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
3 items. Materials include: 3-pp. list, "Composing Room Inventory, undated; 8-pp. handwritten list, headed "A corner of the composing room, 1884 - 1974," 7/25/1991; article copy, Among Ourselves, 7/1977, photo caption begins - "A corner of the Composing Room--about the way it looked from 1881 to 1974, when The Times converted to 100% photocomposition--is now open."
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6 items. Materials include: brief copied from New York (mag), 11/13/1989, "L.A. Times look riles staffers"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 1/1966, "Greater readability - Times to introduce 6-column format on all clear pages"; tear sheet, newspaper?, scribbled date appears to be from 1941 or 1947, "[LAT] Has best front page, finest type display, is university finding"; LAT article copy, 10/23/1886, "The Times in its new dress" (on new typeface and new machinery); LAT tear sheet, 7/7/1980, (ad) headed "Times Change"; copy of Pg. 1 Masthead for 2/22/1914.
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5 items: handwritten and typed versions of a note dated "3/18," addressed to "Sparks" ; 2-pp. list headed "Preliminary statement of matters to be considered in connection with coming negotiations with pressmen's union" ; single-sheet, "Agenda of matters to be discussed at Times meeting...March 20 at 2:00 p.m." ; approx. 45-pp. headed "Agreement."
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2 items: single-sheet, "Normal Job Description," 5/10/1951 ; 11-pp. "Job Description and Questionnaire," 5/10/1951.
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3 items: 8-pp. "Job Description and Questionnaire," 1/29/1945 ; single-sheet "Normal Job Description" ; single-sheet, "Copy Cutter...Scale in ascent-in-pay for Copy Cutter," 8/5/1973.
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Approx. 20 items. Single typed sheet with names of Production personnel and photocopies of "mug" shots of these individuals: Charles C. Chase, James W. Lloyd, Lon Warren, Carroll A. Reinig, John Parsons, Charles Karch, Ken Beane, Dallas Beck, Howard Bryant, Willie Butler, James Copland, Willard Davidson, Walter Finke, Paul Howard, Kenneth Hull, Jack Murchison, Luther Ranney, Harrison Sparks and Wilbur Vincent.
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