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: LAT article, 3/3/1945, "Backbone of Japan's air power shattered" ; LAT headlines, 8/15/1945, "PEACE! VICTORY! Japs accept Allied terms..." ; two copies of 3-pp. chrono list of "Stories on formal Japanese surrender, 1945," list prepared 8/23/1976.
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Approx. 75 items: LAT news stories and editorials, letters, memos and other material on the Federal Military Zones created along US coast, Japanese-Americans being sent to internment camps, justifications of these, plus calls for recognition of the civil rights of Japanese-Americans.
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2 items: LAT announcement on withholding information on President Roosevelt's wartime movements, 10/2/1942 ; LAT editorial, 10/2/1942, "President's tour," related to announcement above.
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Approx. 20 items: LAT editorials and news stories on various wartime issues, starting with the February 1942 "air raid" on Los Angeles which turned out to be a false alarm, ending with last year of war ; LAT front page, 2/26/1942, "Army says alarm real...Roaring guns mark blackout" ; Los Angeles (mag) story about "1941," a Steven Spielberg film about the previously mentioned air raid - article ran 11/1979.
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2 items: 2-pp. list of "Los Angeles Times Extra Editions" (Note included - "This is not necessarily a complete list), 2/1884 - 1/1986, with 31 "Extra" (banner) headlines over a period of 102 years, for example, December 8, 1941, "IT'S WAR!"; graphic example (2 cps), "L.A. AREA RAIDED!," 2/25/1942 - Jap Planes Peril Santa Monica, Seal Beach..."
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Two sets "The History of World War II as told in HEADLINES OF THE TIMES" (miniature versions of Page One headlines)
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