Manuscripts

Fire alarm - night watch (system) - phone alarm

Description: Approx. 25 items: letters, memos, handwritten notes, reports and proposals related to fire and security systems for Times building in the 1933 to 1935 time frame. Correspondence mostly involved Times-Mirror and American District Telegraph Co.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1933 - 1935
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Reference Files - Oversized

Manuscripts

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.

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P.J. Walker Co

Manuscripts

Approx. 8 items: P.J. Walker Co. statementsand other invoices to Times-Mirror Co. related to the building of the new Times headquarters at First and Spring Streets, Los Angeles, 1933 through 1935.

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Ornamental bronze

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items: letters, memos, legal documents, forms and other materials related to the construction of the new Times building, 1933 through 1935. The general subject of this material is installation of ornamental bronze.

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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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Departments - Information Systems

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items. Materials include: memo, 3/25/1977, reading, in part, "Effective today, the name of the Data Processing Department has been changed to Information Systems Department"; two LAT brochures, "Information Systems," (3/1978); memo, 9/17/1975, "Organizational Changes" (on name changes w/i Systems & Programming department; tabloid-sized issue, 12/6/1975, The Pac-Times Presenter, a joint publication of Pacific Telephone and LAT, describing the development of "a complete telecommunications system" by PacTel for LAT; article, Among Ourselves, 12/1949 (copy), "Tabulating Department's Mechanical Brains know all the answers"; article copy, 10/1977, Among Ourselves, "New Computer Center in Service"; booklet, 24-pp., 11/1961, The Corner Cut, L.A. Chapter National Machine Accountants Association, lead article, "History in Headlines," on LAT; Information Systems bulletin, 3-pp., 6/13/1989, "Personal Computer Security," 10-pp. sheaf, "Information Systems Bulletin--In-house personal computer software training"; 2-pp. memo, "Communications Services," 9/11/1990; memo, 11/7/1990, "Special Services Mail."

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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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Fire alarm - night watch (system) - phone alarm

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