Manuscripts

Steam engines - Engine generators

Description: Approx. 35 items: letters, reports, memos, legal documents, handwritten notes and other material related to purchase and installation of steam engines and engine generators at the Times building, 1933 - 1935. Major items: multi-page (in tan binder) 6/26/1933, "Proposal from Skinner Engine Co." ; cover letter and multi-page report, "Study of cost of generated power & light versus cost of purchased power & light for proposed Los Angeles Times building," 4/21/1930 ; 32-pp. booklet, "Skinner guaranteed saving contract" (1928) ; etc.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1933 - 1935
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Times Mirror Company - Projection of profits - General financial condition

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items: report (yellow paper) "(TMC) Balance sheet as of (7/14/1946" ; 11-pp. "Sixtieth Annual Report - Year 1946 - The Times-Mirror Company" ; multi-page printout, "Dividends received, Year 1946 (TM)" ; "(TM) Balance sheet of the investment division as of (7/31/1946" ; 21-pp. "Treasurer and controller's report, Year 1946," multi-page (yellow paper) "The Times-Mirror Company Analysis of Stocks and Bonds as of (10/31/1946) ; 2-pp. "Data for Mr. Norman Chandler's report to Board of Directors at meeting (11/5/1946" ; related information.

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Media and public Q & A

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: multi-page "Media questions & answers: Magazine project" (PR style "scripts" for anyone being interviewed about new magazine) ; multi-page "Media questions and answers: Los Angeles Times Magazine" (same as above) ; early version of LAT Mag. ; complete issue of NYT Magazine, 8/25/1985 ; complete issues of LAT Home, 9/8/1985 and 9/29/1985 ; related material.

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Miscellaneous

Manuscripts

Approx. 35 items: memos, correspondence, research and reports related to the new LAT Magazine. Notable items: 42-pp. script for "New Magazine presentation - Executive Incentive Group Meeting," 9/13/1985 ; multi-page packet, "Cost porjections - LATM promotion," 7/26/1985 ; more.

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Heating, boiler plant, engine room

Manuscripts

1 item: letter, 10/25/1933, from P.J. Walker Co. to Gordon B. Kaufmann, architect, subject, Times Building - Job #436.

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Los Angeles - Utilities

Manuscripts

4 items: small packet (in plastic sleeve) of Edison pension and benefit fund information, 1919 - 1928 ; copy of LAT editorial, 5/2/1933, "The Political Power Bureau," on L.A. Bureau of Power and Light ; brochure, 8/1937, "Electric Rates," from L.A. Bureau of Power and Light ; 30-pp. booklet (8 x 11"), "Water and Power - 59th Annual Report, 1959-1960, Board of Water and Power Commissioners, City of Los Angeles."

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Miscellaneous materials (1 of 2)

Manuscripts

Approx. 70 items (exact count difficult because much of the material has been bunched and stapled):memos, letters, press releases, reports, tearsheets, and other material related to newspaper marketing and advertising. Major items: 48-pp. commemorative booklet, Los Angeles Sports 200 (1981), published by L.A. Junior Chamber of Commerce ; complete issue of Sales and Marketing Management, 6/1986, 17-pp. (stapled) issue of Display Advertising Digest, 10/1986, an LAT publication ; multi-page report, "Circulation history of the Los Angeles Times Suburban Sections," 6/1972 ; multi-page report, "Territorial history of the Los Angeles TImes Suburban Sections," 6/1972.

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