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. 20 items: article copy, Among Ourselves, 11/1963, "Classified computer system gets under way"; tear sheet article, The Reader, 6/4/1982, :Lost--Million Lines from Times Class."; various memos dealing with classifieds; personnel policies; rate guidelines; more material on automation of classified dept., 12/1978; 4-pp. script for slide show--headed "FYI"--on the history of classified advertising in general, and specifically the history of ads in LAT; 12-sheet issue of Ad Notes, published "by and for" the (LAT) Classified Ad staff, 5/19/1983; invitations to - 1974 Classified Christmas & Awards Breakfast, 1977 Classified Christmas & Awards Program, Classified's Christmas and Awards Program
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2 items: glossy black LAT logo folder containing example of LAT "Timely Bulletin," several sheets with copies of LAT classified ads of various kinds, sample of Sunday comics pages headed with ad for Times Classifieds, etc. (all 1980); single page flyer, headed "Announce your good news today!" - providing info for LAT employees who wish to use free LAT classified space to announce births, engagements, weddings, anniversaries, reunions, etc. (1987-1988)
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3 plastic sleeves, 4 items. Material includes: example of "Adv. Form 1," dated 8/31/1917; tear sheet of ad for "A 5-way service for placing classified ads" (ca. 1932); computer data card as invoice (1980?); LAT memo from Judy Anderson to Lois Markwith, 10/27/1980.
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1 item. 16-pp. booklet, "Times Classified - 1966 Report to Advertisers." Features line graphs, bar graphs, lists and text explaining the advantages of advertising in LAT.
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6 items. Materials include: 20-pp. promotional booklet on LAT Home Magazine (1982); promo flyer (1984) for Home magazine reprints on '84 Olympics; 5 sheets (stapled) with financial figures - "Home Magazine offers national advertisers a better advertising value than California Magazine"; promotional packet in folder, "International Opportunities in the Los Angeles Times" (1984); info packet in folder, "(LAT) Television Times," 1981; ad for "Nuestro Tiempo" clipped from 9/12/1988 LAT.
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4 items. Material includes: 2 photocopies, Page 1 of 1/8/1956 LAT Classified Diamond Jubilee Edition; photocopy of news brief, LAT 1/8/1956, "Largest classified section published in Times today"; photocopy of news brief, LAT 1/1957, "Big Jubilee classified pages today."
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