Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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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.
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7 items: 3-pp. copied from a magazine (?), "Where the padres erred," 5/31/1936 ; 4 sheets torn from Museum Alliance Quarterly, Summer 1967, "Tracking the founders of Los Angeles" ; tear sheets, Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, Spring 1973, "Los Angeles, California... the question of the city's original Spanish name"; map of "The Old Spanish and Mexican Ranchos," copied from Los Angeles - the epic of a city, 1974 ; LAT clip, 9/4/1975, "L.A.'s founders should be honored for what they were--a racial mix"; tear sheets, Westways, 7/1976, "The Founding forty-four" (on the founders of L.A.) ; LAT clip, 9/16/1983, "Mexico's day little noticed."
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Approx. 12 items: LAT article copy, 6/10/1931, "Fifth official city flag proposed" ; LAT editorial, 9/14/1964, "Time for a charter change?" ; LAT edit., 10/25/1966, "Reforming Los Angeles' City Charter" ; LAT edit., 11/21/1969, "Charter reform debate" ; LAT edit., 2/23/1970, "Hollywood faces...harsh facts" ; a 1973 exchange of letters betw. Samuel Leask, ex-City Administrative Officer and James Bassett of LAT ; article copy, Los Angeles (mag), 12/1980, "His dishonor, the Mayor" (on A.C. Harper, L.A. mayor 1906 - 1909) ; LAT tear sheet, articles on new City Council District (1st), 1/18/1987 ; LAT article tear sheet, list & brief bio sketch of L.A. mayors, 1850 to 1988, 9/6/1988 ; article copy, Times Mirror (mag), Summer 1989, "A tale of two cities" (L.A. and N.Y.).
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9 items: two LAT clips from 10/1888 on police corruption ; 6-pp. POLICE DEPARTMENT...Annual report of W.A. Hammel, Chief of Police (1904) ; tear sheet from Daily Police Bulletin, 1/21/1929 ; copies of three 1960 LAT editorials, "Anarchy protects no one," 4/21, "Undermining the police force," 7/19, "The bright badge of the LAPD" ; LAT editorial, "Treading the volcano's crust," 7/23/1970 ; LAT editorial, "Who is betraying the students?", 12/13/1974.
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Approx. 30 items: selected clips, copies, etc, from LAT, from magazines and from other newspapers on the newspaper "scene" in Los Angeles. Notable items: chapter copied from book, Jazz Journalism...story of the tabloid newspapers, 1938 ; 17-pp. report (plus charts) from Princeton U. (in green folder), The Public appraises the newspaper [1958] ; article copied from Saturday Review, 5/13/1961, "Rating the American newspaper" ; reprint from Journalism Quarterly, Summer 1961, "The changing Sunday U.S. newspaper" ; 16-pp. report, William Hachten, U. of Wisconsin, 8/1961, "The future of Sunday newspapers" ; tear sheet, Newsweek, 11/29/1965, "What's wrong with newspapers?" ; complete issue, Rand Research Review, Spring 1985, cover story, "High technology and the newspaper industry" ; tear sheet, Forbes, 2/20/1989, "Are newspapers losing their audience? / Citizen Kane meets Adam Smith" ; tear sheet, Wall Street Journal, 6/23/1989, major article on that newspaper's Centennial, "One newspaper's century ...the inside story"; postcard of the Newsboy Fountain in Great Barrington, MA erected by William L. Brown (held controlling interest in the New York Daily News), 1985.
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Approx. 30 items: memos, letters, clippings, tear sheets and other material related to journalist Robert Scheer. Includes: clips of articles by Scheer ; letters to Scheer from prominent persons including Richard Nixon, Edward Kennedy, Abbott Washburn (FCC Commissioner), Harold Willens (peace activist) ; KCET-tv transcript of discussion by Scheer and other observers ; tear sheet from L.A. Weekly, "The Life and L.A. Times of Robert Scheer" ; complete issue (2/24/1978) Heritage - Southwest Jewish Press ; LAT reprint - (11/11/1979) "Illegal aliens...endless cycle of..." ; article tear sheets from New West and Time with articles on Scheer ; etc.
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