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Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
4 items. Examples of Spanish-language material in LAT - 1922, 1932,1933. Alternately titled "The World's News in Spanish" and "Noticias en Espanol." Notes by Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, attached to two of the copies.
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2 items: official LAT certificate, to John F. Ness, "cited...for meritorious service in the promotion and conduct of the 1931 Junior Olympic Games of Southern California"; 23-pp.booklet, "1934 Training Tips, Seventh Annual Junior Pentathlon - sponsored since 1928 in...Southern California by the Los Angeles Times."
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3 items: multi-page packet, "Summary of [answers to] questions on Among Ourselves." which analyses responses to an employee questionnaire (150 participants) on in-house newsletter, ca. 1929; article copy, Among Ourselves, 7/1940, "Picnic voted best ever -- [LAT] barbecue attendance, fun, food stupendous"; LAT article copy, 4/26/1950, "Prize awarded Times-Mirror employee paper."
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2 items: cover letter with autobiography, from Tennyson to Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, 12/14/1983; 83-pp. manuscript (plus 14-pp. Addendum), "An expose' of newspapering -- really a homespun autobiography..." titled, The Prevailing Spirit, by A. Tennyson.
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6 items: two copies of transcript headed "Story of the origin of the Xth Olympiad held in Los Angeles, California, in 1932, as written by William May Garland, one is 33 pp., the other ends with pp. 28, ; letter, 6/6/1983, to Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, from Lee Whitney, Editor of You (mag) ; LAT sports tear sheets for 12/10/1983, and misc. copies of same.
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5 items. Materials include: LAT Part III, 10/21/1892, several pp. copied to show layout of text headlined "The Great Fair -- World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, October, 1892 - Views of the Principal Buildings," also the photos, which were the first halftone engravings {photos} ever in LAT; letter from Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, to a Colonel Esau, of US Army War College, dated 1/16/1980, explaining the circumstances surrounding the earliest photographs to appear in LAT; photo from Among Ourselves, 6/1964, caption, "Famous Photo - Times photog Bill Murphy shows (his 1958 photo) of the late President Kennedy" - photo selected to be on a commemorative stamp of JFK; Summer 1988 issue of Panorama (LAT retiree newsletter), lead story, "Veteran Photographer (Murphy) Remembers 'Working the Street'."
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