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
5 items: letter (in plastic sleeve), 2/9/1962, from Allan Hancock to Ed Ainsworth, thanking him for a copy of The California I Love by Leo Carrillo (in collaboration with Ainsworth); article copy from "Keeping up with The Times," 6/2/1967, on Ed Ainsworth; copy of Ainsworth's final LAT column ("On the Move"), 6/6/1967, "Time arrives for farewell";copy of LAT obit, "Ed Ainsworth, retired Times columnist, dies in San Diego"; clip of Among Ourselves obit, 7/1968, "Death takes Ed Ainsworth, Timesman for 43 years."
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Approx. 12 items: two samples of Alma Whitaker's "Sugar and Spice" column, from 1931 and 1936; a 1941 sample of W's writing; LAT, 12/4/1941, "Feminine reporter takes baby along," memories of W's early days at LAT (original & copy in plastic sleeve); Among Ourselves, 2 copies, 6/1949, "Women who made The Times," about Whitaker; (orig. & copy in plastic sleeve) LAT obit, "Alma Whitaker, retired Times columnist, dies"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 1/1957, "Alma Whitaker lived by wit, good humor"; article tear sheet, date / publication unknown, "Veteran Newshens made history" (on Whitaker and other women journalists in L.A. during early decades of 20th century).
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Approx. 30 items: clips, memorabilia, correspondence, etc. Highlights: Bill Henry bio (in plastic sleeve), dated 10/22/1928; 2 program booklets for Henry's memorial (he passed on in 1970); scrapbook in white folder labeled "The Opening of the Bill Henry Room (Occidental College), 1971; copy of LAT obit, 4/14/1970, "Bill Henry, Times columnist for 30 years, dies at age 79"; copy of LAT sidebar following Henry' death, "Text of Nixon note to Mrs. Bill Henry," in which Nixon praised Henry as "a man deeply dedicated to his profession..."
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Approx. 15 items: two 20 page copies of bio notes (ca. 1965), headed "L.D. (Loyal Durand) Hotchkiss..."; draft of retirement story, 1957; several newspaper clips from time of his retirement (in plastic sleeve); two copies article, ASNE Bulletin, 2/1957, "All he needs to be a tiger is a set of stripes," profile of Hotchkiss; LAT article copy, 12/11/1958, "1000 pay tribute to L.D. Hotchkiss, retiring Editor in Chief of Times"; two copies of illustration, "Mr. Hotchkiss goes to Washington"; original tear sheet and copy, LAT obit, 4/17/1964, "L.D. Hotchkiss, retired editor of Times, dies."
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Approx. 15 items: several examples of Russell's editorial art, Soviet Bear vs. American Eagle (plus photo of artist working on the illustration), original and two copies of caricature of Franklin Roosevelt, 1940; LAT clip, 1/9/1943, "Bruce Russell's works displayed"; plastic sleeve contains more illustrations from 1950s; poster showing Russell's "Barbed wire cutters," and used to promote National Foreign Language Week in 4/1962; LAT obit, 12/19/1963, "Bruce Russell, noted Times cartoonist, dies."
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8 items: Among Ourselves clip, ca. 1945, a brief on Park's career at LAT; typed note, stamped 8/13/1957, presumably from Park, asks for a correction to "my obituary," concerning info about his son, Don Paul Park: 2 copies of Indianapolis News article ("Ringside in Hoosierland") on Park, 10/27/1969 (bio sheet dated 1952 stapled to one of them; LAT obit copy, 12/17/1969, "Joseph Park, ex-labor editor of Times, dies"; clip of letter to editor in memory of Park and dupe of 1952 bio sheet together in plastic sleeve.
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