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
Approx. 25 items: LAT articles and other material related to William F. Knowland, U.S. Senator, one-time gubernatorial candidate, later Oakland Tribune publisher. Notable items: LAT editorial copy, 8/15/1945, "The naming of Sen. Knowland" ; article tear sheet, California - the Magazine of the Pacific, 12/1950, "The shifting sands of American foreign policy" by William F. Knowland ; 22-pp. copy of manuscript of speech delivered 10/17/1961, to Freedom Club of Los Angeles, title "1961 - the Year of Decision" (on "China/Russia") ; 20-pp. transcript of "Taping with Senator William F. Knowland on June 12, 1973" ; LAT article 2/24/1974, on "William F. Knowland...ex-Senator," which opens with "William Fife Knowland...killed himself Saturday with a single bullet wound in the temple, authorities said..."
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Approx. 35 items: legal documents related to a loan by TM to the Oakland Tribune, and correspondence between representatives of TM and representatives of The Tribune, including Publisher J.R. Knowland and Asst. Publisher William Knowland. Also circulation statements, lineage and rates (1935 - 1937) and dividends paid.
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Approx. 12 items: two samples of Alma Whitaker's "Sugar and Spice" column, from 1931 and 1936; a 1941 sample of W's writing; LAT, 12/4/1941, "Feminine reporter takes baby along," memories of W's early days at LAT (original & copy in plastic sleeve); Among Ourselves, 2 copies, 6/1949, "Women who made The Times," about Whitaker; (orig. & copy in plastic sleeve) LAT obit, "Alma Whitaker, retired Times columnist, dies"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 1/1957, "Alma Whitaker lived by wit, good humor"; article tear sheet, date / publication unknown, "Veteran Newshens made history" (on Whitaker and other women journalists in L.A. during early decades of 20th century).
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5 items: letter (in plastic sleeve), 2/9/1962, from Allan Hancock to Ed Ainsworth, thanking him for a copy of The California I Love by Leo Carrillo (in collaboration with Ainsworth); article copy from "Keeping up with The Times," 6/2/1967, on Ed Ainsworth; copy of Ainsworth's final LAT column ("On the Move"), 6/6/1967, "Time arrives for farewell";copy of LAT obit, "Ed Ainsworth, retired Times columnist, dies in San Diego"; clip of Among Ourselves obit, 7/1968, "Death takes Ed Ainsworth, Timesman for 43 years."
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Approx. 10 items: photocopy, "Holiday greetings -- 1910, from Gen. Harrison Gray Otis...to his friend John S. McGroarty" ; 14-pp. handwritten manuscript for his LAT Sunday Magazine column of 9/8/1935 ; copy of McGroarty's biographical info compiled from Who's Who in America, Congressional Record, etc. ; LAT obit copy, 8/7/1944, "Death takes McGroarty, poet laureate" ; article copy, Among Ourselves, 2/1948, "Men who made The Times - John Steven McGroarty" ; 2-pp. letter copy, to Otis Chandler from Viola Carlson, President, Friends of McGroarty Cultural Arts Center, 4/19/1974.
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Approx. 45 items: selection of newspaper stories, from LAT and other area newspapers, as diverse as California Publisher and Temple City Times, on the history and final closing of the Daily News (L.A.) in 1954. Notable items: original letter, 7/18/1924, from Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. to Cordelia St. Clair of Hollywood, on subject of common stock in the newspaper ; article copy, Frontier (mag), 2/1955, "The Daily News and why it died" ; article copy, Journalism Quarterly, Winter 1970, "No news today...how Los Angeles lost a daily" ; original tear sheet and one copy, Westways, 12/1974, "Daily News folds! ; LAT tear sheet, 12/26/1984, featuring article on Daily News by Patt Morrison, "After 30 years, an EXTRA!" ; LAT tear sheet, 12/11/1985, "Jack Kent Cooke buys Daily News for $176 million" ; ?/1986 tear sheet, Los Angeles (mag), "The Return of Jack Kent Cooke" ; LAT clip, 8/21/1990, "Editorial employees picket Daily News."
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