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
Typed copy and facsimile of Otis's autobiography, "Milestones." Also, typed copy and facsimile of notes about people in "Milestones." FACSIMILES MAY NOT BE DUPLICATED OR PUBLISHED.
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100 + items. Letters and memo. LAT opposition to Yorty's reelection in 1969 was a major issue that year, including many threatened cancellations (see below). Subjects and well-known correspondents include:LAT orders 10 articles by James Simon Kunen (author of The Strawberry Statement) from Sterling Lord Agency; Williams' answer to Mrs. Madigan, (6/3/1969) who had criticized LAT coverage of Mayor Yorty, is typical of many such letters--"When Sam Yorty was first elected...executives of The Times...informed him we would support him when we believed he was right and oppose him when we believed he was wrong," and W. also stated that this is the obligation of a newspaper; letter to J. Edward Murray of The Arizona Republic; letter to Edmund Dooley, Editor at San Francisco Chronicle;letter to Reuters (6/4/1969) praising their coverage but trying to get them to lower their price for LAT; letter of 6/6/1969 to a Mr. James mentioning various LAT endorsements over recent years and going into some detail on support for Barry Goldwater, Sr., in 1964 Pres. race; Rudy Vallee is once again offering to write a regular column for LAT; letter to Edward Kuhn, Jr., Exec. VP and Publisher, The World Publishing Co.; letter explaining LAT coverage of Israeli-Arab rift; letter to James F. Chambers, Jr. Publisher, Dallas Times Herald; letters to U. S. Senator George Murphy; editorial expansion (and costs); letter to Herbert Bruckner, Stanford Professional Journalism Fellowships; a 2-pp. memo to Dick Robinson on "the coffee situation in editorial"; etc.
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Approx. 30 items. Material includes: articles from Among Ourselves and LAT on history of ads in LAT, ad milestones, automation in advertising,; singles ads in LAT, 1986.
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Approx. 25 items. Materials include: a wide variety of "business reply mail" cards, brochures, flyers, etc., promoting various LAT products, from the daily & Sunday newspapers, to cookbooks, collections of Conrad cartoons, LAT ad clippings, and "Update - a subscriber's guide to recent improvements and new features in The Times."
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Approx. 90 items. Letters, memos. Subjects and correspondents include: (2/25/71) lighthearted note to Paul Bovarnick of Claremont Men's College, on LAT vs. NY Times; memo to Otis Chandler on efforts to "wrench our Editorial Library into the 20th Century"; letter to David Riley of Claremont MC on the The Christian Science Monitor newspaper; (2/24/71) letter to Chester Gould, cartoonist of "Dick Tracy"; (2/24/71) memo to Otis Chandler - "the major political parties...(are now) gearing their national nominating conventions to television"; flap about Dr. Frederick Stare and his LAT column; more "Conrad serves a useful purpose" letters; (1/23/71) memo on upcoming visit to LAT of Sec. of Labor James Hodgson; exchange with Supervisor Warren Dorn on coverage of Rams and pro football; letter (2/11/71) to David Laventhol, Newsday Editor, about writer Hannah Achtenberg; etc.
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Approx. 25 items. Photocopies of articles from the LAT employee newsletter, "Among Ourselves" and some items from column titled "In Times Past." Events reported include: "Aeroplane Delivers Times" (1911) - "the first time newspapers had been delivered by aeroplane"; "Widowed Grandmother Wins Times Model Home"; "Conrad Exhibit now on Display at County Museum" (1979); "Times helped organize the fight for transcontinental highway" (from a 1979 issue on a 1912 event); "A Photographic Romp through the 1950s"; etc.
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