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
3 items. Materials include: 3-pp. list, "Composing Room Inventory, undated; 8-pp. handwritten list, headed "A corner of the composing room, 1884 - 1974," 7/25/1991; article copy, Among Ourselves, 7/1977, photo caption begins - "A corner of the Composing Room--about the way it looked from 1881 to 1974, when The Times converted to 100% photocomposition--is now open."
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Manuscripts
1 item" bound, 30-pp. - "Specifications for work to be included in the general contract for alterations to basement, First and Mezzanine floors, The Times Building, corner of American Avenue and Broadway, Long Beach (CA)" (Times Mirror Co.).
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Approx. 30 items: various pieces of correspondence betw. Tennyson and Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist; several copies of Al Tennyson articles from The Pacific Printer and Publisher, early 1950s; 3-pp. of informal memoirs signed "Al. Tennyson"; 2-pp. report, "Reasons for a new composing room," on oversized, sturdy paper, and signed "al tennyson"; multi-page, text & photo essay from Amer. Newspaper Publishers Assn., Mechanical Bulletin, 2/28/1950, "Composing Room short-cuts." Tennyson was clearly a vital cog in the smooth operation of the composing room. He retired 1/1/1968, after a 47-year association with LAT, and consulted for some time after that.
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Approx. 10 items: two estimate packages (tan folders), financial reports and a diagram related to installation of fixtures for the composing room at Times building.
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1 item: approx. 40-pp. (blueprint sheets) - "Instructions to bidders," and specifications for "Basement addition to newspaper plant building, 130 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, California."
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3 items: 1909-1910 Annual Report, tattered and possibly out of sequence - approx. 50 pp. ; 16-pp. segment, The Times - Mirror Company - Annual and Special Reports, 1911 (Confidential) ; 30-pp. segment, Special Report - Our Sad Misfortune. "The Dynamiting and destruction of the Times Building," plus [Addenda--Jan. 1911] "Destruction of 'The Times' Building, sacrificing 20 Lives. The Crowning Infamy of the Age, done October 1, 1910.
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