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. 10 items: material related to activities involving CompuServe steering committee at LAT. Includes: 20-pp. + report, "CompuServe Steering Committee Meeting" (5/24/1982) ; 12-pp. + report headed "CompuServe Agreement" (4/27/1982) ;16-pp. + report headed "CompuServe" (12/8/1981) ; more.
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Approx. 12 items: correspondence, 24-pp. "Computer-to-plate Presentation," multiple versions of 30+ pp. "Purchase Agreement," bound, "An Introduction to EOCOM Corporation" (tan cover), 19-pp. bound, "A proposal for a laser platemaker..." (from EOCOM to LAT)
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Approx. 40 items: memos, letters, reports and other material on LAT Mag. Includes: memo & report from Laura Morgan, Public Relations, on LAT Mag., 9/16/1985, with attached 7-pp. of "Media questions and answers" at the time LAT ceased publishing Home magazine ; 4-pp. article copied from Washington Journalism Review, 4/1985, "The new Los Angeles Times Magazine" ; memo, 7/5/1984, from Alan Parachini to Jean Sharley Taylor with attached 3-pp. of "story / profile ideas" ; 30-plus pp. (black clip) headed "Advertiser and Reader reactions to redesigned Sunday Magazine," 6/18/1984.
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4 items. Material includes: tear sheet, a brief from ADWEEK/West, 11/16/1981, on LAT joining with CompuServe in a "test program in which highlights (from LAT) are programmed for access by home computer users" (program partner was CompuServe); 1-pp. (undated), headed "Famous columnists," lists Charles Lummis, Harry Carr, Bill Henry, Ed Ainsworth and Kyle Palmer; Front page announcement, 10/29/1961, "* noted columnists join Sunday Times feature parade"; copy of The Wine Investor, 1/18/1988, article, "L.A. Times labors mightily and produces a...Danberger?" (article is very critical of LAT and their selection of new wine columnist, Dan Berger.
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Approx. 15 items: material related to activities involving CompuServe and newspapers. Included are: major report (40+ pp.) by Associated Press on the "Associated Press/Newspaper/CompuServe Experiment" (10/8/1982) ; other reports on newspaper-CompuServe cooperative efforts ; statistical charts ; more.
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Approx. 40 items: memos and reports related to marketing issues. Includes major reports on following subjects: illiteracy ; LAT vs. Orange County Register - Advertising Linage ; "A day in the life of the Los Angeles Times" - a readership study (1970+) ; "Times Reader Panel #111," 1976 (readers rated the Book Review section) 19-pp. ; 16-pp. ; "Continuing Home Audit Supplemental Questionnaire," 3-4/1971 ;
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