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. 45 items: selection of newspaper stories, from LAT and other area newspapers, as diverse as California Publisher and Temple City Times, on the history and final closing of the Daily News (L.A.) in 1954. Notable items: original letter, 7/18/1924, from Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. to Cordelia St. Clair of Hollywood, on subject of common stock in the newspaper ; article copy, Frontier (mag), 2/1955, "The Daily News and why it died" ; article copy, Journalism Quarterly, Winter 1970, "No news today...how Los Angeles lost a daily" ; original tear sheet and one copy, Westways, 12/1974, "Daily News folds! ; LAT tear sheet, 12/26/1984, featuring article on Daily News by Patt Morrison, "After 30 years, an EXTRA!" ; LAT tear sheet, 12/11/1985, "Jack Kent Cooke buys Daily News for $176 million" ; ?/1986 tear sheet, Los Angeles (mag), "The Return of Jack Kent Cooke" ; LAT clip, 8/21/1990, "Editorial employees picket Daily News."
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9 items: reports, LAT clips, and other material on newspaper operations locally and nationwide during the mid and late 20th century. Notable items: tear sheets from CNPA Magazine (Calif. Newspaper Publishers Assn.), 8/1938, "Success marks first year of editorial association" ; speech transcript, delivered at California Newspaper Publishers Assn. meeting, San Francisco, 2/6/1959, "The newspaper of 1970," by J. Edward Murray ; booklet, "75th Anniversary, American Newspaper Publishers Assn., 1887-1962" (A brief history) ; multi-page listing, "CNPA Daily Newspapers - (award) Winners, 1981."
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Approx. 15 items: article tear sheets - Business Week, 3/14/1964, p. 72, "A publishing giant takes a long step - the Chandlers of Los Angeles...are diversifying"; news clip, 4/25/1964, "Times Mirror applies for NYSE listing"; news clip, 5/1/1964, "Times Mirror will be listed on NYSE in May"; tear sheet and copy, 5/22/1964, "Chandler of the Los Angeles Times"; article copy, Forbes, 6/19/1964, "The big board's first newspaper"; several copies, LAT, 5/28/1964, "Times Mirror goes on N.Y. Exchange"; tear sheet, Investor's Reader, 6/17/1964, "Publishing - Times Mirror transition"; United Business Service - Special Study, 6/22/1964 (pp. 246), "Publishers rising in popularity"; tear sheet, Times Mirror Progress, 10/1964, "Times Mirror announces two new acquisitions."
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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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Approx. 30 items: letters, lists, tear sheets and completed forms related to the CNPA "Better Newspapers Contest," 1991. Notable items include: "1991 CNPA Better Newspapers Contest, Alpha. list of Weekly Newspaper Winners," 4-pp. ; "1991 CNPA Better Newspapers Contest, Alpha list of Daily Newspaper Winners," 5-pp. ; complete issue (12-pp.), California Publisher Special Edition - 1991 Better Newspapers Contest
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6 items: LAT clip, 9/1/1989, "David Laventhol named Publisher of The Times" ; article from Manhattan, inc (mag), 2/1990, a profile of Laventhol, "The quiet newspaper warrior, pp. 82 ; tear sheet from Los Angeles (mag), "The 30 Most Powerful People in Los Angeles," with Laventhol at #3 ; 15-pp. article copied from Buzz (mag), 2/1994, "Who was David Laventhol?" with introductory blurb describing Laventhol as having "the manners of a recluse and the soul of a salesman" ; 9-pp. packet with LAT, L.A. Daily News, N.Y. Times, Wall Street Journal and O.C. Register articles of 12/3/1993 on the resignation (citing illness) of Laventhol ; American Society of Newspaper Editors press release, ?/1994, "ASNE announces two new $10,000 prizes for deadline reporting," Laventhol mentioned etc.
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