7" downtown, or Old Virginia Restaurant in South Pasadena); several photographs of celebrants (active and retired staffers who worked the composing room); tear sheet of Op-Ed pages of LAT, 11/10/1969 (the marked article does not appear to have any connection to Quarter Century Club).
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