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Employees - Schultz, James Willard
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3 items: copies of cover and 6 pp. of text from The Life and Times of James Willard Schultz (Apikuni) by Warren L. Hanna; copy of entry on James Willard Schultz (1859 - 1947) from Who Was Who in America; LAT memo, 11/12/1987, to Carolyn Strickler (LAT archivist) from Jack Miles (Book Review Editor) explaining that Schultz was a Times staffer "from 1907 to about 1913," and providing other info.
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Subjects - Los Angeles Times History Center
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Approx. 30 items: collection of letters, memos, budgets and other items related to the LAT History Center. Carolyn Strickler and Craig St. Clair were LAT archivists in this time frame.
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Subjects - Disney
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2 items: cover note from Boswell to archivist Carolyn (Strickler) mentioning "Conrad, Jack Smith...Jerry Hulse" ; letter, 3/24/1989, from Michael Eisner of Walt Disney Co. to Tom Johnson, LAT Publisher, requesting a donation to support Landmark West School, "Southern California's only nonprofit school specifically serving high potential dyslexic children."
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Stereotype Department - General Info
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1 item: report, approx. 40-pp., "General Information for Los Angeles Times Stereotype Department - 1951.Approx. 10 items: stack of bios for Transportation personnel ; several Among Ourselves articles on LAT Transportation, 1950s thru 1970s ; 3-pp. handwritten item, "Transportation Memories," received by LAT in 1982, written by John R. Shepherd, who started with LAT in 1926 ; several pieces of correspondence between LAT Archivist Carolyn Strickler and Robert McVay, who was working on an article about Pacific Electric's "Big Red Cars" (including the fact that LAT was, in part, delivered to other southern California cities via PE's trains ; other LAT materials related to Transportation.
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Newspapers - Los Angeles
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Approx. 20 items: a selection of lists and chronologies providing bits of history on newspapers in Los Angeles back to Los Angeles Star (1851). Notable items: LAT clip, 12/4/1886, "Directory of Southern California newspapers" ; tear sheet, LAT Sunday Magazine, 9/4/1932, "The Newspapers of Los Angeles--their trials and tragedies" ; article copy, Time (mag), 1/12/1962, "Death in Los Angeles [of two newspapers]" ; copies, pp. 435 - 458, Journal of the West, 10/1963, "Newspapers of Los Angeles...the first 50 years" ; article copy, Los Angeles (mag), "The city's changing newspaper world" ; 6-pp. of charts, headed "Los Angeles Metropolitan Newspapers Weekday Circulation History, 1914 - 1970," statistics for 7 Los Angeles newspapers - The Times, Examiner, Herald, Express, Daily News, Evening News, and Record ; tear sheet, (Santa Monica) Evening Outlook, 10/13/1975, "Evening Outlook is 100 today" ; complete issue, The Reader, 8/8/1980, "The story of Los Angeles's two daily newspapers--Inking Big" ; tear sheet, The Reader, 11/27/1981, "This Sentinel [Black-owned newspaper] does more than stand guard" ; LAT tear sheet, 7/1/1985, "It's the Law! Daily Journal checks the pulse of L.A.'s legal community," a story on a paper that began publishing in L.A. in 1888.
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Acquisitions objectives
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Letter from Dan Strehl of the Los Angeles Public Library to Carolyn Strickler offering deaccessioned issues of the Times for sale to the archives with notes on what was purchased, 1986; sample note of file receipt acknowledgment, 1989; handwritten notes on acquisitions policy clipped to a letter from John Rothman of the new York Times archives to Carolyn concerning the policies of both companies, 1987.
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