Manuscripts

Hickman, William Edward

Description: 3 items: LAT editorials, "The end of the trail," 12/23/1927 ; "Make an example," 12/28/1927 ; "Give 'em what they want," 3/4/1928. The Times seemed to have determined guilt. "The sob-sister brigade may be expected to come forward with the usual pleas based on the prisoner's youth...Hickman is neither crazy nor a boy..."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1927 - 1928
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.

Foreign Countries - Europe

Manuscripts

6 items. LAT editorials: 11/29/1925, "The United States of Europe"; 12/10/1925, "Mussolini our eulogist"; 12/24/1925, "Italy as an empire"; 3/30/1927, "Europe in the remaking"; 4/2/1927, "International spite fences." LAT interview, "A notable interview (of Englebert Dollfuss).

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Departments - Editorial - Sports Section

Manuscripts

9 items. Materials include: AP story, 4/20/1939, "Daro's payoff to sports scribes bared"; copy of article, 8/1980, Los Angeles (mag), "Read all about 'em, sports fans -- inside the Times' highly touted sports section..."; Among Ourselves, 8/1974, "It no longer is just fun-and-games"; LAT clip, 2/12/1961, "Members of the All-Star team"; pg. 1 of the first ever separate LAT Sports section, 7/9/1956, two related copied sheets; LAT Sports-related briefs and memos.

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Water - Los Angeles Aqueduct - Articles and Pamphlets

Manuscripts

approx. 20 items: collection of material on above topic including some major articles. Among the significant articles with sources and dates: Sunset, 12/1909, "Water for Millions--building the great aqueduct...to supply Los Angeles" ; personal account of Jack Heyser, 1939, "Los Angeles City Fathers go water hunting...the birth of the Owens River Aqueduct" ; American Heritage, 12/1961, "The Water War" ; Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, 3/1963, "Myth-making in the Los Angeles Area" ; California Historical Quarterly, "The politics of California water-- Owens Valley and the Los Angeles Aqueduct, 1900-1927" ; California History, 9/1986, "Picnic at Alabama Gates...the Owens Valley Rebellion, 1904-1927" ; Historical Society of Southern California, Fall 1988, "The Los Angeles Aqueduct -- 1913 -1988, A 75th Anniversary Tribute."

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Foreign Countries - USSR

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items: (all LAT editorials) 2/7/1904, "A friend in need"; 3/13/1904, "[For Russia -- again, why?"; 5/10/1904, "Where the line is drawn"; 5/12/1904, "What a Japanese victory [in Russo-Japanese war] would mean"; 7/17/1904, "Russia our friend"; 3/5/1905, "Russia's faithless masters"; 6/14/1905, "Los Angeles the place (the Russian cause)"; 4/27/1907, "Experience vs. speculation," 7/31/1927, "Those Russian loans"; 11/18/1933, "Russia is recognized."

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Employees - Murphy, William

Manuscripts

2 items: 3-pp. typed, headed "Bill Murphy notes re possible features," with entries dated from 12/1972; original copy of "Panorama," an LAT retiree newsletter, Summer 1988.

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Employees - Williams, Cora May

Manuscripts

2 items: 2-pp. copied, title page and Foreward, from The Little Book of Fifty Sonnets, by Cora M. Williams, 1936; incl. author autograph; LAT obit, 3/12/1946, "Cora Williams funeral set."

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