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
4 items: four LAT editorial page clips by Hotchkiss, on the subject of communism and the "Cold War."
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2 items: LAT news story copy, 7/9/1939, " 'Grapes of Wrath' author guards self from threats at Moody Gulch...Dust Bowl book brings trouble" ; LAT editorial copy, 4/1/1940, "One for Steinbeck," seeks to undermine one premise of Steinbeck's book, that San Joaguin Valley landowners lured Dust Bowl migrants to obtain a cheap labor pool.
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Forty letters comprising 102 pages, pertaining to reader's correspondence. Some of the topics include editorial policy, political cartoons, Dorothy Healey, Jack Smith, press operations, letters to the editor, editorial viewpoint, communism, campus unrest (civil disobedience), copyright policy-permision to reproduce, Ted Bomar, 1969 mayor news stories, how a news story gets in print, Norman Chandler, Angela Davis, Art Sidenbaum, and Sirhan Sirhan.
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Correspondence from Harry Chandler, James Davis, and others regarding Earle Kynette bombing; Communism in Los Angeles-area churches; and editorial policy. File of L. D. Hotchkiss and R. W. Trueblood.
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Approx. 15 items: staple-bound booklet with ten articles, both political commentary and editorials, on California State Legislature, pay raises and conflict of interest for lawmakers, all 1965 ; several editorials on updating the State Constitution, 1966 ; LAT editorial, "Ethics in the State Senate, 6/26/1969 ; other clips with commentary through 1976.
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Approx. 120 items. Subjects include: rearranging sections within the Sunday paper (June 20, 1960); news policy; expenses of Travel editor Jerry Hulse; questionable editorial cartoons (esp. Conrad); racial strife; correspondence with editors around the USA; Chandler letter to Williams on expansion into OC and San Diego county; etc.
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