Manuscripts

Mason, Biddy

Description: 2 items: clip copy, North Torrance Breeze, 8/11/1976, "Biddy Mason salute slated" ; LAT tear sheet, 11/17/1989, "A lot of history...Parking structure houses memorial to L.A. pioneer."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1976, 1989
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.

Articles

Manuscripts

7 items: LAT clip, 4/7/1976, "Times Mirror ad revenue up..."; LAT clip, 8/11/1976, "Earnings jump 94% in quarter at Times Mirror"; tear sheet, Time, 9/27/1976, "Dixie's best dailies," segment on Dallas Times Herald ; (in plastic sleeve) series of clippings, LAT and Wall St. Journal, late Oct. 1976, ending with "Booth (Newspapers) decides to accept Newhouse's offer" over Times Mirror's; tear sheet, Newsweek, 11/8/1976, "Newhouse marches on."

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General reference

Manuscripts

4 items. Materials include: LAT clip, 8/20/1990, "I.A. Lewis, 68 - director of the L.A. Times Poll"; informal notes related to Poll activities; tear sheet, 11/28/1981, Editor & Publisher, "L.A. Times conducts poll on news media."

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Buildings - Parking Structures

Manuscripts

9 items: clipping, Downtown News, 12/12/1988, "Times opens parking structure" (213 S. Spring); LAT clipping (photocopy), "Broadway building losing skylights and top floors" (9/?/1970); letter from Tom Johnson to Carolyn Strickler of LAT History Center, inviting her to ceremony marking completion of 213 S. Spring parking structure; memo announcing opening ceremony for "213" garage on 12/9/1988; LAT article (2 photocopies), 11/1972, "Times Mirror Square garage slated for January opening" (2nd & Broadway facility); 7 copied sheets with historic photos of downtown L.A.; photocopy of LAT article, 1/21/1988, "(Parking garage) builders dig up a piece of L.A.'s Jewish history"; Downtown News article (1/30/1989), on LAT "213" parking structure's sculpted murals.

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Los Angeles - History - 1781 - 1848

Manuscripts

7 items: 3-pp. copied from a magazine (?), "Where the padres erred," 5/31/1936 ; 4 sheets torn from Museum Alliance Quarterly, Summer 1967, "Tracking the founders of Los Angeles" ; tear sheets, Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, Spring 1973, "Los Angeles, California... the question of the city's original Spanish name"; map of "The Old Spanish and Mexican Ranchos," copied from Los Angeles - the epic of a city, 1974 ; LAT clip, 9/4/1975, "L.A.'s founders should be honored for what they were--a racial mix"; tear sheets, Westways, 7/1976, "The Founding forty-four" (on the founders of L.A.) ; LAT clip, 9/16/1983, "Mexico's day little noticed."

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Transportation - Pacific Electric Interurbans

Manuscripts

6 items: 1935 brochure with price lists, time schedules and description of the "Mt. Lowe Famous Mile High Mountain Railway trip" ; undated newspaper article clip, "All areas of city served by big red, yellow cars" ; LAT tear sheet, 7/22/1973, "L.A.'s Big Red Cars--they went places" ; clip, Wall St. Journal, 8/14/1974, "In the Good Old Days, U.S. commuters were better off than now" ; LAT clip, 11/11/1975, Art Seidenbaum's column with headline "Fare of yesterday," on the Pacific Electric Railway; ; LAT clip, 10/15/1984, "Our cable car climbed halfway to the stars, too," on the Mt. Lowe spur of Pacific Electric ; letter copy, 3/16/1987, from David M. Callahan of Los Angeles to Evelyn Wolfe of LAT Real Estate section about "Pacific Electric's 1200 mile system..."

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Hospitals - Los Angeles

Manuscripts

2 items: LAT article clip, 9/20/1985, "L.A.'s French Hospital, founded by pioneers, to mark 125th year"; article tear sheet, Downtown News, 9/23/1985, "After 125 years, vive l ' hospital."

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