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Los Angeles - Utilities
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Los Angeles - City Department of Water and Power (1 of 2)
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20+ items: collection made up largely of brochures and booklets produced by L.A. City Dept. of Water & Power describing the Department's facilities and plans.. Brochures and booklets with the following titles: "William Mulholland," "Castaic Power Plant," "Mono Basin," "Along the Owens River," and others, including undated reports. Split into two folders.
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Los Angeles - City Department of Water and Power (2 of 2)
Manuscripts
20+ items: collection made up largely of materials--brochures and booklets--produced by L.A. City Dept. of Water & Power describing the Department's facilities and plans.. Brochures and booklets with the following titles: "William Mulholland," "Castaic Power Plant," "Mono Basin," "Along the Owens River," and others, including undated reports. Split into two folders.
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Los Angeles - Anniversaries - Centennial
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8 items: seven sets of copied material, Los Angeles Herald stories from first week of 9/1881 (three months prior to the L.A. Times' debut) noting the city's centennial ; copy of Lee Shippey's LAT column of 6/10/1931, on upcoming "La Fiesta de Los Angeles."
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Los Angeles Times Magazine
Manuscripts
3 items: (in plastic sleeve) Los Angeles Times Magazine, 10/6/1985.
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Departments - Circulation - Audit Bureau of Circulation
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5 + items (one edge water-damaged on entire stack, no text lost): 4 Audit Reports (by Audit Bureau of Circulations) "for 12 months ending March 31, 1959," for Herald & Express (L.A.), Examiner (L.A.), Mirror News (L.A.), and Times (L.A.); additional 10-pp. with columns of figures related to circulation for the same newspapers. Audit Bureau of Circulations, "Newspaper Publisher's Statement - for 6 months ended Sept. 30, 1994 - Los Angeles Times." Report provides information on total circulation, and on many different aspects of the newspaper's sales, promotion, marketing and distribution.
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Newspapers - Los Angeles
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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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