Manuscripts

Los Angeles - Real Estate

Description: 4 items: ad from LAT, "I need the 5 best salesmen in the City..." 3/6/1913, for Van Nuys - Lankershim Lands ; LAT ad, for San Fernando Mission Land Co., 4/3/1913 ; LAT editorial, "End of a racket," 8/7/1931 ; 2-pp. with report and timeline of a 1913 real estate scandal involving Los Angeles Investment Co., and its president, Charles A. Elder, sent in-house in LAT, 1976.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1913 - 1976
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
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Commerce and Industry (1 of 2)

Manuscripts

Approx. 35 items: article clips and copies from LAT, Downtown News, informal multi-page reports, some undated and with no attribution, ephemera related to commerce and industry in greater Los Angeles; (in plastic sleeve) very early LAT clips on the subjects, 1913 - 1932; investment letter (ad) for James R. Miller & Company, 1934; complete issue, Pacific Business, 3-4/1975; complete issue, Counter Talk (May Co.), 6/4/1976; booklet, Pacific Lighting Corp. - A Century of Commitment, 1886 - 1986; booklet, From Agriculture to Aerospace (L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce), 1988. Split into two folders.

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Commerce and Industry (2 of 2)

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Los Angeles - History - 1900 - 1920

Manuscripts

7 items. LAT articles and other materials about the time frame 1900 to 1920: LAT feature, 11/13/1952, "Downtown life in 1912 and after"; two 1952 letters to LAT on life in L.A. in 1912 ; LAT editorial piece, 1/3/1955, "Great dreams backed by action"; title page and 4-pp. of text from A Backward Glance...Los Angeles 1901 - 1915 by Robert Cowan, Torrey Press, 1969 ; LAT feature, 5/14/1973, "L.A. in 1913...a million miles away from it all" ; LAT article, 7/17/1977, "The Los Angeles pseudo-seduction of Henry James," on James' 1905 visit to L.A.

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Politics - Los Angeles County

Manuscripts

4 items: clip, 1932 LAT article, "(Eugene) Biscailuz swamps five opponents" ; copy LAT editorial, 7/17/1934, "Beauties of the recall" ; LAT letter-to-editor clip, "A fine series of articles" ; LAT article clip, 12/3/1972, "Committee of 25--L.A.'s super government?"

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Departments - Editorial - Real Estate Section

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items. Materials include: LAT clip, 9/10/1989, to give example of "Home Price Guide" feature; LAT clip, 2/26/1989, "Expanded section, new editor (Dick Barnes) to debut"; packet (clipped) of several items related to the "doodles" President Franklin Roosevelt did during his presidency that decades later were used as a "guide" to the design of a Naval Medical Center in Maryland (includes 4 glossy photos of Roosevelt), received from Dick Turpin of Real Estate Section in 1975; several LAT articles on re-vamp of Real Estate section, 1989-1990; 10-pp. booklet, (LAT 23rd) Annual Survey of Residential Builders in Southern California (1994). copy of 1st Real Estate Section (Pt. 2, Pg. 1), 6/23/1901, "House and Lot - The Times Weekly Review of Real Estate and Building."

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Departments - Editorial - Los Angeles Times Magazine

Manuscripts

4 items: article copy, Buzz, 3/1995, "Crossing the Line," criticizes LAT ; article copy, Buzz, 4/1995, "Lindsay hop," critical specifically of LAT Magazine Editorial Director John Lindsay (Note: one of the major reasons for the existence of Buzz seemed to be to pester LAT) ; brief article copy, Los Angeles (mag), 1/1987, "16 Editors in search of a Magazine" ; article copy, Writer's Digest, (ca. 1985), "Breaking new ground" (on LAT Mag).

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