Manuscripts

Kaufmann, Gordon

Description: Approx. 15 items: LAT news stories on the career of architect Gordon Kaufmann. Notable items: LAT article copy, 9/14/1938, "Medal for Times building design presented [to Kaufmann] at meeting" ; LAT article copy, 1/21/1948, "G.B. Kaufmann elected Boy Scout area chief" ; LAT obit copy, 3/2/1949, "Gordon B. Kaufmann, 61, famous architect, dies." (folder includes LAT obit on widow Elsie Kaufmann, 6/10/1968)
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1935 - 1968
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,

Employees - Hopper, Hedda

Manuscripts

4 items: LAT article copy, 2/14/1938 [Valentine's Day], "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood" (1st-ever column for LAT); another 1938 column; LAT article copy, "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood," 12/28/1941; LAT obit, 2/2/1966, "Hedda Hopper dies at 75, ending movie era.

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Death

Manuscripts

3 items: LAT obit copy, 6/17/1994, "Franklin D. Murphy dies...L.A. civic, business leader"; LAT article copy (2), 6/17/1994, "Franklin D. Murphy...a civilizing force for the city."

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Gordon B. Kaufmann (architect)

Manuscripts

Approx. 60 items: memos, letters and invoices related to construction work on 4th LAT building by Gordon B. Kaufmann (architects). Approx. 80 items: correspondence-- invoices, vouchers--between Times-Mirror Company and P.J. Walker Company (builders) and various suppliers of materials needed for construction of LAT's fourth building in 1934 (California Portland Cement Co., Morrow Roofing Co., etc.). 4 photographs: cornerstone dedication, construction of LAT's fourth building, and LAT's fourth building in 1930s.

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Employees - Hogue, S. Fred

Manuscripts

2 items: LAT obit copy, 6/28/1941, "S. Fred Hogue of 'Times' dies"; Among Ourselves article copy, 12/1948, "Men who made The Times," on S. Fred Hogue.

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Employees - Trumbo, Taylor

Manuscripts

5 items: LAT article copy, 3/31/1959, "Taylor Trumbo new managing Editor of Times"; 8-pp. letter from Trueblood to Robert Gottlieb (who was writing Thinking Big, the Story of the Los Angeles Times...) containing memories of his years with LAT; article copy, (Honolulu) Star-Bulletin & Advertiser, 6/20/1982, "Road to Siberia led to Paradise, warm memories" on Trueblood's life experiences; LAT obit clip, "Georgia Fifield, ex-radio actress" (T's wife); LAT obit copy, "Z.T. Trumbo, ex-managing Editor of The Times, dies at 85."

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Employees - Shippey, Lee

Manuscripts

3 items: single-sheet bio, "LEE SHIPPEY - Columnist"; article copy, Frontier (mag), 5/1952, "Columnist candidate"; copy of LAT obit, 12/31/1969, "Lee Shippey, retired Times columnist, dies." Shippey has been refereed to as a "human interest" columnist.

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