Manuscripts

Reference Files - Oversized

Description: 4" x 7" 3-ring notebook with title page reading, "Los Angeles Times: Dominating newspaper in America's 4th largest market," 1933; oversize pencil and pen drawing of Editorial page eagle logo; reprints of "Editor and Publisher" article about LAT building, 1935; blueprint copy, "Details Main Lobby Plans & Elevations & Miscellaneous Scale Details," (9/22/1933); blueprint, "Main Lobby Remodeling, Times Mirror Company (4/25/1961); Los Angeles Times - The First 100 Years - A Special Edition of Among Ourselves (2 copies), December 1981. Also a spiral bound book: Times Mirror Planning and Development, master plan, March 1968, by architect William L. Pereira.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1933-1981
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,

Buildings - Fourth - Lobby

Manuscripts

Approx. 16 items. Materials include: Event sheet for Lobby Re-opening, January 25, 1999; 2 "Lobby Exhibit & Tours" booklets (1981); exchange of memos (9/4/1981) between Lois Markwith & Franklin D. Murphy, information related to Shakespeare quote (and other inscriptions ?) used in lobby decor; memo from Markwith to Robert Flannes (11/1981); other correspondence related to determining origin of the quotations; LAT story 10/17/1934 on carved inscriptions at LAT building; letter (4/1/1981) from Mary Sheridan, designer, about complete refurbishment of the Globe; 1962 LAT Women of the Year entry for Mary Sheridan; blueprint copy, "Details Main Lobby Plans & Elevations & Miscellaneous Scale Details," (9/22/1933); blueprint, "Main Lobby Remodeling, Times Mirror Company (4/25/1961); etc. Both blueprint copies moved to Reference File - Oversize. 2 photographs: "Magic Stylus" exhibit display in the lobby, undated?

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Excavation

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: letters, reports, forms and blueprints related to excavation work prior to construction of new Times building, 1932 - 1933. Major item: blueprint (with attached paperwork), 7/31/1933, titled "Plot plan -- newspaper plant for the Times-Mirror Co."

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Times Mirror Square - from Fred Schmid Associates, "Instructions for... Food Service Equipment" / "Instructions to bidders."

Manuscripts

3 items: "Instructions for... Food Service Equipment" (approx. 20-pp.) ; "Instructions to bidders" (3-pp.) ; one related single-page letter from William L. Pereira & Associates to Times Mirror Co., 9/7/1965.

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Rubber rollers for Scott Color Press

Manuscripts

Approx. 55 items: letters, financial statements, handwritten notes, a blueprint and a proposal related to purchase and installation of rubber rollers for one or more presses at Times building in the 1933 - 1934 time frame. Companies mostly involved were Times-Mirror Co., Walter Scott & Co. and Niles & Nelson, Inc.

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Times Mirror Company reports

Manuscripts

80-page "Times Mirror Company Factbook" for the year 1982 (3 copies); "Times Mirror 1982 First Quarter Interim Report First Quarter Ended April 4, 1982" (3 copies); "Times Mirror 1982 Second Quarter Interim Report Second Quarter Ended July 4, 1982" (3 copies); "Times Mirror 1982 Third Quarter Interim Report Third Quarter Ended October 3, 1982" (3 copies).

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Carr, Harry -- Financial File

Manuscripts

L.A. County form, "Full Reconveyance," made by "Harry C. Carr and Alice E. Carr," 1930 ; two copies, "Notice to Trustee of Assignment of Deed of Trust Note" (same names as above), 1933 ; list signed by Harry Carr, "Received of The Times MIrror Company the following documents," 1935.

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Reference Files - Oversized

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