Manuscripts

Exhibit memoranda

Description: Interoffice correspondence and memoranda regarding the Times Globe lobby exhibit, including various drafts of the exhibit letter and a list of tentative exhibit elements.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1991-1992
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Exhibit programs - Times South

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Project logs, notes, budget breakdowns, and correspondence relating to the Times South Lobby exhibit project.

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Los Angeles Times Centennial Lobby Exhibit

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A copy of the speech given for the Los Angeles Times Centennial Lobby Exhibit. (Speeches Produced By Caroline Hom)

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Lobby exhibit timeline extension

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Papers relating to the Times lobby exhibit timeline 5 year/10 year extension plan, including logs, memoranda, correspondence, and clippings, and photographs. The file was divided into the following sections: Compressing lobby timeline/reasons not to, Graphics and captions to be replaced, Project logs, Memos, Program description, Proposals, Time schedules, Planning phase I, Design phase II, Design production III, Construction phase IV, Opening day/receptions V, and Costs.

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Los Angeles Times Globe Lobby

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Photocopies of articles concerning the Globe Lobby of the Times Building.

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Buildings - Fourth - Lobby

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Approx. 16 items. Materials include: Event sheet for Lobby Re-opening, January 25, 1999; 2 "Lobby Exhibit & Tours" booklets (1981); exchange of memos (9/4/1981) between Lois Markwith & Franklin D. Murphy, information related to Shakespeare quote (and other inscriptions ?) used in lobby decor; memo from Markwith to Robert Flannes (11/1981); other correspondence related to determining origin of the quotations; LAT story 10/17/1934 on carved inscriptions at LAT building; letter (4/1/1981) from Mary Sheridan, designer, about complete refurbishment of the Globe; 1962 LAT Women of the Year entry for Mary Sheridan; blueprint copy, "Details Main Lobby Plans & Elevations & Miscellaneous Scale Details," (9/22/1933); blueprint, "Main Lobby Remodeling, Times Mirror Company (4/25/1961); etc. Both blueprint copies moved to Reference File - Oversize. 2 photographs: "Magic Stylus" exhibit display in the lobby, undated?

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Exhibits (internal) objectives

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List of in-house exhibits; black and white photocopies of Times exhibit photographs; 3 articles clipped from History News: How to design museum exhibitions that work," The best laid plans of mice and museums," and "Artifacts as historical objects."

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Exhibit memoranda

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