Manuscripts

Otis/Chandler Family Materials

Description: The Times collected items related to the Otis and Chandler families, including diaries, books, genealogical research, correspondence, and objects. Date range is 1804-1998.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1804-1998
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.

Otis/Chandler Family

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Originally maintained as the Los Angeles Times History Center, the Los Angeles Times Records contains materials related to the business life of the Los Angeles Times and its owners - both corporate and personal. The business material is roughly organized by Times department; research material collected by the History Center to document the Times and materials related to the Otis/Chandler families are organized by subject. The records include accounting papers, legal documents, correspondence, directories, memoranda, reprints of articles, supplements to the newspaper, manuscripts, oral history transcripts, ephemera, newspapers, newspaper clippings, and objects. The collection includes a significant amount of audiovisual material, including photographs, film, and audio tapes. There are also several samples of printed newspapers that were collected by the Times History Center.

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Otis/Chandler Family

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Otis/Chandler Family

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Various objects from the Wetherby, Otis, and Chandler families:Bible of Emma Marian Otis, inscribed 1875. Ambrotype with lace background of Nancy Hyde Wetherby, circa 1865. Photograph of Moses Knight Chandler (1836 - 1930), father of Harry Chandler, in silver frame, undated. Pince-nez of Ruth Chandler, in case, undated. Marian Otis Chandler autograph album, 1880 - 1885. Bible of Edwin Wetherby, brother of Eliza Wetherby Otis, inscribed but undated. Ambrotype of Stephen Otis, circa 1865. Copy of letter from Carolyn Strickler to Mrs. Robert Dulin, 1989.

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Chandler, Otis

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Otis Chandler (1927-2006) was the oldest son of Norman Chandler and Publisher from 1960-1980. Chandler attended Stanford and was an internationally-ranked shotputter. The fourth and final descendant of Harrison Gray Otis to run the Los Angeles Times, Chandler oversaw a major expansion of the paper, increasing its the profits and reputation. Date range is 1940-1989.

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Otis Chandler

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Approx. 12 items: letters, memos, forms and other material related to Larry Dietz's work on a history of Los Angeles Times and the Chandler Family. Includes requests from Carolyn Strickland of the Los Angeles Times History Center to Otis Chandler regarding Dietz's requests.

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Chandler, Otis

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Approx. 5 items: approx. 80-pp. of transcripts of interviews, likely by Marshall Berges, with Otis Chandler. The interviews were conducted on several days between 8/1980 and 2/1981. The remarks range across many topics: race car driving ; a four-day visit to the Lyndon B. Johnson Ranch in the 1960s ; other Times Mirror business ventures in broadcast media. Part of this material is a 25-pp. transcript of an interview of Otis Chandler by Michael Jackson of KABC (radio). Segments of the 1980 interviews deal with corrections Otis wished to make to comments made earlier.

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