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. 30 items: memos and other correspondence between LAT staffers, and correspondence between LAT and International Printing Pressmen & Assistants' Union of North America; material related to the contract between LAT and IPPAU; materials related to Pressroom schedules; a grievance filed by a Mr. Salazar against a pressroom supervisor (Mr. Ferry).
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Approx. 10 items. Materials include: 1-pp. (photos) illustrated instructions, "How to make a pressman's hat': several Among Ourselves articles(1927, 1928, 1967) on various aspects of Production; 12-pp. report, "(LAT) Production Department Information," (rev. 2/1972)8-pp. report, "(LAT) Orange County Facility Production Department Information," (rev. 2/1972); two Bulletins, 1985, 1990, on promotions and organizational changes; tear sheet, Editor & Publisher, 3/15/1980, "2nd Satellite Plant-Expansion at L.A. Times set at $215 million"; etc.
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Approx. 15 items. Materials include: 4 "Process Flow Charts," 1984, for TEAM activities; "The Quality Circle - what you should know about it," booklet, revised edition 1983; TEAM lapel button; 1980 "Policies & Procedures - Quality Circles Program, dbl.-sided sheet; 5 Management Bulletins, 1985 - 1988, on TEAMS-related issues; 9-pp. report, "Accountables' Status Report Presentation," 8/17/1989; LAT memo, 9/7/1989, from "The Accountables" to various section heads, thanking them for time spent with the touring Accountables.
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Approx. 25 items: many loose, 1-pp. reports on circulation; 10-pp. report, "L.A. Times Net Paid Circulation, 1960-1989"; 10-pp. report, "L.A. Times Net Paid Circulation, 1955-1983"; 10-pp. report, "L.A. Times Net Paid Circulation"; 9-pp. report, "L.A. Times Net Paid Circulation, 1976-1980 and Jan. - Sept. 1981"; 9-pp. report, "(LAT) Net Paid Circulation, - 1981-1984 and Jan. - Sept. 1985"; 10-pp. report, "LAT) Net Paid Circulation, 1955-1984"; 10-pp. report, "LAT) Net Paid Circulation, 1959-1988"; (incomplete) "L.A. Times Net Paid Circulation," - 1955-1979 and Jan. - March 1980"; 5-pp. report, LAT, "Circulation and Classified,"Circulation Gains and Losses since 1931"; 10-pp. report, title handwritten at top of page 1 - "Street Sale Circe. Stats, selected months, 1990-94." Compiled by Marketing Research department.
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Approx. 20 items: several copies of LAT articles on the presses themselves, from as early as 1888 and 1895, with others from early years of the 1900s; tear sheet, LAT, 4/20/1984, "Pressing on..."; text of Editor & Publisher article, 2/25/1961, "Press layout (at LAT / Mirror) has value of $15 million"; article, Civic Center News, 11/13/1979, "Collecting rare antique presses," other brief article on press innovations; 2 artist's renderings of new presses installed 1983 at "The Square"; Employee Bulletin, 9/30/1991, on "the older presses in Times Mirror Square will be dismantled..."; sheets recording "web breaks" for periods in 1989; 2-pp. obituary of Charles Potter, founder of the Potter Printing Press Co., Inland Printer, 1/1900; etc.
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Approx. 25 items: correspondence with pressroom managers at The Lincoln Star (NE), Miami Herald, and the Trade Commissioner of New Zealand related to pressroom machinery; memos on pressroom practices, pressroom crew assignments, 59-pp. copy, top sheet headed "Index," with "Otis Booth" written in at top, Agreement between Times Mirror Co., and International Printing Pressmen...etc.; etc. Several pieces of correspondence in the time frame center on the characteristics of the Cutler-Hammer ink-mist suppression system for presses.
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